The Board of Directors of Blue Star Limited has appointed Ms Anita Ramachandran (Anita), as an Independent Director for a term of 5 consecutive years with effect from June 13, 2022. She will also be a member of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee and the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee. After commencing her career in the Management Consultancy division of AF Ferguson & Co in Mumbai in 1976 as the first woman consultant in the firm, Anita worked in a wide range of areas from industrial market research, strategy, and human resources consulting in various parts of the country, in a successful career spanning 19 years.

She was finally a director of the firm. In 1995, Anita founded Cerebrus Consultants to focus on HR advisory services, including Organization Transformation. Anita has been an Independent Director on the Boards of companies for the last 20 years and has in this capacity been associated with a wide range of industries.

She is currently on the Board of several reputed companies such as Grasim, Metropolis Healthcare, Happiest Minds, FSN E-Commerce, Rane Madras, Aditya Birla Housing Finance, Godrej & Boyce, Kotak Life Insurance, and Essel Mining and Industries Limited. Anita has also been earlier on the boards of UTI, IDFC Asset Management, Utkarsh SFB in the financial sector, HCL, HCL Infosystems, and Force Motors.