GLIDERS INDIA LIMITED

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Director (Operations & HR) Director (Finance) Government Nominee Director

Shri Sunil Date

Director (Operations & HR) and Chairman & Managing Director (Addl. Charge)

Shri Sunil Date, Director (Operations & HR) appointed on the Board of Gliders India Limited w.e.f. 14.08.2021., as a First Director and he assumed the additional charge of Chairman & Managing Director w.e.f. 01 Oct 2024. He has done his BE in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering in 1988 and was associated with Industrial Systems Group of BHEL for one and half years before joining OF organisation. An IOFS officer of 1989 batch, he has held important positions in various Ordnance factories like HAPF, OFIt, OFPM and OFAJ before being selected as Director Operations and HR at GIL. He has a rich experience of more than 30 years in fields of Maintenance, Procurement, Quality, R&D and Production in various Ordnance factories.

He headed Quality and maintenance divisions in Ordnance factory Ambajhari and has notable contributions in Plant and process modernization, Predictive maintenance. He is a qualified Energy Auditor from 2005 exam of BEE and was amongst top 10 in India. He has also been a member of Energy management and Energy saving sectional committee of BIS.

Shri Surendra Dhapodkar

Director Finance & CFO

Shri Surendra Dhapodkar Director Finance & CFO on the Board of Gliders India appointed on the Board of Gliders India Limited w.e.f. 14.08.2021 as a First Director. He is a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical, and Indian Engineering Service Batch 1990 & was associated with offshore Bombay high field offshore of ONGC (ICP- platform) for 20 month before joining the IOFS. Before joining the first Board of Directors, he has worked as an Additional General Manager in Heavy Vehicle Factory Chennai, First Secretary Technical (Indian Embassy Moscow, Russia), and various positions in OF Kanpur, OF Ambajhari. He has more than 33 years of experience dealing with production, maintenance, Procurement, and project. He has work in a very important prestigious assignment as a First Secretary in the Indian Embassy Moscow to deal with various Russian industries and projects dealt by the Department of D

He has been awarded Ayudh Bhushan in 2009 for his innovation work in field of maintenance. He has also contributed towards Tank Production technology ( T-90, T-72, Arjun) at HVF & ammunition hardware production (Ordnance Factory Ambajhari & Ordnance Factory Kanpur).