Exide Industries Limited announced that based on the recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held on 16 May 2024, has appointed Ms. Radhika Govind Rajan (DIN: 00499485) as an Additional Director with effect from 16 May 2024, to hold office upto the date of next Annual General Meeting of the Company scheduled on 29 July 2024. Ms. Radhika Govind Rajan holds an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad and an MSc (Physics) from IIT, Mumbai. A US Citizen relocated to India, she has zeroed in on India as an investment destination for one and a half decades.

She heads DSP Investments, the umbrella company of the Kothari family office in Mumbai and has been with the group since July 2011. Ms. Radhika Rajan brings along a rich investment advisory experience from her previous engagements with TCG Group in New York, Mphasis, JP Morgan (formerly Chemical Bank), Itochu, UBS, Bank of America and Bank of Montreal among others. An authority on proposed investments in the US-India corridor, Radhika' s expe1tise spans currencies, cash, options, interest rate, commodity futures and derivatives.

She is an invited author of 'The Global Internet Economy', a book published by MIT Press in 2003. She is a Charter Member of TIE Tristate, the New York based chapter of TIE, a global association of entrepreneurs active m accelerating the globalization of Indian business. She serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Sonata Software Limited, Sonata Information Technology Limited and 3M India Limited, and an advisor to several Indian start-ups.