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Ms. Samita Shah

Chairperson, Non-Executive

Ms. Samita Shah

Chairperson, Non-Executive

Ms. Samita Shah is Vice President - Corporate Finance, Treasury & Risk Management of Tata Steel Limited. Ms. Shah joined Tata Steel in 2012 after 20 years of experience in Investment Banking. She is a BA (Economics) from Mumbai University and MBA from Indian Institute of Ahmedabad. She is currently looking after the financing requirements of Tata Steel Group and manages the relationship with financial stakeholders including banks, rating agencies and investors. She is also the Chief Risk Officer for Tata Steel and has spearheaded the implementation of an enterprise-wise risk management process across the Tata Steel Group.
She serves on the Boards of several subsidiaries of Tata Steel Limited, including Tata BlueScope Steel Private Limited, Tata Steel Minerals Canada Limited, T S Global Procurement Company Pte Limited, Abja Investment Co. Pte Limited and Tata Steel Foundation.

Ms. Ramya Hariharan

Independent Director

Ms. Ramya Hariharan

Independent Director

Ms. Ramya Hariharan is a Corporate Lawyer who specializes in Mergers & Acquisitions, General Corporate Advisory, Projects and Banking & Finance.
She is founder and proprietor of Citadel Law Chambers and Partner in HSA Advocate, Kolkata. She has worked closely with the Government of West Bengal in several transactions. She has advised on several PPP projects including Integrated Township Projects, Water Projects, etc. and has been closely involved in structuring the transaction and in the documentation process.
Ms. Hariharan has worked in several leading law firms in the country, including Amarchand Mangaldas, as a Partner with Argus Partners and HSA Advocates before setting up Citadel Law Chambers. She has been listed among Top 100 lawyers in the Forbes Legal Powerlist 2021 and 2022. Her firm Citadel Law Chambers has been recognised as a leading law firm (City Focus) and she has been recognised as leading individual (City Focus) by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023. She has also been listed as one of the 10 women legal consultants by CEO Insights.
She is an active speaker at the ICSI and has delivered lectures at various forums including ASSOCHAM and VC Circle.
She is serving as a Non- Executive, Independent Director, on the Board of TRF Limited, since 2019.

Mr. Krishnava Dutt

Independent Director

Mr. Krishnava Dutt

Independent Director

Mr. Krishnava Dutt has closely worked with several large corporate groups, investors, private equity funds and renowned banks and financial institutions. He has also worked closely with both the central and state governments in India while advising several transactions including disinvestments of public sector undertakings and framing of policies. Mr. Dutt has been identified by India Business Law Journal as one of India's top 100 lawyers and has been mentioned amongst the India A-List lawyers of 2017, 2018 and 2019. Describing him as "a sharp, distinctive individual who has made the most of the booming Indian infrastructure market". RSG Consulting (London) has identified Mr. Dutt as being amongst the leading second generation of Indian corporate lawyers. Chambers and Partners has identified Mr. Dutt as a leading lawyer in India.
Mr. Dutt started his legal career at Calcutta High Court. After a short stint at the high court, he joined ICICI Bank in Mumbai where he gained several years of experience in handling transactions involving stressed assets and the international banking sector. He joined Amar'chand Mangaldas in 2005 and was made partner in 2007. He retired from Amarchand Mangaldas in June 2009 after which he founded Argus Partners. He is currently the Managing Partner of Argus Partners.
He is serving as a Non- Executive, Independent Director, on the Board of TRF Limited, since 2019.

Dr. Ansuman Das

Independent Director

Dr. Ansuman Das

Independent Director

Dr. Ansuman Das graduated in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela and has a MBA Degree from University of Hull, UK with a British Council Scholarship under the Colombo Plan. He has rich experience in Mines, Metals & Power sector.
Dr. Das was the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of National Aluminium Company Limited, a Navratna, Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE). He has made substantial contributions in areas of Project Management, Operations, Sustainability, Marketing, Human Resources, Corporate Governance etc. In August 2015, Dr. Das was appointed as Member & subsequently as the Chairman, Public Enterprises Selection Board, Govt. of India, primarily engaged in selection of CMD’s and Functional Directors of CPSE. He has also served the Govt. of India as Chairman and Member of various search cum selection committees for top Government Appointments including Regulatory Bodies & Government led SPVs etc. Based on his professional contributions, he was conferred Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) in 2019 by Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar. Dr. Das is a Member of the Governing Board of XIMB University, Bhubaneswar.
He is serving as a Non- Executive, Independent Director, on the Board of TRF Limited, since 2020.

Dr. Pingali Venugopal

Independent Director

Dr. Pingali Venugopal

Independent Director

Dr. Pingali Venugopal has rich experience of over four decades in research, academia and marketing. He has been a professor at XLRI, Jamshedpur since 1994 and the Dean of the Institute from 2004 to 2010. He has also been a visiting faculty to leading institutes in India including the Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Kolkata, Ranchi, Kashipur, Visakhapatnam and Indore and international Institutes including American University of Armenia and Educatis University Switzerland. He has also been inducted as a cotrainer for programmes done by Indo- US-Africa Trilateral co-operation on food security for functionaries from Kenya, Malawi and Liberia.
Prior to joining academics, Dr. Venugopal worked in the marketing department of Coromandel Fertilisers and Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd. for a period of 10 years. He has published 8 books and several articles in leading international journals. European Scientific Research Journal has recognized him with the prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award for 2021.
He is on the Board of Jamipol and Medica TS Hospital Pvt. Ltd. He was earlier on the Boards of Tata Metaliks and JCAPCPL.

Dr. Sougata Ray

Independent Director

Dr. Sougata Ray

Independent Director

Dr. Sougata Ray is Thomas Schmidheiny Chair, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Practice, and Executive Director of the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at Indian School of Business. Earlier he served at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta for over two decades as a Professor of Strategic Management and held top leadership responsibilities as a member of the Board of Governors and Dean. He also served as a senior level executive in Infosys Technologies Limited in a strategic role as General Manager & Head of Innovation Lab having the responsibility to spearhead the innovation initiatives and incubate the innovation services practice. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur.
Dr. Ray has developed deep insight into strategy, innovations, entrepreneurship, international business, corporate sustainability, digital transformation, and corporate governance of firms in high growth economies through intense academic research, consulting and varied corporate and start-up experiences. He has over two decades of board-level experience and served as a member of the boards of multiple Indian Oil and Tata Group companies and has the distinction of chairing all statutory board committees.

Mr. Akshay Khullar

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Akshay Khullar

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Akshay Khullar is Vice President - Engineering & Projects of Tata Steel Limited. He is an Engineer (B. Tech) in Metallurgy from IT, Banaras Hindu University. He has joined Tata Steel in 1992 as Graduate Trainee (Senior Officer) and started his career in Steel Making and Casting in Tata Steel, Jamshedpur. He was then promoted and transferred as Head Casting and later Head Operations in Steel Making at LD#1 (Long Products Steel Melt Shop).
He was appointed as Chief Thin Slab Caster Rolling in the LD#3 in 2010 and was then appointed as Chief LD#2 and Slab Caster in 2014, which was the conventional slab casting shop than at Tata Steel Limited. In 2020, he was elevated to Chief of Manufacturing Long Products where he took care of all Jamshedpur Long Product Mills and LP Steel Making and upstream.

Mr. Umesh Kumar Singh

Managing Director

Mr. Umesh Kumar Singh

Managing Director

Mr. Umesh Kumar Singh joined Tata Steel in 1993 as Graduate Trainee, post his B.E. (Mechanical) from BIT Mesra. He also holds a Diploma in Management studies from XIM, Bhubaneswar.
Mr. Singh has over 23 years of experience in areas of procurement management, project management, supply chain management in the steel industry, TQM, Theory of Constraint, TBEM and Operations.
He was appointed as Chief Project Procurement, Kalinganagar Projects, Tata Steel in 2011, where his responsibilities included execution of project procurement for greenfield steel plant, logistics operations, material management, import-export shipments, as well as establishing and maintaining quality standard processes. In 2016, Mr. Singh was appointed as Chief Operations & New Initiatives, IBMD and was responsible for recovery, reuse and recycling of all solid wastes generated at the Tata Steel Plant.
In February 2020, he was appointed as the Executive Director of Tata Pigments Limited and thereafter, in June 2020, he was appointed as the Managing Director of Tata Pigments Limited. Mr. Singh joined as Managing Director of TRF Limited, effective October 1, 2022.

Mr. Sandeep Bhattacharya

Additional (Non-Executive, Non-Independent) Director

Mr. Sandeep Bhattacharya

Additional (Non-Executive, Non-Independent) Director

Mr. Sandeep Bhattacharya joined Tata Steel as Chief Finance & Accounts Orissa Projects in 2011. Before joining Tata Steel, he worked as Assistant Vice President (Business Finance) at Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd. During his long career, he has handled senior positions in finance and treasury functions at Essar Investments Ltd. and at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited for more than 13 years.
After joining Tata Steel in 2011, he worked in varied roles across the finance function. He has rich experience in financial procedures and building internal controls for profit monitoring, working capital and asset management. In 2014, he was redesignated as Chief Financial Transaction & Control and in 2019 as Chief Financial Operations & Business Finance.
Mr. Sandeep Bhattacharya has significantly contributed to implementing financial plans geared towards the successful accomplishment of business objectives. Post Air India’s acquisition by Tata Group, he led the Tata Steel team formed to help Air India complete the past year’s financial statements and opening balance sheet and completed the audit in record time. He has been instrumental in setting up financial controls at Tata Steel Kalinganagar during the project execution phase which was Tata Steel’s largest capital outlay for a greenfield project. He contributed immensely to building the centralised centre for financial transactions by working with TCS on the One Tata One Network (OTON) project, which made Tata Steel one of the first companies to have moved to the OTON platform. He has been a high performing leader with a proven track record.
Mr. Sandeep Bhattacharya completed his PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad and Cost Management Accounting from the Institute of Cost and Works Accounts.

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