Power Sector in India

Board of Directors

Mr. S. Ramakrishnan - Chairman

Mr. Sanjeev Mehra - Managing Director

Mr. S. Padmanabhan - Director

Mr. Ashok Sethi - Director

Mr. Arun Srivastava - Director

Mr. Ramesh Subramanyam - Director

Mr. S. Ramakrishnan - Chairman

Mr. S. Ramakrishnan holds a B.Tech (Mechanical) degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Management degree from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He joined The Tata Administrative Service in 1972 and during his long tenure handled a multitude of national as well as international projects. He is currently Executive Director (Finance) of The Tata Power Company Ltd. He is also on the Board of several Tata companies.

Mr. Sanjeev Mehra - Managing Director

Mr. Sanjeev Mehra is B.Tech (Electrical), and PG Diploma in Business Administration. He has a vast experience of over 29 years in Power Sector. He started his career in NTPC as an Executive Trainee in Electrical Design Department & worked there for almost 9 years. Thereafter he joined Power Grid Corporation of India Limited in the Commercial Department. He has taken various challenges in his previous assignments. When trading of power was conceived and PTC India Limited was formed, he joined it as an initial employee and worked in various functions before joining Tata Power Trading Company Limited as Managing Director in September 2011.

Mr. S. Padmanabhan - Director

Mr. Sankaranarayanan Padmanabhan, or "Paddy" as he is better known, is the Executive Director (Operations) at Tata Power and is responsible for all the Company's Operations, including the Mumbai Licence Area business and also the Maharashtra Projects.

Mr. Padmanabhan brings rich experience in large-scale project build up and delivery, global sourcing and value creation in operational efficiencies. He joined TCS in 1982 as a trainee and progressed into

various roles. As the Executive Director & Head Global Human Resources of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS), he drove initiatives at TCS's helm to create a multi-lingual and culturally-diverse global workforce and was responsible for over 100,000 employees worldwide. In his capacity, he achieved the highest retention rates at TCS as compared to the overall Indian IT industry, besides creating a world-class training and learning focused organization, capable of integrating over 30,000 new employees every year.

Mr. Ashok Sethi - Director

Mr. Ashok Sethi, a metallurgical engineer from IIT, Kharagpur, started his career as a Mechanical maintenance engineer at Tata Power's Trombay Thermal Power plant. He was associated with the erection & commissioning of India's first 500 MW thermal unit with multi-fuel firing facility and Quality Assurance & commissioning of second 500MW unit. Mr. Sethi subsequently headed Mechanical Maintenance, Planning and Coal handling plant O and M for 1330 MW Trombay station. He assumed charge of three Hydro power stations of Tata Power in 2004

and in addition, from 2006 he was also responsible for T and D business area. In 2007, as Sr. General Manager he was heading Commercial Operations covering Regulatory, Corporate Sourcing, Fuel procurement and Customer relations for the License Area-Mumbai. Mr Sethi assumed the charge of Vice President, License Area Operations, Mumbai from 2008. He is responsible for Thermal & Hydro Stations, Load Control Center, Revenue collection, Customer relations, Demand Side Management and Fuel logistic for its thermal plants.

During the above tenure, Mr Sethi has presented number of papers at conferences organized by NITIE, IIPE, NTPC, CII etc.

Mr. Arun Srivastava - Director

Mr. Arun Srivastava has been working within the Power and Infrastructure sectors since 1981 and has a wide exposure in various aspects of project formulation, planning, management & implementation, budgeting & scheduling of numerous projects in the power sector, including policy formulation at the national level for the implementation of private power development in India.

Mr. Arun Srivastava has done his B. Sc in Engineering, (First Division with Distinction) from Bhagalpur College of Engineering (1977 - 1981) and also has attended course on Corporate Governance and Reforms from Princeton University.

Mr. Srivastava has wide experience in managing large power sector reform & restructuring projects involving multi-disciplinary inputs, dealing with multiple stakeholders, consensus building and steering the reform programmes in the planned direction.

He has been involved in the formulation, development and implementation of Private Power Policy of the Government of India (GOI) as well as development of legislation for creation of CERC and SERC. In addition, he has also been involved with the national level planning, project appraisal and resource management of power projects as Consultant to the Power & Energy Division, Planning Commission, and Government of India. He has also been involved in developing a corporate and strategic plan for India’s largest power generator, NTPC.

Mr. Ramesh Subramanyam - Director

Mr.Ramesh Subramanyam is a graduate from Nagpur University. He is a member of Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (ICWAI) & Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has also passed the CPA (Certified Public Accountants) examination of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants(AICPA).

He is having 20 years of experience in leading companies like Lloyds Steel Limited, Hindustan Lever Limited, Monsanto India Limited. Before joining Tata Power, he worked as Assistant Vice-president, Global Corporate Treasury of Siemens AG.

He joined Tata Power in 2007 as Chief Financial Officer for Coastal Gujarat Power Limited (Mundra UMPP).He is also on the board of other Tata Power Group Companies namely PT Sumber Energi Andalan Tbk, Maithon Power Limited, Tata Power Trading Company Limited, Indian Energy Limited. He is also the member of core committee of power sector financing of CII.