Tata Steel Limited informed about the change(s) in the Senior Management Personnel of the Company follows: Superannuation of Dr. Debashish Bhattacharjee, Vice President - Technology and R&D. Dr. Debashish Bhattacharjee, currently serving as the Vice President - Technology and R&D will superannuate from the Company on August 1, 2024. Re-designation of Mr. Subodh Pandey as the Vice President - Technology and R&D (Designate) and thereafter as Vice President - Technology, R&D, NMB and Graphene. Mr. Subodh Pandey, Vice President - Operations TSM, NMB and Graphene, presently in charge of the operations at Tata Steel Meramandali, New Materials Business (`NMB') and Graphene Business, is being re-designated as the Vice President - Technology and R&D (Designate) with immediate effect.

Mr. Pandey will be responsible for technology and research & development division of the Company and will continue to look after NMB and Graphene business. Date of Appointment June 4, 2024. Mr. Subodh Pandey is currently Vice President, Operations ­ Tata Steel Meramandali, NMB & Graphene at Tata Steel Meramandali.

He played a key role in the transformation journey of Tata Steel BSL Limited (formerly known as Bhushan Steel Limited). After assuming responsibility as its Chief Operating Officer on September 1, 2018, he ramped up operations, reduced cost through operational efficiency and improved reliability of operations. This is probably the first company under IBC to demonstrate a turnaround in a short span of three years.

Prior to moving to Tata Steel BSL, Mr. Pandey was the Executive-in-Charge of Tubes SBU, Tata Steel. He led the digital transformation journey of the Division, wherein he piloted and scaled up various initiatives in the areas of maintenance, warehousing, logistics, marketing and sales and safety. He also has rich experience across Marketing & Sales of both Flat and Long Products, Ferro Alloys and Minerals Division, Improvement Functions and Engineering & Projects.

Mr. Pandey is a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has also completed CEDEP General Management Program at INSEAD, France. He joined Tata Steel Jamshedpur as a Graduate Trainee in 1992.

Mr. Pandey is also Chairman of Angul Energy Limited (formerly known as Bhushan Energy Limited), a subsidiary of Tata Steel, since September 27, 2019. He is passionate about Total Quality Management and has contributed to Tata Steel's journey to achieve the Deming Grand Prize. Re-designation of Mr. Uttam Singh as the Vice President - Operations, TSM.

Consequent to the change at point b above, Mr. Uttam Singh, presently Vice President - Iron Making, is being re-designated as the Vice President - Operations Tata Steel Meramandali (TSM), with immediate effect. Date of Appointment June 4, 2024. Mr. Uttam Singh graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT BHU in 1992 and subsequently joined as a Graduate Trainee in Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur.

After a stint of 4 years as Trainee and Manager of Blast Furnace Operation, he left on a sabbatical to earn `Executive MBA' from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Since then, he has been serving in various capacities at Tata Steel for the last 25 years. At present he is the Vice-President (Iron Making).

Mr. Singh has made significant contributions in the blast furnace understanding, design and process improvements like estimation of floating state of the dead-man and its relation to the stability of the blast furnace operation, mass distribution in the falling stream of burden materials, development of coke rate prediction model for blast furnaces, evolution of refractory design in `I' blast furnace of Tata Steel and improvement in slag granulation system design at `I' blast furnace of Tata Steel, in total accounting to 22 international/national journals and one patent. Mr. Singh also led the successful team for the fastest ramp-up of `I' Blast Furnace, achieving a record productivity of 2.8 Tons/day/m3 in the second year of production and achieving highest manpower productivity of 25 KT/man/year which is better than European counter parts. During his stint as the Chief of `I' blast furnace he has also recorded just `One Lost Time Injury', `Zero Effluent discharge' and `Reduction of Water Consumption to 0.5m3/ton of hot metal'.

He is also the recipient of `Best Departmental Head of the Year', Tata Steel Ltd. in 2005. In recognition of his phenomenal contribution to the understanding, design and process optimization of blast furnaces keeping in mind the environment and safety concerns, Mr. Uttam Singh is awarded the "2014 TSL New Millennium Award". Re-designation of Mr. Chaitanya Bhanu as the Vice President - Operations Tata Steel Jamshedpur (TSJ).

Consequent to the change at point c above, the positions of Vice President - Iron Making and Vice President - Steel Manufacturing, at Tata Steel Jamshedpur (TSJ) are being merged into one position i.e., Vice President - Operations TSJ. Mr. Chaitanya Bhanu, currently serving as the Vice President ­ Steel Manufacturing is being re-designated as the Vice President ­Operations TSJ with immediate effect. Mr. Chaitanya Bhanu is presently holding the position of Vice President, Steel Manufacturing, at Tata Steel Limited.

He joined Tata Steel as a Graduate Trainee in 1992 after receiving his degree in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi. He received his post graduate degree in Materials & Metallurgical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur in 1997. In 2019, he attended the General Management Program (GMP) at CEDEP in Fontainebleau, France.

Since 1992 he has worked in different capacities across functions such as Technology, R&D, Steelmaking & Hot Rolling Operations, as well as Human Resources at Tata Steel. He has played an active role in the improvement of performance levels in steelmaking and casting operations at Tata Steel for over two decades. In 2009, Mr. Bhanu was the recipient of the Indian Institute of Metals' Essar Gold Medal for his outstanding contribution to Metallurgy in the area of Steel Manufacturing.

Mr. Bhanu is a certified Green Belt in 6 Sigma (IGE India) as well as a certified Thomas Profile Assessor, apart from holding Professional Coach qualification from ICF. He is also associated with the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM) and is currently serving as its Joint Secretary.