Board of Directors

Mr. R.A. Shah – Chairman.

Mr. R.A. Shah is a leading Solicitor and a Senior Partner of M/s. Crawford Bayley and Co., a firm of Advocates & Solicitors. He specializes in a broad spectrum of corporate laws in general, with special focus on Foreign Investments, Joint Ventures, Technology and Licence Agreement, Intellectual Property Rights, Mergers and Acquisitions, Industrial Licensing, and Anti Trust Laws, Company Law and Taxation. He is the Chairman/Director of various public limited companies and Chairman/member of Audit Committees.

Mr. R.A. Shah was first appointed to the Board on November 9, 1965.

Mr. Kewal Handa - Managing Director.

Mr. Handa holds a Masters degree in commerce and a member of the Cost and Works Accountants of India and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He joined the Company in June, 1990 as Controller in MIS-Taxation and was promoted as Financial Controller in August, 1991 and then moved to head the Animal Health Division in December, 1994. He is the Chairman of the Pricing Committee of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) and the President of the Bombay Management Association. He is also a Committee Member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Indian Pharmaceutical Alliances (IPA) and the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). He is a visiting faculty in NMIMS. He was recently awarded the ' India CFO 2004-Excellence in Finance in MNC ' by the International Market Assessment Group. Mr. K. Handa was appointed to the Board on December 16, 1996.

Mr. Richard Gane – Director.

Mr.Richard Gane holds a LLB degree from Queens University in Belfast and a LLM post graduate degree in International Law from Nottingham University. He attended law school at the College of Law, Chester, UK. Before joining Pfizer in 1997, he was a trainee Solicitor with Edwards Geldard , Cardiff, UK . He joined Pfizer in January 1997 as a Legal Advisor in UK for Pfizer's prescription only business and in January, 2001, he became the Head of Legal Affairs in UK and European Union(EU) for Pfizer 's Consumer healthcare products.

Mr.Richard Gane is currently heading the Legal Division of AFME region of Pfizer Inc., as the Corporate Counsel-PGP-Africa/Middle East/India/Pakistan. Mr.Gane is a Member of the UK Law Society.

Mr. Richard Gane was appointed to the Board on October 28, 2003.

Mr. Pradip P. Shah – Director.

Mr. Pradip Shah holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School . He is also a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant and ranked first in India in the Chartered Accountancy Examination.

Mr. Pradip Shah is the ex-Managing Director of CRISIL, India’s first and the largest credit rating agency. Prior to founding CRISIL, Mr. Pradip Shah assisted in founding the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) in 1977. Mr. Shah has also served as a consultant to USAID, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Shah is a Director on the Board of several reputed companies. He is also a member of various prestigious committees/commissions. Mr. Pradip Shah is presently the Chairman of Indasia Fund Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Pradip P. Shah was appointed to the Board on December 7, 1999.

Dr. B.M. Gagrat-Executive Director-Technical Operations.

Dr. Gagrat has done his Post Graduation in Science. He has published scientific papers in international journals and has completed the Post graduate Diploma in "Operations Management" as well as in Marketing. Dr. Gagrat joined Pfizer in May, 1989 as Plant Manager, Thane Plant and then moved to head the Animal Health Division in December, 1996. He was the head of the Marketing before taking on the assignment of Technical Operations.

Dr. B.M. Gagrat was appointed to the Board on September 29, 1998.