Mr. Sunil Kumar Daga is a commerce graduate from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He is an is an industry leader with over 50 years of experience in diverse sectors of tea, mining, engineering, trade and finance.
Mr. Sushil Agarwal is currently Chief Financial Officer of the Aditya Birla Group. He serves as a Director on the Board of several Group companies including Essel Mining Industries Limited and is also a member of the Business Review Council of the Group.
Mr. Tuhin Kumar Mukherjee is an alumnus of IIT, Kharagpur with over four decades of professional experience in mineral & mining industry. He is currently advisor, Mineral Resources & Mining, and also director (non-executive), Essel Mining Industries Limited (EMIL). Formerly he led EMIL for over a decade as a managing director. He was business head of International Trading for five years.
Mr. Giriraj Maheswari is a commerce graduate from the St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and an industrialist.
Mr. Manish Newar is an MBA from Willamette University, USA and is an industrialist. He is the Managing director of Newar Group of Companies. He holds experience of two decades in marketing and branding.
Thomas Cherian, Managing Director of EMIL, has over three decades of experience in the mining sector across geographies.
With expertise in mining value chain, supply chain systems and project management, his competencies include strategic planning, new business development, mergers and acquisitions, and stakeholder and community engagement. Prior to joining the Aditya Birla Group, Thomas was the Managing Director of Tata Steel Mining Ltd.
Thomas is a mining engineer from Osmania University with management education from XLRI Jamshedpur in addition to executive development programme from CEDEP, France.
Mr. Vinod Chaturvedi is the Chief Human Resource Officer – Mineral Resources & Mining Business, Head – Noble Ferro Alloys Business and Group Head – Employee Relations, Aditya Birla Group.
Mr. Chaturvedi is an MBA & LLB having more than 30 years of experience in varied businesses like Mineral Resources & Mining, Cement, Staple Fibre, Telecom, Sponge Iron and Steel in Corporate as well as Business roles handling strategic, tactical and operational HR concentrating on all functional strategies and objectives.
Vinod is known for his capability to build organisation culture, competence and commitment for long term sustenance by deploying Excellence models such as Business Process Reengineering, TPM, TQM, WCM, Quality Circle and Six Sigma.
He extensively worked on all facets delivering value in the areas of Organisation Building / Transforming Business Results via change management tools.
As the Head of Noble Ferro Alloys Business, he is responsible for implementing long and short term vision and strategy.
As Group Head – Employee Relations, he works closely with different Businesses of the Group and advise them on ER matters.
An ardent reader, he loves to meet & interact with people and build relationships and takes interest in coaching people. He has passion to build Value based Organisations, Systems and families.
Mr. Arun Garg is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Essel Mining & Industries Limited and Mineral Resources and Mining Business of Aditya Birla Group. As the Finance Head, Mr. Garg provides direction and facilitates implementation of strategy into profitable reality, relationship management, solution design requiring innovative approaches, building of high performance teams and holistic leadership mentoring.
He is responsible for planning, directing and controlling finance, taxation, secretarial, risk management matters in order to create and maximize shareholder & investor value. He is leading & directing development of financial policies and systems for the business. This includes guiding initiatives taken at business level for overall system improvement, implementing profit improvement plans of the Company & its subsidiaries in association with operating teams and explore various opportunities for business growth. Allocating financial resources amongst various businesses is one of his key responsibilities. Additionally, he is also managing operations of Wind Power division as P&L head.
Born in 1965, Mr. Garg completed his Chartered Accountancy in 1987 and is a Commerce Graduate with Honours from University of Jodhpur. He started his professional career with Aditya Birla Group in 1988 as accounts officer in Rayon division of erstwhile Indian Rayon & Industries Limited at Veraval. Before joining Essel Mining, he was working with the Fertilizer Business of the Group as Senior Vice President (F&C). In this role he was responsible for Finance, Accounts, Budgeting, MIS, Taxation, Assets Risk Coverage, and Working Capital Management of the business.
Over the years he has worked in International & multicultural environment of the Group with extensive experience in managing cross functional teams. Today he is a seasoned management executive with experience of over 30 years and he has been successful in achieving growth objectives in extremely volatile markets. His extensive experience with industries subjected to ever changing market scenarios, necessitated in-depth understanding of critical business drivers. He is highly successful in building relationship with decision makers and other stakeholders. He has hands on experience in accomplishing structuring and negotiating transactions on favourable terms with banks and financial institutions.
