ITC Appoints Atul Singh as Non-Executive Director & Pushpa Subrahmanyam as Independent Director
The Members of ITC Limited have approved the appointments of Atul Singh as a Non-Executive Director for three years and Pushpa Subrahmanyam as an Independent Director for five years, both with effect from April 2, 2024.
Atul Singh, 64, served as the Executive Vice Chairman of Raymond until August 2023. He has more than 35 years of experience in consumer-oriented roles across multiple geographies. Singh started his career as an auditor with Price Waterhouse, USA, and has held several senior leadership positions at Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola, and Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair Company. He presently serves on the Board of Compass (the ultimate holding company of Bata India Limited) and is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation, New Delhi Chapter, and of the Governing Board of Plan International, India Chapter, an NGO working with children and girls in over 80 countries. He has been on the Boards of Genesis Colors, Coca-Cola India, and the Coca-Cola India Foundation, amongst others. He was an Independent Director on the Board of Bata India. He has also served as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in India and as a member of the Advisory Board of AIESEC. He holds degrees of Bachelor in Commerce from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, and MBA from the Neeley School of Business, Texas, USA.
Pushpa Subrahmanyam, 62, is a retired IAS officer with over 36 years of administrative experience. She was the Secretary of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India, for more than three years. She also worked as Finance Secretary of the combined state of Andhra Pradesh and has expertise in handling public finance. Since 2013, she has managed the employment-intensive sectors of the textiles and food processing industries at the national level in the Government of India. She had high-level exposure to policymaking, having worked in the Prime Minister’s Office for four years. She also worked with the erstwhile Department for International Development, UK, as a governance adviser for three years. She has been on the boards of the National Textile Corporation, the Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation, the Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh, and the Andhra Pradesh Urban Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation, amongst others.
Subrahmanyam joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1985 (Andhra Pradesh cadre) and has worked across several sectors, including tribal, women and child development, urban development, and poverty alleviation. She holds a Master’s Degree in Development Planning and Project Management from the University of Bradford, UK, and a Masters in Political Science from the University of Hyderabad.
