The Board of Directors of Digicontent Limited at its meeting held on 28 March, 2024, has upon recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, approved the appointment of Mr. Mannu Bhatia as an Additional Director (Independent) with effect from 01 April, 2024. Mr. Mannu Bhatia has had a career spanning 35 years across two corporations: ICI (1987-1998) and PepsiCo (1998-2022). He retired from PepsiCo as senior vice president of Finance & Transformation for the Asia- Middle East Sector, based out of Dubai.

Prior to that, he served as CFO for the Middle East & North Africa and CFO for Asia-Pacific (based out of Hong Kong). Mr. Bhatia also spent four years in New York working in corporate planning and global R&D functions. He joined PepsiCo in India as the CFO for the Frito-Lay business.

His first 10 years post-qualification as a CA were with ICI India, where he honed his skills as a finance professional in various roles across businesses like agrochem, pharma and rubber chemicals. Mr. Bhatia was also a director on a number of joint venture companies that PepsiCo had e.g. PCPPI, Philippines, Suntory PepsiCo Bottling Company, Vietnam and the Pepsi JVs in Jordan and Lebanon. He is currently on the Advisory Board of Foster & Forge (NGO).

Mr. Bhatia is a B.Com from St Xaviers, Kolkata and a Chartered Accountant.