Digicontent Limited — Board/Management Information 2024

Mar 28, 2024

28[th] March, 2024

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BSE Limited Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers, Dalal Street, Mumbai - 400 001

National Stock Exchange of India Limited Exchange Plaza, 5[th] Floor, Plot No. C-1, Block G, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (E), Mumbai - 400 051

Scrip Code: 542685 Trading Symbol: DGCONTENT

Subject: Disclosure under Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (‘SEBI Listing Regulations’)

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to inform you that the Board of Directors of the Company at its meeting held today, i.e. 28[th] March, 2024, (which commenced at 10:45 A.M. and concluded at 11:00 A.M.) has upon recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, approved the appointment of Mr. Mannu Bhatia (DIN: 10192896) as an Additional Director (Independent) w.e.f. 01[st] April, 2024.

Further, the Board of Directors also recommended the appointment of Mr. Bhatia as an Independent Director, not liable to retire by rotation, for a period of 5 consecutive years w.e.f. 01[st] April, 2024 till 31[st] March, 2029, to the Members of the Company for their approval.

The relevant details of the appointment of Mr. Mannu Bhatia, in terms of the SEBI Listing Regulations, read with SEBI Circular No. SEBI/HO/CFD/CFD-PoD-1/P/CIR/2023/123 dated 13[th] July, 2023 is enclosed herewith.

This information is also being uploaded on the website of the Company i.e. www.digicontent.co.in.

You are requested to take the above information on record.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

For Digicontent Limited

Arjit Digitally signed by Arjit Gupta Date: 2024.03.28 Gupta 11:01:41 +05'30'

(Arjit Gupta)

Company Secretary

Encl.: As above

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Disclosure of information pursuant to Regulation 30 of the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations 2015, read with SEBI Circular No. SEBI/HO/CFD/CFD-PoD-1/P/CIR/2023/123 dated 13[th] July, 2023

Appointment of Mr. Mannu Bhatia (DIN: 10192896) as an Additional Director (Independent) of the Company

S. No.		Particulars	Information
1		Reason for change viz. appointment, re-appointment, resignation, removal, death or otherwise;	Appointment
2		Date of appointmen~~t/~~ ~~re-~~ ~~appointment/cessation~~ & term of appointmen~~t/re-~~ ~~Appointment~~	Upon recommendation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors appointed Mr. Mannu Bhatia as an Additional Director (Independent) of the Company w.e.f. 01stApril, 2024. Further, the Board also recommended the appointment of Mr. Bhatia as an Independent Director, not liable to retire by rotation, for a period of 5 consecutive years w.e.f. 01stApril, 2024 till 31stMarch, 2029, to the Members of the Company for their approval.
3		Brief Profile (in case of appointment)	Mr. Mannu Bhatia has had a career spanning 35 years across two corporations: ICI (1987-1998) and PepsiCo (1998-2022). He retired from PepsiCo as senior vice president of Finance & Transformation for the Asia- Middle East Sector, based out of Dubai. Prior to that, he served as CFO for the Middle East & North Africa and CFO for Asia-Pacific (based out of Hong Kong). Mr. Bhatia also spent four years in New York working in corporate planning and global R&D functions. He joined PepsiCo in India as the CFO for the Frito-Lay business. His first 10 years post-qualification as a CA were with ICI India, where he honed his skills as a finance professional in various roles across businesses like agrochem, pharma and rubber chemicals. Mr. Bhatia was also a director on a number of joint

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		venture companies that PepsiCo had e.g. PCPPI, Philippines, Suntory PepsiCo Bottling Company, Vietnam and the Pepsi JVs in Jordan and Lebanon. He is currently on the Advisory Board of Foster & Forge (NGO). Mr. Bhatia is a B.Com from St Xaviers, Kolkata and a Chartered Accountant.
4	Disclosure of relationships between Directors (in case of appointment of a director)	He is not related to any Director of the Company.
5.	Information as required pursuant to BSE Circular with ref. no. LIST/ COMP /14/2018-19 dated 20th June, 2018	Mr. Mannu Bhatia is not debarred from holding the office of director by virtue of any order of SEBI or any other authority.