The Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation, Limited announced that at the meeting of the board of directors held on February 4, 2019; approved the appointment of Dr. Y.S.P Thorat; Mr. Vinesh Kumar Jairath; and Mrs. Gauri Kirloskar as Additional Directors in the category of Non-Executive, Independent Director, with effect from 4th February, 2019. Dr. Y.S.P Thorat who retired as Chairman, NABARD in November 2007, was till recently Executive Chairman of the Dry land Farming Commission and Chairman of the Agriculture Universities Recruitment Board, Government of Maharashtra. Earlier Dr. Thorat was associated with the Planning Commission, Government of India for the 10th and 11th Five Year Plans. He was Chief Executive of the Rajiv Gandhi Trust and Foundation, New Delhi and served on the Board of the National Institute of Bank Management, Pune. Mr. Vinesh Kumar Jairath joined Indian Administrative Service in 1982 and took voluntary retirement in 2008. He served as the Principal Secretary of Industries in Government of Maharashtra from 2005-2008. He has over 25 years of experience in public administration, rural development, poverty alleviation, infrastructure planning and development and infrastructure financing, finance, industry, urban development, environmental management, while occupying various important positions in the Government of India and of State Government of Maharashtra. Mr. Jairath has served as an Independent Director on the Board of SEBI for three years term from December 2010 to 2013. Presently, Mr. Jairath provides Advisory and Consultancy Services on Legal, Financial, Business Development and Regulatory issues. Gauri worked as an investment banking analyst at Merrill Lynch in their Mergers and Acquisitions group where she analyzed the impact of proposed mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and various restructuring alternatives on earnings, credit profile and value creation of various clients across the technology, real estate and retail industries. She then moved on to Pearson's Corporate Finance and Strategy group where she looked at bolt on acquisitions for their education business.