Hariom Pipe Industries Limited at its board meeting held on June 10, 2022 Approved the appointment of Mr. Soumen Sose as an Additional Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Soumen Bose, 54 years of age, is a Bachelor of Technology (Chemical) from Amravati University and has also completed a Special management Program from 11M Kolkata. He ha s won several Business Excellence & Value Engineering awards including a Gold Medal for outstanding profitability improvement from Indian In stitute of Economic Studies, New Delhi .

Mr. Bose is a globally networked stee l industry professional, schooled in the value system of the Tata Group across various geographies in the steel & steel making raw materials industry. In his tenure of about 16 years (1997 to 2013) with Tata Group companies like Tata Refractories and Tata Steel in senior positions, Mr. Bose acquired strong technical, commercial and marketing/sales acumen: multi-disciplinary and diverse domestic/international experience in steel making, procurement, port and logistics of minerals and steel plant consumables with proven track record of top-line and bottom-line growth. He also gained global experience across myriad steel related input industries like Refractories, Ferro Alloys, Ores and Minerals.

Mr. Bose propelled to become the CEO of a Tata group company (Sila Eastern Limited, Thailand) just at the age of 41 where he turned around the company, tripled its profits and made it a debt free dividend paying company. With over 30 years of experience in the stee l and related industry, Mr. Soumen Bose is a Champion in, Six Sigma in Japanese Quality Model, Malcolm Baldridge Model of Business Excellence, Self- Initiated Projects & Value Engineering. During his tenure with the Tata Group, Mr. Bose was responsible for sales of Chrome Ore, Chrome Concentrate, High Carbon Ferro Chrome, High Carbon Ferro Manganese in India and discerning international l customers in Japan, South Korea and China.

He Brought about a paradigm shift in pricing of Chrome Ore by entering into a formula based pricing with competitor, opened up and maintained warehouses for JIT supplies and brought in the novel idea of moving consumables by CONCOR rakes when road freight became prohibitively expensive. He organised the retail initiative to get into newer, low volume but high profit contribution markets. Mr. Bose was also responsible for writing five year plans for Indian Government for Chrome and Manganese alloys.

He introduced the concept of Market Newsletter which captured business strategies, demand supply environment for global minerals and alloys businesses and authored the customer and market focus chapters for the division's business excellence journey (Malcolm Baldridge Model). At Tata Steel, Mr. Bose brought about a paradigm shift by articulating the future robust demand for Chrome Ore and Concentrate by analyzing data trends and Chinese Stainless Steel, Ferro Chrome and Chrome requirements when most people were predicting doomsday scenario for the business. The scenario exactly unfolded the way he had predicted.

He also facilitated formation of JV with L& T for conversion of High Carbon Ferro Manganese to Medium/LOW Carbon Ferro Manganese. Mr. Soumen Bose currently is based out of Thailand where he serves as the group CEO of Singh Group of Companies which has interests in mining of minerals and metals in various parts of the world. He brings his vast industry experience in India, Japan, South Korea, China and ASEAN which would help Hariom Pipe Industries Limited inculcate a culture of best standards, principles & practices, bring in new technologies, new products and global markets.