Godawari Power & Ispat Limited announced that the Shareholders in their Extra-Ordinary General meeting held on 4th May, 2024 has approved the appointment of M. Sunil Duggal as Non-Executive Independent Director and Mrs. Roma Ashok Balwani as Non-Executive Independent Women Director of the Company for a period of 5 (five) consecutive years with effect from 04th May, 2024. Mr. Sunil Duggal, ben and brought up in Amritsar, is an Electrical Engineer from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He is an Alumnus of IMD, Lausanne Switzerland and IIM Calcutta. He was associated with International Zinc Association as Vice Chairman and Former President of Indian Lead Zinc Development Association. He is the Chairman of National committee of Mining - Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Former President of Federation of Indian Mineral Industries ¢IMI), Former Co-Chair -FICCI Non-Ferrous Metals Committee-2018 and Former Chairman - Skill Council for Mining Sector, India. Mr. Sunil Duggal was also associated with Vedanta Limited as CE0 and Whole-time Director of the Company from April 2020 to July 2023. He was also the CEO & Whole-Time Director of Hindustan Zinc Limited (IIZL) from March 2015 to April, 2020. He is having over 37 years of experience in leading high-performance teams and more than 20 years in leadership positions. He is known for his ability to navigate through tough and challenging times, nurture and grow business, evaluate opportunities and risks, and successfully drive efficiency and productivity whilst reducing costs and inefficiencies and delivering innovative solutions to challenges. He was awarded as CEO of the Year, 2018, ABP News, CEO of the Year at "Business leader of the Year", Fun & Joy at Work-ET Now, 2019 and WE Global Employees Choice Award -Best CEO 2022. Mrs. Roma Ashok Balwani a Graduate in Economics, with a Post graduation in Marketing from Mumbai University, is currently associated with John Cockerill India Limited as Independent Director for almost a decade and she is also Chairperson of Nomination and Remuneration Committee and CSR committee of John Cockerill India Limited. Previously she was Sr. Advisor, at Vedanta Group. Her role in Vedanta group was sustainable development, brand management, stakeholder engagement and group communication to promote Vedanta's position as a purpose driven organization. In this enabling role, she aligned the group's communication strategy and sustainable development strategy in a socially responsible, ethical and environmentally friendly manner that positively impacts and improves the quality of life of the communities. She is also a member of Team Lease Edtech Advisory Board, which specialises in providing Enterprise Learning Solutions to corporate clients and apprenticeship programme to make Indian youth employable.
She has over four decades of experience in manufacturing companies such as L&T, Mahindra Group & Vedanta Group in various aspects of strategic business in her previous roles as President, Group Communication, CSR and Sustainable Development at Vedanta Resources plc. She has been the member of the Group Executive Committee which comprises the leadership team at Vedanta. She is actively associated with disability cricket as the pro bone CEO & Brand Custodian, IDCA and promotes deaf cricket as an enabler to instil a sense of pride and purpose for the hearing-impaired youth with sporting talent. She is the recipient of the Exchange4Media Maestro Award for PR & Communications 2023 and Adgully, Exchange4Mediaa & PRCI, Lifetime Achievement awards for 2022, 2020 & 2018. She has been inducted into the Communications Hall of Fame at Praxis 2023.