Bens Creek Group plc (AIM:BEN), the owner of a metallurgical coal mine in North America supplying the steel industry, announced that Rajesh Johar has joined the board of Bens Creek as a Non-Executive Director.
Rajesh is a co-founder and current shareholder of Avani. He leads acquisitions and business development at Avani. Prior to founding Avani, Rajesh was the head of the commodities trade & agriculture team at Standard Chartered Bank's transaction banking division in Singapore. At Standard Chartered, Rajesh gained experience in the trading and financing of commodity businesses. Rajesh was also a vice president in the structured finance division at Credit Suisse in India. He has also had roles at Tata Steel Limitedand Cargill Inc. Rajesh is a trained engineer, having graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with a degree in mining engineering. He also has apost-graduate diploma in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangaluru.