Mr. Thomas Kadien joined International Paper in 1978 and held various sales and marketing positions in IP’s Packaging businesses. He became manufacturing manager for Nicolet in 1991 and general manager of Nicolet in 1992. He was vice president of Fine Papers in 1999 and vice president of Commercial Printing and Imaging Papers in 2000. In April 2003, he was appointed president of IP Europe, and was named a senior vice president of IP in May 2004.

In November 2005 Tom became senior vice president and president of xpedx, International Paper's distribution business. He was named senior vice president Consumer Packaging & IP Asia and India on January 1, 2010.

He was appointed as additional Director of the Company w.e.f 14th October, 2011.

Mr. Brett Mosley is the director of Global Technology Center of Excellence. He reports to Tommy S Joseph, senior vice president, Manufacturing and Technology.

Brett has more than 27 years of experience in manufacturing. He joined International Paper in 1984 and has held a number of leadership positions in manufacturing for the company including mill manager at Mansfield and Camden mills, as well as manufacturing director for Wood Products.

He was appointed as additional Director of the Company w.e.f 14th October, 2011.

Mr. Shreeyash Bangur did his MSc in Engineering Business Management from the Warwick Manufacturing Group, UK and worked for two years in Ernst & Young before joining APPM. He was associated with the Company as Director (Corporate) from 18th February, 2007 to 14th October, 2011.

As a Director (Corporate), his prime areas of focus were Marketing, Human Resource Development, Corporate Planning and Business Development related functions. He is also a Director of Digvijay Investments Ltd.

He was appointed as additional Director of the Company w.e.f 14th October, 2011.

Mr. M.S. Ramachandran was appointed as Independent Director of the Company effective 6th December, 2011. He holds a bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Mr. Ramachandran has held numerous senior positions in the Indian energy sector. He has extensive corporate and operational experience spanning over 35 years with Indian Oil Corporation Limited, where he started as a management trainee in 1969 and, eventually left as chairman of the board in 2005. During his tenure, Indian Oil grew to become the leading Indian corporate in the Fortune 'Global 500' listing.Prior to his appointment to the board of Indian Oil, Mr.Ramachandran served as the Executive Director of the Oil Coordination Committee of India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Mr.Ramachandran has acted as non-executive director on the boards of a number of companies and has also acted in an advisory capacity to organizations including BHP Billiton India, Chevron Business Development, Inc. etc.

He is currently on the Boards of Bharat Electronics Ltd., Ester Industries Ltd., Gulf Oil Corporation Limited, ICICI Bank Limited and Supreme Petrochem Limited.

Mrs. Ranjana Kumar was appointed as Independent Director of the Company effective 6th December, 2011. She is a graduate.

Mrs. Ranjana Kumar is a prominent Indian Banker with varied experience of four decades. She retired as a Vigilance Commissioner from the Central Vigilance Commission and has held many significant positions in her career, including that as the Chairperson and Managing Director of Indian Bank, Chairperson of NABARD, Executive Director holding concurrent charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Canara Bank and CEO of the US operations of Bank of India based in New York. Mrs. Kumar, under her chairmanship, was instrumental in turning around Indian bank from a loss making entity into a successful bank. She has been recipient of various awards, notable being, ‘BMA Management Woman Achiever of the Year Award 2008-09’, ‘Banker of the Year 2002’ by Business Standard, and was acclaimed ‘India’s turn around Queen – Nov. 2003’ by The Economist, UK.

She is currently on the Boards of Tata Global Beverages Ltd., Coromandel International Ltd., National Stock Exchange of India Ltd., Future Value Retail Ltd., GVK Power & Infrastructure Ltd., International Asset Reconstruction Company Pvt. Ltd. and Vyome Biosciences Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. M.K. Sharma was appointed as Independent Director of the Company effective 6th December, 2011. He holds bachelor degrees in Arts and Law besides P.G. Diplomas in Personal Management and Labour Laws.

Mr. Sharma currently practices as a corporate consultant and his areas of specialization include Regulatory, Corporate & Securities laws, Mergers, Amalgamations and disposals, Joint Ventures, Intellectual Property law, Advertising law, Anti Trust Law, Employment Law and Indirect Taxation. After a six-year stint in DCM Limited, he joined Hindustan Lever Limited in 1974 as Legal Manager. During his tenure at HLL, Mr. Sharma worked on Corporate restructuring of Unilever Group in India, which culminated in creation of One Unilever Corporate structure. He retired as the Vice Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited. Mr. Sharma served as member of Managing Committee/National Committee of ASSOCHAM, FICCI, CII and Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry till his retirement in May ’07.

Mr. Sharma currently serves on the Boards of Wipro Ltd., ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd., Fulford (India) Limited , Schrader Duncan Limited, Birla Corporation Ltd. KEC International Ltd. and as Chairman of Thomas Cook (India) Ltd.

Mr. Adhiraj Sarin was appointed as Independent Director of the Company effective 6th December, 2011. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from IIT, Kanpur.

Mr. Adhiraj Sarin is currently Managing Director at Bunge India, a global major in agri commodities. He led a significant expansion at Bunge, with included acquisition of companies in India. Earlier, as Managing Director of Tube Investments of India (TII), a precision engineering company of the Murugappa Group in Chennai, he grew the turnover of the company significantly. Mr Sarin previously worked for 25 years in HLL where he started his career as a management trainee in 1974 and his last assignment in HLL was as Managing Director of Hind Lever Chemicals, the fertiliser and speciality chemicals subsidiary of HLL. He was instrumental in the rapid growth of the fertiliser business and the turnaround of hybrid seeds business of HLL, which was later sold to Syngenta and then Monsanto.

Mr. Milind Sarwate was appointed as Independent Director of the Company effective 6th December, 2011. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce. He is also a Member of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Mr. Milind Sarwate has 27 years of experience spread across diverse domains such as Consumer Products, Finance, Corporate Development & Strategy, Product Supply, and Human Resources. He joined Marico in 1998 and has since then held several leadership positions, and been instrumental in driving the growth journey for the company. His current role encompasses human resources, M&A, corporate communication and strategic business planning for the Marico Group. Prior to Marico, he was associated with Hoechst (Aventis) and the Godrej Group.

Besides being a Member of the Boards of several overseas companies of the Marico Group, he is also a Non-executive Director on the Board of Geometric Ltd., 3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd. and Hindustan Polyamides & Fibers Ltd. He has been a past Member of Board of Governors, Institute of Internal Auditors, Inc. Mumbai Chapter (2004-2007).

Mr. Praveen P Kadle was appointed as Independent Director of the Company effective 25th January, 2012. He is an Honors Graduate in Commerce & Accountancy. He is also a Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, The Institute of Company Secretaries of India and The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

He is also the founding Managing Director & CEO of Tata Capital Limited and has been with the Tata Group for over 18 years. Tata Capital is a subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited ("Tata Sons"), and represents Tata’s foray into the financial services space covering products and services across retail and commercial lending, distribution and broking, wealth management, investment banking and private equity.

Mr. Kadle joined the Tata Group as Chief Financial Officer of group’s joint venture with IBM in India where he served for 5 years. Thereafter he joined Tata Motors Limited ("Tata Motors") as Vice President (Finance) and in the year 2001 was promoted to the Board of Tata Motors Limited as Executive Director – Finance and Corporate Affairs.

Mr. Kadle played a major role in the turnaround and growth of Tata Motors. While at Tata Motors, he was also instrumental in setting up and guiding the operations of Tata Technologies and TELCON (a Tata Motors – Hitachi JV) which have become market leaders in the engineering design space and in the construction equipment business in India respectively.

During his tenure at Tata Motors, Mr Kadle was part of the senior leadership team that managed several cross-border acquisitions including Daewoo Truck Company of South Korea (2004, US$ 102 million), Incat Technologies of UK (2005, US$ 91 million) and Jaguar-Land Rover of UK (2008, US$ 2.3 billion). He also led a fund raising programme of US$ 5 billion during this period. Prior to joining the Tatas, Mr. Kadle was the CEO and member of the board of Garware-Wall Ropes Limited, a synthetic yarn, industrial fabric and synthetic cordage company that has global operations with a consistent profit track record.

Mr Kadle is a Board member on various Tata and non-Tata companies and is also on the advisory board of Japan’s Institute for Indian Economic Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo. He is also on the Executive Committee for Tata Group HR and Tata Quality Management Services (”TQMS”). Additionally, he is actively involved with various public charitable institutions, notably as a board member and honorary treasurer of Child Rights and You.

Mr Kadle has received a number of awards in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Tata Motors, including: CNBC-TV18’s best performing CFO in the Auto & Auto Ancillaries sector for 2006; the Best CFO of the year 2005 by Business Today; and the CFO of the year 2004 by IMA (formerly known as the Economist Intelligence Unit).

Mr. Rampraveen Swaminathan was appointed as Additional Director of the Company effective 25th January, 2012 and also as Managing Director & CEO of the Company from the date of joining.

Mr. Swaminathan holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce and Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal. He had also attended Executive Education Programme at Harvard Business School on in 2007.

Mr. Rampraveen Swaminathan is presently serving as Executive Director, Power Systems Business in Cummins Inc, USA. In this role, he has global responsibility for Integrated Power Systems, Power Distribution and Power Projects. Mr. Swaminathan joined Cummins in 1999, and his prior roles in Cummins include leading the global Power Electronics Business, and leading the Power Generation Business in India. Prior to Cummins, Mr. Swaminathan worked with the Tata Group, and was a member of the Tata Administrative Service.

He is expected to take over as Managing Director & CEO in March, 2012.

Mr. P. K. Suri, started his career as an Executive Trainee in J.K.Paper Mills Ltd. in November, 1978. His knowledge, attitude and contributions made him to serve in higher & higher capacities and became DGM (Tech. Services) by 1990. Skills acquired made him GM (Mfg.) in Star Paper Mills in 1996.

He has been associated with APPM since May, 1997 and had grown from General Manager to President (Operations) level. He is responsible for all plant operations of both Unit: APPM and Unit:CP. In his experience of more than three decades, he acquired significant managerial skills to manage the plant operations. Shri Suri played a vital role in the successful implementation of Mill Development Plan. He was elevated as Director (Operations) from 12th May 2008.