CCL Products (INDIA) Limited announced that at its board meeting held on 14 July, 2023, the board considered and appointed Sri. Satyavada Venkata Ramachandra Rao as an additional director in the capacity of non-executive director with effect from 14th July, 2023. Dr. Lanka Krishnanand announced step down (resignation) from the office of Non- Executive Director of the Company in the Board meeting held on 14th July, 2023.

Sri Satyavada Venkata Ramachandra Rao was born in the year 1952 in Visakhapatnam. He holds a Post Graduate degree in Social Work with Personnel Management and Industrial Relations Specialization, LLB and Post Graduate Diploma in Labour and Administrative Laws. He has worked with major industrial organizations both in Public and Private sector for over 25 years in senior management positions in HR, Legal and General Management functions before promoting the 23year old HR consulting company, Resource Inputs Limited.

He started his career with M/s. B H P V Ltd. and then moved to Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. In pursuit of his professional goals, he moved to Private Sector organizations M/s. Sriram Refrigerations Ltd. and M/s. Bakelite Hylam Limited at Hyderabad. He became C E O of Andhra Cements SBU Visakhapatnam.

In the year 2000 he quit his employment as Group Vice President HR & Legal, Pennar Group of Industries to promote Resource Inputs Limited. Under his leadership the 23year old company provide guidance and solutions on people management issues, Labour Law and Industrial Relations consultancy services to major industries like Isuzu Motors, 3F Industries, Mars International, Tata Aerospace, Indo MIM, Refratech, RHI Clasil, Usha International, Ganapathi Sugars, Synchrony International, Alpla India, Deccan Enterprises and many more industrial organizations. He was the founder secretary for National HRD Network Hyderabad chapter and contributed to its growth in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Currently, he is the Telangana State Council member of CII and Member Industrial Relations Committee of FTCCI, Chairman, Employers Federation of Southern India, AP&TS Branch, Regional Board Member Employees Provident Fund Organization (Government of India) Telangana Region, Advisory Committee Member National Board for Workers Education and Development and HR Consultant to Tirumala Tirupathi Devasthanam. He has authored several articles on productivity, human relations, labor laws, innovative approaches in People Management and the like. He has also addressed several conferences and seminars.

His latest book is `Handbook on Social Security' published in March 2023. Directorships in other Companies; Thermal Systems (Hyderabad) Private Limited; Resource Inputs Private Limited; HR Chambers Outsourcing Private Limited. Dr. Lanka Krishnanand is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal.

He has done B Tech in Mechanical engineering from VRSEC, Vijayawada, Nagarjuna University, M. Tech in Industrial engineering from NIT, Calicut, Calicut University and Ph. D in Automatic Feature Recognition from NIT, Warangal, Kakatiya University. He has written several articles which were published in International Journal of Supply Chain Inventory Management, Procedia Engineering, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India).

He has attended several national and international conferences. Dr. Lanka Krishnanand has undertaken several projects and few of them are Development of Feature based CAD/CAM with reference of Machining Processes & Evaluation of Sculptured Surfaces, Development of Networked Digital Library as an online learning resource etc.