About OPG

Mr. M.C Gupta
Non-Executive Chairman (aged 69)
Mr Gupta is a retired Senior Civil Servant of the Indian Administrative Service ("IAS"), the premier civil service of India. As an IAS Officer, Mr Gupta has held senior civil service appointments, including Chief Secretary to the state government. of Haryana and Secretary, Deptartment of Industry, Government of India, New Delhi. Mr. Gupta serves on the boards of a number of public companies in India as an independent director Mr. M C Gupta is not related to either Ravi Gupta or Arvind Gupta.

Martin Gatto
Non-Executive Director (aged 57)
Mr Gatto has considerable experience as Chief Financial Officer of a number of large public companies, most recently implementing successful turnaround strategies at British Energy Plc, Midland Electricity plc and Somerfield plc. Prior to that he gained international experience as Chief Financial Officer at Hilton International where he was also responsible for business development and property. He is a graduate of Brunel University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Ravi Gupta
Non-Executive Director (aged 51)
Mr.Ravi Gupta is one of the founders and Chairman of Kanishk Steel Industries Ltd (listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange since 1991). Mr Gupta has been associated with the flour milling industry for many years having worked for family flour milling business, Salem Roller Flour Mills. In 1988 he set up a new flour mill, Salem Food Products Limited where he remains Managing Director.

Patrick Michael Grasby
Non-Executive Director – aged 64
Mr Grasby has held a number of senior positions in the UK and international power sectors and is currently a non-executive director at Drax Group plc, where he sits on the Audit, Remuneration and Nominations Committees and chairs the Health and Safety Committee and is a member of the British Electricity Association and the World Energy Council. He retired from International Power in 2002, where he held a senior vice president position for global operations. During his career he has held a number of senior positions in the UK and international power industry, including  with the Central Electricity Generating Board and National Power. He was manager of Drax Power Station between 1991 and 1995, and director of operations for National Power's portfolio, with responsibilities for over 16,000 MW of generating capacity, until 1998. Following the demerger of National Power in 1999, he joined International Power as senior vice-president, continuing with his international directorships and leading a major consortium in the Czech Republic. Mr Grasby has experience of being a director of power companies in Portugal, Turkey and Pakistan. Mr Grasby is also a director of Strategic Dimensions, an executive recruitment business. He is a Chartered Engineer, FIET and FIMechE.

Arvind Gupta
Managing Director and CEO (aged 47)
Mr Gupta is one of the founders of the Company. He is a graduate in commerce and has 28 years of industrial experience, including the development of the 19.48 MW power plant (OPGE) from conception through to construction and successful operation for the last four years. In addition, he has been responsible for the development and implementation of the 77 MW and 10 MW coal based/waste heat recovery plants, which are in the course of being constructed. He has also overseen the proposed 270 MW venture in Gujarat on which work is shortly to commence. He is responsible for overall strategic direction, growth and development of the Company. Mr Gupta is also responsible for the development and operation of the wind power division of Kanishk Steel which generates approximately 8 MW of power.

V.Narayan Swami
Finance Director (aged 57)
Mr. V.Narayan Swami has over 30 year's experience in a variety of finance and management positions. Having started his career with the State Bank of India he moved to Ashok Leyland Limited, one of India's leading industrial companies in 1976. Between 1982 and 1992, he held a variety of positions within Standard Chartered Bank, including as senior manager corporate, Southern India. Following three years with Trans Arabian Investment Bank, Mr Swami joined Essar Global Limited, part of  one of India's largest business groups, in 1998  becoming Group CFO of Essar Telecom. During this time, he played a key role in the entry and subsequent planned exit of Swisscom from the venture along with the simultaneous induction of Hutchison Whampoa. After a period pursuing other interests, Mr Swami spent a year as Group CFO of Bombay listed Best & Crompton before joining the Group in 2007.

T Chandramoulee
T Chandramoulee, Executive Director (Operations) is responsible for operations of the power plants. Mr. Chandramoulee's previous experience includes Design Engineer for the manufacture of power equipment for Binny Engineering Ltd, Chennai and Executive Director in TCP Ltd (formerly Tamil Nadu Chemical Products Ltd), a group company of Binny Engineering Ltd. He was responsible for project management, planning and establishment of 64 MW coal fired electrical plant for captive use of TCP Ltd with the surplus being supplied to TNEB. Post commissioning, he was in charge of operations and management of the plant.

S. Padmanabhan
Executive Director, Business Development, has a variety of experience in banking having spent ten years at the Bank of India. Mr. Padmanabhan's previous positions include that of senior executive in Ashok Leyland and he has 28 years consulting experience in the power industry. He is a member of the Energy Sub Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industries.

K. Ramamoorthy
General Manager Finance, is responsible for all banking relationships, finance and treasury operations, foreign exchange risk management and power sector regulation compliance. He worked in State Bank of India for more than 20 years and also at the Bank of Madura for two years.

Rajagopalan
General Manager (Projects) is responsible for project management and procurement. Mr. Rajagopalan was previously employed by India Cements Limited from 1983-2002 and has specific experience in managing power projects.