Mr Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the Chairman of Tata Sons Limited and the former CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Under his leadership, TCS became the largest private sector employer and was rated as the world's most powerful brand in IT services in 2015. TCS was also recognised as a Global Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute across 24 countries.

Mr Chandrasekaran has played an active role in Indo-US and India-UK CEO Forums and is part of India’s business taskforces for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan and Malaysia. He served as the Executive Chairman of NASSCOM, India’s apex trade body for IT services firms, in 2012-13 and continues to be a member of its governing executive council.

Mr Chandrasekaran has received several awards and was honoured with the ’Business Leader Award’ at the Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence 2016. He was voted the ‘Best CEO’ at the 2015 All-Asia Executive Team rankings for the fifth consecutive year in 2015. He was awarded the Frans Banninck Cocq Medal from the City of Amsterdam for promoting trade and economic relations between The Netherlands and India. Mr Chandrasekaran has been conferred honorary degrees and doctorates by several universities in India and abroad including KIIT University (2012), SRM University (2010) and Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands, among others.

Mr. Noel Naval Tata serves as a Trustee on the Board of Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.  Mr. Noel Naval Tata  is also currently the Chairman of Tata International Limited, Voltas Limited, Tata Investment Corporation Limited and is the Vice Chairman of Titan Company Limited.  Mr. Noel Naval Tata is also on the Board of Kansai Nerolac Paints Limited and Smiths Plc.

Before joining Tata International, he worked with Trent Limited, serving as its Managing Director for more than 11 years. Having led Trent, Mr. Noel Naval Tata was appointed as the Vice Chairman of Trent Limited in 2012 and later as Chairman in 2014. Mr. Noel Naval Tata continues to serve as the Chairman of Trent, where he has overseen the growth of Trent across formats – from a one store operation in 1998 to over 330 stores across formats in 2020.

Mr. Noel Naval Tata graduated from Sussex University (UK) and has completed the International Executive Programme (IEP) from INSEAD.

The former Chairman of PwC India, Mr Deepak Kapoor was associated with the firm for over 30 years. He was named Partner in 1991 and was the Managing Director between 2007 and 2016.

Mr Kapoor has extensive experience in the audit function as well as business advisory related work and has led deals for more than eight years and has practiced in the area of telecom, entertainment and media for over a decade. His experience, in India and overseas, encompasses multiple industries including consumer products, manufacturing, telecom, technology, healthcare, entertainment and media.

Mr Kapoor is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a member of the Institute of Certified Fraud Examiners, USA.

Prior to co-founding Cartica, Mrs. Khambata was a member of IFC’s Management Group. In her last position at IFC she served as the Regional Vice President in charge of operations in East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.  She was responsible for strategy, investment operations and advisory services in IFC’s member countries in these regions. She also oversaw IFC’s equity investments globally.

Prior to that, Mrs. Khambata was Vice President for Portfolio and Risk Management where she had responsibility for the Corporation’s portfolio (approximately $14 billion) and risk management operations, as well as for information technology, controls, budgeting, trust funds and back office operations. Previously she was the Treasurer of IFC and coined the term Frontier Markets.

Mrs. Khambata earned her MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and her MS in Business Management from the London Business School.  She serves on the boards of directors of Kotak Mahindra Bank in India and Dragon Capital in Vietnam.

Ms. Bharti Gupta Ramola is an Independent Director on the Boards of HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd and SRF Ltd.

She serves on the Governing Body of Lady Shriram College, the Board of Villgro Innovations Foundation, the GP Advisory Board of Unitus Impact Fund and the Advisory Board of Transforming Rural India Foundation.

Ms. Ramola was a partner at PwC from 1992 through 2017. In the last 5 years of her career at PwC she was on the firm’s Management team in India while holding responsibility for the Marketing and Brand of the firm. During this time, she was also responsible for the PwC’s Financial Sector business across all verticals. Over the years she was a part of the founding teams of several advisory businesses including Corporate Finance, Project Finance, Change Management, Infrastructure, Government and Utilities and Sustainability for PwC in India. She led PwC’s work on Climate Change and Carbon transactions during the early days of the international carbon market.

She started her career in 1981 with ICICI, worked with the Nehru Foundation for Development in their environmental education division before joining PwC in 1984.

She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Physics from St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

Shri Vijay Kumar Sharma superannuated as Chairman, Life Insurance Corporation of India on 31st December, 2018. Prior to his taking over as Chairman on 16th December 2016, he served as Chairman (In charge) from 16th September, 2016 and Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India from 1st November, 2013. From December 2010 to November 2013, he served as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, LIC Housing Finance Limited (LICHFL), a premiere housing finance company in the country.

Shri Vijay Kumar Sharma, born on 19th December, 1958 is a post-graduate from Patna University. Shri Sharma joined Life Insurance Corporation of India as Direct Recruit Officer in 1981 and grew up with the Corporation since then. He held various challenging assignments pan India and in all operational streams including in-charge positions at different levels. Working across length and breadth of the country has added immensely to his experience and honed his understanding of demographics of the country, socio-economic needs of different regions and multi-cultural challenges in implementation of Corporate’s objectives.

As MD & CEO of LIC HFL, he stabilized the operations of the company under most challenging circumstances of negative media glare, intense scrutiny by Regulator & others and turned it around to be the best Housing Finance Company in 2011.

He has been an inspirational leader who utilizes negotiation skills gained over thirty seven years of extensive experience in insurance and financial sectors and strongly connects to the grass root levels, believes in bottom-up approach and has the ability to see the Big Picture and translate it to reality. He is known as Growth Leader, leading the Organisation to surge ahead and turnaround on its growth path in all the segments of performance.

Shri Vijay Kumar Sharma was Chairman, Board of Directors of LIC Housing Finance Ltd, LIC (International) Bahrain B S C ©, Life Insurance Corporation Singapore Pte. Ltd. and other companies. He was also Director on Board of Kenindia Assurance Co. Ltd.

Currently he is on Board of ACC Limited, ICICI Bank Limited, Tata Steel Ltd. & Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.

Dr. Shekhar C. Mande is a structural and computational biologist and a well-known research scientist. He is a distinguished professor at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. Prior to this, Dr. Mande was the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India. He is one of India’s leading experts in DNA fingerprinting and diagnostics. As Director of the National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), an autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Dr. Mande oversaw the launch of the Indian Human Microbiome Initiative in the Northeast. In 2005, he was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology – the most prestigious science award in India – in the category of Biological Sciences.

Dr. Mande holds Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Molecular Biophysics. He holds Masters and Bachelor’s degree in physics from Nagpur University.

Mr Saurabh Agrawal is the Group Chief Financial Officer of Tata Sons, the holding company. He joined Tata Sons in June 2017 from the Aditya Birla Group where he was the Head of Strategy.

In a career spanning over two decades, Mr Agrawal has been the Head of Investment Banking in India for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and also Head of Corporate Finance business in India and South Asia for Standard Chartered bank.

Mr Agrawal has a wide-ranging experience in strategy and capital markets where he had a ringside view of the evolution of Indian economy since the mid-90s. He advised clients on transactions valued more than US$16 billion. In addition, Mr Agrawal has helped various large Indian and Global corporates raise over US$10 billion from the capital markets. In his advisory capacity, Mr Agrawal has advised several business groups like Tatas, AV Birla, GMR, ICICI, Bharti, DLF etc.

Mr Agrawal completed his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Roorkee and has a post graduate management degree from IIM Kolkata. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shelly and two children. He is an avid reader, outdoors enthusiast & movie buff. He enjoys playing badminton and squash.

Mr. T V Narendran is the CEO & Managing Director of Tata Steel Limited. As the CEO & MD, he has overseen the organic and inorganic growth of Tata Steel over the last few years. He has over 35 years of experience in the Mining and Metals industry.

Mr. Narendran is currently on the Board of Tata Steel Limited and he is the Chairman of Tata Steel Europe. He is on the Executive Board of Directors of World Steel Association as the Vice Chairman. He is currently serving as the Vice President of All India Management Association (AIMA). He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of XLRI Jamshedpur and IIT Kharagpur. He is also a member of the Council of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has served as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) from 2021 to 2022. He has also served as the President of the Indian Institute of Metals from 2021 to 2022. He was the co-chair of the Mining & Metals Governors Council of the World Economic Forum from 2016 to 2018.

Mr. Narendran is a Mechanical Engineer from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy and did his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta. He is a recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both NIT Trichy and IIM Calcutta. He is a Chevening Scholar and has also attended the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, France.

Born in 1968, Mr. Chatterjee is an Honours Graduate in Commerce from Calcutta University and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Mr. Chatterjee joined Tata Steel limited in 1995 in Jamshedpur. He was then transferred to Tata Sons Limited in 1999 in the Group Executive Office. He re-joined Tata Steel limited on August 1, 2003 and was appointed as the Group CFO in 2008. He was inducted on the Board of Tata Steel Limited effective November 9, 2012. Further he was appointed as Group Executive Director (Finance & Corporate), Tata Steel in 2013. and re-appointed as Whole Time Director effective November 9, 2017 designated as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer.

During the last 15 years in the Company, he has been part of the top leadership team in the company and has led the Company’s finance function and provided stewardship in the areas of financial strategy, performance management, large and complex financing in India and overseas of over USD 70 billion across several instruments and currencies, mergers and acquisitions including divestments, risk management, reporting and controlling, investor relations and taxation. He has also been deeply involved in portfolio restructuring and turnaround of business situations of various Subsidiary Companies.

Mr. Chatterjee had been a member of the Primary Market Advisory Committee of the SEBI and was member of the task force set up by SEBI that drafted the Takeover Code. He was also the member of the Global Preparers Forum, the advisory body to the International Accounting Standards Board London. He is currently the member of International Integrated Reporting Council UK, Working Group on Group Insolvency set up by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, Global Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures set up by the Financial Stability Board, Basel Switzerland. He is a frequent speaker in various conferences in India and abroad and has been recognised as one of India’s best CFO by several organisations like Business Today Magazine, CNBC, Asiamoney, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK. Recently in March 2019, he was awarded the CFO Lifetime Achievement Award by the Financial Express.

Mr Akshay Khullar, was appointed Vice President, Engineering & Projects in 2024. A Metallurgical Engineer by qualification, Mr Khullar joined Tata Steel in 1992, in the Company's Long Products Steel Making and Casting division at Jamshedpur. In a career spanning over three decades, he has worked in all aspects of steelmaking, including primary steelmaking, secondary steelmaking, and continuous casting.

Leading operations in long products, Mr Khullar was instrumental in the division's growth from 4 MTPA to 6.8 MTPA. In 2010, he was appointed Chief Thin Slab Caster Rolling and led the project and startup team of LD3 Thin Slab Casting & Rolling as a part of the Company's 9.7 MTPA growth plan. In 2014, he was appointed as Chief LD2 and Slab Caster - the conventional slab casting shop at Tata Steel's Jamshedpur works. In 2020, Mr Khullar was appointed Chief of Manufacturing, Long Products, responsible for Long Product Mills and Steel Making at Jamshedpur.

Before taking over as Vice President, Engineering & Projects, Mr Khullar served as General Manager, Project & Construction, overseeing all aspects of the 3 MTPA to 8 MTPA expansion project at Tata Steel Kalinganagar.

Ashish Anupam is Vice President - Long Products, Tata Steel. He is a Mechanical Engineer from BIT, Mesra, and has also completed a General Management Programme from CEDEP (INSEAD, France).

Mr Anupam joined Tata Steel as a Graduate Trainee in 1991. Since then, he has worked in various functions, including Rolling Mills, International Trading Division and Marketing & Sales for different products (Flat Products, Long Products & Tubes) in various capacities.

In 2004, he was appointed Chief, Marketing & Sales (Tubes), a position he held till 2010 when he was made Chief, Marketing & Sales (Long Products). Mr Anupam was appointed as the President and CEO of NatSteel Holdings, Singapore in 2015. Subsequently, in 2019, he moved to Tata Steel Global Holdings and was also made Non-Executive Director of Tata Sponge Iron Limited.

In November 2019, Mr Anupam was appointed Managing Director of Tata Steel Long Products Limited.

Mr Anupam currently serves on the Boards of Tata Steel (Thailand) PLC and Neelachal Ispal Nigam Limited. He is also Chairman of The Siam Industrial Wire Co., TSN Wires Co., and Indian Steel & Wire Product Limited.

Atrayee Sanyal is the Vice President - HRM at Tata Steel. She joined Tata Steel in the year 1998. Joining from Hindustan Unilever after a stint in Market Research in Mumbai, Atrayee joined Tata Steel, Kolkata in the Marketing function.

A graduate from Calcutta University and an MBA, she completed the General Management Programme from CEDEP (INSEAD) and also won the British Chevening Scholarship in leadership & management. Atrayee has spearheaded the Branding Journey for Tata Steel from the year 1999, building brands in a commodity industry like steel. She has grown in the Marketing and Sales function by handling various retail and B2SME brands. She was appointed the Chief of Marketing & Sales for Branded Products Retail and Solutions in 2014.

She was appointed the Chief Diversity Officer for the organisation while in Marketing & Sales and has passionately taken forward the journey of Diversity & Inclusion for the Company. She joined the Human Resource Division in 2017 and has handled multiple areas in this function involving white collared and blue collared employees. In addition, she is part of the Profit Centre Councils of two Divisions in Tata Steel and is also a Member of the Board of Directors of two subsidiary companies of Tata Steel.

Mr Chanakya Chaudhary was appointed as Vice President - Corporate Services, Tata Steel, in November 2018, where he is responsible for spearheading branding and communication strategy along with policy advocacy and regulatory affairs for the company. His portfolio also includes various functions like Corporate Social Responsibility, Medical Services, Corporate Administration, Security Services, Aviation Services and Sports.

With a bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the prestigious BITS, Pilani, he joined Tata Steel in 1988 as a Graduate Engineer Trainee, in the Raw Material Division at Jharia, Dhanbad, India. During his stint at the Collieries division, he worked in various capacities and was subsequently transferred to Total Quality Management (TQM) (Business Excellence Group). There, he worked with various divisions of Tata Steel for obtaining ISO-9000 certification and in their improvement journey towards Business Excellence. He has worked as a lead assessor for Tata Group in its journey of Business Excellence and for JRD Quality Value Award based on the Malcom Baldridge Award Criteria. He took over as Chief Resident Executive, Delhi in 2004 and was leading Corporate Affairs of the Company dealing with the external stakeholders of the company.

On November 01, 2013, he was designated as Group Director-Corporate Communication & Regulatory Affairs and spearheaded the Communication Strategy and Policy Advocacy for the Company.

In May 2018, he was entrusted with the role of Vice President, Raw Materials, where he was instrumental in bringing about several significant improvements, in order to meet formidable challenges and make the captive mining operations of various minerals (coal, iron ore, Manganese, Chromium etc) even more robust and sustainable.

Mr Chaudhary has undertaken various distinguished management programs like the Young Managers Program at INSEAD, France, in 1997, the Tata Group Executive Leadership Program conducted by the Michigan Ross School of Business in 2007, and has earned an Executive MBA degree from CEDEP, France in 2008-09.

He serves as the chairman on the Board of Tata Steel Utilities & Infrastructure Services Ltd., Tata Steel Special Economic Zone Ltd, Hockey Ace Foundation, Jamshedpur Football and Sporting Pvt. Ltd., NICCO Jubilee Park Ltd., Steel City Press Ltd. and also serves on the board of Tata Steel Foundation, Medica TS Hospital Pvt. Ltd., S&T Mining Co Pvt. Ltd., Rohit Ferro tech Ltd. and Tata Steel Mining Ltd. He is the President of Jamshedpur Management Association (JMA) affiliated with the All India Management Association (AIMA).

He is also the Co-Chairman of the FICCI National Sports Committee, Past Chairman of the Jharkhand State CII Council, member of the CII Eastern Region Council and the coveted Communications Committee of World Steel Association (WSA).

Mr Chaitanya Bhanu is Vice President - Operations, Tata Steel Jamshedpur. He joined Tata Steel as a Graduate Trainee in 1992 after receiving his degree in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi. He received his post graduate degree in Materials & Metallurgical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur in 1997. In 2019, he attended the General Management Program (GMP) at CEDEP in Fontainebleau, France.

Since 1992 he has worked in different capacities across functions such as Technology, R&D, Steelmaking & Hot Rolling Operations, as well as Human Resources at Tata Steel. He has played an active role in the improvement of performance levels in steelmaking and casting operations at Tata Steel for over two decades. In 2009, Mr Bhanu was the recipient of the Indian Institute of Metals’ Essar Gold Medal for his outstanding contribution to Metallurgy in the area of Steel Manufacturing.

Mr Bhanu is a certified Green Belt in 6 Sigma (IGE India) as well as a certified Thomas Profile Assessor, apart from holding Professional Coach qualification from ICF. He is also associated with the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and is currently serving as its Joint Secretary.

D. B. Sundara Ramam joined Tata Steel as a Graduate Trainee in 1990 after completing B.Sc. Engineering in Mining discipline from NIT, Rourkela.

Worked in various capacities in Coal & Iron ore mines of Raw Materials Division, Ferro Alloys Division & Principal Executive Officer (PEO) to CEO&MD, Tata Steel for the last 33+ years, is currently working as Vice President, Raw Materials, Tata Steel.

Holds a First Class Mine Manager’s Competency Certificate in Coal from DGMS.

Subsequently, he has completed General Management program from XLRI, Jamshedpur, in 1999.

Besides various internal training programs conducted within India, he has also attended the following programs, abroad:

Currently, he is Vice President of National Council of Mining Engineers’ Association of India.

He has published a number of papers on topics related to Sustainable Mining and Innovation.

Currently he is serving as the Director in the Governing Boards of Tata Steel Mineral Canada Limited – Canada , Minas De Benga (Mauritius) Ltd, and Tata Steel Global Procurement Ltd – Singapore.

Mr. Jayanta Banerjee is the CIO at Tata Steel Limited, where he is a member of the senior leadership team, and is spearheading IT, Digital and Industrial Automation led Digital and Industry 4.0/5.0 transformation to create business value.

Mr Jayanta Banerjee holds a Master’s degree in Computer Applications with specialization in Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence. He is also an alumnus of the General Management Programme in CEDEP, Fontainebleau, France.

Prior to joining Tata Steel as CIO, Mr. Banerjee has been a Business Leader in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), driving the Products and Platforms business, asset monetization strategy and governance. He has been the Business leader and Global Head of TCS’ Energy and Resources business.

Mr. Banerjee has been with the Tatas for almost thirty years and has led businesses, strategy, sales, delivery, operations and IT/ digital globally. He has played key leadership roles in industry initiatives specific to manufacturing, Life Sciences, CPG, Energy and Natural Resources & has spearheaded strategic transformations in these verticals. He has been instrumental in nurturing many strategic partnerships for TCS and now driving a $2 Billion business value transformation program at Tata Steel leveraging new age digital, IT and industrial automation. He is an empanelled member of World Economic Forum (WEF)- Advanced Manufacturing & CII- Smart Manufacturing Council. He is an active contributor to Niti Ayog, NASSCOM and other premier industry forums on Industry 4.0/5.0 initiatives.

Mr Banerjee is currently on the Boards of Mjunction Services Limited and KGSSL (Kalimati Global Shared Services Ltd.). He serves as a member of the Business Councils of Long Products and Tubes Profit Centres.

He has been an extensive traveller across the globe and takes keen interest in ground-breaking initiatives.

Mr. Probal Ghosh, working as Vice President - One Shared Services in Tata Steel Limited, is responsible for Asset, Utilities and Infrastructure management of the 11 million tonnes Integrated Steel Works at Jamshedpur.

He is a Mechanical Engineer by qualification and joined Tata Steel in Jamshedpur as a Graduate Trainee in 1990, having graduated from Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology (IIEST), formerly known as BE College, Shibpur .

Over the past years, he has worked in Operation & Maintenance and Capital Projects execution and also got exposure to TQM practices at JUSE (Japanese Union of Scientists & Engineers) Japan in 2014. He has completed Executive General Management course from CEDEP  (INSEAD campus) at Fontainebleau France in 2015 . He has also attended the Global Advanced Management Program (GAMP) organised by the All India Management Association (AIMA) in Silicon Valley, USA in 2019.

He has served at different capacities in Mechanical Maintenance functions and executed various upgradation projects in Wire Rod Mill, Hot Strip Mill and Cold Rolling Mill. As the Project Manager, he has the experience of implementation of a Joint Venture Capital project of the Continuous Annealing & Processing Line (CAPL) with Nippon Steel Corporation for M/s JCAPCPL .

During his previous tenure as Chief of Mechanical Maintenance (CoMM) , Tata Steel Jamshedpur Works from Nov 2013, he had worked extensively in establishing Advanced Condition Diagnostic Techniques (CDT), Reliability Centred Maintenance practices and driving Smart Asset Management System (SAMS) leveraging Asset digitalisation and setting up the Asset monitoring & Diagnostic Centre (AMDC) for implementation of Predictive Analytics based Maintenance (PdM) strategy.

He is also associated with Condition Monitoring Society of India (CMSI) and a fellow member of the Institute of Engineers, India Chapter.

Mr Prabhat Kumar is the Vice President - Marketing and Sales, (Flat Products), at Tata Steel. He has held multiple leadership roles across functions in the organisation since 2008 getting deep exposure to the core business, managing stakeholders and high-level management.

Before taking on his current role, Mr Kumar was Principal Executive Officer to CEO&MD, Tata Steel. He has rich experience across Marketing & Sales of both Flat and Long Products and has been instrumental in developing strategies for automotive and construction market segments. Mr Kumar oversaw the launch of several new products to cater to changing market needs. He has rich experience in techno-commercial functions.

Mr Kumar is Mechanical Engineer from B.I.T Sindri and has more than 32 years of rich experience in Tata Steel and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has also completed CEDEP General Management Program at INSEAD, France. He joined Tata Steel Jamshedpur as a Graduate Trainee in 1990.

In addition, he is part of the Profit Centre Councils in Tata Steel and is also a Member of the Board of Directors of subsidiary companies of Tata Steel.

Rajiv holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree in Metallurgy from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI Jamshedpur. He has done Advance Management Programme from CEDEP (INSEAD, France), Director Certification Program from the Institute of Directors, Thailand and has attended the Global Advanced Management Program in Silicon Valley, USA. 

After joining the Company as a Graduate Trainee in 1989, he has worked in various parts of the value chain including manufacturing, planning, marketing and sale of steel. He has held various leadership positions including President & CEO of Tata Steel (Thailand) Public Co. Limited, Business Head for Tubes Strategic Business Unit and Steel Wires Strategic Business Unit. 

Currently, he is the Chairman of Tata Pigments Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Steel and sits on the boards of Tata Steel (Thailand) Public Co. Limited and ResponsibleSteel, a not-for-profit organisation which is a global multistakeholder standard and certification initiative. He chairs Safety Taskforce at CII Eastern Region Council and represents the Company on various Sustainability Alliances across the globe.  

Rajiv enjoys badminton, travelling and reading management books.

Sandeep Bhattacharya joined Tata Steel as Chief Finance & Accounts Orissa Projects in 2011. Before joining Tata Steel, he worked as Assistant Vice President (Business Finance) at Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd. During his long career, he has handled senior positions in finance and treasury functions at Essar Investments Ltd and at BPCL for more than 13 years.

After joining Tata Steel in 2011, he worked in varied roles across the finance function. He has rich experience in financial procedures and building internal controls for profit monitoring, working capital and asset management. In 2014, he was redesignated as Chief Financial Transaction & Control and in 2019 as Chief Financial Operations & Business Finance.

Sandeep Bhattacharya has significantly contributed to implementing financial plans geared towards the successful accomplishment of business objectives. Post Air India’s acquisition by Tata Group, he led the Tata Steel team formed to help Air India complete the past year’s financial statements and opening balance sheet and completed the audit in record time. He has been instrumental in setting up financial controls at Tata Steel Kalinganagar during the project execution phase which was Tata Steel’s largest capital outlay for a greenfield project. He contributed immensely to building the centralised centre for financial transactions by working with TCS on the One Tata One Network (OTON) project, which made Tata Steel one of the first companies to have moved to the OTON platform. He has been a high performing leader with a proven track record.

Sandeep Bhattacharya completed his PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad and Cost Management Accounting from the Institute of Cost and Works Accounts.

Samita Shah is Vice President – Corporate Finance, Treasury & Risk Management at Tata Steel Limited. She is responsible for managing the Treasury and the financing requirements of Tata Steel Group. She manages the relationship with financial stakeholders including banks, rating agencies, and investors. She is also the Chief Risk Officer for Tata Steel and has spearheaded the implementation of an enterprise-wide risk management process across the Tata Steel Group.

Samita Shah serves on the Boards of Tata BlueScope Steel Pvt Ltd., Tata Steel Minerals Canada Ltd., T S Global Procurement Co. Pte Ltd., Tata Steel SEZ Ltd., Abja Investment Co. Pte Ltd., and Tata Steel Foundation. She is also the Chairperson of TRF Ltd. and serves on the Board of Tata Advanced Systems Ltd.

Samita Shah joined Tata Steel in 2012 after 20 years of experience in investment banking. She has a BA (Economics) from Mumbai University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Mr Subodh Pandey is currently Vice President –Technology, R&D, NMB and Graphene at Tata Steel. He played a key role in the transformation journey of Tata Steel BSL Limited (formerly known as Bhushan Steel Limited). After assuming responsibility as its Chief Operating Officer on September 1, 2018, he ramped up operations, reduced cost through operational efficiency and improved reliability of operations. This is probably the first company under IBC to demonstrate a turnaround in a short span of three years.

Prior to moving to Tata Steel BSL, Mr Pandey was the Executive-in-Charge of Tubes SBU, Tata Steel. He led the digital transformation journey of the Division, wherein he piloted and scaled up various initiatives in the areas of maintenance, warehousing, logistics, marketing and sales and safety.

He also has rich experience across Marketing & Sales of both Flat and Long Products, Ferro Alloys and Minerals Division, Improvement Functions and Engineering & Projects.

Mr Pandey is a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has also completed CEDEP General Management Program at INSEAD, France. He joined Tata Steel Jamshedpur as a Graduate Trainee in 1992.

Mr Pandey is also Chairman of Angul Energy Limited (formerly known as Bhushan Energy Limited), a subsidiary of Tata Steel, since September 27, 2019. He is passionate about Total Quality Management and has contributed to Tata Steel’s journey to achieve the Deming Grand Prize.

Mr Uttam Singh graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT BHU in 1992 and subsequently joined as a Graduate Trainee in Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur. After a stint of 4 years as Trainee and Manager of Blast Furnace Operation, he left on a sabbatical to earn ‘Executive MBA’ from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Since then he has been serving in various capacities at Tata Steel for the last 25 years. At present he is the Vice President - Operations, Tata Steel Meramandali.

Mr Singh has made significant contributions in the blast furnace understanding, design and process improvements like estimation of floating state of the dead-man and its relation to the stability of the blast furnace operation, mass distribution in the falling stream of burden materials, development of coke rate prediction model for blast furnaces, evolution of refractory design in ‘I’ blast furnace of Tata Steel and improvement in slag granulation system design at ‘I’ blast furnace of Tata Steel, in total accounting to 22 international/national journals and one patent.

Mr Singh also led the successful team for the fastest ramp-up of ‘I’ Blast Furnace, achieving a record productivity of 2.8 Tons/day/m3 in the second year of production and achieving highest man power productivity of 25 KT/man/year which is better than European counter parts . During his stint as the Chief of ‘I’ blast furnace he has also recorded just ‘One Lost Time Injury’, ‘Zero Effluent discharge’ and ‘Reduction of Water Consumption to 0.5m3/ton of hot metal’. He is also the recipient of ‘Best Departmental Head of the Year’, Tata Steel Ltd in 2005.

In recognition of his phenomenal contribution to the understanding, design and process optimization of blast furnaces keeping in mind the environment and safety concerns, Mr Uttam Singh is awarded the “2014 TSL New Millennium Award”.