Mr. CK Birla is the chairman of the CK Birla Group, a conglomerate operating across home and building products, automotive and technology, and healthcare and education. The Group has strategic alliances with some of the world’s leading companies including Caterpillar, Ford and Daimler.

He is also the chairman of the following Group companies:

• • AVTEC
• • HIL
• • National Engineering Industries
• • Neosym
• • Orient Cement
• • Orient Paper & Industries

Other Group companies and organisations include Birlasoft, GMMCO, Orient Electric, the Birla Institute of Technology, the BM Birla Heart Research Centre, the Calcutta Medical Research Institute, Modern High School for Girls, and the Rukmani Birla Modern High School.

He is also associated with a number of national and international institutions. His roles include:

• • Member of the Commonwealth Business Council
• • Chairman of the board of governors of the Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi
• • Chairman of the board of governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur
• • Member of the board of governors of The Calcutta Medical Research Institute

Mr. Deepak Khetrapal, the Managing Director and CEO of Orient Cement Limited, is a professional business leader who is leading the company. He has an excellent track record of leading and transforming large and diversified organizations across Services, Industrial, Consumer and Retail businesses. He mastered the art of adding long term and sustainable value to varied businesses through effective implementation of strategic shifts and repositioning exercises. Mr. Deepak Khetrapal is a leader with strategic and strong business orientation whilst leveraging resources to achieve true potential of the group businesses.

Mr. Rajendra Mishra brings a very well rounded experience as a business leader with 28 years of handling various functions such as Sales & Marketing, Operations, Strategy, Global Business and Alliances. He has established a track record of P&L delivery across all stages of the life cycle of a business start-up, growth and turn-around. Prior to joining Orient Cement, he was associated with reputed groups like Vedanta Group (Sterlite Technologies Ltd/ Sterlite Power Transmission Ltd) and RPG Group (KEC International Ltd). An engineering graduate in Electrical & Electronics from NITK, Surathkal, he has completed several EEPs/MDS at Cornell/Wharton/ISB/XLRI.

Mr. Sushil Gupta is a Chartered Accountant with rich experience in varied areas of Finance. In his career spanning over 23 years, he has worked on managing accounts, finance, audit, legal and secretarial, investor relation and IT function. Effectively managed finance for large manufacturing/mining organizations. Further has in-depth exposure to commercial, administrative, production and logistics functions. During his professional career, he was associated with reputed Companies in key positions with Essar Offshore, Adani Mining, Vedanta Group : Sesa Goa, Sterlite, Konokla Copper Mines Zambia, Hindustan Zinc and Vikram Ispat (Unit of Grasim Industries).

Mr. Shyam B Asawa brings with him rich & varied experience of more than three decades of Techno – Commercial expertise in the fields of setting up of Greenfield Projects/ Modernization of Cement plants both in India & Abroad such as Grasim, Birla, Bangur, Binani, Jindal & Reliance. His achievements also include setting up of Greenfield cement plants in UAE & Angola including a Slag grinding Unit in Dubai.
He has international exposure of Project Planning & Management Consultancy functions. He has published & presented many papers on Execution of Cement Projects, Up-gradation & Modernization of Cement plants in national / international conferences.

Mr. Vishal Sood brings with him rich experience of over 22 years in Sales & Marketing with cross-functional exposure to production, Finance, IT, Supply Chain and CRM and has good exposure to distribution management, sales force effectiveness and route to market strategy in the urban, semi-urban and rural markets across country. During his professional career, he has been associated with reputed companies in key positions with Pidilite Industries Limited, Tata Teleservices, Castrol, Sandvik Asia, and BOSCH.

Mr. Srinivas holds degrees of Master of Social Work from Nagarjuna University, Bachelor of Law from University of Mumbai and Bachelor of Sciences – Chemistry from University of Madras. He has over 17 years of rich experience in managing various aspects of Human Resources independently, at Business, Corporate and International Level. He is a certified Assessor & Trainer for CII Business Excellence, Coaching & Mentorship, Assessment Centres etc. He brings with himself expertise at the enterprise level HR Systems & Processes, Performance Management, Compensation, Talent Management, and Employee Relations, including Industrial Relations.

Manish holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and an MBA (Marketing Management) from IIM – Calcutta. Prior to joining Orient Cement, Manish was associated with Kesoram Industries Ltd as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. He has over 27 years in Sales & Marketing functions with reputed companies like Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices, Xerox Modicorp, Amtrex Ambience.

Deepak is a Chemical Engineering Graduate, from NIT Raipur and has attended many Leadership Programs from ISB & XLRI. Prior to joining Orient Cement, Deepak was associated with Lafarge Holcim as Senior VP – Projects. In a career spanning 30+ years, he has been associated with companies like Tata Steel and Grasim. He comes with a rich experience in all domains of project management.