At the helm

Mr. Arun Garg,
Chief Financial Officer

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.

Mr. Vinod Chaturvedi,
Chief Human Resources Officer

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.