AMC Directors

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• Mr. Hemendra M. Kothari, Chairman

  Mr. Hemendra Kothari represents the fourth generation of a family of prominent stock brokers. After serving the Stock Exchange, Mumbai, in the capacity of Vice President for three years, he was elected President in March 1991. He founded the company "DSP Financial Consultants Ltd." (DSP) in 1975 which has evolved into a full fledged financial services organisation with offices in all the major metros in the country. In 1995, DSP entered into a joint-venture with Merrill Lynch and the name was changed to DSP Merrill Lynch Limited. Mr. Kothari served as the Chairman of the Company till March 31, 2009. Mr. Kothari is also a member of several leading representative trade forums including Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

• Mr. Laurence D Fink

  Mr. Fink is Chairman and Chief Executive Director of BlackRock. He is also a Trustee of one of BlackRock’s open-end fund complexes.

  Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Fink was a member of the Management Committee and a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation. Mr. Fink joined First Boston in 1976 and quickly became one of the first mortgage-backed securities traders on Wall Street. During his tenure at First Boston, Mr. Fink was co-head of the Taxable Fixed Income Division, which was responsible for trading and distribution of all government, mortgage and corporate securities. Mr. Fink also started the Financial Futures and Options Department and headed the Mortgage and Real Estate Products Group. In 1987, Mr. Fink was featured in Investment Dealers' Digest (November 1987) as head of the mortgage-related securities group of "The Ultimate Brokerage Firm," and in 1989, he was featured in The Wall Street Journal Centennial Edition as one of 28 businessmen, all under 45 years old, "...who could be among the business leaders of tomorrow.""

  Mr. Fink serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University, Chairman of the Financial Affairs Committee and a member of the Executive Committee, the Ad Hoc Committee on Board Governance, and the Committee on Trustees. He is also Co-Chairman of the NYU Hospitals Center Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Development/Trustee Stewardship Committee and Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Fink is also a Trustee of The Boys' Club of New York.

• Ms. Susan L. Wagner

  Ms. Wagner, Vice Chairman, is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and Global Operating Committee. Ms. Wagner oversees BlackRock’s corporate strategy and that of its businesses, the funding of strategic initiatives, corporate development and M&A, and Corporate brand and reputation. She also serves as a Director of a number of BlackRock’s joint ventures and investment vehicles.

  Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Ms. Wagner was a Vice President in the Mortgage and Savings Institutions Group at Lehman Brothers, where she was responsible for structured finance product development and oversight of Lehman's CMO arbitrage issuance subsidiaries. In this capacity, Ms. Wagner created the first floating rate CMO, which was named "Deal of the Month" and "Deal of the Year" in Investment Dealers' Digest (November 1986 and January 1987, respectively). During her tenure at Lehman, Ms. Wagner worked on a wide variety of structured financings, portfolio restructurings, conventional debt and equity offerings, and merger and acquisition transactions.

  Ms. Wagner authored several articles for Lehman and assisted in writing and editing Conversations with Economists, which was named one of the ten best business and economics books published in 1984 by both Business Week and Forbes. Ms. Wagner currently serves on the Business Leadership Council of Wellesley College and the Board of Trustees of the Hackley School.

• Mr. K R V Subrahmanian

  Mr. K. R. V. Subrahmanian is a management consultant and is on the Boards of Directors of some well-known corporates in India. Till 1995, he was the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Colour-Chem Limited, a Hoechst AG subsidiary in India. He is a past president of The Indian Chemicals Manufacturers' Association, the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai.

  Mr. Subrahmanian was ASSOCHAM's representative on SEBI's Advisory Committee on Primary Markets. He was a member of the Technical Committee to recommend a National Depository System and of the Malegam Committee on Disclosure Norm Mr. Subrahmanian holds an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Madras and has attended management training programs conducted by the Urwick Management Centre, U.K., and Columbia University, U.S.A.

• Mr. Ranjan Pant

  Mr. Ranjan Pant is a global Management Consultant, advising CEO/Boards on Strategy and Change Management. Mr. Pant was a Partner and Vice–President at Bain & Company, Inc., Boston, where he led the worldwide Utility Practice. He was also Director, Corporate Business Development, at General Electric headquarters in Fairfield. Mr. Pant has an MBA from The Wharton School and BE (Honours) from BITS (Pilani). Mr. Pant is an independent director on the Boards of companies like HDFC Standard Life and Piramyd Retail Limited. He is also an Executive in Residence at Babson College (USA).

• Dr. Omkar Goswami

  Dr. Omkar Goswami is the Founder and Chairman of CERG Advisory Private Limited. CERG is the acronym for the Corporate and Economic Research Group and primarily provides corporate advisory services, consulting services and research for companies and industries in India and abroad.

  Dr. Goswami did his Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 1978 and his D.Phil (Ph.D) from Oxford in 1982. He taught and researched economics for 18 years at Oxford, Delhi School of Economics, Harvard, Tufts, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Rutgers University and the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.

  In March 1997 he became the Editor of Business India. From August 1998 up to March 2004, he was the Chief Economist of the Confederation of Indian Industry — the apex industry organisation of India.

  From 1993 onwards, Dr. Goswami has served on several government committees on corporate governance, bankruptcy and company laws, infrastructure, tax reforms, and others. He has also been a consultant to the World Bank, the IMF, the ADB and the OECD. He serves an independent director on the boards of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Sona Koyo Steering Systems, Infosys Technologies, Infrastructure Development Finance Company, Crompton Greaves and SRF.

  Other than his regular columns for newspapers and magazines, Dr. Goswami has authored three books and over 70 research papers on economic history, industrial economics, public sector, bankruptcy laws and procedures, macroeconomic policy, corporate governance, public finance, tax enforcement and legal reforms.

• Mr. Piyush Mankad

  Mr. Piyush Mankad is a retired civil servant with a distinguished career of over forty years in the prestigious Indian Administrative Service, which he joined in 1964, topping his batch. He was educated at Delhi University, India and later at Cambridge, U.K., where he obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies, with distinction. Some of the important positions that he has held include Counselor (economic) in the Indian Embassy, Tokyo; Controller of Capital Issues, Ministry of Finance; Finance Secretary, Government of India; and Executive Director for India and four other countries and Board Member, Asian Development Bank, Manila, which was his last assignment till July 2004.

  His areas of experience and expertise include, among others, public finance and policy; capital market regulation and development; promotion of industry, F.D.I. and infrastructure; and public administration.

• Mr. Quintin Price (Alternate Director to Mr. Laurence D Fink)

  Mr. Price is a Managing Director of BlackRock and and Chief Investment Officer for the firm’s Fundamental Equity Group.

  He has completed his Bachelors degree in Economics and Social History from University of Bristol. Prior to his stint at BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, he was Joint Global CIO Equities at Gartmore, based in London and has also worked with Putnam Investments, USA where he was a Partner and Global Head of Fundamental Research.

• Mr. John R Kushel (Alternate Director to Ms. Susan L. Wagner)

  Mr. Kushel is a Senior Managing Director of BlackRock and Head of its Portfolio Management Group.

  In addition to leading BlackRock's international activities, Mr. Kushel headed BlackRock's Alternatives efforts and Wealth Management Groups, where he oversaw product development, marketing and client servicing for alternate investments and directed BlackRock's activities for high net worth individuals and family offices. Prior to BlackRock Inc., Mr. Kushel served as a Director at Nomura BlackRock Asset Management Co. Ltd. from 1999 to 2006. Mr. Kushel holds a BS degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University.

• Mr. Rakesh Mohan

  Mr. Mohan has been the Distinguished Consulting Professor in the field of Economic Research at the Stanford University, California. He was the Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India being in charge of 8 departments including monetary policy and overall coordination for a sufficiently long period of time. He has also held served as the Secretary (Economic Affairs) at the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He has also been appointed as Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance at Yale University and will be teaching there for one semester a year. Mr. Mohan has also held positions at the Indian Council Research (Economic Relations), IDFC and National Council Applied Economic Research. He is also the Chairman of the National Transport Development Policy Committee for the Government of India.

• Mr. David Rowley Graham

  Mr. David Graham is currently the Managing Director at BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited responsible for joint venture businesses in Asia.

  Mr. Graham has been a Partner at Dalton Strategic Partnership London during October 2007 and October 2008. He has also been the Managing Director at BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited heading client relationships in EMEA Pacific region.

• Mr. Mark Seumas McCombe

  Mr. McCombe is currently the Chairman, Asia-Pacific at BlackRock and responsible for all business activity in the region, which includes Greater China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, India, Korea. He is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and Global Operating Committee.

  Before joining BlackRock, he served as Chief Executive Officer in Hong Kong, for The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited. He was also a Group General Manager of HSBC plc, a Non-Executive Director of Hang Seng Bank Ltd, and a Chairman of HSBC Global Asset Management (HK) Ltd. Prior to that, he was based in London where he was Chief Executive of HSBC Global Asset Management and was responsible for all of HSBC's fund management businesses, including latterly the real estate and Private Equity businesses.