Sterling & Wilson Renewable Energy Limited (SWREL) announced three appointments to its Board, with effect from April 7, 2022. Naina Krishna Murthy has been appointed as Independent Director on the company’s Board and Balanadu Narayan, Saurabh Agarwal were designated as Additional Directors.
Naina Krishna Murthy has been practicing law for 26 years and specializes in corporate commercial law, specifically mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, collaborations and PE/VC investments. Naina is also a trusted legal advisor to some of the foremost corporates in India. She is on the Board of several leading organizations, including the Universal Business School. She has cochaired the Infosys Grievance Redressal Board for five years.
In addition to that, she has been on committees of various companies involving sexual harassment complaints. Some of these companies are Novartis India Ltd; Mphasis Ltd; McAfee Software India Pvt Ltd; GE India Technology and British Telecom, among others.
Naina Krishna Murthy has represented eminent Indian and overseas clients on their operations in India and abroad, such as L&T, Ryerson Steel, Reliance Industries, and Dell Engineering Services, and she has been appointed as the external Ombudsman of SB Energy, a Softbank company.
She has authored many articles and white papers on topics including Trade and Renewable Energy. She has also served as director with companies such as National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd. Currently, she is on the board of Bajaj Energy Ltd since March 16, 2019, and IndoStar Capital Finance Ltd since February 5, 2018.
Saurabh Agarwal, 48 years of age, has a rich and varied work experience of 26 years with Reliance Group. His experience spans in various senior positions in fibres, petrochemicals, refining & marketing and exploration & production businesses of Reliance. He holds directorships in Reliance Power Electronics Limited, Reliance New Energy Power Electronics Limited, Reliance New Energy Limited, Reliance Carbon Fibre Cylinder Limited and Kutch New Energy Projects Limited.
B Narayan, 72 years of age, has done Master’s in Chemical Engineering from IIT-Madras. He has a rich and varied work experience of nearly 5 decades out of which over 4 decades are with Reliance Group. His experience spans project management and procurement of process technologies, engineering services and capital equipment. He was closely involved with the implementation of polyester, petro chemicals, elastomers and refinery projects of Reliance Industries Limited at Patalganga, Silvasa, Hazira and Jamnagar.
In his current role as the Chief Procurement Officer, he is leading a team of procurement professionals in Cost optimisation, new initiatives in manufacturing and implementation of digital solutions for procurement and contracting functions.
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