Ajay Goel

Mr. Goel has been appointed as Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Vedanta Limited, effective March 23, 2021 based at Delhi. As Deputy CFO, Mr. Goel is responsible for Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting and Consolidation, Controllership, Audit, Tax, Secretarial & Compliance and Risk Management. He is driving business performance monitoring and reporting with a focus on benchmarking and analytics.

He brings 21 years of rich experience in global multinational companies in FMCG sector, including General Electric, Nestle, Coca Cola and Diageo. Mr. Goel joins us from Diageo - USL and under his leadership, the company achieved highest standards of Corporate Governance, Reporting, Tax management, Treasury restructuring, Optimization of borrowing costs. Ajay is a national rank holder both as Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary. He earlier completed his B.Com (Hon.) from St. Xavier’s College in Accounting and Business Management.

Arun Misra

Mr. Misra was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, HZL from August 2020. Prior to this he held the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer, HZL since joining the company in November 20, 2019. In his previous role, he was associated with TATA Steel Limited as Vice President of raw materials.

He has EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The Executive Committee focuses on implementing key initiatives and interventions and leads strategy execution from the front. over three decades of rich and diverse experience in leading various strategic positions within TATA Steel. Mr. Misra holds a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, a diploma in mining and beneficiation from the University of New South Wales Sydney and a diploma in general management from CEDEP, France.

Laxman Shekhawat

Mr. Shekhawat was appointed as the Business Head, anchoring the ManCom of Vedanta’s Zinc International Division and CMT to drive business growth on 24 April 2020. Previously, Mr. Shekhawat held the role of Director - Operations of HZL from February 2019. He holds a BTech in Mining Engineering and has been working with HZL since 1990. With over three decades of experience in mining and engineering,

Mr. Shekhawat has served in various leadership positions in mining and engineering companies for over a decade. He is instrumental in developing and executing strategies to unlock the full potential of HZL mines and bring the best practices in the mining portfolio. In 2017, he was awarded the prestigious National Geoscience Award by the President of India.

Chhavi Nath Singh

Mr. Singh is the Chief Executive Officer of our Aluminium businessJharsuguda, Odisha since July 2019. He joined Vedanta in 2016 as the Chief Operating Officer of Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd. He has a rich 38-year experience in the power industry and has played a pivotal role in the stabilisation of TSPL’s operations.

He has also worked for companies such as the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd., Essar Power and JSW Energy Ltd. He has a post-graduate degree (PGDBM) from the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (formerly Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College).

Rahul Sharma

Mr. Sharma joined the Group in 1998 and is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Vedanta’s Aluminium business since 24 November 2020. Before he took up this role, he worked as the Chief Executive Officer (Acting) of Alumina business from April 2019 and as Director — Corporate Strategy (Aluminium and Power). Mr. Sharma has a diversified experience of over 25 years and has held leadership positions at Vedanta Limited and Sterlite Technologies Ltd. Before he joined Vedanta, he was the Chief Marketing Officer (Domestic and International) and Business Head - Integrated Management System at Sterlite Technologies Ltd.

He is one of the prominent personalities of India’s Metal & Mining industry and has been playing a significant role in formulating and catalysing various policies and creating a strategic framework for numerous government reforms for the development of exploration, mining and non-ferrous metal sector in the country in the most sustainable manner.

He is also the office bearer of various eminent industry associations, including the current President of Aluminium Association of India (AAI), Chairman of Indian Captive Power Producers Association (ICPPA), and Co-Chair of FICCI’s Mining Committee. In recognition of his exemplary leadership, he has been conferred various awards and accolades including People’s CEO of the Year Award 2020 and Business Leader of the Year Award at the International Conference on Non-Ferrous Metals-2017 for his contribution to India’s Metal and Mining industry. An IIM alumnus (Ahmedabad Executive General Management programme), Mr. Sharma has an MBA in Marketing and a B.E. in Electronics and Communication.

Abhijit Pati,

Mr. Pati was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of BALCO in July 2019. Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive Officer of our Aluminium business, Jharsuguda from March 2015. Earlier, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer of our Aluminium and Power business at Odisha since April 2012. He has over three decades of experience in the aluminium industry. Prior to joining us, he was the Vice President at Hindalco Industries Limited. He started his career as an engineer with the Indian Aluminium Company in 1989. He received the ‘Exceptional Contributor Award’ from the Aditya Birla Group Chairman, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for his significant contribution to turn around Hirakud Aluminium Smelter in 2006 and won the prestigious British Sword of Honor for the Hirakud Smelter in 1999.

He is a member of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency under the Ministry of Power, Government of India. He also holds the position of Vice President in Aluminium Association of India and is member of the Governing body. He is a two time gold medallist from esteemed institutes such as the Calcutta University and International Management Institute, New Delhi. Mr. Pati has a first-class honours Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Calcutta University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the International Management Institute, New Delhi.

Ajay Kapur

Mr. Kapur was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, Aluminium and Power in March 2019, and took on an additional role as the Managing Director of Commercial on 24 November 2020. He leads the Aluminium and Power business for Vedanta comprising 2.3 mtpa installed smelter capacity, 8 GW of power and 2 mtpa of alumina refinery. Prior to his appointment at Vedanta Limited, he was the Managing Director and Chief Executive

Officer of Ambuja Cements. He started his career as an Executive Assistant to the founder and then Managing Director. He went on to handle various strategic positions at Ambuja Cements with his last position as the MD and CEO. Mr. Kapur holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, MBA from KJ Somaiya Institute, Mumbai and is an alumnus of Wharton’s Advanced Management Programme.

Vikas Sharma,

Mr. Sharma was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of TSPL-our Power business in July 2019. He was appointed as the Whole-time Director designated as the CEO and WTD from October 2019. Prior to his stint at TSPL, he was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer and Whole-time Director of BALCO in March 2017. He has experience of 31+ years in various national and multinational companies. He has been with HMT Watches Limited, Su-Raj Diamonds India Private Limited, AMP India Private Limited (now Tyco Electronics), Praxair India Private Limited, Jindal Praxair Oxygen Company Limited and JSW Steel Limited in various key positions.

Mr. Sharma joined Vedanta Group as the location head of Chanderiya Smelter of HZL in 2012 and was gradually elevated to the Chief Operating Officer of Smelters division of HZL in June 2014. During his tenure at Vedanta, he played an integral role in the Company’s growth and made significant contribution in safety, productivity and people development. He holds a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Engineering College Kota, University of Rajasthan and a Master’s in Business Administration in Marketing from Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok, India.

Prachur Sah,

Mr. Shah joined the Group as Director New Ventures and Reserves of Cairn from 21 August 2018, and was made the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Cairn Oil & Gas on 19 October 2020. He has since played a key role towards realising Cairn’s broader vision and is responsible for unlocking value through monetisation of our new exploration blocks under OALP. Prior to joining the Group,

Mr. Sah had 19 years of rich and diverse experience at Schlumberger and has worked across geographies including Houston, South America, UAE and India. At Schlumberger, he held various roles in Operations, Transformation and Business Development, and left Schlumberger as the Managing Director for India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mr. Sah holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics from IIT Mumbai and a Master’s in Oil and Gas Management from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh.

Pankaj Kumar,

Mr. Kumar was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of our copper operations in Tuticorin, Silvassa and Fujairah Gold FZC and Director of MEL in March 2019. He is also anchoring the Group’s Quality Assurance. In his career of over three decades, he has worked with large conglomerates such as Tata Steel, Mittal Steel, Adani Ports, Gujarat Guardian Limited and United Breweries Limited.

Prior to joining us at Sterlite Copper as Chief Executive Officer, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Hindustan Zinc Limited. Mr. Kumar holds a BTech (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and a post-graduate diploma in Business Management with specialisation in Operations Management and Information Technology from XLRI - Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India.

Sauvick Mazumdar,

Mr. Mazumdar is the Chief Executive Officer of Sesa Goa and was appointed on 12 July 2019. Prior to this role he was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Sesa Goa and Vice President since 1 October 2016. He joined the organisation in 1994; he is a home-grown leader who rose to the ranks from a GET to CEO. He is a well-seasoned executive with 24+ years of extensive experience, having built a reliable reputation for achieving business growth through strategic direction, diverse perspectives and proactive leadership.

He is responsible for the overall operations and expansion projects of the Iron Ore & Ferro Alloys business within India — Goa and Karnataka along with valueadded business (pig iron, met coke, and power), Jharkhand, Bellary, overseas projects at Liberia and Ferro Alloys business at FACOR in Odisha. He holds a BTech degree in Mining Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal Karnataka and a First-Class Mines Manager’s Certificate of Competency from DGMS, the Government of India, Dhanbad.

Pankaj Malhan,

Mr. Malhan is the Chief Executive Officer and Whole-time Director of ESL and joined ESL in October 2018. He has over 20 years of industry experience and joined ESL from Tata Steel, where he was the Head of Engineering and Project. He was responsible for leading Tata Steel’s capital expansion programmes.

He was associated with the Tata Group since 2000, and has held various senior management positions at Tata Steel, Tata Blue Scope Steel Limited and Tata Power Limited. Prior to joining the Tata Group, he had worked with Indian Acrylics Limited and Fisher Rosemount Limited. He holds a BTech in Instrumentation and Control from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India, and also has done post-graduate diploma in Business Management from XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India.

Dilip Golani,

Mr. Golani now heads the Group’s Management Assurance Services function. He previously headed the Sales and Marketing division for HZL and the Group’s Performance Management function. Prior to joining the Group in April 2000, he was a member of the Unilever corporate audit team responsible for auditing the Unilever group companies in Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to that,

he was responsible for managing operations and marketing functions for one of the exports businesses of Unilever India. He has over 31 years of experience and has previously worked with organisations such as Union Carbide India Limited and Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. He holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering and has completed his postgraduate studies in Industrial Engineering and Management from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India.

Andrew Lewin,

Mr. Lewin joined as the Group Health, Safety, Environment and Sustainability Head in February 2020. He has over 33 years of experience within mining and Oil & Gas industries. He was previously the Managing Director at Spectrum Risk Consulting, Australia. He has also held multiple senior roles at BHP Billiton, Newmont Mining Corporation and other

companies across the US, Australia and UK with responsibility for health, safety, environment and sustainability assurance. He has done PhD in Chemistry from the University of Waterloo and Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Safety from Aston University, England. He also holds an M.Sc. degree in physics from The University of Manchester, and a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry from the University of Bristol.

Varun Kapoor,

Mr. Kapoor was appointed as the Director – Investor Relations for the Group on 2 January 2021. Before he took up this role, he was the Chief (Strategy & Business Excellence) of Cairn Oil & Gas business. He is working towards enhancing the quality, depth and diversity of our shareholder base and investors to ensure optimum valuation for the Company. Mr. Kapoor has 18+ years of rich leadership and employee experience, having joined

Cairn in 2008 and has worked in various domains such as Mergers & Acquisitions, Commercial & New Business, Gas SBU Asset Management, Business Strategy, Corporate Planning and Business Excellence. Prior to joining Cairn, Mr. Kapoor had experience in buy-side and sell-side equity research with top-tier funds and banks like Fidelity, Deutsche Bank, S&P Crisil. He holds a PGDM from IIM Calcutta and a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University.

Roma Balwani,

Ms. Balwani was appointed as the Senior Director of Communications and Brand from December 2020. Prior to this role, she was holding the position as the Director of Communications and Brand since October 2019. Earlier she was Sr. Advisor from April 2019. Her prior stint with Vedanta was as the PresidentGroup Communications, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility from April 2014 till August 2017. Prior to joining our Company, she was the Chief Communications Officer at Mahindra and Mahindra Limited. With over three decades of experience, she has won several Indian and international awards and accolades and she speaks at several summits on Sustainable Development

and Communications in India and the overseas. She has the distinction of being included for three consecutive years in the Holmes Global Report, USA, a recognition in the Global Influence 100 listing of In-house Communicators. She is a Director on the Board of John Cockerill, India (formerly CMI FPE Ltd.), the Indian subsidiary of the Belgian company John Cockerill.

Ms. Balwani also chairs the CSR and NR Committees as a Board member. She graduated in Economics from the Mumbai University and completed her post-graduation (Diploma) in marketing management from Sasmira’s Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai and has completed executive management programme at Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, USA.

Anand Laxshmivarahan R,

Mr. Anand was appointed as the Interim Group Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for Vedanta Limited in June 2020. His responsibilities entail driving digital-led interventions across the business with a focus on achieving the organisation’s goals on enhanced reserves, improved recovery, enhanced Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE), operational and people excellence. He joined Vedanta in 2018 as the Chief Digital Officer in the Oil & Gas business. Mr. Anand is a Digital Transformation Leader with over 21 years of industry experience working with global multinationals in various key business and technical roles. He has two decades

of exposure to systems and technologies within Oil & Gas and Manufacturing domains. His previous experiences include Oil & Gas consulting working with global majors on digital transformation programmes.

Before joining Vedanta, he was with industrial automation companies focusing primarily on process control and automation systems within manufacturing and Oil & Gas segments. He has worked with companies such as Wipro Technologies, Honeywell, General Electric and Siemens. He has completed his BE in Electronics and Telecommunication from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Maharashtra and Master’s from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Dhiraj Nayyar,

Mr. Nayyar was appointed as the Director, Economics and Policy in October 2019. Prior to this appointment, he was the Chief Economist of Vedanta Limited since October 2018. Before joining Vedanta, he was Officer on Special Duty and Head, Economics, Finance and Commerce at NITI Aayog, Government of India (GOI) from October 2015 till October 2018. He has 15+ years of experience in the realm of economics. In this role, functionally equivalent to Joint Secretary, GoI, he was responsible for all policy matters related to the Departments of Economic Affairs, Revenue, Financial Services, Investment and Public Asset Management and Commerce. He was Secretary of the

Inter-Ministerial Committee on Sick and Loss-Making Public-Sector Enterprises, Member-Secretary of NITI Aayog’s Committee on Strategic Disinvestment and Member, Spices Board. Prior to joining the government, Mr. Nayyar spent several years in the media in senior positions. He was an India columnist at Bloomberg View, Managing Editor at The Quint, Editor-at-large at firstpost.com, Deputy Editor at India Today and Opinion Editor at Financial Express. He did his Bachelor’s in economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Merton College, Oxford and M. Phil in Development Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge where he also pursued doctoral research in Economics and taught Development Economics.

Leena Verenkar,

Ms. Verenkar was appointed the Head of Corporate Social responsibility of Vedanta in October 2019. She also holds the additional responsibility of the Department of Chief of Advocacy & Public relations and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Sesa Iron Ore Business since 2015. Prior to this role, she was the Head of CSR of Iron Ore, Goa since 2010. Leena started her career with our Company in 1996, in the field of environment management and compliance and led the environment

team for 12 years. She has 25+ years of experience in environment management, community relations, advocacy and public relations. She holds a Master’s degree in Microbiology from the Goa University and in Ecology and Environment from the Bhopal University, India. She has Fulbright Scholarship by the US Foundation in India and LEAD fellowship by Lead India. She was also recognised as the Women Leader of the Year by Economic Times and 100 Most Impacful CSR Leaders (a global listing) by World CSR in 2017. She has been a recipient of Great Manager’s Award in 2019.

Vikash Jain,

Mr. Jain was appointed as the General Counsel for legal matters across the Group in March 2021. He also continues to hold the responsibility as the General Counsel – Oil & Gas Business, Vedanta Limited. He joined our Company in March 2016 as Vice President and General Counsel – Aluminium Business. He has over 25 years of experience in handling complex litigations, contract negotiations, regulatory issues, compliance assurance, mergers and

acquisitions, foreign collaborations, joint ventures, advocacy, investor relations and Taxation (Direct & Indirect) etc. Prior to joining Vedanta, he has had experience working with organisations like Transocean, Jubilant Group, Hindustan Oil Exploration Company Limited, Endurance Group, and so on. A law graduate, he is also a qualified company secretary and an associate member of the Insurance Institute of India. He is also pursuing his Executive MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.