ITC Limited :: Leadership

Anand Nayak, Head of Human Resource Development for ITC, has been with the Company for 40 years. He has handled senior HR assignments in the Company's various Divisions and has been Head of Human Resource Development since 1996. He is also responsible for overall supervision of ITC's Social Development Initiatives. A post-graduate in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Nayak has spent his entire professional career with ITC. He is also a Director on the Board of ITC Infotech.

T V Ramaswamy heads Research & Development for the Company. He is also responsible for overall supervision of Environment, Health and Safety. In addition, he is in charge of the Central Projects Organisation.

Prior to this Ramaswamy was the Chief Operating Officer of the Cigarette Brands and Supply Chain of the Tobacco Division. After completing his graduation in Engineering from the then Madras University and post graduation in Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Ramaswamy joined ITC as a Management Pupil in 1974 in the Technical Function. During his tenure in the Company, he has handled a wide range of responsibilities in Operations across India and has also managed the Tobacco Division's R&D from 1992 to 1996. Thereafter, he was the Managing Director of Surya Tobacco Co. Pvt Ltd (now known as Surya Nepal Pvt Ltd) till 2001.

S Sivakumar is the Divisional Chief Executive of the Agri Business Division. He is also the Chairman of Technico Agri Sciences Limited and Vice Chairman of ITC Infotech India Limited and its subsidiaries in the UK and USA.

Topper of the Class of 1983 from the Institute of Rural Management Anand, (IRMA), Sivakumar served a farmers' cooperative for six years before joining ITC in 1989.

Sivakumar is a Director on the Board of Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture. He is a Member of the Private Sector Committee of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and a Member of Research Advisory Committee of India's National Academy of Agricultural Research Management (NAARM). He is also an active member of the management committees of various industry bodies and several taskforces of Government of India.

K. S. Suresh is General Counsel of ITC. A lawyer by qualification and training, he joined the Company in 1990 after being in private practice, and took charge of the Legal function in 1998. With wide ranging expertise and experience in corporate laws as well as litigation, he has guided many important legal issues to successful resolution for the Company.

Rajiv Tandon, Chief Financial Officer, is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with over 30 years of experience. He has held various positions in ITC including Executive Vice President - Finance & MIS of the Tobacco Division, Executive Vice President - Corporate Finance, Finance Advisor and member of the Management Committee of Agri Business and Tobacco Division.

He is a Director on the board of ITC Infotech India Ltd. and its subsidiaries in the UK and the USA. He is also on the Board of several other subsidiaries/group companies of ITC.

He has held several important positions in various industry bodies including Chairman of the Expert Committee on Banking and Finance (Indian Chamber of Commerce), Member -Taxation and Company Law Committee (Confederation of Indian Industry) and is currently Member - Managing Committee (Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry).

B B Chatterjee, Executive Vice President & Company Secretary, is a Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and a Law Graduate, and has over 33 years experience in Corporate laws.

Chatterjee joined ITC in 1983 and is on the Boards of various ITC subsidiaries including ITC Infotech India Ltd. and its subsidiaries in the UK and the USA, Surya Nepal Pvt. Ltd., Nepal and WelcomHotels Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd., Sri Lanka.

Chatterjee is on the Executive Committee of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and the Managing Committee of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI). He is also Chairman of the Company Affairs Sub-Committee of BCCI and a member of the Corporate Laws & Corporate Governance Committee of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Chatterjee has served on the Central Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and is presently on the Secretarial Standards Board of that Institute.