The Board of Directors of Navneet Education Limited has at its meeting held May 22, 2024, based on the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, appointed Ms. Drushti Desai, Ms. Nirma Bhandari and Mr. Hemal Patel as Additional Directors, in the category of Independent Directors with effect from May 22, 2024 for a term of 5 (five) years. Drushti R. Desai: Drushti is a Commerce graduate and a Chartered Accountant. Drushti has more than two decades of experience in valuations and corporate restructuring with specialization in the areas of Business Valuations, valuation of intangibles, business modelling, advisory in the field of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, restructuring and family settlement, financial due diligences, transaction structuring, sustainability reporting, company law compliance advisory, routine tax advisory, advisory under FEMA, etc.

She was Vice Chairman of ICAI for 2021-22. She is currently a partner in Bansi S. Mehta & Co. a leading CA firm in Mumbai.

She is on Board of some of the listed and unlisted companies. Nirma Bhandari: Nirma embodies an extensive experience of 20 + years in the arena of Information Risk, and Assurance, Cyber Strategy and Security, Threat Intel, Governance, Compliance, Data Privacy, Robotics GRC amongst others. She is an inspirational leader with promising ideas, innovations and philanthropy as her core leadership competencies.

She is a Cost Accountant. She is on Board of some of the unlisted companies. Hemal Patel: Hemal Patel has a bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from India, Masters in Computer Science from USA and Advanced Project Management from Stanford University, CA, USA.

He is a successful serial Entrepreneur and a Technology Executive with diverse skills and management experience, including sales, marketing, Product design, Product development and financial management. He has managed four successful tech start-ups and built global brands like Cyberoam and Elitecore in the domains of network security and telecom. He founded Elitecore as s product company from Ahmedabad, India and grew up to 1700 employee from 11 at start and worldwide revenue grossing over $85 million from 0 at start.

He served as a Senior Vice President managing IT (CIO) and Operations at SOPHOS from 2015 and successfully completed challenging integration. Hemal has vast experience in building technology businesses from scratch to run technology consulting firm in USA to design IT infrastructure of large trading floor, ISPs Icenet in Puerto Rico and India. He has also been the founder of Eclipse Micro Computer which has managed large IT infrastructure projects for US firms like Chase Manhattan Bank, J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, AT&T and many more.