Profile of our Board of Directors
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Mr. Rajan Nanda
Mr. Rajan Nanda is a visionary leader who has played a defining role in establishing Escorts as an organization of repute. His astute leadership has resulted in giving Escorts a sharper focus in the high growth economy sectors of agri machinery, construction equipment, railway equipment and auto components Mr. Nanda is an active member of several apex trade and industry bodies. As a member of the CII National Council, he has served as the Chairman of its Agriculture Committee. Mr. Nanda plays a pivotal role in promoting the cause of Indian agriculture and his endeavours resulted in the government announcing the long-awaited National Agriculture Policy.
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Mr. Nikhil Nanda
Mr. Nikhil Nanda has been a key member of the Board since 1997. He plays a vital role in managing the Group’s performance and steering its operations to create a customer-centric, technology-driven brand. Together with the leadership team, he is leading the organizational transformation into a culture of high-efficiency and aggressive growth. Mr. Nanda is a member of Northern Regional Council of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), the Indo American Chambers of Commerce (IACC), high-level strategic group constituted by All India Management Association (AIMA) and Young India Committee of CII.
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Dr. S.A. Dave
Dr. S. A. Dave is an economist of international repute. He has a rich experience across multiple facets of financial and capital markets. Former Executive Director of IDBI, former Chairman of UTI and the first Chairman of SEBI, Mr. Dave is acting as Chairman of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Mumbai and is also the Director of HDFC Limited, and many other reputed companies.
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Mr. S.C. Bhargava
Mr. S. C. Bhargava is an eminent personality with a rich experience in all facets of Finance and Insurance. He possesses extensive knowledge in the field of securities market, treasury operations and investments, among others. Mr. Bhargava, Senior Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants has also worked as member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Money, Foreign Exchange and Government Securities Market for Reserve Bank of India. Currently, he is serving on the Board of many reputed organizations.
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Mr. P.H. Ravikumar
Mr. P.H. Ravikumar is commerce graduate and CIIB, AIB from London with a Senior Diploma in French. He is also a Fellow (Honorary) of The Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) U.K., and the Chairperson of CISI’s India Advisory Council. He has been the founder Managing Director and
Chief Executive Officer of National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) and Invent Assets Securitisation and Reconstruction P Ltd (Invent), an RBI regulated Asset Reconstruction Company. Prior to these assignments, he has worked in senior level positions in ICICI Bank, the leading private sector bank in India and Bank of India, a premier public sector bank in India. He has been on the governing body of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad and Federal Bank Limited. He is currently the non-executive chairperson of SKS Microfinance Ltd. and (among other companies) on the Boards of L&T Investment Management Co. Ltd., Aditya Birla Capital Advisors Ltd., Bharat Forge Limited, etc. -
Mr. Hardeep Singh
Mr. Hardeep Singh has a rich experience of holding top managerial positions in leading Indian and foreign companies. Mr. Singh was the Former Executive Chairman of Cargill South Asia and Amalgamated Plantations private Limited (A Tata Enterprise) and non-executive Chairman of HSBC Invest Direct India Limited. He is the Chairman of the monitoring committee on Minimum Support Price constituted by Planning Commission, Govt. of India. He has been a member of National Council of CII, National Committee for Agriculture of FICCI and served as an honorary advisor on Agriculture to the Chief Minister of Punjab. An invited speaker at the World Bank, US Department of Agriculture Global Summit, International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, Imperial College in the UK and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He is a graduate in Economics from Pune University and an alumnus of Kellogg School of Management.
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Mrs. Vibha Paul Rishi
Ms. Vibha Paul Rishi, an Alumnus of FMS Delhi, started her career with the Tata Administrative Services and was part of the founding team of Titan Watches. Ms. Rishi has been an Executive Director – Brand and Human Capital of Max India Limited. She is a seasoned marketing professional with extensive experience in Indian and international markets, coupled with an abiding passion for people. She had been earlier associated as the Director, Marketing and Customer Strategy at the Future Group, India’s largest retail group. Prior to this, she spent 17 years at PepsiCo in marketing and innovation roles in India, US and UK. She was one of the founding team employees of PepsiCo when they set up in India. She was also associated with Pratham, an NGO that works to provide education to underprivileged children in India.
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Dr. Sutanu Behuria
Dr. Sutanu Behuria is a postgraduate in Economics from Delhi School of Economics as well as a postgraduate and Ph.D in Economics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He is an Indian Administrative Services Officer (Himachal Pradesh) from the 1976 batch. He has, during his illustrious carrier spanning 38 years of professional experience, served as Secretary in the Dept. of Fertilisers, National Disaster Management Authority, Ministry of Minority
Affairs and Department of Heavy Industry. He has been the Financial Advisor to the Ministries of Commerce, Textiles, Coal, Mines, Youth Affairs and Sports in the Government of India. He has worked as Finance and Planning Secretary in Himachal Pradesh Government among many other Departments. He has served as Board member in over 25 PSUs. Dr. Behuria has worked in the Asian Development Bank for over five years. He has also been Advisor to the
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Mrs. Nitasha Nanda
Ms. Nitasha Nanda is a multi-faceted professional, entrepreneur and business leader with widespread experience across global and Indian companies. After graduating with Honours in Commerce from University of Delhi, she has worked with Price Waterhouse Cooper, ANZ Grindlays Bank, Hewlett Packard, Escorts Finance Limited and other reputed organizations in the area of Business Strategies, Financial Management, Operational Research and Managerial Techniques, among others. Ms. Nanda is responsible for managing the company’s subsidiary companies which include Escorts Securities.
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Mr. G.B. Mathur
Mr. G. B. Mathur is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and LLB by profession. He has more than three decades of rich experience
in the field of corporate law. He is part of all the major restructuring and other important corporate decisions taken by the Company from time to time. Mr. Mathur provides support in strategy decisions and CSR initiatives of the Company.