Consolidated Construction Consortium Limited at its Meeting January 22, 2024 had considered and approved Appointment of Mrs. Hema Gopal as Non-executive, Independent and Mr. Kaushik Ram as Executive Directors and Change in designation of Mr. V. G. Janarthanam, from Director ­ Operation to Non-Executive Director. Hema Gopal, former Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services has over 38+ years of experience, has led several large transformational engagements and outsourcing for TCS' Banking and Financial services customers. She has been part of the Business Strategy, Transformation Initiatives for many large customers across the globe.

Starting her career in 1985 she has donned various roles in IT outsourcing, Relationship Management and P&L Ownership, Outstanding track record in Delivery Management across multiple business verticals and Platforms, global Pre-sales and Sales owning very large deals, Strategic Initiatives, learning and development, Alliance and Technology Excellence, Academic Interface/Campus Connect and Recruitment programs and other corporate responsibilities. She was the Global Head for TCS IBM Center of Excellence across all IBM platforms having 70,000 associates across 45 countries serving huge number of customer base. Highly Passionate about competency development both within the organization and academia.

Has been showcased as a role model in multiple forums as a woman technical leader having mentored and groomed many leaders for industry. She has been seen as ambassador of technical knowledge across Academia having delivered many programs for more than 120+ engineering institutions within India and Overseas. She has been managing large teams across multiple development centers in India and Overseas.

She has handled many missions' critical Transformational engagements for clients for their M&A initiatives. She has been in the leadership team of senior Executives and carved out many niche opportunities to start the outsourcing services way back in late 90s.She has built large teams and delivered high quality deliverables. She pioneered platform migration projects in 80s.

She was a leader in Transformation engagements for many customers in the 90s. She was first to lead the "Testing Services", "Large outsourcing engagements" in early 2000. Her contribution went on bring strategic initiatives including merger and acquisitions, convergence and end- to-end management of large customers.

She is keen on spearheading the competency development within the organization and works closely with Academia to enhance the entry level skills. She is closely associated with various bodies like NASSCOM, IEEE. CII, IETE.

She is a life member at the Computer society of India (CSI). She is an active Alumni of Anna University and IIT Madras. She has been part of curriculum advisory board, Governing councils for several Institutions and conceptualized many Faculty Development Programs for Academia and technology programs for Students.

She is a Key Advisory Board Member for the Prestigious Marist College in U.S.A. She has been a faculty for ME in Information Systems for CEG, Chennai and has been teaching the students. She is the Task force member of Anna University of Technology Council representing the Industry. She is a core member in PALS(Pan IIT Leadership Series) and has been associated with Pals since 2011 as an Industry speaker.

She has been showcased as a TOP WOMEN IN IT by DATAQUEST for 2 consecutive years. She has been appointed by the Governor, chancellor of Anna University to be the Academic council member of Anna Univesity for a period of 3 years, She is also in the syllabus subcommittee of ICT, AU. She designed a course Professional Practice and teaching the ME students since 2013.

She has visited close to 120 engineering colleges and conducted many programs for Academia. Education: B.Sc Mathematics (Madras University) B.Tech Electronics Engineering (Anna University) M.S Computer Science (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Mr. Kaushik Ram is a Engineering Graduate and MBA in Ohio University, USA.

He also possesses specialized Management certification from Harward Business School. He has been serving CCCL and its subsidiaries for 15 years, under various capacities and helped in tremendous growth of the organization. He was instrumental in clinching various Joint Venture agreements both domestic and international to bag huge order for CCCL.

He will be responsible for various horizontal functions.