Independent Director & Audit Committee Chair — Advanced Manufacturing, Technology and Supply-Chain Risk

Mandate thesis

The company manufactures technology-intensive products through a network of plants, specialist suppliers and demanding customer programmes. The Audit Committee Chair will govern the reliability of the financial result and the operating assumptions behind it. The Board requires an independent director who can move fluently between programme economics, quality, capacity, customer commitments, cyber-physical risk and capital allocation.

This seat carries unusually broad committee exposure. It is not intended that one director become the owner of every issue. The objective is to prevent fragmentation: a supplier failure may affect revenue, quality, working capital and customer trust; a capacity investment may affect debt, hiring, qualification and execution risk; a cyber compromise may interrupt the plant and expose controlled technical information. The appointee should help the Board see the complete consequence chain.

Decisions reserved for robust challenge





Programme acceptance. Before material contracts or programmes are approved, the Board should see volume uncertainty, qualification milestones, tooling and working-capital needs, price-reset clauses, warranty exposure, supply dependencies and downside economics. Revenue is not high quality if delivery requires unpriced acceleration or persistent working-capital absorption.

Capacity and capital. Greenfield lines, automation and acquisitions require staged gates. The Chair will press for independent readiness evidence, contingency, customer qualification, hiring, yield ramp and a post-investment benefit ledger. Capacity announced is not capacity capable of producing conforming output at the expected cost.

Supplier resilience. Critical components and processes should be mapped beyond tier one. Sole-source and long-lead exposure, supplier financial health, geopolitical restrictions, counterfeit p

📌 Independent Director (Mysuru)
🏢 Gladwin International
📍 Mysuru