Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced that Mr. Dilip Shanghvi has resigned, effective April 18, 2012, as Chairman and a member of Taro's Board of Directors in order to focus on other growth priorities within the Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. group and Mr. Kalyanasundaram Subramanian, known in industry circles as Kal Sundaram, has been appointed as Mr. Shanghvi's replacement, serving on the Board as its Chairman until Taro's next Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Sundaram has been Sun Pharma's Chief Executive Officer since April 2010 and in this role he focused on accelerating Sun Pharma's growth in India and other Emerging Market countries and developing broad, strategic alliances with other leading companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Sundaram has almost three decades of regional/global experience much of which has been in the pharmaceutical industry, largely with GlaxoSmithKline plc, where he has held country, regional and global responsibilities. As its Managing Director, he led the turnaround of GSK India; and in the regional role, he spearheaded the company's differentiated and region-specific Emerging Markets strategy. Mr. Sundaram is a science graduate from Madurai University and a qualified chartered accountant.