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ABOUT
Board of Directors:
Nimesh R. Desai
Managing Director
Techera Managing Director Nimesh Rameshchandra Desai is a visionary businessman, also an adventurer and a human being with values and ethics. He was born in 1968 and grew up in a traditional and simple family and received his education in Mumbai. He started working at the age of 18 as a trainee at a company named as Klockner Windsor in Mumbai. With passion for engineering and his dedication towards his goals today he is a first-generation entrepreneur and being a technical master mind in the industry of mechanical manufacturing, he also specializes in building organizations, developing future leaders and inspiring the world around with his leadership and a life led by principles.
He started his company Techcellency in 1998 and since then in two decades, conquering the problems faced, he scaled the organizations to a new height with his vision and dynamic leadership. With a revenue of Rs. 3.5 lacs in 1998 to 2017, Jendamark Techcellency, a multinational company, with over 200 employees, a revenue of over Rs. 52 crores, he built an organization with strong set of values and principles and he worked as a Founder and Managing Director of the company. This earned him the respect and fame across customers, suppliers and people tied to Mechanical industry in Pune.Moving on from Jendamark Techcellency, TechEra Engineering (India) Private Limited as a Chairman, Director and a majority shareholder. Within the first year, the company has achieved a revenue of Rs. 15 cr. And still going strong.
Under the leadership of Nimesh Desai, TechEra is now a Defence and Aerospace Tooling Manufacturing company and have collaborated with IDBI Capital as venture funding. IDBI have invested in TechEra due to the potential of the organisation and the leaders. This is what Nimesh Desai’s market value is and this has been earned with sheer passion, dedication, and hard work.
Apart from being a thorough visionary and entrepreneur, he loves adventures and aims to break the Guinness record for Bungee jumping. Mr. Desai believes in “we rise by lifting others” and hence he is also a philanthropist with active participation in social welfare of children, providing aid to orphans so that education can reach them. He thoroughly supports an orphanage called “Snehwan” and donates money to other charities as well.
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Director of Operations
Kalpana N. Desai
Non- Executive Director
Manish Gupta
Independent Director
Haridas N. Bhabad
Independent Director
Board Committees:
Audit Committee
Composition
Haridas N. Bhabad
Manish Gupta
Nimesh R. Desai
Objective of Audit Committee
Terms of reference of the Audit Committee:
Role of the Audit committee:
- oversight of the company’s financial reporting process and the disclosure of its financial information to ensure that the financial statement is correct, sufficient and credible;
- recommendation for appointment, remuneration and terms of appointment of auditors of the company;
- approval of payment to statutory auditors for any other services rendered by the statutory auditors;
- reviewing, with the management, the annual financial statements and auditor’s report thereon before submission to the board for approval, with particular reference to:
(a) matters required to be included in the Director’s Responsibility Statement to be included in the Board’s report in terms of clause (c) of sub-section 3 of section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013
(b) changes, if any, in accounting policies and practices and reasons for the same
(c) major accounting entries involving estimates based on the exercise of judgment by management
(d) significant adjustments made in the financial statements arising out of audit findings
(e) compliance with listing and other legal requirements relating to financial statements
(f) disclosure of any related party transactions
(g) qualifications in the draft audit report - reviewing, with the management, the quarterly financial statements before submission to the board for approval;
- reviewing, with the management, the statement of uses / application of funds raised through an issue (public issue, rights issue, preferential issue, etc.), the statement of funds utilized for purposes other than those stated in the offer document / prospectus / notice and the report submitted by the monitoring agency monitoring the utilisation of proceeds of a public or rights issue, and making appropriate recommendations to the Board to take up steps in this matter;
- review and monitor the auditor’s independence and performance, and effectiveness of audit process;
- approval or any subsequent modification of transactions of the company with related parties;
- scrutiny of inter-corporate loans and investments;
- valuation of undertakings or assets of the company, wherever it is necessary;
- evaluation of internal financial controls and risk management systems;
- reviewing, with the management, performance of statutory and internal auditors, adequacy of the internal control systems;
- reviewing the adequacy of internal audit function, if any, including the structure of the internal audit department, staffing and seniority of the official heading the department, reporting structure coverage and frequency of internal audit;
- discussion with internal auditors of any significant findings and follow up there on;
- reviewing the findings of any internal investigations by the internal auditors into matters where there is suspected fraud or irregularity or a failure of internal control systems of a material nature and reporting the matter to the board;
- discussion with statutory auditors before the audit commences, about the nature and scope of audit as well as post-audit discussion to ascertain any area of concern;
- to look into the reasons for substantial defaults in the payment to the depositors, debenture holders, shareholders (in case of non-payment of declared dividends) and creditors;
- to review the functioning of the Whistle Blower mechanism;
- approval of appointment of CFO (i.e., the whole-time Finance Director or any other person heading the finance function or discharging that function) after assessing the qualifications, experience and background, etc. of the candidate;
- carrying out any other function as is mentioned in the terms of reference of the Audit Committee.
Nomination & Remuneration Committee
Composition
Manish Gupta
Haridas N. Bhabad
Kalpana N. Desai
Terms of Reference Nomination & Remuneration Committee:
- formulation of the criteria for determining qualifications, positive attributes and independence of a director and recommend to the Board a policy, relating to the remuneration of the directors, key managerial personnel and other employees;
- formulation of criteria for evaluation of Independent Directors and the Board;
- devising a policy on Board diversity;
- identifying persons who are qualified to become directors and who may be appointed in senior management in accordance with the criteria laid down, and recommend to the Board their appointment and removal. The company shall disclose the remuneration policy and the evaluation criteria in its Annual Report.
Functions of Nomination & Remuneration Committee:
- identify persons who are qualified to become directors and who may be appointed in senior management in accordance with the criteria laid down, recommend to the Board their appointment and removal. Further it has been attached with a wider responsibility of carrying out evaluation of every director’s performance.
- formulate the criteria for determining qualifications, positive attributes and independence of a director and recommend to the Board a policy, relating to the remuneration for the directors, key managerial personnel and other employees. While formulating the policy, the Committee shall consider the following:
(a) the level and composition of remuneration is reasonable and sufficient to attract, retain and motivate directors of the quality required to run the company successfully;
(b) relationship of remuneration to performance is clear and meets appropriate performance benchmarks; and
(c) remuneration to directors, key managerial personnel and senior management involves a balance between fixed and incentive pay reflecting short and long-term performance objectives appropriate to the working of the company and its goals.