United Breweries Limited announced that the Board of Directors of the Company, upon recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, has appointed Mr. Subramaniam Somasundaram as an Additional Director of the Company in Independent Director category for a period of 5 years. His appointment shall take effect from June 4, 2023. Mr. S Subramaniam was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Titan Company Limited for over a decade till his superannuation in June 2021.

During the stint with Titan, he was also on the Board of its subsidiaries Caratlane Trading Private Limited, and Titan Engineering and Automation Limited, and the Joint Venture, Montblanc India Private Limited. He is currently Independent Director on the Boards of Teamlease Services Limited, API Holdings Limited (Pharmeasy), Honasa Consumer Limited (Mamaearth), Avanti Finance Private Limited and Landmark Retail FZE (Dubai). Before joining Titan, he was in the Telecom industry for over 11 years including stints of CFO for BPL Mobile Group and Chief Executive Officer for BPL Mobile operations in Mumbai.

As CFO of the telecom verticals in Essar Group he worked extensively in setting up its foray into greenfield telecom operations in Africa. He started his career with ITC Limited in India and then had a stint with Mannai Corporation, Doha. Mr. S Subramaniam is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant by qualification with over 35 years of post-qualification experience in Finance, Strategy and Business roles.