Our Leadership

• Sri N Gopalaratnam

  Chairman

  Sri N Gopalaratnam, a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Madras, took over as Chairman of the Company in the year 2000. He had joined the Company as a Management Trainee in the year 1969.

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• Sri Mohan Verghese Chunkath

  IAS (Retd.), Independent Director

  Sri Mohan Verghese Chunkanth holds a post-graduate degree in Zoology. He belongs to the 1978 batch of IAS Officers. As additional Chief Secretary, Mr Chunkath was heading the Tamil Nadu State Department of Environment and Forests since December 2012.

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• Sri. S. Durgashankar

  Independent Director

  Sri. S. Durgashankar, a Chartered Accountant and an Alumni of Harvard Business School (Advanced Management Program), is currently the Chairman of Mahindra Integrated Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (MIBS) part of the ~USD 20 bn Mahindra Group.

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• Smt. Sheela Balakrishnan

  IAS (Retd.),Independent Director

  Smt. Sheela Balakrishnan, the 1976 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, started her career as assistant collector (training) in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, in 1977.

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• Sri T.C.A Ranganathan

  Independent Director

  Sri T.C.A Ranganathan, a career banker for 4 decades, has worked in various leadership positions in SBI and was later appointed as CMD of EXIM Bank in 2010. He had also served as Non-Executive Chairman of IOB.

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• Dr C Chandramouli,

  IAS (Retd.),Independent Director

  Dr C Chandramouli, IAS (Retd.) has over 3 and half decades of governance experience of local, state and national levels with exposure to working in multilateral agencies at the international level.

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• Dr M SaiKumar, IAS

  IAS, Nominee Director

  Dr M SaiKumar, IAS, currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Tamilnadu Industrial Investment Corporation (TIIC), is nominated by TIIC on the Board of the Company. TIIC is a major shareholder in the Company, holding 14.27% of the Equity Share Capital of the Company.

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• Sri Ritto Cyriac

  IFS, Nominee Director

  Sri Ritto Cyriac, IFS, serves as Special Secretary (Forests) in the Environment and Forests Department of Government of Tamil Nadu. He is nominated to the Board of the Company by the Environment and Forests Department of Government of Tamil Nadu.

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• Sri K S Kasi Viswanathan

  Managing Director

  Sri K S Kasi Viswanathan is a Chemical Engineer (B Tech. from the Regional Engineering College, Tiruchi) and MMS from University of Madras. He has, to his credit, nearly 40 years of industrial experience, majority of which has been spent in ESVIN-SPB Group companies.

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• Sri Ganesh Balakrishna Bhadti

  Director (Operations)

  Sri Ganesh Balakrishna Bhadti is an accomplished Pulp and Paper Industry professional, with over 35 years of industry experience. He holds a degree B.A.Sc (Pulp and Paper Science). He has wide experience in the Pulp and Paper Industry serving top companies.

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