Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Limited announced it has appointed Pravir Kumar Vohra as an Additional Director in the category of Independent Director, with effect from August 5, 2022.
According to the company’s exchange filing, “we wish to inform that upon recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors at its meeting held on 5 August 2022 has co-opted Mr. Pravir Kumar Vohra (DIN : 00082545) as an Additional Director in the category of Independent Director with effect from 5 August 2022.”
Pravir Kumar Vohra, aged 68 years, is a post graduate in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi and a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. He began his career in banking with State Bank of India where he worked for over 23 years. He held various senior level positions in business as well as technology within the bank, both in India and abroad.
In January 2000, Pravir Kumar Vohra moved to the ICICI Bank group where he headed a number of functions like the Retail Technology Group and Technology Management Group. In these capacities, he oversaw the deployment of technology across ICICI Bank’s domestic and international operations and was instrumental in creating a future-ready, platform independent & scalable infrastructure. From the year 2005 to 2012, he was the President and Group CTO at ICICI Bank.
Post his retirement from ICICI Bank in the year 2012, he mentored start-ups in the payments space and more recently, completed a two year assignment to set up the Tech and Ops function at New Development Bank, Shanghai. He also continues to serve on the Technology Advisory Committees of organizations like the Bombay Stock Exchange, NCDEX, Indian Clearing Corporation, SEBI, NPCI and Power Exchange India, etc.
He is passionate about leveraging the power of available and emerging technologies to solve real life business issues, improve operating efficiency, design new products and processes that would touch the lives of the Indian people, the statement said.
Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Limited is one of the fastest growing companies in the business of Pig Iron and Iron Castings.
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