Dr. Sinha is a Senior investment professional with over 30 years of experience in investment management in emerging and international markets. She has Led teams and business units focused on Asian equity funds at Blackstone Asia Advisors, CIBC Oppenheimer, and Battery march. Independent Director for several companies and on the Board of Governors of the CFA Institute.

She is also regularly featured as speaker at conferences and media events on emerging markets, particularly India. She also anchor shows on ET Now, leading Indian business channel, for special series on the global economy: "Global Insights with Punita Kumar-Sinha"

Ms. Sujata is a global, business operations, strategy, transformation executive, P&L manager, board member and advisor. She has led global businesses in healthcare, retail, consumer, supply chain and industrial manufacturing with revenues ranging from $3B to $500B. She serves on the boards of public companies - American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), on the Supervisory Board of Brenntag SE (BNR.DE) and private equity backed Agendia Inc. Ms. Sujata is an industry expert in digital business models, strategies, consumerization, digital platforms and AI.

Dr. Manoj Vaish brings a wealth of experience of more than 30 years in Financial & Capital Markets. Currently, he is the Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee, and Member, Nomination and Remuneration Committee at GHCL LTD. He is also an Independent Director on the Board of Mirae Asset Trustee Company Private Limited, where he serves as a Member of the Audit Committee. Dr. Vaish is also Chairman of SEBI’s Working Group to Streamline the role and obligations of Trustees of Mutual Funds.

He has also served multiple high-level Committees and Boards, including SEBI's Committee on Corporate Governance (Narayan Murthy Committee), Primary & Secondary Market Advisory Committees, Risk Management Committee, Committee on Delisting of Securities and Working Committees of the World Federation of Exchanges, South Asian Federation of Exchanges and Boards of SBI Securities, BOI etc.

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, 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, and 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.

Mr. Gurumoorthy Mahalingam serves on the boards of Central Depository Services (India) Limited, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited, City Union Bank Limited, Bandhan AMC Limited, and India International Bullion Exchange IFSC Limited. He previously served as Securities and Exchange Board of India's Whole-Time Member and the Reserve Bank of India's Regional Director.

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, amongst 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. George is currently the Managing Director of Thejo Engineering Limited, Chennai, He was the Chairman of Equipment Leasing Association of India and was also a Member of the Advisory Committee of the RBI.

Mr. George is a certified director in corporate governance by INSEAD, Paris. Mr. George has more than four decades of experience in the corporate world in sectors such as banking, sugar, cement, and engineering (both in public and private sector) of which, more than 25 years has been in senior management positions.

Mr. George holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and did Masters from the International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne. He has participated in management programme of Harvard Business School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also an adjunct faculty at Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai, India and Rajagiri Business School, Kochi, India.

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.

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.

Lt. Gen. Surinder Nath, PVSM, AVSM (Retd.), is the President, Institute of Directors, India. He is also the former Chairman, Union Public Service Commission, and 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, and Kharagpur. He completed his M.Sc. in Defence Studies from Madras University and M.A.in International Relations from Allahabad University.