Shri Jaikumar Srinivasan joins as Director (Finance) at NTPC

22 Jul 2022 CW Team

Shri Jaikumar Srinivasan joins as a Director (Finance) at the India's largest power generator, NTPC. Prior to this, he served as Director (Finance), in NLC India, a fossil fuel mining and thermal power generating company.

Before his service in NCL India, he had served as Director (Finance) at Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) and Director (Finance) in the MSEB Holding Company in August 2017.

He has more than 30 years of experience in the power and mining sector in the state and Central PSUs in the areas of Finance, Accounts, Taxation, Commercial, Electricity regulation, Renewables, IT, and project development including eight years of experience as a board member.

Shri Srinivasan has also worked as a part-time Director in Mahuguj Colliery Company, UCM Coal Company, both subsidiary companies of MAHAGENCO, and was one of the Board members of Neyveli Tamil Nadu Power and Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Company, both subsidiaries of NLCIL. He has pursued his study on best practices in the power sector at SDA Bocconi University in Milan and ESCP Business School in Paris.

Shri Srinivasan is a commerce graduate from the University of Nagpur and a member of the Nagpur Chapter of Institute of Cost and Work Accountants of India (ICWA).

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