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Dinesh Kumar Mehrotra is the Non-Executive Chairman and Independent Director of the Company. He has previously served as the Chairman and the Managing Director of LIC. He has also served as the Executive Director of International Operations at LIC. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) degree from the University of Patna. His appointment as an Independent Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 23 August 2017.

Edward Cage Bernard is a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, he was associated with the TRP group as a Vice Chairman, T. Rowe Price Group Inc. as a Director on the Board and as a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Currently, he is also associated with T. Rowe Price Group Inc. as a Senior Advisor. He holds a B.A. degree in Religious Studies from Brown University and an MBA in finance from New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business. His appointment as an Non-Executive Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 22 August 2019.

Flemming Madsen is a Non-Executive Director of the Company. He is the Head of Global Financial Intermediaries at T. Rowe Price. He is a Vice President of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., T. Rowe Price International Ltd and member of the EMEA Distribution Executive Committee. He has been associated with T. Rowe Price for 21 years. His total 37 years’ experience in the financial industry includes capital markets transactions, investment banking, and asset management. His appointment as an Non-Executive Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Extra Ordinary General Meeting held on 20 January 2010.

Narasimhan Seshadri is an Independent Director of the Company. He has four decades of experience in the banking industry, having served two major public sector banks viz Canara Bank and Bank of India. Prior to joining the Company, he was a Director on the board of NPCI and a whole-time Executive Director on the Board of Bank of India. He holds Masters Degree in Commerce from Bangalore university: Masters in Divya Prabandam MA (DP) from Sastra University and Masters in Banking and Finance (MBA Banking and Finance) from IGNOU/Indian Institute of Bankers. He is a certified associate of the India institute of Bankers. His appointment as an Independent Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 23 August 2017.

Deepak Kumar Chatterjee is an Independent Director of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, he was associated with SBI Funds Management Private Limited as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer and SBI Capital Markets Limited as a Executive Vice President. He was also associated with IIFCL Projects Limited as its Chief Executive Officer and IIFCL Asset Management Company Limited as a Director. He holds a B.Sc. (Honours) degree in Physics from University of Delhi, an M.Sc. degree in Agricultural Physics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and an MBA from University of Delhi. He is also a Certificated Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. His appointment as an Independent Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting held on 25 September 2018.

Rajeev Kakar is an Independent Director of the Company. He currently serves on the boards of various banks and financial institutions such as Eurobank Ergasias SA (Greece), Gulf International Bank (GIB Bahrain), Gulf International Bank (GIB Saudi Arabia) and Commercial International Bank (Egypt). He started his career in 1988 at Citibank NA, where he worked for 18 years and in his last role, was the Managing Director and Division Head for Turkey, Middle East and Africa region. In 2006, he moved to become the Global co-founder of Fullerton Financial Holdings Pte. Ltd., headquartered in Singapore (a whollyowned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd., Singapore), where he served for 11 years in various roles including serving on its Global Management Board, as its Executive Vice President, Head of Consumer Banking and Head of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Simultaneously, he also was the Founder of Dunia Finance LLC in UAE, where he operated as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. He holds a B. Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His appointment as an Independent Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Extra Ordinary General Meeting held on 16 December 2019.

Dipali H Sheth is an Independent Director of the Company. Dipali serves as Independent Director on the Boards of four other companies. Prior to joining the Company, she was associated with RBS Business Services Private Limited as the Country Head of Human Resources, Standard Chartered Bank as Head HR South Asia, Procter & Gamble Distribution Company Limited and DCM Limited. She holds a B.A. (Honours) degree in Economics from University of Delhi, passed out from the DCM Management Centre, and is an accredited Coach from ICF and Gallup, USA. Her appointment as an Independent Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Extra Ordinary General Meeting held on 16 December 2019.

Jayashree Vaidhyanathan is an Independent Director of the Company. She currently serves as a Co-Founder and CEO of BCT Digital, a technology company specialising in AI and Predictive analytics. Prior to BCT, she was associated with Scope International Private Limited as Head of Technology and Strategy and served as a partner with Accenture Services Private Limited. She has also served as an Independent Director in Altran, a $3.2 Billion Global Engineering and Innovation consulting firm and Mahindra Sanyo Steel. She holds a B.E. degree in Computer Science Engineering from University of Madras and an MBA from Cornell University. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst from the Association for Investment Management and Research. Her appointment as an Independent Director of the Company was approved by the shareholders at the Extra Ordinary General Meeting held on 16 December 2019.

Imtaiyazur Rahman is the Chief Executive Officer and Whole-Time Director of the Company. He has more than 30 years of experience in management, business leadership, leading change and forming strategic alliances. He joined the UTI Group in 1998 as part of UTI Investor Technology Services Ltd. and joined UTI AMC Ltd. in 2003. He was also the CFO of the Company from 2005. In his role as Group President & Chief Finance Officer, he headed the functions of Finance, Accounts, Taxation, Information Technology and Board related matters. He is a Science graduate, Fellow member of Institute of Cost Accountants of India and Institute of Company Secretaries of India, Certified Public Accountant (USA) and GAMP (ISB-Kellog).

Mr. Rahman is on the Board of UTI International (Singapore), UTI International Ltd. Guernsey, UTI Venture Funds Management Co. Pvt. Ltd., UTI Capital Ltd., UTI Retirement Solutions Ltd., IOT Infrastructure & Energy Services Ltd. and Association of Mutual Funds in India. He was also a member of the working group for risk management in liquid schemes constituted by SEBI. Prior to joining the Company, he was associated with Sumeet Machines Ltd, Leasing Finance India Ltd, Bells Controls Ltd, New India Rubber Works (P) Ltd. and S. Gupta & Co.