Mr. Jamshyd N. Godrej is the Chairman of the Board of Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.

Mr. Godrej is the Chairman of Aspen Institute, India. He is the Vice President of World Wide Fund for Nature – International and is a Trustee and President Emeritus of World Wide Fund for Nature – India. He is also a Director of World Resources Institute, USA; and is also Past President of Confederation of Indian Industry and Past President of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Association.

Mr. Godrej is the Chairman of the CII Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre. The Centre is housed in a LEED Platinum demonstration building which is the first green building in India and the greenest building in the world at the time when it was rated. The Green Business Centre is a Centre of Excellence for green buildings, energy, energy conservation, non-conventional energy sources, water policy, water conservation, etc.

Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. manufactures and markets refrigerators; washing machines; air conditioners; office furniture; home furniture; security equipment for banks (such as safes, strong room doors, bank lockers, etc.) and for commercial establishments and homes; locks and latches, forklift trucks and warehousing equipment; process equipment for chemical, petrochemical, refineries and allied industries; precision tools for sheet metal, zinc, aluminum and thermoplastics; real estate development. The Godrej group is recognized as leaders in home appliances, consumer durables, office equipment, industrial products, consumer products and services.

Mr. Godrej is an ardent yachting enthusiast and has done extensive cruising along the west coast of India.

The President of India conferred on Mr. Godrej the “Padma Bhushan” on 3rd April 2003.
Mr. J. N Godrej is currently serving as a Director in the following Companies besides Geometric Ltd.

• Godrej Commodities Ltd. (formerly Godrej Foods Ltd.)
  
• Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.
• Godrej Industries Ltd.
• Bajaj Auto Ltd.
• Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd.
• Indian Public Companies: (Unlisted)
• Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.
• Godrej Agrovet Ltd.
• Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.
• Godrej Properties Ltd.
• Godrej Sara Lee Ltd.
• Lawkim Ltd.
• Indian Private Companies:
• Godrej Investments Pvt. Ltd.
• Antrix Corporation Ltd.
• Tata Trustee Company Pvt. Ltd.
• Illinois Institute of Technology (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Section 25 Companies:

• Breach Candy Hospital Trust
• Singapore-India Partnership Foundation
• Great Lakes Institute of Management

Foreign Companies:

• Godrej (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd
• Godrej (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
• Godrej (Vietnam) Company Ltd.
• Godrej & Khimji (Middle East) LLC

Dr. Gopinath took charge as Managing Director and CEO of Geometric in October 2006. Prior to joining Geometric, he led the Engineering and Industrial Services (EIS) strategic business unit of Tata Consultancy Services from April 2004 to September 2006. He grew the business substantially during this period, by diversifying its portfolio from primarily PLM and CAx services to a broad based engineering and manufacturing solutions offering, including electronic systems development, asset management solutions, shop-floor automation, geospatial technologies and strategic sourcing. From April 2000 to December 2005, he led TCS' manufacturing practice. He joined TCS at its Corporate Research & Development Center in Pune, India, in 1994, after having spent 5 years in another industry. An active researcher, he is the author of several publications and holds two international patents. Dr. Gopinath graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, with a major in Chemical Engineering in 1989. He holds a Ph.D. in Control Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States, which he obtained in 1994.

Dr. K. A. Palia is the Executive Director Finance of Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. and has been associated with the House of Godrej since 1970.

He holds a Master's Degree in Commerce and a Diploma in Managerial Accounting from the Mumbai University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Oklahoma State University, USA. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, as well as the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India. He has considerable expertise in financial management, business strategy and corporate governance. He is currently serving as a Director in the following four public companies, one private company and one foreign company:-

• Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.
• Godrej Infotech Ltd.
• Godrej Efacec Automation & Robotics Ltd.
• Mercury Mfg. Co. Ltd.
• Arohan Trustee Co. Private Ltd.
• Godrej & Khimji (Middle East) LLC

Milind S. Sarwate is the Chief of Human Resources and Strategy at Marico Limited (a leading Indian Consumer Group, in the beauty and wellness space, with current annualized turnover of about Rs. 19 billion). His current role encompasses human resources, M&A, corporate communication and strategic business planning for the Marico Group. Milind has 24 years of corporate experience, primarily in the consumer products industry, in finance, corporate development, product supply and now human resources and strategy with three corporate groups, Hoechst (Aventis), Godrej and Marico.

During 1998-2007, Milind was Marico’s Chief Financial Officer, heading the finance function that comprised core finance, information technology, legal, company secretarial, taxation, internal audit and corporate affairs functions. He led Marico’s efforts in shareholder value creation, acquisitions and alliances, corporate structuring, and financial & corporate communication. He also played a leading role in various cross-functional initiatives in the areas of information technology, SAP’s ERP and SCM; and in performance management, Simplified Economic Value Added (SEVA), and Total Cost Management (TCM).

Milind completed his professional education (Chartered Accountancy, Cost Accountancy and Company Secretaryship) during 1983-84, with high All India Ranks in CA and CWA, following a B. Com. (Honours) from the University of Bombay in 1979. During 1996, he was one of the two Indian managers selected for the CII-Fulbright Fellowship for Leadership in Management at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Milind’s directorships in other companies are as under:

• Non-executive Director on the Board of Geometric Ltd (also Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee)
• Non-executive Director on the Board of 3D PLM Software Solutions Ltd., a Geometric Ltd subsidiary
• Non-executive Director on the Board of Hindustan Polyamides and Fibres Limited
• Non-executive Director on the Boards of several overseas Companies in the Marico Group

Dr. Richard Riff is the Director of Ford´s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) initiative and technical fellow for Virtual Product Creation and PLM, one of five technical fellows at Ford.

Dr. Riff joined Ford Motor Company in 1989 as a CAE technical specialist for Automotive Parts Operations Electronics Division. An internationally recognized authority in the field of computer-aided design, manufacturing, engineering (CAD-CAM-CAE) and PLM, Dr. Riff lead the team responsible for developing Ford's global PLM strategy. Formerly the Director of the C3P Project Office, Dr. Riff led the development and implementation of Ford´s C3P—CAD/CAM/CAE and PLM strategy, a global, cross-functional enabler involving major changes in Ford's processes, methods, tools, architecture and infrastructure. He received the company's most prestigious technical award, becoming a Ford fellow for his work on Ford's C3P strategy in 1998.

Before joining Ford, Dr. Riff was a Professor of Aerospace Structures at Georgia Technological University in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Technion Institute of Technology in Israel, where he received his Bachelor´s, Master´s, Doctorate and Doctorate of Science in Aeronautic and Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Riff has authored more than seventy technical publications and several books in his areas of specialization, including CAE, CAD, CAM, structural and dynamic FEA, pre and post-processors, descriptive geometry and material constitutive laws.

He is also a Director in Proficiency Ltd, Spaceclaim, Inc. and Geometric Americas, Inc.

Ms. Anita Ramachandran is the founder of Cerebrus Consultants Pvt. Ltd. (Cerebrus), one of the leading HR consulting companies in the country. Before setting up Cerebrus, Ms. Ramachandran spent 19 years with A. F. Ferguson Management Consultancy division.

Ms. Ramachandran has over 30 years of consulting experience in corporate strategy and human resource consulting. She has worked with a wide range of Indian and multinational clients on a variety of HR assignments covering organization review, compensation and performance management and HR strategy. She has worked for several major MNC and Indian companies.

Ms. Ramachandran is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost HR consultants in the country and has been quoted in a number of national and international business magazines. She contributes to a large number of business and academic magazines and is actively associated with various management and academic associations. Ms. Ramachandran is a post graduate in Business Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Ms. Ramachandran is member of Audit Committee, Allotment Committee and Remuneration / Compensation Committee.

She is also a Director in the following Companies:-

• Force Motors Ltd.
• HCL Infosystems Ltd.
• Cerebrus Consultants Private Ltd.
• Connexus Consultants Private Ltd.
• UTI AMC P. Ltd.
• Swadhaar FinAccess
• Godrej and Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Renuka Ramnath has been the Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Venture since 2001. Under her leadership, ICICI Venture has raised and is currently managing an aggregate corpus of USD 2 billion in private equity, buyouts, real estate and mezzanine assets. Each fund raised by her has been the then largest domestic fund operating in the Indian market.

Guided by her vision, ICICI Venture has successfully transitioned from a venture capital firm into a complete alternative asset manager, making a mark across each of the alternative asset classes. Under her aegis, the Indian markets have witnessed the first buyout transaction, the first private equity funded real estate transaction, the first mezzanine transaction, and the first innovative structured pharma deal.

During her career spanning over 22 years with the ICICI Group, Renuka has spearheaded various business initiatives. She led the Corporate Finance and Equities businesses at ICICI Securities and went on to set up the Structured Finance business for ICICI in 1997.

She has been one of the front runners in transforming the private equity landscape in India. It goes to her credit to make the domestic institutional investors comfortable with private equity as an asset class. She has successfully raised private equity and real estate funds from several domestic and global marquee investors. She is highly