Shri Sandip Ghose, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, is a Business Leader and General Management professional with multi-disciplinary skill sets. He has nearly four decades of experience and held a variety of senior leadership positions in industries, ranging from Consumer Goods (FMCG), Media and Cement, across India and Nepal. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Professional Coach accredited by the International Coach Federation.
Mr. Saraogi is a Chartered Accountant with more than 36 years of diverse experience in fields of financial operations, accounting, taxation, governance, compliance and internal controls. He has been working in the Company for more than 14 years. As part of the senior leadership team, he is involved in formulation and execution of strategies and plans. Prior to joining Birla Corporation Limited, he was with the Indian associate firms of Ernst & Young and BDO. He served several large clients, including ITC, Bharti Airtel, Lafarge India, Peerless, iGate and Reliance Communications. He is responsible for the financial oversight of the Company and its subsidiaries, acquisition integration activities and roll-out of finance activities, including cash flow management. He also played a key role in the integration of operations of RCCPL Private Limited, material subsidiary of the Company.
Mr. Prusty, BE (Mining Engineering), has more than three decades of manufacturing experience in the cement industry. Starting as a Management Trainee in ACC he had risen to become the Chief Project Officer (O & M) of the Company. Earlier, he was the Chief Manufacturing Officer of ACC. He is an expert in turnaround strategy in difficult environments.
Mr Pramanik, an MBA and Physics graduate, has close to three decades of experience in sales, marketing & logistics. He was Executive Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, Coromandel International Limited. Starting his career with Union Carbide India Limited, he worked with ACC Limited (Holcim Group) for nearly two decades and left the Company as Director, Sales and Marketing.
Mr. Mehta is a Chartered Accountant & Company Secretary, having more than 32 years of experience in diverse industries in the fields of Secretarial, Legal, Taxation, Accounts & Finance and general compliance, holding senior leadership positions at the MP Birla Group companies since 2006. He has been on the Board of Secretarial Standards of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
Mr. Kakkar has more than four decades of experience in the cement industry. He is BE, Electrical & Electronics, and is BEE-certified Energy Auditor. His range of experience includes project planning and execution of thermal power plant, waste heat recovery power plant and solar power plant projects.
Mr Agarwal, Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary & Cost Accountant, has a career span of more than 25 years in the Company. He has been playing diversified roles in Management Audit, Financial Planning, SAP implementation and Business Strategy.
Mr Pal, Post-Graduate in Analytical Finance & Strategic Marketing from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, & B.Tech, is a President's Gold Medalist in Marine Engineering from the Marine Engineering & Research Institute, Kolkata. He has more than two decades of experience in business development and business transformation, driving innovation across shipping, power generation and cement industries. Having worked in multi-cultural & multinational environment across geographies in domestic and international set-up, he has developed & implemented the strategic growth roadmap for large organizations. He has previously worked with Chevron Corporation (USA), Reliance group and the Adani group.
Mr. Sood has more than three decades of experience in the cement industry. He had served Holcim, Lafarge and Reliance Cement in managerial positions. His experience includes project execution and maintenance.
Mr. Mishra, with more than three decades of experience in the cement industry, had stints with ACC, Mysore Cement, Vasavadatta Cement and Chettinad Cement, in senior positions. He did his Mechanical Engineering at NIT, Jamshedpur.
Mr Choudhary is B.E. (Mechanical) and has nearly three decades of experience in the cement industry. Apart from mechanical maintenance of cement plants, his range of experience includes project planning and execution of grinding units.
Mr Kandpal, BE Mech. (Hons.), has more than three decades of experience in the cement industry. He has served Siddhe Cement, DLF Cement, Ambuja Cement and Reliance Cement. He is experienced in commissioning and operation of cement plants (integrated & grinding units).
Mr Patel, BE (Chemical), M.Tech (Manufacturing Management) & MBA (IIM, Kozhikode), has more than 25 years of experience in the cement industry, serving in Sanghi Cement, Binani Cement, ACC Ltd., J.K. Cement Ltd. & Ambuja Cements. He joined Chanderia Cement Works in 2022 & was transferred to the RCCPL-Kundanganj Unit in 2023. He is experienced in brownfield cement projects as well as commissioning and operations of integrated cement plants.
Mr Bose is a Mechanical Engineer, passing out from Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College, and has experience of three decades. He served Midsea Marine Corporation Ltd (under Garden Reach Ship Builders, Kolkata), Birla Technical Services and Durgapur Cement Works. His range of experience includes project planning & execution and preventive & predictive maintenance of cement plants.
He has nearly three decades of experience in the cement industry in the areas of project, erection & commissioning, O&M and procurement, having obtained Bachelor of Technology (Instrumentation) from the Madras Institute of technology, Chennai, and B. Sc (Mathematics) from the Madurai Kamaraj University. He had been with Shree Digvijay Cement Co. Ltd., as Head, Manufacturing, Project and Procurement.
Mr. Tiwari has nearly three decades of experience in the cement industry and had worked in Maihar Cement, ACC, Dalmia Cement, JP Cement & Shree Cement. He joined Satna Cement Works in 2016 and was transferred to the RCCPL Butibori unit in 2018. Skilled in cement manufacturing, R&D activities, operations & administration, he holds a PG degree from RDVV Jabalpur and PGDEIA diploma.
Mr. Rajeev Bhalla is a mechanical engineer, graduating from MITS, Gwalior. He started his career in 1983 with Birla Corporation Limited's Satna Cement Works. After about 33 years, he was transferred to the Chanderia Cement Works as technical head. Before the present assignment, he was the Unit Head at Raebareli Cement Works and Durgapur Cement Works.
June 2022