AkzoNobel India Limited announced the appointment of Harshi Rastogi as an interim Chief Financial Officer and Whole-Time Director of the company, effective October 01, 2021.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “we would like to inform you that the Board of Directors at its meeting held today, has approved, subject to approval of the shareholders, the appointment of Ms Harshi Rastogi, Company Secretary and Compliance Officer, also as the Interim Chief Financial Officer (Interim CFO) and Whole Time Director of the Company, effective from 1 October 2021 to hold office till a new person is appointed to fill the vacancy caused due to resignation of Mr Lakshay Kataria as CFO and Whole Time Director of the Company.”
Harshi Rastogi is currently the Company Secretary and Compliance Officer of the Company. She is also the Chief Internal Auditor and Nodal Officer for the Company. She joined Akzo Nobel India Limited in April 2016 as the Country Financial Controller.
Harshi has over 23 years of experience in the areas of Controllership, Audits, Consolidation, Implementation of lndAS, M&A, Taxation, setting up of Captive Shared Service Centre, Private Equity, Due Diligence, Corporate Governance, Regulatory & Statutory Compliance, Risk Management, Corporate Secretarial, Investor Relations, Treasury, External Affairs, CSR etc.
Harshi has been sector agnostic and in the course of her career has worked for companies like Pragati Equity Advisors, Bharti Airtel, General Electric and PowerGen India in different roles, the company said in its statement.
In her previous stints, she was instrumental in advocacy of industry strategy through multi stakeholder and industry body platforms, multi-jurisdictional Investment Fund Structuring, facilitating due diligence for Private equity Investments, Rolling out ESG framework for Investee Companies, Divestment of business, implementation of Sarbanes Oxley, handling CAG/TRAI/DOT Audit, it added.
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