Mr. Shailesh V. Haribhakti FCA, is a Chartered and Cost Accountant, and a Certified Internal Auditor, Financial Planner & Fraud Examiner. Over decades of hands-on professional involvement, he has worked through myriad engagements which have defined the next steps at Haribhakti Group. Currently, he is on the Boards of India's top performing organisations include L&T Finance Holdings Ltd., L&T Mutual Fund Trustee Ltd., Blue Star Limited, Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd, NSDL e-Governance, ACC Limited, Ambuja Cements Limited, Bajaj Electricals Limited, Bennett Coleman and Company Limited and few others. His passion for quality is reflected in the ISO 9000 certification for various processes of the Group's operations.

He represented India on the Standards Advisory Council (SAC) of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and also a member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He worked with PBAS, an affiliate of IFC Washington, to establish Activity-based costing and Strategic Planning Processes in Polish SMEs. He is a staunch believer in Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance and in promoting a greener environment.

Mr. Arun Balakrishnan superannuated as Chairman & Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL). A chemical engineer from Calicut University, he post graduated in management from the IIM, Bangalore in 1976. He is the Founder Chairman of HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd. (HMEL), a Joint Venture Company of HPCL and L.N. Mittal Investments, and is currently an Independent Director of the Board.

He is also serving as a member of BOG, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies. Additionally, he is Non Executive Independent Director on the Boards of a number of prestigious companies in the Oil & Gas, Power, Real Estate, Space, Trading, Commodities Exchange, etc.

He is recipient of “The Distinguished Alumni Award 2008” from his alma mater, the IIM, Bangalore.

Lt. Gen. Surinder Nath, PVSM, AVSM (Retd.), is the Vice Chairman, Institute of Directors, India. He is also the former Chairman, Union Public Service Commission, former Vice Chief of Army Staff and has also served on the Board of Larsen and Toubro Ltd. as an Independent Director. In December 2002, he was selected as Chairman of a Study Group constituted by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India to review the system of performance appraisal, promotion, empanelment and placement procedures for All India Services i.e. IAS, IPS and IFOS and Group’ A’ services of the Government of India.

The recommendations of the Study Group were submitted to the Hon’ble Prime Minister in July 2003 and have been frequently highlighted in the Media as “Surinder Nath Committee Report”. Most of these recommendations have been accepted by the Government of India and are now under implementation. He was also a member of another Study Group constituted by the PMO in 2006 for designing and planning in-service training for IAS officers at junior, middle and senior level. The recommendations of the Study Group have been accepted and already implemented. Lt. Gen. Surinder Nath is also member of the Advisory Council, VGSOM, IIT, Kharagpur. He completed his M.Sc. in Defence Studies from Madras University and M.A.in International Relations from Allahabad University.

Prof. Colin Coulson-Thomas is Director-General, IOD India, UK and Europe Operations and President of the Institute of Management Services. He received a CSR Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 CSR Leadership Summit, and is the first Honoured Fellow of the Institute of Responsible Leadership. Honorary Professor, Aston University; Visiting Professor, Lincoln International Business School; and a Distinguished Professor at Sri SIIM where he is also President of the Council of International Advisers. He has helped directors in over 40 countries to improve director, board and corporate performance, and is the author of over 60 books and reports. He has also held local, regional and national public sector board and a variety of professorial and leadership appointments.

Mr. Suresh Thawani, a metallurgist by profession, is an accomplished and distinguished professional with over 47 years of rich techno-commercial experience with 41 years at the Tata Group alone and 13 years of boardroom experience including as CEO & Managing Director, Tata Sponge Iron Limited, CEO & Managing Director, JAMIPOL Limited (A Tata Group Enterprise), CEO, Neelachal Refractories Limited (A Tata Group Enterprise) and Executive Director of Standard Chrome Limited (A JV of Tata Steel). He was Nominee Director on the Board, Industrial Development Corporation of Odhisha and Director on the Board, TPM club of India.

Under his leadership, Tata Sponge made highest ever profit for straight six years with excellent results in innovation and employee engagement. Tata Sponge became the first Sponge Iron Company in the world to get TPM award. Tata Sponge also became the first sponge iron company to stabilize on use of high quality coal from South Africa, which later became industry best practice.

At Tata Steel, he was Director of Procurement Division, Director of Scientific Services Division, among-st others. He was instrumental in designing, developing and marketing several special steel products and stabilizing the strategic sourcing processes. At Neelachal Refractory Limited, he successfully managed the challenging task of closing down a running but loss making unit and then arranging change in management through BFIR.

He graduated from IIT, Kharagpur (1972) and has done CEO Coach Accreditation program with CFI (Coaching Foundation of India), Chennai (2011).

Mr. M B N Rao is the former Chairman & Managing Director of Indian Bank and Canara Bank.

Currently he serves on the boards of Ramco Cements, Taj GVK Hotels & Resorts, Apollo Hospitals, KG Denim, Nuziveedu Seeds, MMTC PAMP India, CRISIL Ratings, Mumbai International Airport, Apollo Health & Life Style, Navi Mumbai International Airport, HDFC Ergo Health Insurance etc., as an Independent Director.

Previously, he was the Chairman of the Indian Banks Association, Indbank Merchant Banking Services Ltd., Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Co. Ltd and Canara Robeco Asset Management Co. Ltd. He has also served on the Boards of Exim Bank, General Insurance Corporation Ltd, Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, BEML Limited as nominee Director of Government of India. He has been associated as Member Board of Supervision NABARD; Member Board of Governors, National Institute Of Securities Markets; Director, Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Private Limited; Member, Corporate Governance and Audit Committee, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd., India. He was also on the Board of TIDEL Park Chennai and Governing Council of the IDRBT.

He was the Chairman of the advisory panel on ‘Financial Stability Analysis and Stress Testing’ formed by ‘Committee on Financial Sector Assessment’ - constituted by the Govt. of India (GoI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He has been a member of several committees formed by GoI, RBI, IBA, SEBI, BSE & NSE. He has also been a member of the ‘Committee on Financial Inclusion’ headed by Dr. Rangarajan.

A graduate in agriculture, he is an associate of Chartered Institute of Bankers, London; Fellow Member of the Indian Institute of Bankers and Member of the Singapore Institute of Management. He holds two Diplomas in Computer Studies from University of Cambridge and National Computing Centre, London. Mr. M.B.N. Rao has about 50 years of experience, including over 10 years of overseas working experience.