Vedanta appoints Aman Mehta and Priya Agarwal at key positions on board

MUMBAI: Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta announced a rejig in its directorate, appointing Aman Mehta as additional director and non-executive independent director and Agarwal’s daughter, Priya Agarwal as additional director and non -executive director with effect from May 17, 2017.

Mehta is a former Asia-Pacific CEO at the HSBC Group and has also been a supervisory board member at the ING Group NV and director of Raffles Holding, Singapore.

Priya Agarwal has donned many hats, from being in public relations with Ogilvy & Mather, human resources with Korn Ferry International, Vedanta and HDFC Bank and strategic planning with Rediffusion Y&R.

Agarwal’s son is the chairman of Hindustan Zinc, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources.

In an interview with ET in 2015, soon after the diversified natural resources company had announced a merger with Cairn India, Anil Agarwal had said that he would not want a family member to be chief executive of the company as he would want ownership and management to be separate.