Aurobindo Pharma Limited announced Mr. Venkat Nageswar Chalasani has been appointed as an Independent Director of Apitoria Pharma Pvt. Ltd. with effect from April 4, 2023. Mr. Venkat Nageswar retired as Deputy Managing Director, International Banking Group of State Bank of India on April 30, 2021.

With over 37 years of experience spanning across various distinguished positions in the Bank pan India and abroad, he worked in all the areas of Banking - Credit, Treasury, Retail, International Banking, Finance, Risk Management etc. He has also held CFO position of the Bank for a brief period. Mr. Venkat, post superannuation, has been nominated as non-official member for Board for Trade by GOI, Member - Advisory committee of SREI Group of companies by RBI, Member - Empowered Committee to approve ECBs and ODIs by RBI.

Apart from this, he is financial advisor to Indian Railway Finance Corporation and on the Boards of NCDEX, Axis MF Trustee, IDBI Capital Markets & Securities Ltd, Financial Benchmarks India Pvt. Ltd. and Svamaan Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.