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Notice
Annexure to the Notice
Additional information on directors recommended for appointment / reappointment as required under Regulation 36(3) of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 and Secretarial Standard 2 on General Meetings
Item numbers 3, 4 and 5
Particulars
Mr Yann Le Pallec (DIN 05173118)
Ms Nishi Vasudeva (DIN 03016991)
Mr Saugata Saha (DIN 10496237)
Age
Qualifications
Experience (including brief resume)
55 years
Master’s degree in business from Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economique et Commerciales (ESSEC) in France
Mr Le Pallec is Executive Managing Director and Global Head of Rating Services which includes Analytics, Research and Operations, for S&P Global Ratings. He is based in Paris and is a member of the S&P Global Ratings Operating Committee
Mr Le Pallec oversees a group of more than 2,200 analysts and support staff across 28 countries that covers more than one million outstanding ratings on entities and securities across a wide range of sectors. These include governments,corporations,financial institutions, and structured finance
He has held a diverse set of responsibilities in his career at S&P. In 2016, he was Head of Global CorporateRatings,agroupcomposed of 500 analysts responsible for analyzing over 4,000 non-financial corporations worldwide. From 2011 until 2015, he was responsible for S&P’s market-leading credit ratings business in EMEA, managing a team of over 900 rating analysts and support staff operating from 12 offices
Previously, Mr Le Pallec was Head of EMEA Corporate and Government Ratings, after various managerial and analytical positions in the Insurance and Sovereign & Public Sector groups. Before joining S&P in 1999, he was a Senior Manager with the Paris-based audit firm Salustro Reydel
Mr Le Pallec has been appointed as Chairman of the CRISIL Board w.e.f. February 17, 2024
67 years
BA (Economic Honours) from Delhi University and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
Ms Nishi Vasudeva is a business leader with extensive management and advisory experience. She is the first woman Chairman & Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a blue chip Maharatna company in India. During her career of almost four decades in the oil and gas sector, she has worked across diverse business domains that include marketing, corporate planning & strategy, business transformation, enterprise resource planning and information systems
She has been a member of several committees for development of policy for the hydrocarbon sector in India. She has also held Board positions in various joint venture companies of HPCL, in partnership with oil majors, MNCs and reputedIndianbusinessfirms,duringher tenure at HPCL
Ms Vasudeva is the first Indian to be awarded the Platts “Global CEO of the year” in the Energy sector and has several otherawards&recognitionstohercredit. She was presented the SCOPE award in the Individual Leadership category by the President of India for excellence and outstanding contribution to public sector management. She has also been ranked one of the top five ‘Most Powerful Woman in the Asia Pacific’ by FORTUNE magazine in the year 2014
Ms Vasudeva serves as a Non-Executive Independent Director on the Boards of several prominent corporates
48 years
Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, with Honors, from St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata, India; a post-graduate diploma in Management from the Xavier Institute in Bhubaneswar, India; and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a George F. Baker Scholar
Mr Saugata Saha is President of S&P Global Commodity Insights and a member of S&P Global’s Executive Committee. In his prior roles at the Company, he was the Chief Financial Officer of two of S&P Global’s technology- driven, data, benchmarks, and analytics divisions, S&P Global Market Intelligence and S&P Global Platts. Prior to that, he led financial planning & analyses (FP&A) and corporate strategy for theCompany;managedoperations for the technology group; led the integration program for a large acquisition; and led the strategy team at S&P Global’s Ratings division
Previously, Mr Saha was a consultant at McKinsey & Co.’s New York office where he led client engagements focused on strategy, M&A, corporate finance, and on improving operations across a rangeofindustries,withparticular emphasis on financial services
Before joining McKinsey & Co., he spent seven years at the Godrej Group, a $4 billion diversified conglomerate in Mumbai, India. At the Godrej Group, Mr Saha led sales teams and supply chain re- engineering projects and worked in the Office of the Group Chairman
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