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| | | Ashis Basu
Director
Mr. Basu as the Executive Vice President of GMR Energy Limited heads the Commercial & Contract function for the energy business and also heads the group's coal business, which currently includes development of a major thermal coal mine in Indonesia. Mr. Basu is a commerce graduate and a Chartered Accountant and brings nearly 25 years of rich working experience in the energy sector including power generation, transmission, distribution and coal mine development in the commercial, finance and business development areas. Prior to joining GMR Group in 2001, Mr. Basu was working for RPG Group, a major diversified industrial group in India (last position held was that of Chief Manager -- Finance) for nearly 17 years. During his career, Mr. Basu been involved in financial and accounting aspects of running a large private utility, has had key roles in the development and financing of a captive coal mine, negotiation and implementation of high value construction contracts, operation and maintenance of such contracts for power projects with domestic and international suppliers, project financing involving multilateral agencies, export credit agencies, financial institutions, negotiation of large value contracts for mine development and operation, setting up joint ventures and all related commercial areas.
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| | | Raaj Kumar1,2
Director
Mr. Kumar is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of GMR Energy Limited, engaged in the business of developing, owning and operating power generation projects and investments in power and energy sector. Mr. Kumar is a qualified Electrical Engineer from BITS, Pilani, India. He has over 30 years of rich experience in reputed organizations like Grasim Industries, AP Rayons, Baroda Rayons, Asian Paints, Jindal Praxair Oxygen Co. Ltd. and JSW Energy Ltd. in various locations across India. Mr. Kumar started his career as a Maintenance Engineer in a large chemical industry and then moved to Grasim Industries where he rose to become Chief Engineer. In 1999, he joined Jindal Praxair Oxygen Company Ltd, first as a director and was subsequently appointed to Managing Director. Before joining GMR, Mr. Kumar was Joint Managing Director and CEO of JSW Energy Ltd. (JSWEL), where he introduced innovations to supply power at very competitive tariffs to the state utilities in various parts of India. Under his leadership, JSWEL has embarked upon very ambitious growth plans which include setting up an imported coal based 1000-1200 MW plant in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra and lignite based 1000 MW capacity in Rajasthan.
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| | | Boda Venkata Nageswara Rao
Director
Mr. B.V.N. Rao is the Business Chairman of GMR Energy Limited, a company that is engaged in the business of developing, owing and operating power generation projects and investments in power and energy sector. In addition to his position with GMR, Mr. Rao is on the board of several publicly listed and private companies involved in the energy sector in India and abroad. He has 13 years of varied banking experience with exposure in industrial finance, foreign exchange and international trade. Mr. Rao is also experienced through his comprehensive exposure to various sectors including corporate and project planning, taxation and cost reduction measures, designing financial control systems and monitoring of same. Mr. Rao is also on the board of directors of several companies of the GMR group, including the publicly listed GMR Infrastructure Ltd.
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| | | Edwin Lee1,2,3
Independent Director
Mr. Lee is a Managing Director of Newhaven, an international merchant bank with offices in Toronto, Dubai, London and Hong Kong. He is also a Director of several investment vehicles branded Phoenician Family of Funds. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several publicly traded companies, listed on North American and European exchanges, and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
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| | | Michael Garvey1,3,4
Independent Director
Mr. Garvey was with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1969 until his retirement in July 2006, including as an audit partner from 1982. He completed the Directors Education Programme at the University of Toronto in 2007 and has the ICD.D designation. He obtained his B.A. in Honours Economics from the University of Waterloo, his C.A. designation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario which also elected him F.C.A. in 1985. He has volunteered his time to numerous charitable and professional activities throughout his career, including serving as Board Chair of The Donwood Institute, the University of Waterloo and The Michener Institute of Applied Health Sciences. He is a Director of Sherritt International Corporation, having joined the Board in May 2006. From June 19, 2007 to December 30, 2008, Mr. Garvey was a Director of MonoGen, Inc. (''Monogen''), which was incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act. On December 30, 2008, Monogen announced that it would make an assignment in bankruptcy at the end of that day. Effective January 13, 2009, the TSX suspended trading of Monogen's common shares and the shares were delisted on February 12, 2009.
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| | | Neena Gupta2,4
Independent Director
Ms. Gupta is a partner with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, focusing on advocacy, employment and human rights. She has extensive experience in assisting international companies establish in Canada and is chair of the firm's India Practice Group, which focuses on the Canada-India business corridor. Ms. Gupta is very active in the community. She is currently a governor of the Law Commission of Ontario, which focuses solely on provincial law reform. She is active with the United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo, the KW YWCA, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE Toronto) and the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC), where she served on the board for five years. She is a frequent speaker on Canadian legal topics as a guest of the International Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, the Advocates' Society, the Centre for Family Business and the International Paralegal Management Association.
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Notes:
(1) Member of the Audit Committee
(2) Member of the Nomination and Compensation Committee
(3) Member of the Corporate Governance Committee
(4) Member of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee
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