Board of Directors

Chairman & Non-Executive Director

Mr. Deepak Vaidya is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has previously worked as the Country Head of Schroder Capital Partners (Asia) Pte. Ltd. for over 12 years. He is experienced in the corporate financial services industry in India and abroad. He is holding directorship in reputed companies.

Independent Director

Mr. Nirmal Bhogilal is the Chairman of the Batliboi Group. The Group’s operations are in Machine Tools, Textile Machinery, Air Engineering & Pollution Control Equipment, Rotating Machines, Wind Energy and Logistics.

He was Past President and currently a Committee Member of the Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers Association (IMTMA). He has been Chairman of various committees in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) at the National & Western Region levels and is currently a member of the CII National Council. He is a Committee Member and Past President of Indo German Chamber of Commerce.

He is also a Committee Member of the Forum of Free Enterprise and a Council Member of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). He is an Independent Director of Chowgule Industries Pvt. Ltd. and Eimco Elecon (I) Ltd.

Independent Director and Audit Committee Chairman

Mr. R Ramakrishnan is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accounts of India and also a Law Graduate from Bangalore University. He is a practicing Chartered Accountant and a Management Consultant at Bangalore having an experience of 36 years in Direct tax matters, Audit and Assurances. He was nominated by KSIIDC for few listed Companies and currently holds directorships in reputed companies.
He is also a Managing Trustee for RRK Foundation – a foundation financially supporting more than 100 students for Higher Secondary School to economically weaker sections and Trustee for few philanthropic organizations.
He is an Independent Director and Audit Committee Chairman of the Company.

Independent Director

Dr. Kausalya Santhanam, Founder of SciVista IP & Communication (www.scivistaip.com), is a Patent attorney registered with the Indian Patent Office as well as the US Patent and Trademark Office and Indian Patent Office. She has a Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Immunology from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) Chandigarh. Her Post-Doctoral training was in Cancer Biology at Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, where she has published her studies in peer-reviewed journals. Later she went as a National Research Council (NRC) Fellow to Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington DC where her studies involved molecular mechanisms of inflammation. Following that, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, she worked towards understanding the mechanisms of an apoptotic molecule. All the research work have been published in reputed journals. Later, she worked for five years in the Intellectual Property Department of CuraGen Corporation, a Biopharmaceutical company at Connecticut, USA. She is an Independent Director of the Company.

Independent Director

Mr. Ronald Tjeerd de Vries (Ron) is a MsC in Chemical Engineering and IMD executive Leadership Alumni. He has 25 years’ experience in the MNC Corporate Sector in Pharma and Food Presently he is Owner and MD of RDV Consulting based at Auckland (NZ).

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Ankur Thadani is a Principal at TPG Growth, based in Mumbai. He joined TPG in 2013 and has worked on multiple investments in Healthcare, Energy and Consumer sectors across India and the broader South-Asia region. Ankur also serves on the board of CTSI, Rhea Healthcare, Fourth Partner Energy and Asiri Hospitals. Prior to joining TPG, he worked with an Indian private equity fund, India Equity Partners, focusing on investments in consumer and healthcare sectors. Ankur received his MBA from IIFT, where he was awarded a Gold Medal for all-round achievement.

MD & Chief Executive Officer

Bharath has over two decades of experience across diverse industries. His expertise spans across the pharmaceutical, healthcare and material sciences industries. He has operated in countries like USA, Hongkong, China, Middle East, Africa and Europe. He has held CXO level positions in companies like DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals and Royal DSM NV. During the course of his career Bharath has led organizations through transformative growth. He has had particular success in putting together well thought out strategies and setting up winning teams that have delivered excellent results. At Solara, Bharath will focus on leveraging its unique strengths and abundant human talent in building a successful and growing company. Bharath is an Engineering graduate with a management degree from the Institute for Technology and Management, Chennai. He also has a master’s degree in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, United States.

Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer