With a career spanning over four decades at Asian Paints, K B S Anand recently served as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at the Asian Paints. He was nominated as the ‘Best CEO - Private Sector’ at the Forbes Leadership Awards in 2016. He was also awarded Qimpro Gold Standard in Business for Quality in 2017. He currently serves as an independent director on the Board of Marico, Tata Chemicals and Borosil.

Dr Punita Kumar-Sinha brings significant governance and investment experience across India and North America. In her three-decade career, she pioneered some of the first foreign investments into the Indian equity markets in the early 1990s. She founded Pacific Paradigm Advisors, an independent investment advisory and management firm, and was formerly a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone. 

She serves as an independent director for several companies including Infosys, JSW Steel, Blackstone Embassy REIT and Rallis.

Furthermore, Dr Kumar-Sinha holds a PhD and a Master’s in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She received her B. Tech in Chemical Engineering with Distinction from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi. She is a CFA charter holder, a TiE Charter Member, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.