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Board of Directors Chairman Non-Executive Directors Yogesh Chander Deveshwar Anil Baijal Pillappakkam Bahukutumbi Ramanujam Angara Venkata Girija Kumar Sahibzada Syed Habib-ur-Rehman Executive Directors Serajul Haq Khan Anthony Ruys Nakul Anand Robert Earl Lerwill Meera Shankar Pradeep Vasant Dhobale Suryakant Balkrishna Mainak Krishnamoorthy Vaidyanath Kurush Noshir Grant Sunil Behari Mathur Board Committees Audit Committee CSR and Sustainability Nomination & S B Mathur Chairman Committee Compensation Committee A Baijal Member Y C Deveshwar Chairman S H Khan Chairman P B Ramanujam Member A V Girija Kumar Member Y C Deveshwar Member K Vaidyanath Member R E Lerwill Member S S H Rehman Member P V Dhobale Invitee S B Mainak Member M Shankar Member R Tandon Invitee A Ruys Member K Vaidyanath Member R Parasuram Invitee M Shankar Member (Head of Internal Audit) B B Chatterjee Secretary Representative of Invitee the Statutory Auditors Stakeholders Independent Directors B B Chatterjee Secretary Relationship Committee Committee A V Girija Kumar Chairman A Baijal Member K N Grant Member S H Khan Member K Vaidyanath Member S B Mathur Member B B Chatterjee Secretary P B Ramanujam Member S S H Rehman Member M Shankar Member Corporate Management Chief Financial Officer Rajiv Tandon Committee Executive Vice President & Company Secretary Executive Directors Biswa Behari Chatterjee Y C Deveshwar Chairman General Counsel Kannadiputhur Sundararaman Suresh N Anand Member Investor Service Centre P V Dhobale Member 37 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700 071, India K N Grant Member Phone : 033-2288 6426/0034 Fax : 033-2288 2358 Executives e-mail : [email protected] A Nayak Member Auditors T V Ramaswamy Member Deloitte Haskins & Sells S Sivakumar Member Chartered Accountants, Kolkata K S Suresh Member Registered Office R Tandon Member Virginia House 37 Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700 071, India B B Chatterjee Member & Secretary Phone : 033-2288 9371 CIN : L16005WB1910PLC001985 ITC Corporate Website : www.itcportal.com ITC Limited REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2014 1 Your Directors Y. C. Deveshwar Indian School of Business and a former Chairman of the Society and Board of Governors of the Indian Institute Y. C. Deveshwar (67), DIN:00044171, joined ITC of Management, Calcutta. He serves on the National in 1968 and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Executive Committees of some of India’s premier trade Technology, Delhi and Harvard Business School. He was and industry bodies, and is a member of the UK-India appointed as a Director on the Board of the Company CEOs Forum instituted by the Governments of India and in 1984 and became the Chief Executive and Chairman the United Kingdom. Deveshwar is a Past President of of the Board on January 1, 1996. Between 1991 and 1994, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). he led Air India as Chairman and Managing Director. In 2011, Deveshwar was conferred the Padma Bhushan, Under his leadership, ITC’s sustainability initiatives were one of the highest civilian awards in the country, by the given shape by fashioning corporate strategies that not only enhance shareholder value but add significantly to Government of India. He has been ranked as the the development of natural and social capital. ITC is a 7th Best Performing CEO in the world by the Harvard global exemplar in sustainable business practices. It is Business Review in 2013. Deveshwar was conferred the the only company in the world, of comparable dimensions Global Leadership Award by the US-India Business Council to be ‘carbon positive’, ‘water positive’ and ‘solid waste of the US Chamber of Commerce in 2010, the Business recycling’ positive. The Company’s businesses generate Leader of the Year Award by the All India Management livelihoods for over 5 million people, many of whom Association in 2012, the Business Person of the Year represent the poorest in Rural India. The pioneering farmer Award 2006 by the UK Trade & Investment which was empowerment initiative, ITC e-Choupal, is today the world’s presented by His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, largest rural digital infrastructure and is a case study the Duke of York, and the Sustainability Leadership Award at the Harvard Business School. This initiative has 2007 at the International Sustainability Leadership received several global awards including the inaugural Symposium, Zurich. He was inducted to the prestigious World Business Award instituted by the United Nations Hall of Pride at the Indian Science Congress in 2006. Development Program (UNDP), International Chamber Earlier, he was also named Manager Entrepreneur of the of Commerce (ICC) and the HRH Prince of Wales Year 2001 by Ernst & Young. International Business Leaders Forum. ITC was also conferred the World Business and Development Other Directorships Award 2012 at the Rio+20 United Nations Summit by Name of the Company Position the UNDP, ICC and the International Business Leaders ITC Infotech India Limited Chairman & Forum for its Social and Farm Forestry Programmes. Non-Executive Director ITC Infotech Limited, UK* Chairman & Deveshwar is a Director on the Central Board of the Non-Executive Director Reserve Bank of India. He is a Member of the National ITC Infotech (USA), Inc.* Chairman & Integration Council, the Board of Trade, the National Non-Executive Director Manufacturing Competitiveness Council and the Committee Surya Nepal Private Limited* Chairman & for Reforming the Regulatory Environment for Doing Non-Executive Director Business in India constituted by the Government of India. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Committee Membership of other Companies: Nil 2 ITC Limited REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2014 Your Directors N. Anand Committee Membership of other Companies Nakul Anand (57), DIN:00022279, was appointed a Director Name of the Company Committee Position on the Board of ITC effective January 3, 2011. He holds Landbase India Limited Audit Committee Member responsibility for the Hospitality, Travel & Tourism businesses of ITC. An Economics Honours graduate from Delhi University with an AMP degree from Bond University, P. V. Dhobale Australia, he joined ITC Hotels’ Management Training P. V. Dhobale (58), DIN:00274636, was appointed a Programme in 1978 and also served as the Managing Director Director on the Board of ITC effective January 3, 2011. of erstwhile ITC Hotels Limited during the period 2003-05. He holds responsibility for the Paperboards & Specialty In a career that spans over three decades, Anand has been Papers and Packaging businesses of ITC and also acknowledged for his vision and commitment. Leveraging represents the Finance and IT functions on the Board. the significant learning of sustainable excellence within A Chemical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, ITC, he led the team at ITC Hotels to pioneer the concept Mumbai, he joined erstwhile ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboards of ‘Responsible Luxury’ in the hospitality industry, securing Limited (ITC Bhadrachalam) as a Management Trainee LEED Platinum certifications for all ITC super premium in 1977 and became its Managing Director in 2000. luxury hotels, making it the ‘Greenest Luxury Hotel Chain Following the amalgamation of ITC Bhadrachalam with in the world’. He has formulated value-based strategies ITC in March 2002, and subsequent integration of to create a unique quality control model. His dynamic Bhadrachalam Paperboards Division with Tribeni Tissues leadership and passion for the business is recognised and Division, Dhobale took charge of the Paperboards & acknowledged by his peers. He is the Chairman of the Specialty Papers Business as its Divisional Chief Executive. CII National Tourism Committee as well as of the Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality. Anand is Dhobale is credited with the successful turnaround of ITC Bhadrachalam in 2001, and exponential growth thereafter. immediate past President of the Hotel Association of India. He spearheaded the growth involving capital infusion of Other Directorships over US$ 500 million through brownfield organic growth as well as acquisitions. Under his leadership, ITC’s Name of the Company Position Bhadrachalam Mill has emerged as the largest International Travel Chairman & single-location paper mill in the country producing more House Limited Non-Executive Director than half a million tonnes of papers & boards. Under his Gujarat Hotels Limited Chairman & stewardship, and in line with ITC’s sustainability strategy, Non-Executive Director over 1,60,000 hectares of plantations were developed, Landbase India Limited Chairman & the pioneering ECF and Ozone Bleaching Technology Non-Executive Director were introduced, ITC became a member of the Global Forest and Trade Network and successfully implemented Fortune Park Hotels Limited Chairman & a number of ‘Clean Development Mechanism’ Projects. Non-Executive Director Srinivasa Resorts Limited Vice-Chairman & Dhobale is an active member of several industry bodies. Non-Executive Director He is the past President of Indian Paper Manufacturers Bay Islands Hotels Limited Non-Executive Director Association, past Chairman of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of CII, and is the Co-Chairman, Environment Maharaja Heritage Resorts Non-Executive Director Panel of CII National Council. Dhobale is also the founder Limited President of Indian School of Business - Centre for Adyar Gate Hotels Limited Non-Executive Director Executive Education Alumni Association, Hyderabad ITC Limited REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2014 3 Your Directors Chapter. Amongst others, he