Wockhardt Limited at its meeting held on August 29, 2020 approved the appointment of Mr. Akhilesh Gupta as an Additional Director (Non-Executive,Independent) with effect from August 29, 2020. Mr. Akhilesh Gupta has been at Harvard University since 2015 as a Senior fellow/Guest. He was the Chairman of Blackstone India till Dec. 2014. He joined The Blackstone Group as Senior Managing Director in 2005 and started its operations in India. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Gupta served as CEO - Corporate Development, for Reliance Industries Limited. Mr. Gupta's efforts at Reliance were focused on developing Reliance's E&P, Refining, and Telecom businesses from scratch. Mr. Gupta was the founding CEO of all these three businesses. Mr. Gupta received his MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford Univer sity in 1981 and a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi which conferred on him the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004.