Mr. Nirmal Kumar Jain

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Jain holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has over four decades of experience in diverse areas, including that of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), finance, legal, capital structuring, etc.

Mr. Jain joined the JSW Group in 1992 and has held positions of incr easing responsibilities in the Group. He was the Executive Vice Chairman of JSW Energy Limited till his retirement in August, 2013, while continuing as a Director. He is also the Director/Chairman of other JSW Group companies.

Mr. Jain has contributed tremendously in many areas, including leading the JSW Group in its new ventures in Energy, Infrastructure and Cement, apart from leading various successful assignments for the Steel business. His deep knowledge and astute eye for all aspects of the business have helped establish JSW as a still rapidly growing diversified conglomerate.

Mr. Jain is associated with several social and cultural organisations.

Mr. Chandan Bhattacharya

Independent Director

Mr. Bhattacharya is an Arts graduate from Calcutta University and also a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).

He is the former Managing Director of State Bank of India. He was the Chairman of the Finance and Banking Committee of the Indian Merchants’ Chamber, Mumbai. He also served as a Member of Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) for two years. Thereafter, he worked with international banking giants such as Societe Generale, the French banking group and Rabo Bank, the Dutch banking group, as an advisor for India and South Asia operations. Concurrently, he worked with McKinsey & Co. for seven years as advisor for financial sector practices in India and South Asia.

Mr. Bhattacharya has rich experience of five decades in the banking and financial sector in India. He is also on the Boards of other reputed companies.

Mr. Rakesh Nath

Independent Director

Mr. Nath has over four decades of varied experience in the power sector. He was the Technical Member of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL), Chairperson of Central Electricity Authority and Ex-Officio Secretary to the Government of India, and Whole-time Director of the Power Trading Corporation. He has also been the Chairman, Bhakra Beas Management Board and Member Secretary of Northern and Western Regional Electricity Boards.

Mr. Sattiraju Seshagiri Rao

Independent Director

Mr. Rao holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Business Administration. He has over 45 years of vast experience in professionally managed, state-owned joint venture with multi-national and private sector power companies in the areas of power generation, Extra High Voltage (EHV) transmission and power systems.

Mr. Rao was the first Joint Managing Director and CEO of the Company, having served for 15 years. He is also on the Boards of other reputed companies.

Mr. Sunil Goyal

Independent Director

Mr. Goyal, a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kreston SGCO Advisors LLP and the Founder and Mentor of SGCO & Co., a well-known accountancy firm based in Mumbai. Mr. Goyal leads a team of more than 300 professionals in his group and is a member of the Global Board of Kreston International Limited, UK, headquartered in London.

With 29 years of experience, Mr. Goyal specialises in the field of Financial and Business Consultancy, with core strengths in fund raising through debt and equity, business restructuring, business valuations, M&A, strategic alliances and capital markets.

Ms. Shailaja Chandra

Independent Director

Ms. Chandra, an M.Sc in Economics from UK, was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and a career civil servant having held assignments in the Ministries of Defence, Power and Health besides having the experience of working in three Indian states and Union Territories.

She distinguished herself as Delhi’s only woman Chief Secretary under whose administrative leadership, privatisation of power distribution in Delhi and introduction of the largest fleet of CNG run buses in the w orld was successfully co-ordinated.

Ms. Chandra has been awarded two academic fellowships by the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, France and by the Shiv Nadar University. She is a prolific writer and a public policy commentator in national newspapers and on television.