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Mr Ratan Naval Tata (Chairman)
Mr. Tata has been on the Board since 1989. Mr Tata holds a B.Sc. (Architecture) degree with Structural Engineering from Cornell University, USA and has completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard University, USA. He is an eminent industrialist with wide business experience across a variety of industries. He joined the Tata group in 1962 and he is the Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd., the apex body of the Tata group and other major Tata Companies.
Mr Syamal Gupta
Mr Gupta is a professionally qualified Mechanical Engineer, is a Fellow of the Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, U.K. and a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K. He has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. He has been with the Tata group for the last 50 years. He is the Chairman of Tata International Ltd., Tata Elxsi Ltd., Tata BP Solar India Ltd., TCE Consulting Engineers Ltd. and a few other Tata companies. He is also on the Board of Tata Sons Ltd. and several other companies and has a long and valuable corporate experience in India and abroad.
Mr Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan
Mr Gopalakrishnan is a graduate in Physics from Calcutta University and an Engineer from IIT, Kharagpur. He is the Executive Director of Tata Sons Ltd., Chairman of Rallis India Ltd., Vice Chairman of Tata Chemicals Ltd. and a Director of several other companies like Tata Motors Ltd., ICI India Ltd., Castrol India Ltd. etc. Prior to joining the Tata Group in 1998, he was with Hindustan Lever for 31 years, where he rose from being a Management Trainee to being Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited.
Dr Homiar Sorabji Vachha
Dr Vachha has a post-graduate degree and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Bombay (Gold medallist in Industrial Economics). He was the General Manager of ICICI Limited in a career spanning over 25 years. He was in charge of Market Research and Industry Studies Department as also in charge of the Economics Department. He was the ICICI nominee director on the Board of several large companies. He was appointed as Nominee Director on the Board of the erstwhile The Andhra Valley Power Supply Company Limited in 1993. On ceasing to be such nominee director, he was re-appointed on the Board of that Company and continued as Director till its amalgamation with the Company in 2000. He has been subsequently appointed on the Board of the Company in 2001. He is also on the board of other companies.
Mr Ram Krishna Misra
Mr Misra has been on the Board since 2003. He was the Zonal Manager of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), Eastern Zone (since retired), when he was appointed as the nominee director on the Board by LIC. He has considerable business experience.
Mr Adi Jehangir Engineer
Mr Engineer graduated as a B.E. (Civil) from Pune University. He is also a Chartered Engineer (India), and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). He has a career spanning 47 years occupying key positions in areas of engineering, project planning and execution of multi-disciplinary activities. He has been associated with the power sector for the last 23 years and has been with the Company since 1984, having joined as Project Manager (Civil) and subsequently promoted to the position of a Whole-time Director of the Company. In August 2000, he was appointed as the Managing Director from which position he retired on 31st August 2002. Prior to his joining Tata Electric Companies, he served in several senior positions with the well-known multinational group of Imperial Chemical Industries. He was re-appointed as Director on the Board of the Company effective 19th November 2003.
Mr Nawshir Hoshang Mirza
Mr Mirza is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and was a Senior Partner of Ernst & Young. He is an Advisor to Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd., Hong Kong. He is an independent Director on the Boards of several companies.
Mr Deepak M Satwalekar
Mr Satwalekar is the Managing Director and CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited since November 2000 and prior to this, he was the Managing Director of HDFC Limited from 1993 - 2000. Mr Satwalekar obtained a Bachelors Degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from The American University, Washington DC. He has considerable experience in the fields of finance, infrastructure and corporate governance.
Dr Ramchandra H Patil
Dr Patil is presently the Chairman of Clearing Corporation of India and an Independent Director on the Board of Axis Bank Limited. Dr Patil has a Masters Degree in Economics and also a Doctorate in International Economics. He was the first Managing Director of National Stock Exchange of India Limited and has also worked for 7 years with Reserve Bank of India and more than 18 years with Industrial Development Bank of India (now IDBI Bank Limited).
Mr Piyush G Mankad (IAS Retired)
Mr Mankad is a retired civil servant with a distinguished career of over 40 years in the prestigious Indian Administration Service, which he joined in 1964, topping his batch. He was educated at Delhi University and later at Cambridge, UK, where he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Development Studies, with distinction. Some of the important positions that he has held include Counsellor (Economic) in the Indian Embassy, Tokyo; Controller of Capital Issues, Ministry of Finance; Finance Secretary, Government of India and Executive Director for India and four other countries and Board Member, Asian Development Bank, Manila, which was his last assignment till July 2004. He is a member of the Board of several companies including Tata International Limited, Tata Elxsi Limited, Kingfisher Airlines Limited and Max India Limited.
Mr Prasad Raghava Menon
Mr Menon is a Chemical Engineer from IIT, Kharagpur with 36 years of professional experience in the industry. Prior to joining the Company, he was the Managing Director of Tata Chemicals Limited. He has also had long service with the ICI group of companies in India and with Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited in various senior positions. He is also on the Board of several Tata group companies.
Mr Sowmyan Ramakrishnan
Mr Ramakrishnan holds a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras and also has a Management Degree from IIM, Ahmedabad. He joined the Tata Administrative Services in 1972 and during his long tenure, handled a multitude of national as well as international projects. He is on the Board of several group companies.
Mr Sankaranarayanan Padmanabhan
Mr Padmanabhan is a gold medallist in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu as well as a Glaxo gold medallist for the Marketing Stream from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Prior to joining the Company, he was the Executive Director and Head Global Human Resources of Tata Consultancy Services Limited. He has rich experience in large-scale project build-up and delivery, and is highly acclaimed for global sourcing and value creation in operational efficiencies.
Mr Banmali Agrawala
Mr Agrawala is a Mechanical Engineer from Manipal Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Company, he was the Managing Director of Wartsila India Limited. Prior to Wartsila, he was with Bajaj Auto Limited in Research and Development division. He has a deep understanding of the Indian power industry as well as the global renewables business. He has 23 years of professional experience in the industry and has held several positions in industry bodies.

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