KEY PEOPLE

Inder T Jaisinghani

Chairman and Managing Director

Mr. Inder T. Jaisinghani, Chairman and Managing Director of the Company, has been working with the Company since its inception. He was appointed as a Chairman and Director of the Company on December 20, 1997 and was subsequently reappointed as Chairman and Managing Director of the Company with effect from August 28, 2019. He has played a vital role in different areas of Strategy & Planning, Administration & Management, Sales & Marketing, Governance, Operations, Finance and overall support services and under his leadership and guidance the Company has completed over 25 glorious years of success.

BHARAT A. JAISINGHANI

Executive Director

Mr. Bharat A. Jaisinghani joined the Company in 2012 and thereafter in 2021 was appointed as Executive Director. He holds a Master’s degree in Operations management from the University of Manchester. He has also completed his Executive Education Programme called Programme for Leadership Development from Harvard Business School and an Executive Programme from Singularity University. He has worked in different areas of sales, marketing, IT, production and other support services and currently working on growth initiatives.

NIKHIL R. JAISINGHANI

Executive Director

Mr. Nikhil R. Jaisinghani joined the Company in 2012 and thereafter in 2021was appointed as Executive Director. He holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA. He has worked in different areas of sales, marketing, IT, production and other support services and currently heads the wires & special cable business along with working as change agent for the Company.

Rakesh Talati

Executive Director

Mr. Rakesh Talati has been associated with the Company since 2014 and thereafter in 2021 was appointed as Executive Director. He heads the Wires and Cables segment and also responsible for Administration, Industrial Relations (IR), Greenfield and Brownfield Projects at Country level for all the business segments. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering and Interior Design Course from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

GANDHARV TONGIA

Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Gandharv Tongia, the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Polycab India Limited, is associated with the Company since 2018. In his current role, he is responsible for all aspects of the company’s financial, strategy, legal & secretarial, investors relations as well as digital & information technology functions.
He has played a pivotal role in getting the company listed in 2019 and is instrumental in spearheading the Company in its ongoing transformational journey. He has taken number of strategic initiatives to prep up Polycab, for its next big leap in the highly competitive and fast paced digital age; and this includes the flagship ‘Project Leap’.
Under his leadership, Polycab India has been recognised for ‘Excellence in Financial Reporting: 20-21’ in the Plaque category by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). The company’s Annual Report has won several awards such as Asia’s Best Integrated Report 2021 [Bronze] and Asia’s Best Integrated Report (Design) 2021 [Gold] awards, Asia’s Best Integrated Report (Integrated Thinking) Awards 2023.
In recognition of his contribution, he has been conferred with several awards such as CA Business Leader Award by ICAI in 2024, Best CFO Award by Assocham in 2023, D&B Finance Elite award in 2023, FE Influencer of the year Award 2023, Leading CFO Award by CII in 2022, CFO Excellence Awards in 2021 by CII for excellence in digital transformation; and with the ‘Best CFO of India – Midcap’ award for the year 2019-20 by the Dalal Street Journal.
Before joining Polycab, Mr. Tongia was associated with the Indian member firms of Big 4 Audit firms, namely, Ernst & Young and Deloitte Haskins & Sells; where he was responsible for providing assurance and consultancy services to large corporates, both in India and overseas.
Mr. Tongia is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and has also completed Professional Programme Examination held by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

T.P. Ostwal

Independent Director

Mr. T. P. Ostwal, joined the Company as an Independent Director with effect from September 20, 2018. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 1978. He is a Practicing Chartered Accountant and is a Senior Partner with T. P. Ostwal and Associates LLP. He is also a partner at DTS & Associates, Chartered Accountants. He has served as a member of the advisory group for advising and establishing transfer pricing regulations in India, set up by the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He is a member of all sub-committee on Transfer Pricing for Developing Countries of United Nations. He is also professor at Vienna University teaching International Tax for LLM studies. He is ranked 11th out of top 50 tax professionals of the world by the UK Business Magazine.

R.S. Sharma

Independent Director

Mr. R. S. Sharma joined the Company as an Independent Director with effect from September 20, 2018. He holds a Bachelor of Arts’ degree from University of Delhi. He has passed the final certificate examination from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and the Associate examination from the Indian Institute of Bankers. Prior to joining the Board, he has served as Chairman and Managing Director at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited, besides being on Board of various other companies.

Sutapa Banerjee

Independent Director

Mrs. Sutapa Banerjee joined the Company as an Independent Director with effect from May 13, 2021. Mrs. Banerjee has over 30 years of professional experience and has spent 24 years in the financial services industry across 2 large multinational banks (ANZ Grindlays and ABN AMRO), and a boutique Indian Investment bank (Ambit) where she built and headed several businesses. Mrs. Banerjee is a gold medallist in Economics from the XLRI school of Management in India and an Economics major from Presidency College Kolkata. she is an Advanced Leadership Fellow (2015) at Harvard University and was a Visiting Faculty with IIM – Ahmedabad. Mrs. Banerjee is also an adjunct faculty with Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs -the Government of India think tank under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Mrs. Banerjee also serves as Independent Director on the Board of Zomato, Godrej Properties, JSW Cement and others.

MANJU AGARWAL

Independent Director

Ms. Manju Agarwal has joined the Company as an Independent Director with effect from January 19, 2023.

Mrs. Agarwal has been a career banker over 34 years of experience in India’s largest Bank, State Bank of India in leadership positions where she was responsible for Policy, Strategy, Business and Operations. Her core expertise and key achievements include Retail Banking, Financial Inclusion and Digital initiatives. She led SBI’s partnership with Reliance Industries Limited to set up Jio Payment Bank Ltd. She had been the team lead which conceptualized and launched YONO, SBI’s Digital Bank, Financial Superstore & Online market place (one of its kind in the Industry). She headed SBI’s Debit Card Strategy, Merchant Acquiring business, Government business and Transaction Banking Business. She also led SBI’s Jan Dhan program during 2014 and was associated with setting up of SBI’s Pension
Fund Subsidiary in 2007.

She is a Post Graduate from the University of Allahabad, 1978 and an Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers, 1989.

She is currently serving on the Board of various entities including Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd., Glenmark Life Sciences Ltd., CMS Info Systems Ltd., IndiaIdeas. Com Limited, Switch Mobility Automotive Ltd., PayTm Payments Bank Ltd., Hinduja Leyland Finance Limited.

BHASKAR SHARMA

Independent Director

Mr. Bhaskar Sharma is a business leader and marketing expert with a passion for accelerating business growth in companies, particularly in emerging markets across Asia Pacific, Africa, and Middle East. His depth of experience in the region includes general management expertise, holistic market development and building high performance teams. In his current role as Director and Chief Executive Officer of Red Bull India, he is building global brand and new category in India. He holds Masters degree in management studies and Masters of Science from Mumbai University.

Over past 14 years, Mr. Bhaskar has built a high caliber team; brought Red Bull’s iconic global marketing mix to India and developed strong local marketing assets building key brand indices among Indian youth. He has led the complete set-up of the company’s own Sales and Distribution network. The journey also involved hands- on navigation through complex yet rewarding policy and regulatory environment of India, and creating an organization fully compliant with global standards, ready for accelerated ascent, resulting in profitable twenty-five-fold growth. Mr. Bhaskar’s previous roles as Vice President, Marketing Operations for Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Turkey with Unilever Asia, based in Singapore; as Managing Director Unilever Foods based in Taiwan and extensive years in Unilever in SE Asia and Far East, have given him a rich spectrum of interfaces, internally with global stakeholders in a matrix structure, and externally with Joint Venture partners and franchisees in various countries.

Manita Carmen A. Gonsalves

Company Secretary & Compliance Officer

She is the Company Secretary. Ms. Gonsalves joined the Company as General Manager & Head – Legal at Mumbai Head Office on 11th March 2020. She has completed her Bachelor in Commerce Degree from Amrutben Jivanlal College of Commerce (Mithibai College) in Mumbai, L.L.B Degree from Jitendra Chauhan College of Law (Mithibai College) & Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India She brings along more than 17 years of experience in handling legal and secretarial matters and has worked with organizations like Amcor Flexibles India Private Limited, Essel Propack Limited, Haldyn Glass Gujarat Limited, Citigroup’s Citifinancial, Priya Limited and India Infoline Limited. Her immediate past assignment was with Amcor Rigid Plastics India Private Limited as AGM – Legal & Company Secretary.

DIWAKER BHARADWAJ

President (Packaging Development)

He is the President (Packaging Development) of our Company. He joined our Company on January 28, 2013. He holds bachelors’ degree in engineering (printing technology) from Manipal Institute of Technology. He had successfully completed a diploma course, namely, Professional Diploma in Communication Technology & Management from All India Management Association, Centre for Management Education, in collaboration with Apple Publishing Technology and Management. He has significant work experience in marketing and packaging. Prior to joining our Company, he worked as senior manager, Packaging Engineering at SYSCOM Corporation Limited.

Ishwinder Singh Khurana

Executive President and Chief Business Officer (Power BU)

Ishwinder is the Executive President & Chief Business Officer (Power Business) of our company and has joined us in May 02, 2023. Ishwinder holds a PGDM & BE degree and has twenty-three years of very diversified industry experience with in-depth and first-hand exposure of business dynamics in the Indian market. He has worked with Havells, Airtel, Bajaj Auto, LG Electronics & Rivigo with core expertise in Business Strategy, Sales & Marketing, Digital Automation and Launch of New Brands/categories in India.

ASHISH KAKKAR

Executive President and Chief Human Resource Officer

Ashish Kakkar is an experienced Business professional with expertise in Human Resource management of three decades. A Graduate of Indian Naval Academy, he completed his Post Graduation in HR from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies & Masters in Labour Law from Pune University in 1997. Ashish started his career with Torrent Group as a Management Trainee in 1997, moving to PepsiCo India in 2000 with experience in Shopfloor and Corporate HR roles. He joined ICICI
Prudential AMC in 2003 starting his 21-year stint with ICICI group & affiliate companies. In ICICI Prudential AMC he progressed to become Head HR in 2008. In the year 2012, he moved to 3i-Infotech as the Global Head HR and led HR and business transformation effectively. In his recent assignment at ICICI Home Finance company as the CHRO since 2017, he spearheaded the Human Resource and Infrastructure teams. His active involvement in business initiatives contributed to significant growth of the company over the last 7 years. Ashish, a passionate HR leader comes with expertise of business partnering, change management, leadership development and operational excellence. His experiences have made him lead from the front with credibility, take up new challenging roles in uncharted territories, and build collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders. An avid reader he actively explores ways to influence leaders, managers, and teams to realise their full potential.

Ritesh Arora

President- Chief Digital Officer

He has over 26 years of global experience in the manufacturing industry, has a proven track record of strategizing and leading transformation initiatives to drive business KPIs. He has published several papers and delivered many talks on customer experience and digital transformation. Prior to joining Polycab, he has worked with organizations such as Tata Motors, Maruti, Infosys, TCS and most recently CEAT. Mr. Ritesh holds a degree in B.E. (Mechanical). Mr. Ritesh is passionate about designing joyous customer, channel and employee experiences, mentoring self-sustaining teams, sports and fitness.

He is playing a key role in accelerating our digital journey by setting up a digital function that will collaborate with business functions across the value chain.

RISHIKESH RAJURKAR

President (Projects)

He is the President (Projects) of our Company. He joined our Company on November 20, 2002. He holds an Industrial Electronics Engineer degree. He has significant experience of 28 years in Cable industry with expertise in technical, operational and project activities. Prior to joining our Company, he worked with organizations like Finolex and Nexans, France.

SANJEEV CHHABRA

Executive President & Chief Treasury Officer

He is the Executive President & Chief Treasury Officer of our Company. He joined our Company on April 30, 2012. He holds a masters’ degree in commerce (accounting) from Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur. He holds a diploma course, namely, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications, conducted by the Computer Education Society of Rajasthan during the year 1992 to 1993. He has significant work experience in finance, treasury, marketing and risk management. Prior to joining our Company, he has worked at Sterlite Copper, a unit of Sterlite Industries (India) Limited, for 16 years where the last designation held was as associate general manager.