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Board of Directors Chairman Non-Executive Directors Yogesh Chander Deveshwar Anil Baijal Hugo Geoffrey Powell John Patrick Daly Pillappakkam Bahukutumbi Ramanujam Executive Directors Ravinder Kumar Kaul Basudeb Sen Serajul Haq Khan Ram S Tarneja Sahibzada Syed Habib-ur-Rehman Sunil Behari Mathur Balakrishnan Vijayaraghavan Anup Singh Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra Krishnamoorthy Vaidyanath Board Committees Audit Committee Compensation Committee Nominations Committee P B Ramanujam Chairman B Sen Chairman Y C Deveshwar Chairman S B Mathur Member J P Daly Member A Baijal Member B Vijayaraghavan Member S B Mathur Member J P Daly Member K Vaidyanath Invitee Ram S Tarneja Member R K Kaul Member (Director responsible for the Finance Function) S H Khan Member S Basu Invitee S B Mathur Member (Head of Internal Audit) Investor Services Committee D K Mehrotra Member Representative of the Invitee H G Powell Member Statutory Auditors B Sen Chairman B B Chatterjee Secretary P B Ramanujam Member P B Ramanujam Member A Singh Member B Sen Member B B Chatterjee Secretary Ram S Tarneja Member B Vijayaraghavan Member Corporate Management Executive Vice President & Company Secretary Committee Biswa Behari Chatterjee General Counsel Directors Kannadiputhur Sundararaman Suresh Y C Deveshwar Chairman S S H Rehman Member Investor Service Centre A Singh Member 37 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700 071, India Phone : 033-2288 6426/2288 0034 K Vaidyanath Member Fax : 033-2288 2358 Executives e-mail : [email protected] R G Jacob Invitee Auditors A Nayak Invitee A F Ferguson & Co. Chartered Accountants, Kolkata R Srinivasan Invitee B B Chatterjee Secretary Registered Office Virginia House 37 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700 071, India Phone : 033-2288 9371 ITC corporate website : www.itcportal.com ITC Report and Accounts 2008 1 WorldReginfo - 99e97241-1003-4ca0-bea9-5a249b647c6f Your Directors Y. C. Deveshwar S. S. H. Rehman Y. C. Deveshwar, an engineering graduate from the Indian S. S. H. Rehman was appointed a Director on the Board Institute of Technology, Delhi joined ITC Limited in 1968. of ITC on November 21, 1997. He began his career with He was appointed a Director on the Board of the Company the Indian Army, moving over to the hospitality industry in in 1984 and became the Chief Executive and Chairman of 1975 and joining ITC in 1979. Since then Rehman has the Board on January 1, 1996. Between 1991 and 1994, he been General Manager of Welcomgroup's premier hotels led Air India as Chairman and Managing Director. across India as also its Regional Director, Vice President - Operations and President. Rehman was appointed Under his leadership, ITC’s Sustainability efforts were given Managing Director of the erstwhile ITC Hotels Limited in shape through unique business models. ITC became the 1994 and continued in that position till July 2003. He is first Indian company to publish its Sustainability Report, currently in charge of the Hotels, Travel & Tourism and 2004 in accordance with the guidelines of the Global Foods businesses of the Company. Reporting Initiative. For the efforts at creating sustainable Other Directorships livelihood opportunities, ITC also won the inaugural World Business Award instituted jointly by the United Nations Name of the Company Position Development Programme, International Chamber of International Travel Chairman & Director Commerce and the HRH Prince of Wales International House Limited Business Leaders Forum. ITC’s ‘e-Choupal’, a digital Landbase India Limited Chairman & Director infrastructure initiative to empower marginal farmers in Fortune Park Hotels Limited Chairman & Director India, is taught as a case study at the Harvard Business Gujarat Hotels Limited Chairman & Director School. This initiative won the Development Gateway Award Srinivasa Resorts Limited Vice Chairman & at Beijing in September 2005 and the Stockholm Challenge Director Award in May 2006. Maharaja Heritage Director Deveshwar is the Past President of the Confederation of Resorts Limited Indian Industry. He is also a member of the Board of Tourism Finance Corporation Director Governors of the Indian School of Business and the former of India Limited Chairman of the Society and Board of Governors of the Mumbai International Director Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also serves Convention & Exhibition on the National Executive Committees of some of India’s Centre Limited premier trade and industry bodies. Committee Membership of other Companies: Nil Amongst several awards and recognitions during his distinguished career, Deveshwar has been honoured with the SAM/SPG Sustainability Leadership Award 2007 Anup Singh conferred at the International Sustainability Leadership Symposium, the Business Person of the Year Award 2006 Anup Singh was appointed a Director on the Board of ITC by the UK Trade & Investment by His Royal Highness on November 21, 1997. He joined ITC in 1968 after Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. In January 2006, he was receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering inducted to the prestigious Hall of Pride at the Indian Science from IIT, Kharagpur. He was a key participant in the Congress. He was also named Manager Entrepreneur of Company’s major strategic initiative in the mid-seventies the Year 2001 by Ernst & Young. to implement the concept of ‘Management by Objectives (MBO)’. Singh has had a long stint in ITC’s Cigarette Other Directorships business, including heading it as the Chief Executive. Name of the Company Position He has also been the Chief Executive of the erstwhile Surya Nepal Private Limited* Chairman & Director Specialty Papers Division. He is currently in charge of the HT Media Limited Director Cigarettes, Information Technology and Lifestyle Retailing businesses of the Company. His Directorships include that West Bengal Industrial Director of the Tobacco Institute of India. He has been President Development Corporation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce. He is currently Limited Senior Vice President of The Bengal Chamber of Committee Membership of other Companies: Nil Commerce and Industry. 2 ITC Report and Accounts 2008 WorldReginfo - 99e97241-1003-4ca0-bea9-5a249b647c6f Your Directors Other Directorships Anil Baijal Name of the Company Position Anil Baijal joined the ITC Board as a representative of the ITC Infotech India Limited Chairman & Director Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India on July 27, ITC Infotech Limited, U.K.* Chairman & Director 2007. Baijal started off in the Indian Administrative ITC Infotech (USA), Inc.* Chairman & Director Service in 1969 from the Union Territories Cadre and Asia Tobacco Company Chairman & Director superannuated in October 2006 as Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India. He piloted Limited the flagship programme of the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Surya Nepal Private Limited* Director Renewal Mission for improving infrastructure and basic Committee Membership of other Companies: Nil services in the urban areas of the country. In his long career spanning over 37 years, he has held several eminent positions including that of Chairman and Managing K. Vaidyanath Director of Indian Airlines, Chief Executive of Prasar Bharti Corporation, Union Home Secretary, Additional Secretary, K. Vaidyanath was inducted into the ITC Board on Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Joint Secretary January 17, 2001. He holds responsibility for the in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. Company's Finance, IT and Corporate Communications functions, its investment subsidiary and Agri Business. He was posted as the Counsellor in-charge of the Indian Before his elevation to the Board, he was the Company's Aid Programme in Nepal, Embassy of India, Kathmandu. Chief Financial Officer. He also had a brief stint as Vice Chairman of Delhi Development Authority. An MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Vaidyanath has been with ITC for the past 32 years. He has held various Other Directorships positions in the Company's Finance function including Name of the Company Position that of Head of Finance of ITC's Packaging, Hotels and Bangalore Metro Rail Director Agri Businesses. He has also been Head of Corporate Corporation Limited Planning & Treasury, as well as Internal Audit. Committee Membership of other Companies: Nil Vaidyanath is a Committee member of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He was adjudged one of the best CFOs in the country in a survey conducted J. P. Daly by Business Today magazine in 2005. J. P. Daly joined the ITC Board as a representative of BAT Other Directorships on January 21, 2005. His academic qualifications include Name of the Company Position a Master of Business Administration from the University Russell Credit Limited Chairman & Director College Dublin and a Diploma in Marketing from the Institute Gold Flake Corporation Chairman & Director of Marketing, UK. Daly was appointed Director - Asia Pacific, Limited BAT in October 2004. He has occupied senior positions for nearly 20 years in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. Wills Corporation Limited Chairman & Director Prior to the merger of British American Tobacco and Greenacre Holdings Limited Chairman & Director Rothmans International in 1999, Daly was the Strategic ITC Infotech India Limited Director Planning Director - EU in Rothmans Europe and the Classic Infrastructure & Director Managing Director - Japan and Korea in Rothmans Asia. Development Limited After the completion of the merger, he was appointed Committee Membership of other Companies Regional Manager - Middle