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contextRef="I_ChangeInManagement1">Varadarajan Muthuvenkataraman</in-capmkt:NameOfDesignatedPerson><in-capmkt:EffectiveDateOfReasonOfChange contextRef="I_ChangeInManagement1">2026-07-28</in-capmkt:EffectiveDateOfReasonOfChange><in-capmkt:TypeOfChange contextRef="D_ChangeInManagement2">Appointment</in-capmkt:TypeOfChange><in-capmkt:CategoryForChange contextRef="D_ChangeInManagement2">Key Managerial Personnel</in-capmkt:CategoryForChange><in-capmkt:DesignationOfDesignatedPerson contextRef="D_ChangeInManagement2">Chief Financial Officer</in-capmkt:DesignationOfDesignatedPerson><in-capmkt:SalutationOfDesignatedPerson contextRef="D_ChangeInManagement2">Mr.</in-capmkt:SalutationOfDesignatedPerson><in-capmkt:NameOfDesignatedPerson contextRef="I_ChangeInManagement2">Shatmanyu Shrivastava</in-capmkt:NameOfDesignatedPerson><in-capmkt:EffectiveDateOfReasonOfChange contextRef="I_ChangeInManagement2">2026-07-28</in-capmkt:EffectiveDateOfReasonOfChange><in-capmkt:TermOfAppointmentInMonths 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He is also a fellow of Insurance Institute of India (passed in 2000).  He is pursuing Actuarial studies and has passed 7 papers of Actuarial examination conducted by Institute of Actuaries of India.

He has joined Life Insurance Corporation of India in the year 1990 as an Assistant Administrative Officer in the year 1990.  In a career spanning over three decades, he has got wide exposure of working across all departments of the Corporation.  He has worked in all four tiers of organizational structure, i.e. Branch Offices, Divisional Offices, Zonal Offices and Central Office.  By having this wide exposure, he is able to understand intricacies of working of all Departments /Offices and their interdependencies/linkages.  He has joined Chief (Finance &amp; Accounts), Central Office in May 2022 and steered first closing of accounts of the Corporation post IPO. He has got wide exposure of various compliances to be made under SEBI (LODR), Regulations and IRDAI Regulations.

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