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CORPORATE OVERVIEW
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mr Natarajan Chandrasekaran, is the
Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, the
holding company and/or promoter of more
than 100 Tata operating companies with
aggregate annual revenues of more than
US $100 billion.
Mr Chandrasekaran also chairs the Boards
of several group operating companies,
including Tata Steel, Tata Power, Indian
Hotels, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
– of which he was Chief Executive from
2009-17. His appointment as Chairman
followed a 30-year stint at TCS, where he
was responsible for consolidating TCS as the
Mr Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Non-Executive Director and Chairman
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Dr RaghunathMashelkar
Non-Executive, Independent Director
Dr Raghunath Mashelkar is an eminent
chemical engineering scientist, and an
ex-Director General of the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research. He is
the President of Indian National Science
Academy (INSA), National Innovation
Foundation, Institution of Chemical
Engineers, UK and Global Research Alliance.
Honoured by the President of India with
the Padma Shri (1991), the Padma Bhushan
(2000) and the Padma Vibhushan (2014),
Dr Mashelkar holds a Ph.D in Chemical
Engineering from the Bombay University.
He was appointed as an Independent
Director of the Company w.e.f. August 28,
2007.
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largest private sector employer in India and
the country’s most valuable company.
He was awarded several honorary doctorates
by leading universities in India and
internationally. Mr Chandrasekaran attended
the Regional Engineering College, Trichy,
Tamil Nadu, where he completed a Master’s
degree in Computer Applications.
Mr Chandrasekaran was appointed as an
Additional Director and Chairman of the
Board of Directors of the Company w.e.f.
January 17, 2017.
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