Shri Vinay Kumar Tripathi, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Railway Board, appointed as Part Time Chairman on the Board of DFCCIL. Shri Tripathi did B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from Roorkee University, now IIT Roorkee, in 1982 and joined Railways through Indian Railway Service of Electrical Engineers (IRSEE) in 1983 Batch. In his distinguished career, Shri Tripathi has successfully discharged the duties of important post of Electrical Department on Northern, Central & Western Railways as well as held key posts of Divisional Railway Manager, North Central Railway, Allahabad, Chief Electrical Locomotive Engineer, Additional General Manager of Western Railway, Additional Member/Traction in Railway Board and GM/NER.
Shri Tripathi played a key role in successfully commissioning the State-of-the-art three-phase locomotives and its indigenization, which are the main workhorse of Indian Railways now. He was instrumental in making the Mumbai Central station fit to run 24-Coach trains. As DRM/Prayagraj, he was instrumental in decongesting the rail network of the Division drastically to make it suitable to meet the IR requirements. At that time, ALD division was a major bottleneck for Indian Railways. As AGM/WR, he was instrumental in achieving record electrification on Indian Railway in that year.
During his tenure as GM/NER, the North East Railway transformed from Meter Gauge & Diesel Railway to Broad Gauge & Electrified Railway. The mobility of NER also improved by 100%. NER received First prize of National Energy Conservation Award in transport category and many other awards at U.P. State level. Under his guidance as GM/NER Railway, railway manpower were trained and skilled up suitably under ‘Skill India Mission’, which resulted into reduction of annual maintenance contracts, thus ensuring saving of railway revenue.
Seeing his vast experience of Railway management and administrations, he has now been elevated to the post of Chairman & CEO, Railway Board.

Shri Hira Ballabh, an IRAS officer, assumed the charge of Director Finance, DFCCIL on 05.05.2020. Prior to this, he was FA&CAO with Northern Railway. After graduation from DSB college Nainital and Masters and MPhil from JNU New Delhi, he also did his MBA(Finance) from SMU. He has rich exposure of working in Finance and Administration in multiple organisations. He was in charge of Finance in three Railway divisions i.e, Mumbai VT, Bhusawal and Bhopal. He also worked with Metropolitan Transport Project, Mumbai. As Director(Finance) of New Delhi Municipal Council(NDMC) he was associated with key urban renewal and infrastructure projects executed through various modes of Financing. Mr.Hira Ballabh had a unique opportunity to chair the Accounting Reform Committee of NDMC. Further, he also worked with Freight Operations Information System (FOIS), Computerisation and taxation in Railways. He also had stint in Production Unit, Procurement wing and Traffic Earnings. He has vast exposure of Sports administration and Financing. While working as Secretary and ED of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) he is credited with improving the Financial position of the  organisation.
Mr. Hira Ballabh has attended various events, seminars and trainings in India and abroad. He participated in negotiations abroad and represented India. Mr.Hira Ballabh has received the National Award for Outstanding Services for implementing ISO 9000 in a Railway Division. He got GM’s medal and also four Efficiency Shields while working in various units. He has compiled a 'Handbook on Internal Checks', one 'Manual on Finance and Accounts' and a booklet on 'Standard Form of Templates', in addition to a number of papers on various subjects.

Shri Nanduri Srinivas, an officer of 1989 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service has joined in DFCCIL as Director/OP&BD on 15/6/2020. After completing his Master Degree in Agriculture Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, initially he has joined Reserve Bank of India as a Group B officer. In the year 1991, he has joined the Indian Railways. He has worked in important key posts of Indian Railways viz., Chief Passenger Transportation Manager and Chief Traffic Planning Manager, S.W.Rly., Hubli.
Apart from these posts held, he has also worked as Executive Director/Fuel Transportation, NTPC, Executive Director/Coal Movement, Singareni Collieries Co.Limited and General Manager, IRCTC, Hyderabad. He has got interest in outdoor sports and reading books.

Shri Hari Mohan Gupta, is an Indian Railway Officer of 1989 Exam Batch (Indian Engineering Services, IES-89), graduated in Civil Engineering in 1988 from University of Roorkee (renamed as IIT/Roorkee) & worked as Executive Director (Works) in Ministry of Railways, Railway Board, New Delhi since 23-04-2019 to 12-10-2020.
Before joining Ministry office, he worked for 7 years on deputation on a challenging Iconic Project as Chief Project Manager of Rewari-Dadri section of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor in DFCCIL Organization and was instrumental in acquisition of land in 7 Prime Districts (Rewari, Alwar, Mewat, Gurgaon, Palwal, Faridabad & GB Nagar of UP) of National Capital Region territory, ensuring Forestry clearances in all Districts including special permission to pass through Aravali Ranges by making a tunnel in Aravalies. All Designs & Drawings of the project components were finalized during his tenure and construction activities all along the alignment started in a big way.
He is also having experience of track maintenance, repair/maintenance/operation/overhauling of huge Railway track machines responsible for laying/maintenance of Railway track network, tendering/contract finalization/arbitration/administration of Zonal Railways etc. etc. Also, during his stint in Railway Board while working as ED/Works, he helped Zonal Railways in a big way and gained lot of experience in project monitoring, financing & other related fields.

Shri R.N.Singh, an alumnus of IIT Roorkee, is IRSE Officer of 1986 batch. He has worked in various capacities in Indian Railways and different PSUs, including as Divisional Railway Manager, Delhi Division. He has wide experience in the field of planning and execution of infrastructure projects and Railway management. His areas of interest include PPP Projects & Strategic Management.

Shri B. Ramana Kumar, is a Lawyer and a registered Insolvency Professional. He is the founder of OvoPax Legal, a Corporate law firm. Ramana’s experience spans around 25 years and was earlier practicing as a Chartered Accountant. He was also a consultant to an international law firm and Senior Manager, Tax and regulatory services with KPMG (BSR & Co), in Chennai specializing in litigation and corporate tax services.
Ramana regularly appears before the Commissioner level and above in Income tax matters, CESTAT and above in indirect tax matters. He also appears before the SEBI, NCLT and NCLAT.
CBDT, in July 2018, appointed him as a Special Counsel, International Taxation and Transfer Pricing, for the Southern Region.
He has co-authored a book on transfer pricing along with the legendary Shri S.Rajaratnam titled “Rajaratham’s Transfer Pricing in International and Domestic Transactions”. He had earlier co-authored books, namely, Corporate Audit Checklist, Documents and deeds and Issues on tax audit . He has also taken several sessions to the officers of RBI, C&AG, Direct Taxes Regional Training Institute, IIMs and other governmental departments on the technical and specific subjects. He has also presented technical papers in many seminars and workshops. He was also an active Lion and has won many District Governors’ appreciation award.
Ramana is also an active photographer and has won many national and international prizes from over 40 countries and regularly holds exhibitions of the photographs he takes. He also takes classes on photography, travel and related subjects. He has obtained distinctions in the art of photography; notably FFIP (Fellow of the Federation of Indian Photography), AFIAP (from The International Federation of Photographic Art, France).