WOWockhardt532300Routine director change

Sumit Garg identified and designated as Senior Management Personnel; continues as Chief Digital & Information Officer

Wockhardt's Board identified and designated Mr. Sumit Garg, Chief Digital & Information Officer, as Senior Management Personnel, with 2nd November 2026 recorded as the date of appointment.

By ScoutQuest · Mon 2 Nov 2026, 5:10 PM IST · 2 min read

Date of Appointment

2nd November 2026

Age

55 years

Experience

30+ years of technology and transformation leadership experience

What the update says

• Wockhardt's Board of Directors, at its meeting held on 2nd November 2026, identified and designated Mr. Sumit Garg, Chief Digital & Information Officer, as Senior Management Personnel (SMP) of the Company.
• The date of appointment is recorded as 2nd November 2026 and the term of appointment is full-time employment.
• The intimation was made to the stock exchanges under Regulation 30 of the SEBI Listing Regulations, along with the details required under the SEBI Master Circular.

Who Mr. Sumit Garg is

• He is the Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) at Wockhardt Limited and is 55 years of age.
• He brings 30+ years of technology and transformation leadership experience spanning pharmaceuticals, life sciences, FMCG/CPG and automobile.
• His experience covers AI/GenAI, SAP and enterprise platforms, digital manufacturing and supply chain, data & analytics, cloud and cybersecurity, with a focus on technology as an enabler of business transformation and growth.
• Before joining Wockhardt, he served as Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer at Piramal Pharma Solutions, responsible for the technology vertical and driving the digital transformation agenda across operations in North America, the UK and Asia.
• Before Piramal, he spent more than two decades with GSK Consumer & Pharma. His last role at GSK was Director IT for the APAC region, covering IT strategy focused on digital supply chain, Unilever / Pfizer integrations, paperless manufacturing and business transformation through IT.
• He holds a Master's in Computer Application (MCA) from Thapar Institute, Patiala and a Master's in Physics (M.Sc. Hons) from the Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His credentials include CISA, CGEIT and Six Sigma.

How to read this

• The update is a change-in-management disclosure. It records the Board identifying and designating a senior executive who is the Company's Chief Digital & Information Officer as Senior Management Personnel.
• The rest of the update is background on the executive: his age, years of experience, earlier employers, areas of expertise and educational qualifications.
• No financial terms, remuneration or shareholding details are part of this disclosure; the relevant entries for relationship of directors and the specified BSE/NSE circular information are marked Not Applicable.

What investors may take away

• The announcement places the Company's digital and information function head within the formally designated senior management group, which is the layer whose changes are disclosed to the exchanges.
• The disclosed profile sets out the breadth of experience he brings to the role, spanning technology, digital manufacturing and supply chain across regulated and global businesses.
• This is a personnel designation announcement and does not by itself carry any revenue, margin, capital expenditure or order-book information.

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