Rana Talwar, 58, is Chairman of Sabre Capital Worldwide Inc., Tortola, BVI, a private equity and management firm focused on investing in financial institutions in emerging markets with an emphasis on Asia, since December 2002. Talwar was Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC, a global bank in London, from June 1997 to December 2001. He is a director of Pearson PLC, an international media company in London, and a member of its Personnel, Nominating and Treasury Committees; a director of Fortis, an integrated financial services provider in Belgium and the Netherlands, and a member of its Nominations and Remunerations Committees; Chairman of Centurion Bank, India, and a member of its Executive and Nominating Committees; a member of the Governing Body of the Indian School of Business, a director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the U.K., and a member of the strategy Board in the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry. Talwar has served on the Schlumberger Board of Directors since 2005. |