Adani Group’s transmission player Adani Transmission Ltd on Wednesday informed appointment of senior power sector professional Anil Sardana as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company with effect from May 1. Sardana, former MD and CEO of Tata Power Group, comes with over three decades of experience in the power and infrastructure sector. Since the start of his career with NTPC he subsequently worked with BSES and Tata Group companies in the power and Infra sector, ranging from generation, power systems design, power distribution, Telecom and project management.

Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group, commented, “Anil Sardana joins us at a critical phase when the company has entered the power distribution space with the acquisition of the Mumbai GTD business.”

Sardana holds an honours graduate in Electrical Engineering from Delhi University (1980) and also a PGDM from All India Management Association. He has undergone management training at institutes such as IIM-A and EPRI-US.