Mr. Venkatraman Srinivasan is an Independent Director of our Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from University of Bombay and is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 1981. He is a partner in M/s. V. Sankar Aiyar & Co., Chartered Accountants, since 1984. He is engaged in audit and assurance practice and direct tax and corporate advisory services since 1984, specialising in statutory audits of banks, mutual funds and financial companies, public sector companies, and in advisory in the areas of direct tax, company law, competition law, the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) matters. He has a work experience of 35 years. He is a special invitee on the Accounting Standards Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for the F. Y. 2020-21 and was a special invitee on the Ind AS Transition Facilitation Group Committee of the ICAI for the F. Y. 2019-20. He participated in the case study based governance program on “Audit Committees in this New Era of Governance” at the Harvard Business School.