Coromandel International Limited Annual Report 2017-18 Board of Directors

M. M. Murugappan V. Ravichandran Chairman Vice Chairman

Mr. Murugappan holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Mr. Ravichandran is an Graduate and holds Engineering from University of Michigan, USA. Having a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, served as the Managing Director of Ahmedabad. He is also a qualified Cost Accountant and a (CUMI) in the past, he is currently serving as the Chairman Company Secretary. Having served Ashok Leyland early in of CUMI, Tube Investments of , Cholamandalam MS his career, he joined Murugappa Group’s Parry Group of General Insurance Company. He is also serving on the Companies mainly in the fields of Finance and Marketing. Boards of Mahindra & Mahindra, IIT Madras Research He served as the Whole Time Director / Managing Director Park, Cyient and TI Financial Holdings, among others. Mr. of Limited during 2004-2010. Murugappan was elected as a fellow of the Indian Ceramic Currently, he is also serving as Lead Director (Fertilisers & Society and is also a member of the American Institute of Sugars) on the Murugappa Corporate Board. Chemical Engineers, Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, Plastics & Rubber Institute. He is also a member of the Board of Governors, IIT Madras.

B.V.R. Mohan Reddy Prasad Chandran Non-Executive & Independent Non-Executive & Independent Director Director

Mr. Reddy holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mr. Chandran holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the College of Engineering, Kakinada and postgraduate de- Bombay University and a MBA from University Business grees from IIT, Kanpur and University of Michigan, U.S.A. School, Chandigarh. He pursued advanced management ed- He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Cyient Lim- ucation in Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylva- ited. He is also serving on the Boards of Vizag IT Park and nia, and AOTS from Tokyo University, Japan. He has opted Infotech HAL. Currently serving as Chairman of the Board of to superannuate after 37 years of corporate life, of which Governors of IIT, Hyderabad, he is a proud recipient of an the last 13 years was as Chairman & Managing Director of Honorary Doctorate from JNTU, Hyderabad; Distinguished BASF India Limited. He is an Independent Director on the Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, ASME (American Society Board of HDFC Pension Management Company Limited and of Mechanical Engineers) CIE Leadership Award for out- HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited. standing leadership in advancing the use of computers in Information Engineering and Life Time Achievement Award from Hyderabad Management Association. He has served as the Chairman of NASSCOM and CII, Southern Region.

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Nirupama Rao M M Venkatachalam Additional Director - Non-Executive Non-Executive Director & Independent

Ms. Rao, a graduate in English Literature, is Fellow of the Mr. Venkatachalam holds a graduate degree from the Harvard University, Fellow of the Brown University and a University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and a master’s recipient of the degree of Doctor of Letters (HonorisCausa) degree in Business Administration from George Washington from the Pondicherry University. A career diplomat from University, USA. In an illustrious career of more than two the Indian Foreign Service (1973-2011), she has served the and a half decades, he has held several leadership positions Government in several important positions including the in various Murugappa Group Companies. He is presently the Foreign Secretary of India. She has represented India in Chairman of Coromandel Engineering Company Limited and several countries during her distinguished career. She was the Parry Agro Industries Limited. He also serves on the Boards first Indian woman to be appointed as High Commissioner of Ramco Cements Limited, Ramco Systems Limited and to Sri Lanka, Ambassador to China and also the first woman E.I.D. Parry (India) Limited. spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs. After her retirement, she was appointed Ambassador of India to the United States for a tenure of two years.

Sumit Bose Sameer Goel Non-Executive & Independent Managing Director Director

Mr. Bose holds a Masters degree in Social Policy and Mr. Goel holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management Planning from London School of Economics and Masters of from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Arts from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Having joined Indian and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Stephens Administrative Service in 1976, he has served with various College, New Delhi. Having started his career in 1987 with departments of Government of India. He has served as GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK) as Area Secretary (Department of Revenue), Secretary (Expenditure) Sales Manager, he rose from ranks in a career spanning and Secretary (Disinvestment) as well as Secretary in the more than 25 years, donning various roles in India, UK, UAE, Thirteenth Finance Commission besides serving as a member Nigeria and South Africa and was serving as Vice President of the core group for the Union Budget. His tenure as Principal for Africa when he moved from GSK. Prior to joining Secretary (Finance) of the Government of Madhya Pradesh Coromandel, he was with Cipla Limited as Country Head - witnessed various reforms including fiscal responsibility India. He has extensive experience in managing businesses, legislation, outcome budgeting, extensive use of the PPP driving sales across multiple geographies and building B2C mechanism and contributory pension scheme. He had done businesses. Mr. Goel had served on the Advisory Board of an early stint in the Department of Economic Affairs, MoF, GoI Lagos Business School besides being a Member of Africa as Deputy Secretary in the Fund Bank Division. He is currently Economist Forum and a Member of the Commercial serving on the Boards of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co., Directors Forum in India. TATA AIG General Insurance Co., ONGC and BSE.

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