Board of Directors - Rinfra

Shri S Seth is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a law graduate. He has vast experience in general management. Shri Seth was appointed to the Board on November 24, 2000. Currently, he is the Vice Chairman on the Board of the Company.

Shri Punit Garg, aged 55 years, a qualified Engineer, is part of senior management team of Reliance Group since 2001 and is involved in taking a number of strategic decisions. Shri Garg was previously served as an Executive Director on the Board of Reliance Communications Limited. With rich experience of over 34 years, Shri Garg has created and led billion dollar businesses. As a visionary, strategist and team builder he has driven profitable growth through innovation and operational excellence.

Shri S S Kohli was the Chairman and Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL), a wholly owned company of the Government of India, engaged in promotion and development of infrastructure till April 2010. Under his leadership, IIFCL commenced its operations and carved a niche for itself in financing infrastructure projects. The support of IIFCL helped in speedier achievement of financial closure of infrastructure projects in sectors like highways, airports, seaports, power, etc. IIFCL was conferred with the "Most Admired Infrastructure Financier 2010" by KPMG Infrastructure Today. Shri Kohli has long experience as a banker, spanning over 40 years having held positions of Chairman and Managing Director of Punjab and Sind Bank, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB). PNB is one of the largest public sector banks in India. During his chairmanship of PNB, he undertook total transformation of the Bank.

Under his leadership, PNB became a techno-savvy Bank by implementing core banking solution and introducing various technology-based products and services. Resultantly, PNB became the Number One Bank among the nationalized Banks in terms of assets, asset quality, technology, profit after tax and return on assets. PNB also emerged as one of the India's Most Trusted Brands and the PNB Group floated three public offerings of capital during his tenure which were highly successful.

Shri Kohli held the chairmanship of Indian Banks' Association, a forum for promoting the interest of banks for two terms and was member of several committees associated with financial sector policies. The committees he chaired dealt with a variety of issues relating to small/medium enterprise financing, wilful default in loans, human resources development in the banking industry and reconstruction of distressed small industries, etc.

A recipient of several awards including the "Enterprise Transformation Award for Technology" by the Wharton- Infosys Limited, the "Bank of the Year Award" by the Banker's Magazine of the Financial Times, London for the year 2000, and also ranked 22nd in the list of India's Best CEOs ranking over the period 1995 to 2011, by the Harvard Business Review. He now holds directorship in various institutions in India.

Shri K Ravikumar joined the Board of the Company on August 14, 2012 as an independent director.

Shri Ravikumar is the former Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), the USD 7 billion organization that ranks among the leading companies of the world engaged in the field of power plant equipment. As CMD, he was responsible for maximizing market-share and establishing BHEL as a total solution provider in the power sector. The Company was ranked 9th in terms of market capitalization in India during his tenure at BHEL. He had handled a variety of assignments during his long career spanning over 36 years. His areas of expertise are design and engineering, construction and project management of thermal, hydro, nuclear, gas based power plants and marketing of power projects.

Shri Ravikumar had the unique distinction of having booked USD 25 billion order for BHEL. His vision was to transform BHEL into a world class engineering enterprise. Towards this, he has been pursuing a growth strategy based on the twin plans of building both capacity and capability and this has resulted in an increase in BHEL's manufacturing capacity from 10,000 MW to 20,000 MW per annum. He also introduced new technologies in the field of coal and gas based power plants for the first time in the country, such as supercritical thermal sets of 660 MW and above rating, advance class gas turbines large size CFBC boilers and large size nuclear sets. BHEL has the distinction of having installed over 1,00,000 MW of power plant equipment worldwide.

Shri Ravikumar had also forged a number of strategic tieups for BHEL with leading Indian utilities and corporate like NTPC Limited, Tamilnadu State Electricity Board, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, Spel Conductors Limited, Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited to leverage equipment sales and develop alternate sources for equipment needed for the country. He had guided BHEL's technology strategy to maintain the technology edge in the marketplace with a judicious mix of internal development of technologies with selective external co-operation. He had focused on meeting the customer expectation and has strengthened BHEL's image as a total solution provider.

He possesses M.Tech Degree from the Indian Institute of Technology. Chennai besides Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. He was conferred Alumini Awards from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and the National Institute of Information Technology, Trichy and is at present the Chairman of BOG National Institute of Information Technology, Mizoram. He has published a number of research papers in the fields of power and electronics.

Smt. Manjari Kacker, 65 years, holds a master's degree in Chemistry and a diploma in Business Administration. She has more than 40 years of experience in taxation, finance, administration and vigilance. She was in the Indian Revenue Service batch of 1974. She held various assignments during her tenure in the tax department and was also a member of the Central Board of Direct Taxes. She has also served as the Functional Director (Vigilance and Security) in Air India and has also represented India in international conferences.

Smt. Chhaya Virani graduated from Mumbai University with a bachelors’ degree in Arts. She also acquired a bachelors’ degree in legislative laws from the Government Law College in 1976. She is a partner in M/s. ALMT Legal Advocates and Solicitors.

Shri Dalip Kumar Kaul is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). He has also pursued law from Delhi University and completed a Master’s in Business Administration (Finance) (including specialisation in merchant banking, risk management, treasury, international finance).

He is designated as the Managing Partner with M/s. Baweja & Kaul, Chartered Accountants and possesses a vast experience of over 38 years, rendering an array of corporate and non-corporate advisory services pertaining to business strategy, merger & acquisition, integrated risk management, regulatory, advisory and assurance services to various sectors like banking and capital markets, insurance, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, trading, and manufacturing (including listed and unlisted corporates and MNCs). He is also knowledgeable in the areas of human resources and banking (bank audits and bank management).

He was a director on the board of The Jammu & Kashmir Bank Limited, Bakhtar Bank (now, Islamic Bank of Afghanistan, and member of the Board of Supervisors of Azizi Bank, Kabul. Presently, he is a director on the Board of of SBI Capital Markets Limited and served as Chairman and member of various Board Committees.