Board Of Directors

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Mr. Venkateswarlu Jasti is one of the promoters of the Company and has been on the Board since incorporation. He holds dual Post Graduate (PG) in Pharmacy from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam and St. John University, New York, specializing in Industrial Pharmacy.

He was a Registered Pharmacist in the state of New York and New Jersey and owned and operated chain (6) of community pharmacies in the state of New York and New Jersey in USA until year 1989. Since 1989 he is running the operations of Suven.

He was also involved in various industrial associations such as:

• President of Indian Pharmaceutical Association
• Chairman of Local Organizing Committee for the 52nd Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Hyderabad
• President of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress in the year 2015
• President of Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association of India (BDMA)
• Chairman for Pharmexcil (Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council)

Also Shri Venkateswarlu Jasti has been instrumental as the chief architect for the formation of the then A.P. Chief Minister’s task force for Pharma during 2001 and responsible for the creation of Pharma City at Vizag by the erstwhile Government of Andhra Pradesh and Pharmexcil (Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council) by the Government of India with HQ at Hyderabad.

Mr. Venkateswarlu Jasti is also associated with the following Companies/Body Corporates:

• The Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry – Director
• Jasti Property and Equity Holdings Private Limited – Director
• SVJ Property Holdings LLP - Designated Partner
• KJ Property Holdings LLP - Designated Partner
• JS Property Holdings LLP - Designated Partner
• DR. MJ Property Holdings LLP - Designated Partner
• DR. SVMJ Property LLP - Partner
• SVSMKS Property LLP - Partner
• SVSMK Property LLP - Partner
• AION Advisory Services LLP – Partner

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Smt. Sudharani Jasti is one of the promoters of the Company and has been on the Board since incorporation of the Company. Smt. Sudharani Jasti is a Graduate in Science from Andhra University; she returned from USA to India in 1988-89. Since then She has been successfully managing the company as Whole-time Director providing the right direction and leadership in all governance matters.

Smt. Sudharani Jasti is also associated with the following Companies/Body Corporates:

• Jasti Property and Equity Holdings Private Limited – Director
• JFAMT Trustee Private Limited - Director
• SVSMKS Property LLP - Designated Partner
• MKSSJAS PROPERTY LLP - Designated Partner
• SSMKS Property LLP - Partner
• SVSMK Property LLP - Partner

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Professor Dr. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain holds PhD, DSc (h.c.), DMedSc (h.c.), FNA, FTWAS, FAAM, ML. Prof. Hasnain, Padma Shri (Civilian Award), is a recipient of Germany’s Highest Civilian Award- The Order of Merit (Das Verdienstkreuz, 1.Klasse) from the President of Germany, equivalent of India’s Bharat Ratna, the only Indian so far and one of the very few persons globally. He is internationally known for his work on DNA fingerprinting and on tuberculosis. With about 275 publications in peer-reviewed journals (>8600 citations, H-index 52) of high impact (Nature, PNAS USA, Lancet etc) and over a dozen international patents, Prof. Hasnain is a globally acclaimed scientist, an institution builder, policy maker, and an administrator. He was invited by IIT Delhi as a Professor where he served until superannuation (2011-2019) after which he shifted his laboratory to Jamia Hamdard. He taught at Delhi University, worked at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi and served as first Director of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Govt of India. He made CDFD a gold standard for DNA based crime investigations in that part of the globe. As the Vice-Chancellor of University of Hyderabad (2005-2011) he brought this University to the 1 position displacing JNU and Delhi University. He joined Jamia Hamdard as Vice Chancellor and in less than three years the University has been pole-vaulting into higher orbits of excellence and recently recommended as “Institution of Eminence” and placed at the 5th Rank amongst the Privately Funded Institutions of the country by Govt of India.

Prof. Hasnain is recipient of many prestigious awards from India and abroad, such as Humboldt Research Prize (Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany); the very exclusive Robert Koch Fellowship (the ONLY Indian so far) of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin; and youngest to be elected as a Fellow of TWAS, Trieste. He is elected Fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Microbiology, USA, and the first Indian elected as a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He has been conferred with the ICMR’s BR Ambedkar Award, the highest award for excellence in biomedical research; besides many other prestigious Indian Awards which include G.D. Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, FICCI Award, J.C. Bose National Fellow Award, Ranbaxy Research Award, Goyal Award, Bhasin Award etc. He is an elected Fellow of all the major Science Academies of India (FNA/FASc/FNASc), and a recipient of honorary Degrees from Universities in India and abroad. He is the 3rd Indian (Dr APJ A bdul Kalam, 2009, Dr. Amartya Sen, 2010) to receive an Honorary Doctorate (2011) from the Queen’s University, UK.

Prof. Hasnain served as a Member (2004-2009, 2009-2014) of Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM) of India and Member of Scientific Advisory Committee to the Union Cabinet. He was Chairman of Biotech Advisory Council, Govt of Andhra Pradesh for several years and a Member of Biotech Advisory Council of many other State Govts.

He has been the Chairman of the Academic Committee of PGIMER, Chandigarh, and a Member of the Institute Body and Governing Council of PGIMER, as well as Member of the Research Advisory Committee of AIIMS, New Delhi.

Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain is also associated with the following Companies/Body Corporates:

• Yashraj Biotechnology Limited - Director
• Ignovision Solutions Private Limited - Director
• Sidsam Profeza Technologies India Private Limited - Director
• Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences (Sec 8 Company) - Director
• Aditum Life Sciences Private Limited – Director

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Mr. Santanu Mukherjee holds B.Sc., Honors from Presidency College under Kolkata University and CAIIB from the Indian Institute of Bankers. Mr. Mukherjee is the former Managing Director of State Bank of Hyderabad. He has around four decades of experience in the field of banking, finance, risk management, etc., in various capacities. From 2013 to mid of 2014 he was Chief General Manager of State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur. He also worked as a Chief Executive Officer of State Bank of India, Paris from 2004 to 2008. He joined as a probationary officer and carried out important domestic and overseas assignments in the SBI Group. He held several senior positions in SBI Group handling commercial credit, international business, risk management, treasury operations, etc. He is also an independent Director in several listed entities. He is on the Board of our Company since 2018.

Mr. Santanu Mukherjee is also on Board of the following Companies as Independent Director:

• Bandhan Bank Limited - Director
• Sumedha Fiscal Services Limited - Director
• Rainbow Children’s Medicare Limited - Director
• Aurobindo Pharma Limited - Director
• NACL Industries Limited - Director
• Muthoot Housing Finance Company Limited - Director
• Rainbow Speciality Hospitals Private Limited – Director

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Smt. J.A.S. Padmaja is a Psychology graduate from St. Francis College Hyderabad and a post graduate Diploma in Marriage and Family Counseling from Osmania University. She is a practicing counselor for the last twenty-five years working with mental disorders, adolescent crisis, depression and anxiety disorders and marriage counseling. She was actively involved in founding THE HYDERABAD CHILDRENS TRUST (HCT). She was also associated with APWMR as Vice President - which took up various welfare activities for differently abled children. She is associated with the JVMRD Trust as a chairperson where she is involved in building a high school in a remote village of the most backward area of Andhar Pradesh. She is also associated with skill development programs for women and educated youth requiring further skills to make them employable from this backward area through Trust. She is on the Board of our Company since 2018.

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Dr. Vajja Sambasiva Rao is a Master of Science and Ph. D Chemistry from BITS Pilani and he is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Dr. Vajja Sambasiva Rao is also an academician, he retired as Vice Chancellor of SRM University-AP on 9th September 2022 and moving onward continues as an Adviser to President and Pro-Chancellor SRM University AP. He previously served as the President of NIIT University and Acting Vice-Chancellor and Director at BITS, Pilani. He played a crucial role in the establishment of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad campus in terms of strategy and conception. As a Director he comes with vast experience in chemistry, governance and knowledge in project & financial management.

He has been the recipient of "Demonstrated Excellence in Building an Institution" award from the Chancellor, BITS in 2014. He was honoured in BITSAA Global Meet in 2014 for his contribution to "Making Learning a Wonderful Experience". In 2013, he received "Eminent Educationist Award" by Indo Global Educational Council for his achievements in education and honoured for contribution to excellence in education by Telugu Association of North America (TANA), USA. He is on the Board of our Company since 2024.