K. Vaidyanath

K. Vaidyanath K Vaidyanath was appointed as Director on the Board of ITC on January 17, 2001. He holds responsibility for the Company's Finance, Internal Audit and Corporate Communications functions, its investment subsidiary, its Paperboards & Specialty Papers, Packaging, Information Technology, Education and Stationery Products, Matches and Agarbattis businesses. He is also the Chairman of ITC Infotech India Limited and its subsidiaries, ITC Infotech Limited, UK and ITC Infotech (USA) Inc.

Before his elevation to the Board, he was the Company's Chief Financial Officer. An MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Vaidyanath has been with ITC for the past 33 years. He has held various positions in the Company's Finance function including that of Head of Finance of ITC's Packaging, Hotels and Agri Businesses. He has also been Head of Corporate Planning & Treasury, as well as Internal Audit. He has been a recipient of the 'Best CFO' award from Business Today.

Anand Nayak

Anand Nayak Anand Nayak, Head of Human Resource Development for ITC, has been with the Company for 36 years. He has handled senior HR assignments in the Company`s various divisions and has been head of Human Resource Developments since 1996. He is also responsible for overall supervision of ITC's Social Development Initiatives.

A post-graduate in Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur, Nayak has spent his entire professional career with ITC.

He is a Director on the Board of ITC Infotech India Limited.

B. B. Chatterjee

B. B. Chatterjee B.B. Chatterjee, Executive Vice President & Company Secretary, joined ITC in May, 1983. He is a Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and a Law Graduate.

Chatterjee is on the Boards of various ITC subsidiaries including ITC Infotech India Ltd. and its subsidiaries in the UK and the USA.

Besides being on the Executive Committee of Indian Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber Committee of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI), he is the Chairman of the Company Affairs Sub Committee of BCCI. Chatterjee is also on the Central Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

S. Sivakumar

S. Sivakumar S Sivakumar is the Chief Executive of the Agri Business Division. Topper of the Class of 1983 from the Institute of Rural Management (IRMA), he served a farmers' cooperative in the oilseeds sector for six years before joining ITC in 1989.

Sivakumar has conceptualised the path-breaking ITC eChoupal model, and is spearheading its roll out across rural India.

Sivakumar is a Director on the Boards of Technico Pty Ltd., ITC Infotech India Ltd., Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture, IRMA, Centre for Collective Development, and Charities Aid Foundation India. He is on the Executive Committee of India's National Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) and on the Private Sector Committee of Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). He is an active member of the management committees of various industry bodies and several taskforces of Government of India.

R. Srinivasan

R. Srinivasan R Srinivasan joined ITC Tobacco Division in 1974 after receiving a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. He is responsible for ITC's Paperboards and Specialty Papers, Packaging & Printing.

He is a Director of ITC Infotech India Limited and its subsidiaries, ITC Infotech Limited, UK & ITC Infotech (USA) Inc. He also serves on the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Packaging, Mumbai.

Sanjiv Puri

Sanjiv Puri Sanjiv Puri is Divisional Chief Executive, India Tobacco Division. He joined ITC Limited in 1986 as a graduate engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Till 2000, Puri handled a wide range of responsibilities in eCommerce, Operations and Manufacturing in the Tobacco Division.

Before returning to the Tobacco Division in September 2009, Puri led ITC Infotech, a fully owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd, as the Managing Director from May 2006 to August 2009. He is now a Director on its Board. Prior to this he was the Managing Director of Surya Nepal Pvt Ltd, another subsidiary of ITC. He was responsible for diversifying the operations of the company into branded apparels and exports, making Surya Nepal one of the largest private sector companies in Nepal. He is also a Director on the Board of Asia Tobacco Co Ltd.

B. Sumant

B. Sumant B.Sumant is Managing Director, ITC Infotech. He is also on the Board of ITC Infotech (USA) Inc. and ITC Infotech Ltd., UK.

Sumant has been working with ITC Ltd, and its group companies since 1986. In his previous assignment, Sumant was responsible for setting up the snacks business of ITC under the brand name of “Bingo”. He is also on the Board of Technico Pty Ltd which specializes in production of Potato Seed Tubers. Sumant has over two decades of experience in ITC spanning Manufacturing, Operations and new business development.


Sumant holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Durgapur. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Wharton, Kellogg and the Asian Institute of Management, Manila.