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Board of Directors Chairman & Managing Director Non-Executive Directors Sanjiv Puri Shilabhadra Banerjee Anand Nayak Hemant Bhargava Nirupama Rao Executive Directors Arun Duggal Ajit Kumar Seth Atul Jerath Meera Shankar Nakul Anand Sunil Behari Mathur David Robert Simpson Sumant Bhargavan Rajiv Tandon (also Chief Financial Officer) Board Committees Audit Committee CSR and Sustainability Nomination & S B Mathur Chairman Committee Compensation Committee S Banerjee Member S Puri Chairman S Banerjee Chairman H Bhargava Member H Bhargava Member A Nayak Member A Duggal Member A Jerath Member S Puri Member R Tandon Invitee N Rao Member M Shankar Member M Ganesan Invitee A K Seth Member R K Singhi Secretary (Head of Internal Audit) M Shankar Member Representative of Invitee D R Simpson Member the Statutory Auditors R K Singhi Secretary R K Singhi Secretary Securityholders Independent Directors Relationship Committee Committee A Nayak Chairman S Banerjee Member B Sumant Member A Duggal Member R Tandon Member S B Mathur Member R K Singhi Secretary A Nayak Member N Rao Member A K Seth Member M Shankar Member Corporate Management Executive Vice President & Company Secretary Rajendra Kumar Singhi Committee General Counsel S Puri Chairman Angamuthu Shanmuga Sundaram N Anand Member Investor Service Centre 37 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700 071, India B Sumant Member Telephone nos. : 1800-345-8152 (toll free) R Tandon Member 033 2288 6426 / 0034 Facsimile no. : 033 2288 2358 C Dar Member e-mail : [email protected] S K Singh Member Statutory Auditors S Sivakumar Member S R B C & CO LLP R K Singhi Secretary Chartered Accountants, Mumbai Registered Office Virginia House 37 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700 071, India Telephone no. : 033 2288 9371 CIN : L16005WB1910PLC001985 ITC Corporate Website : www.itcportal.com ITC Limited REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2020 1 Your Directors S. Puri US-India Strategic Partnership Forum. He has also been appointed as a Member of the technology discussion Sanjiv Puri (58), DIN: 00280529, is the Chairman & group ‘Farm to Table - driving India’s agriculture sector Managing Director of ITC effective May 13, 2019. digitally’ constituted by the NITI Aayog and a Member He was appointed as a Wholetime Director on the of the Expert Group constituted by the Punjab State Board of ITC with effect from December 6, 2015 and Government to recommend short and medium-term Chief Executive Officer from February 5, 2017. He was action plan to revive the State’s economy in the aftermath re-designated as the Managing Director of ITC effective of COVID-19 crisis. He has recently been appointed May 16, 2018. Puri is an alumnus of the Indian Institute as the Chairman of the CII Agriculture Council and a of Technology, Kanpur, and Wharton School of Business. Member of the CII Economic Affairs Council, for the He joined ITC in January 1986. financial year 2020-21. Puri has also served as Chief Operating Officer of He was conferred the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award of ITC and prior to that as President, FMCG Businesses - the year 2018’ by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Cigarettes, Foods, Personal Care, Education & Stationery Products, Matches and Agarbattis, since December 2014. Other Directorships During his career of over three decades at ITC and its Name of the company Position subsidiaries, he has held several business leadership ITC Infotech India Limited Chairman & positions and also handled a wide range of responsibilities Non-Executive Director in manufacturing, operations and information & digital ITC Infotech Limited, UK * Chairman & technology. Puri became Divisional Chief Executive of the Non-Executive Director Tobacco Division in 2009, with additional responsibility ITC Infotech (USA), Inc.* Chairman & for the Company’s Trade Marketing & Distribution Vertical. Non-Executive Director He has led ITC Infotech India Limited, a wholly owned Surya Nepal Private Limited * Chairman & subsidiary of ITC, as its Managing Director from May 2006 Non-Executive Director to August 2009. Puri served between 2001 and 2006 Indian School of Business Member, as the Managing Director of Surya Nepal Private Limited, Executive Board a joint venture subsidiary company of ITC in Nepal. Committee Membership of other companies: Nil He has also been a Director on the Board of The Tobacco Institute of India and a past Member of the Board of Governors of the Media Research Users Council, and has also served on the Executive Council of The Indian N. Anand Society of Advertisers. Nakul Anand (63), DIN: 00022279, was appointed Presently, Puri serves on the National Executive as a Wholetime Director on the Board of ITC effective Committees of CII and FICCI and also on the Steering January 3, 2011. In addition to overseeing the Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Businesses of ITC, he took over in Committee of FICCI. He is the Chairman of the Advisory December 2014, the responsibility for overseeing the Council of the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Lifestyle Retailing Business. Sustainable Development and a Member of the Advisory Council constituted by the Odisha State Government An Economics Honours Graduate from the Delhi University for promoting manufacturing ecosystem in the State. with an AMP Degree from the Bond University, Australia, He is the Chairman of the Expert Group constituted by Anand joined ITC Hotels’ Management Training the Fifteenth Finance Commission for recommending Programme in 1978. He has also served as the performance based incentives for States to promote Managing Director of erstwhile ITC Hotels Limited agri-exports and a Director on the Board of during the period 2003-05. 2 ITC Limited REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2020 Your Directors In a career that spans more than four decades, Anand Committee Membership of other companies has been acknowledged in the hotels and tourism industry Name of the company Committee Position for his vision and commitment. Leveraging the significant International Travel Nominations & Member learning of sustainable excellence within ITC, he led House Limited Remuneration the team at ITC Hotels to pioneer the concept of Committee ‘Responsible Luxury’ in the hospitality industry, securing Gujarat Hotels Limited Nominations and Member LEED ® Platinum certifications for all ITC premium Remuneration luxury hotels. He has formulated value-based strategies Committee to create a unique quality control model. His dynamic Landbase India Limited Audit Committee Member leadership and passion for the business is recognised and Fortune Park Hotels Corporate Social Chairman acknowledged by his peers. He has been a past President Limited Responsibility Committee of the Hotel Association of India and past Chairman of the CII National Tourism Committee. Anand is presently a Member of the National Tourism Advisory Council constituted by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of B. Sumant India, Chairman of the Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality, and a Member of the Executive Sumant Bhargavan (56), DIN: 01732482, was Committee of the Hotel Association of India. He is appointed as a Wholetime Director on the Board of ITC also a Member of the India-Sri Lanka CEOs Forum, effective November 16, 2018. He is responsible for Council Member & Executive Committee Member of the overseeing the FMCG Businesses of the Company - National Culture Fund, Ministry of Culture, Government Cigarettes, Foods, Personal Care, Education & Stationery of India, and a Member on the Board of the International Products, Matches and Agarbattis. Sumant, an alumnus Tourism Partnership. of the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, joined Other Directorships ITC in January 1986, and has handled a wide range of responsibilities across several businesses. Name of the company Position International Travel Chairman & Prior to his appointment as a Director on the Board of # House Limited Non-Executive Director ITC, he was President, FMCG Businesses since # Gujarat Hotels Limited Chairman & April 2016. He also held additional responsibility of Trade Non-Executive Director Marketing & Distribution Vertical as its Chief Executive Landbase India Limited Chairman & for a period of one year from October 2016. He spent Non-Executive Director his first 19 years with ITC in Manufacturing operations Fortune Park Hotels Limited Chairman & Non-Executive Director of the Tobacco Division and has worked in four WelcomHotels Lanka Chairman & production units as well as at the Head Office. In October (Private) Limited * Non-Executive Director 2004, he moved to the Foods Business and set up the Srinivasa Resorts Limited Vice-Chairman & Snack Food category under the brand name ‘Bingo!’. Non-Executive Director He has led ITC Infotech India Limited, a wholly owned Bay Islands Hotels Limited Non-Executive Director subsidiary of ITC, as its Managing Director from Maharaja Heritage Resorts Non-Executive Director September 2009 to October 2014. He has also been Limited on the Boards of ITC Infotech’s wholly owned ITC Limited REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2020 3 Your Directors subsidiaries in the UK and the USA. He was the Other Directorships Divisional Chief Executive of the Tobacco Division Name of the company Position before his elevation as President - FMCG Businesses. Russell Credit Limited Chairman & Non-Executive Director He has been a Director on the Board of The Tobacco Greenacre Holdings Limited Chairman & Institute of India. Presently, Sumant serves as a Council Non-Executive Director Member of the CII Eastern Region. Gold Flake Corporation Chairman & Other Directorships