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A Director of a Company is a person that is elected by the shareholders to manage the affairs of the company as per the MOA and AOA. As the company is an artificial person it can only act through the agency of a natural person. Thus, a director has to be a living person and the management of the company is entrusted to its Board of Directors. The appointment of the Directors can be required from time to time based on the requirements of the shareholders of the business.
The Companies Act,2013 defines the term Director as someone who is appointed to the Board of a Company. The Board of Directors is a group of those individuals who are elected by the shareholders of the company to manage the affairs of the company. As a company is an artificial legal person that is created by law, the company can act only through the agency of natural persons. The Directors can only act through Human beings and the Directors through whom the company mainly acts. The Board of Directors is that body of individuals on which the management of a company is entrusted.
According, to the other definitions a Director is someone who administers, controls, or directs something. A Director is someone who supervises, controls, or manages. He is a person who is elected by the shareholders of a company to direct a company's policies; he is a person appointed or elected under the law, and who is authorized to manage and direct the affairs of the Company.
- Managing Director:-
A Managing Director is a director by the virtue of Articles of Association of a company or an agreement with the company or a resolution passed in the general meeting or by the Board of Directors. As the board of directors is entrusted with the substantial powers of management of affairs of the company. - Whole-time Director or Executive Director:
Someone who is in Full-time employment of the Company is an executive director or the whole director. - Ordinary Director:-
An ordinary director is a simple director who attends the Board meetings of a company and participates in the matters that are put before the Board of Directors. These Directors are not whole-time Directors or Managing Directors.
- Private Limited Company- Can have a minimum of two directors.
- Limited Company- Minimum three directors.
- One Person Company- Minimum one director.