High Energy Batteries (India) Appoints Saroj Patel & R. Subrahmaniya Sivam as Independent Directors

The Board of Directors of High Energy Batteries (India) Limited appointed Commodore Saroj Kumar Patel and Dr. R Subrahmaniya Sivam as Independent Directors, for a fixed term of five years, with effect from April 1, 2024. The Board also recommended to the shareholders to reappoint Dr. Vijayamohanan K. Pillai as an Independent Director of the company for a second term of five years, starting April 1, 2024.

Commodore Saroj Kumar Patel (retd) has over four decades of experience in defence and quality. Patel started his career as a Quality Engineer at HAL Koraput for the MIG Aircraft Engines division. He was then commissioned into the Indian Navy and served in various capacities as CNAI (MB), CNAI (V), and DNAI. He served as Director of the Missile System Quality Assurance Agency (MSQAA), dealing with various indigenous tactical and strategic missile programs. He was also the founding Director of the Directorate of Quality, Reliability, and Safety. He was a member of the Aeronautical Society of India and the Society for Quality and Reliability with DRDO, ISRO, and other defence establishments like HAL. At present, he is the Quality Advisor for Defence Products at Economic Explosive, Nagpur. He is a postgraduate (MTech) in Guided Missiles, completed a Naval Technical Staff Course and a Special Weapons Course at the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune.

Dr. R. Subrahmaniya Sivam is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Cost and Management Accountant, and Company Secretary and has also completed his doctorate. He is a practicing Chartered Accountant by profession. He has held various posts in industries and has over four decades of experience in internal and management audits, structuring costing models and systems. He is also interested in the fields of Cost Accounting, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR).