Sumant Sinha is the founder of ReNew and has been ReNew’s Chairman and CEO since 2011. Prior to founding ReNew, Mr. Sinha served as President Finance at Aditya Birla Group and founder CEO of Aditya Birla Retail. He also held the post of Chief Operating Officer of Suzlon Energy Ltd from 2008 to 2010. Currently, Mr. Sinha serves on the advisory board of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Mr. Sinha has also held various roles in investment banking at globally reputed organizations such as Citicorp Securities and ING Barings Services Limited in the United States and the United Kingdom. Sumant chairs The Climate Group’s India Advisory Board and a member of the Advisory Council of India Climate Collective. He is a Board member of the US India Strategic Partnership Forum and the President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industries of India. He has also authored a book — “Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World”. In 2021, Mr. Sinha was recognized as a SDG Pioneer by the United Nations Global Compact. Mr. Sinha holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, a post graduate diploma in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, United States. Mr. Sinha is also a CFA charter holder.

Vanitha Narayanan is a senior global executive and Board leader with a successful track record spanning three decades in technology and telecommunications. In 2020, Vanitha retired after a career spanning three decades at IBM where she held multiple key roles leading large businesses in the United States, Asia-Pacific and India geographies. These roles included serving as Managing Director & Chairman of IBM India, Vice President 309 Table of Contents for the Communications Sector across Asia Pacific, Vice President for Global Telecommunications Solutions and finally Managing Director for a strategic Telecom client before her retirement.

Vanitha has a reputation for her deep industry expertise in telecom, transforming businesses, unwavering client focus and passion for continuous learning. Ms. Narayanan played a significant role as leader and influencer across industry bodies during her decade in India. She was the first woman chairperson of AMCHAM India in 2016 and served as a member on the National Executive Board from 2014 to 2018. She was on the executive council of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) from 2016 to 2018 and on the Catalyst India Advisory Board. She also served as Chairperson of the Board of Governors for National Institutes of Technology, Suratkal and was a member of the National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry and served as Co-Chair of National Committee for MNCs. Ms. Narayanan was named one of the ‘Most Powerful Women’ in Business in India by both Fortune India in 2017 and Business India (2014-2017), one of the 12 Global Indian Super Women of 2016 by CXO Today and conferred with the Degree of Doctor of Letters by the LNM Institute of Information Technology. Ms. Narayanan is a graduate of Public Relations & Communication from Stella Maris College and holds an MBA degree in Marketing and Advertising from University of Madras. She also holds an MBA degree in MIS & Accounting from the University of Houston.

Kavita Saha, Managing Director, Infrastructure, India, is responsible for CPP Investments’ Infrastructure and Sustainable Energies investments in India and is based out of the Mumbai office. The Infrastructure & Sustainable Energies team focuses on evaluation and management of investments in core infrastructure and energy sectors such as transportation, renewable energy generation and utilities.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2018, Kavita was at JP Morgan Asian Infrastructure and Related Resources Opportunity Fund (“AIRRO”), with total assets under management of over USD 1 billion. As co-head of the India team, Kavita was responsible for originating and managing Indian investments for AIRRO in sectors such as roads, renewable and conventional power and healthcare infrastructure. She has earlier worked with Barclays Capital, IL&FS and IDBI, where she was responsible for evaluation, financial structuring and arranging debt and equity finance for projects. Kavita holds an MBA and BSc Physics (Hons) from University of Delhi, India and is a CFA.

Michelle Robyn Grew is the group chief operations officer, General Counsel and the Head of CSR and Responsible Investing for Man Group. She is a member of the Man Group Senior Executive Committee. She joined GLG in January 2009 which was later acquired by Man Group. Her chief operations officer role encompasses responsibility for the firm’s infrastructure which covers operations, compliance, legal, human resources, talent, business operational risk & resilience, financial crime, corporate real estate and communications.

Before joining GLG and Man Group, Robyn held senior positions at Barclays Capital and prior to that at Lehman Brothers, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange and Fidelity Brokerage Services and has worked in the investment industry since 1994. She serves on the Council and Remuneration Committee of Alternative Investment Management Association and services as a non-executive director or as a member of the advisory committee of several start-ups. Ms. Grew holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Coventry University, United Kingdom and was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 1991.

Michael Bruun is the Europe, Middle East and Africa head of corporate equity and head of India corporate and growth investing. He is a member of the MBD Corporate Investment Committee, MBD Growth Investment Committee, Sustainable Investing Group Investment Committee, and the Asset Management Inclusion and Diversity Committee.

Mr. Bruun joined the Merchant Banking Division in 2010 and has worked in London and New York. Before that, he was a member of the Nordic Mergers & Acquisitions team in the Investment Banking Division. Mr. Bruun joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division in 2004 and transferred to IBD in 2005. He became a vice president in 2010 and was named managing director in 2013 and partner in 2016. Mr. Bruun serves on the boards of Advania, EcoOnline, HRA Pharma, Navico, Northvolt AB, Noveltech and ReNew. He is a board member of the Human Practice Foundation. Mr. Bruun earned a BA in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and an MSc in Economics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark with studies at Cornell University, United States.

Sumantra Chakrabarti is adviser to the Presidents of Kazakstan and Uzbekistan on economic development, effective governance and international cooperation. He is also Deputy Chair of the Kazakhstan Supreme Council on Reforms, and of the Management Council of the Astana International Financial Centre. Sir Sumantra is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Overseas Development Institute, and works as a Global 310 Table of Contents Commissioner of the New Climate Economy network, as a member of the Clean Growth Leadership Network, the Advisory Board of ECube Climate Finance, the WHO Commission examining post-COVID19 health systems in Europe, the Board of the Project for Modern Democracy think tank, the Commission for Smart Government, of the International Advisory Council of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, and of the WEF Eurasia Policy Group, and as adviser to the Karta Initiative.

Sir Sumantra was until July 2020 the sixth President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Sir Sumantra has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom and a Masters degree in Development Economics from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is a honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford University, a honorary bencher at the Middle Temple, and also holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Sussex, East Anglia, and the Bucharest University of Economic Sciences, as well as prestigious honours from Kosovo, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Sir Sumantra served two full four year terms, having won competitive elections in 2012 and in 2016, during his tenure at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Before becoming President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Sir Sumantra was a civil service in the United Kingdom and was the Permanent Secretary successively at the Department for International Development and the Ministry of Justice.

Ram Charan advises or has advised various global companies and in some cases their boards such as Bank of America, Toyota, ICICI Bank, the Aditya Birla Group, Adani group, Max Group, 3G, Yidliz Holdings, Muyuan in China, among others for more than 40 years. He currently serves as a board member on seven boards across the globe. He is actively involved in coaching, founders and family businesses, senior executives, boards and directors, and other senior business leaders across many industries.

A global Young Presidents’ Organization resource and an award winning teacher, he was among Business Week’s top ten resources for in-house executive development programs. Mr. Charan has authored and co-authored 32 books, including six on corporate boards. Four of his books were Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including Execution (co-authored with former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy). He also has written articles for publications including for the Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Chief Executive Magazine, and Economic Times. Mr. Charan holds Doctorate in corporate governance and a masters in business administration with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School.

Manoj Singh served as a as the Chief Operating Officer at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd (Deloitte Global) in a professional career spanning thirty six years with the firm. Prior to his mandatory retirement in June 2015, Manoj was based in Cleveland, Hong Kong and New York with Deloitte where he held various leadership positions. A consultant by background, Manoj led Deloitte Consulting in the Americas, was the Asia Pacific Regional Managing Director and the COO in the final eight years with the firm. He also served on the Board of Directors of Deloitte firms in the US, China and Mexico. Manoj has advised national and multinational companies on mergers and acquisitions, enterprise cost management and shareholder value growth with a specific focus on technology, manufacturing and the energy industry. He also has extensive business development experience in emerging and developed markets such as Germany, China, India, sub Sahara Africa, and South East Asia. He is a member on several public and private company boards including DXC Technology, The Putnam Funds, and Abt Associates.

Manoj is also a Trustee at Carnegie Mellon University and a board member at Pratham USA a non-profit engaged in enhancing child literacy and education in India. He also serves in an advisory capacity to a technology start up Altimetrik focused on delivering outcomes to clients using state of the art agile technology. He is a frequent speaker on college campuses and also appeared on Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, regional World Economic Forum and print media interviews and panels. Mr. Singh holds a B.tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and Master of Science in Industrial Administration degree from the Carnegie Mellon University, United States, and is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both institutions.

Yuzhi Wang is a Portfolio Manager in the Infrastructure Department at ADIA, where he is responsible for sourcing, executing and managing investments across the transport, utilities, energy, and digital infrastructure sectors with a primary focus on Asia. He has over 10 years of infrastructure investing experience across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Yuzhi is also a Director of Equis Development. Prior to joining ADIA in 2015, he worked at CPP Investments and State Street Corporation in Canada. He has a BSc in Human Biology from the University of Toronto, Canada and a Master’s in Business Administration from Queen’s University.

Philip Kassin has been President and Chief Operating Officer of RMG Capital and its various SPAC vehicles since its inception in late 2018. He currently serves as President, Chief Operating Officer and Director for RMG III, a $483 million SPAC vehicle. He served as the President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of RMG I from October 2018 through its business combination with Romeo Power in December 2020. He has also served as the President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of RMG II from its inception in July 2020 to its business combination with ReNew (NASDAQ: RNW) in August 2021. From August 2016 to October 2018, Mr. Kassin was a Managing Director and Head of M&A and Financing at M III Partners and has over 40 years of experience as both an advisor and investor in public and private equity. At M III Partners, he completed a $345 million SPAC transaction for M III Acquisition Corp., successfully acquiring Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (NASDAQ: IEA) a leading wind and solar EPC from Oaktree Capital Management, serving on its Board from March 2018 to September 2018. Prior to joining M III Partners, Mr. Kassin was a Senior Managing Director at Evercore from July 2010 to April 2016, specializing in chemicals and energy. Prior to Evercore, from September 2005 to July 2010, Mr. Kassin was the Head of M&A and Financing for Access Industries, a privately held industrial group which focused on natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, technology and e commerce and real estate.

Mr. Kassin also served as a Supervisory Board Member of Basell Polyolefins from 2005 to 2007 and as a Supervisory Board Member of LyondellBasell Industries from 2007 to 2010, where he also served as Chairman of the Finance and Investment Committee and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kassin held senior investment banking roles at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and AIG. He was also a Partner at PwC where he was responsible for its energy M&A consulting practice. Mr. Kassin started his career as a utilities analyst at Standard & Poor’s. Mr. Kassin earned an M.P.A. from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a B.A, in Policy Studies from Syracuse University. He also has FINRA Series 24, 63 and 79 Qualifications.

Sumant Sinha is the founder of ReNew and has been ReNew’s Chairman and CEO since 2011. Prior to founding ReNew, Mr. Sinha served as President Finance at Aditya Birla Group and founder CEO of Aditya Birla Retail. He also held the post of Chief Operating Officer of Suzlon Energy Ltd from 2008 to 2010. Currently, Mr. Sinha serves on the advisory board of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Mr. Sinha has also held various roles in investment banking at globally reputed organizations such as Citicorp Securities and ING Barings Services Limited in the United States and the United Kingdom. Sumant chairs The Climate Group’s India Advisory Board and a member of the Advisory Council of India Climate Collective. He is a Board member of the US India Strategic Partnership Forum and the President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industries of India. He has also authored a book — “Fossil Free: Reimagining Clean Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World”. In 2021, Mr. Sinha was recognized as a SDG Pioneer by the United Nations Global Compact. Mr. Sinha holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, a post graduate diploma in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, United States. Mr. Sinha is also a CFA charter holder.

Kedar Upadhye is ReNew’s Group Chief Financial Officer. He comes with over 22 years of diverse and global experience. Prior to joining ReNew, he was President and Global CFO, Cipla, one of India’s largest publicly traded pharmaceutical companies, with a market cap of approximately $US 9.8 billion. As CFO at Cipla, he headed the global finance and information technology functions and worked across multiple geographies, including the US. His leadership experience includes core financial reporting, business partnership, business model realignment & cost optimization, corporate finance, and global investor relations, apart from implementing several high-impact, cross-functional transformational projects. Before Cipla, he was VP and Head, Finance and Investor Relations for NYSE-listed Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories. Kedar has also held leadership roles at PepsiCo and Thermax. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and is a qualified Company Secretary, as well as a Cost Accountant.

Balram Mehta is ReNew’s Chief Operating Officer since May 2020 and joined ReNew in 2011. Mr. Mehta’s responsibilities include implementing strategies for the wind energy projects and overseeing the entire asset management function and the digital transformation program at ReNew.

Mr. Mehta has over 25 years of experience across sectors including the renewable energy industry. Prior to joining ReNew, Mr. Mehta worked with CLP Wind Farms (India) Private Limited, Enercon India Limited and DCM Limited. Mr. Mehta holds a bachelor’s degree in technology from the Himachal Pradesh University and a master’s degree in business administration in operations management from the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.

Mayank Bansal is ReNew’s Chief Commercial Officer since 2018. Mr. Bansal’s responsibilities include overall addition of all generation capacity which includes project development and execution of wind & solar assets, driving bidding/PPAs, storage, B2B, carbon credits, transmission and other related areas. Mr. Bansal has over 20 years of consulting experience, and before joining ReNew, he worked at Hindustan Lever, McKinsey and A T Kearney. Mr. Bansal holds a bachelor’s degree in technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India and master’s degree in business administration from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India.

Vaishali Nigam Sinha is the Chief Sustainability Officer, ReNew & Chair, ReNew Foundation. A keen advocate of climate action & gender equality, Vaishali is deeply engaged with leading industry bodies, think tanks and educational institutions. She is a member of the Governing Council of the UN Global Compact Network India (GCNI) and Chairperson of their Gender Committee; Chairperson of South Asian Women In Energy (SAWIE); Chair, CII’s Indian Women Network and Woman Empowerment Committee and a member of the Columbia Global Centre’s Advisory Board.

In 2020, Vaishali was recognized among Asia’s Most Influential Women in Renewable Energy and as an Influential Women Business Leader by the Solar Quarter magazine. In 2019, CEO Today magazine conferred the Businesswoman of the Year Award on her for her achievements as a woman professional.

Prior to ReNew, Vaishali had worked as an investment banker for over 15 years in the US, UK and India.

Vikram Kapur is the Chief Growth Officer at ReNew. With over two decades of professional experience, he joins in the newly created Chief Growth Officer role to help build new businesses such as green hydrogen and carbon markets, as well as international partnerships to enable the core and nascent businesses. Prior to joining ReNew, he spent 17 years at McKinsey & Company, where he was a senior partner leading the energy and material practice. He also was at Unilever for over four years. Vikram holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and a B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Ajay Tripathi is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of ReNew. Until recently, Ajay was the Global HR head and CHRO for L&T Infotech, a $1.8 bn revenue global IT & technology major. He has over 27 years of leadership experience across HR and business roles. He started his career on the shop floor at SAIL after graduating from IIT Kanpur in 1993, where he was production manager for 6 years before joining XLRI Jamshedpur for an MBA in HR & Personnel Management.

Since then he has spent 20 years in progressively senior leadership roles in HR with organizations like EY, Mercer, Dell, Atos, and most recently, at L&T Infotech. He has worked in both HR consulting, and HR leadership roles in the industry, and has experience across multiple industries including Banking, Pharma, Infrastructure, Metals, Technology and Software Services. He has been in HR leadership roles since 2012, and has tremendous experience around leadership development, performance management, HR process redesign, succession planning and organization engagement. He has worked seamlessly with Business and HR stakeholders in global companies and managed teams spread across more than 30 countries.

Kailash Vaswani is the President, Finance at ReNew. He has worked in financial markets since 2001 and started his career as a research analyst at CRISIL (owned by S&P and India’s leading ratings provider) before moving to Morgan Stanley into a fixed income research role, covering the US and European bond markets. He worked in Aditya Birla Group and Saffron Asset Advisors in various corporate finance and investment roles and helped them with investment decisions in excess of $6.5 bn. in India and US.

In 2011, Kailash joined ReNew as a founding team member to help put the business plan in place and enable ReNew with the first round of capital raising from Goldman Sachs. Over the last 10 years he has successfully led all capital raise for ReNew on the debt and equity side and has raised cumulative capital of more than $10 bn. for the company. As part of senior management of the company he has significantly contributed to the growth of the company by being involved in strategic decisions, organization building and growth of the portfolio of assets through organic and inorganic additions.

Sanjay Varghese is ReNew’s President, solar utility-scale. Mr. Varghese has been with ReNew since October 2017 and his responsibilities include overseeing development and execution of ReNew’s solar power projects. Mr. Varghese has over 12 years of experience in the solar energy sector. Prior to joining ReNew, Mr. Varghese worked with Lanco Group for over nine years where he held various leadership positions, including as their Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Lanco Group, Mr. Varghese worked in the field of investment banking. Mr. Varghese holds a bachelor’s degree in technology in the field of Metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and a post graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad India.

Vikash Jain is ReNew’s Global General Counsel. He comes with rich and varied international experience of over 26 years in compliance, governance, and litigation. In his last role, he was Group General Counsel for Vedanta Resources Limited, which included being General Counsel for Cairn Oil & Gas. Vikash has also held leadership roles at Transocean, Jubilant Energy, and Hindustan Oil Exploration Company. He is an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; holds an LLB from VSSD College, Kanpur; and is a qualified Company Secretary, as well as a Cost and Works Accountant.