RATAN TATA

Ratan N. Tata Promoter, Chairman, Chairman of Executive Committee, Chairman of Committee of Directors, Member of Nomination Committee and Member of Remuneration Committee, Tata Steel Limited

Ratan N. Tata serves as the Chairman of the Board, Member of Group Corporate Centre and Member of Group Executive Board of Tata Group. Mr. Tata was appointed Director-in-charge of National Radio & Electronics Company Ltd. (NELCO) in 1971. He serves as Chairman Emeritus for Nelco Ltd., Tata Motors Ltd., Tata Chemicals Ltd., Tata Power Company Ltd., Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. and Tata Tea Ltd. Mr. Tata joined the Tata Group in 1962. He serves as Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and has been it's Director since May 5, 2004. He has been the Chairman and an Additional Director of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd. since October 18, 2005. He was named Chairman of Tata Industries Ltd. in 1981, he is responsible for transforming Tata Motors Ltd. into a Group strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high technology businesses. He is expertise in specific functional area are Eminent industrialist with wide business experience across a variety of industries. In 1991, Mr. Tata has been Chairman of Tata Sons Ltd. (the apex holding company of the Tata Group) and serves as its Director. He also holds the Chairmanship of several major Tata companies including Antrix Corp. Ltd., Information Technology Park Ltd., Tata Autocomp Systems Ltd., Tata Engineering, and Indian Hotels Co. Ltd. He served as Chairman and Director of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. from February 2002 to April 11, 2005. He has been a Director of Indian Hotels Co. Ltd. since January 9, 1984. He has been an Independent Director of Fiat SpA since May 5, 2006. He has been a Director of Tata Motors Ltd. since August 1981. He serves as Non-Executive & Independent Director of Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. He serves as a Director of Tata Tea Ltd. He serves as a Director of Tata Chemicals Ltd., Tata Power Company Ltd. and Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. Besides his Directorships on the boards of various Tata companies. His foreign affiliations include memberships of the international advisory boards of J.P. Morgan Chase, Booz-Allen and Hamilton Inc. and the American International Group. He served as a Director of Haldia Petrochemicals Limited. He serves as a Member of the advisory board of Mitsubishi Corporation, RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy and the Programme Board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations' India AIDS Initiative. He serves as a Member of the board of Governors of the East-WestCenter. He served as a Member of Board of Trustees at Ford Foundation. In 1999, he was appointed to serve on the International Investment Council set up by the President of the Republic of South Africa. Mr. Tata has been appointed a Member of the Asia Pacific advisory committee to the board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. He serves as a Member of International Advisory Committee of New York Stock Exchange Inc. He serves as a member of the central board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as well as of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry. He is the Chairman of the Investment Commission set up by the Government of India. He is also a Member of several international boards/committees. One of his achievements include designing and developing India's first indigenous car - the "Indica" which has been recognized as the most improved car in the Industry and has emerged as one of the strongest brands to have been created of late. He was honored by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan in January 2000 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree in Business Administration and Technology from the Ohio State University and the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok respectively. Mr. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture and Structural Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1962, and Completed an Advanced Management Program at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University from 1974 to 1975.