IT firm Coforge Limited announced the appointment of Om Prakash Bhatt as Additional Director on the company’s Board of Directors, with effect from May 1, 2024. The Board has also approved the appointment of Om Prakash Bhatt as Chairperson of the Board with effect from June 29, 2024.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “the Board of Directors of the Company have approved vide its resolution dated April 22, 2024, appointment of Mr. Om Prakash Bhatt (DIN: 00548091) as an Additional Director and Non-Executive Independent Director on the Board of the Company to hold office for a term of 3 (three) years from May 01, 2024 to April 30, 2027, subject to approval of the shareholders.”
Om Prakash Bhatt is a seasoned and thoughtful leader. He brings years of experience across a wide variety of strategic and operational roles of which for 5 years he has been Chairman and CEO of a Fortune 500 company, State Bank of India, the largest Bank in India.
For the last 10 years he has been an Independent Director on Corporate Boards in a wide variety of multinationals ranging from leadership development to international banking, to auto, steel, IT services, consumer goods and renewable energy. Because of the diversity and length of his assignments, he brings a certain holistic outlook to his Board role.
His current board engagements as Independent Director include Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Greenko Energy Holdings (GEH), Tata Motors Limited (TML), Aadhar Housing Finance Ltd., and Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle Co.
He is currently a Member of the India Advisory Board of Schulich School of business, Toronto, Canada, Chairman, India Advisory Board of the Centre for Creative Leadership, North Carolina, USA, Member of the Advisory Board Amundi, France, and Senior Advisor to McKinsey.
In the past he was a Governor on the board of Centre for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, and as Independent Director on the boards of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Standard Chartered PLC, London, UK, Tata Steel Limited (TSL), and, Tata Steel Europe (TSE).
Om Prakash Bhatt is a Science graduate with a post graduate in English Literature.
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