Sudip Bandyopadhyay director

An entrepreneur. A venture capitalist. A commodity market catalyst. A stock market veteran. A leader. Recognized by the International Who’s Who, Sudip is a Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant with nearly three decades of experience in various areas of finance and financial services. He has been part of various large conglomerates such as ITC and Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group amongst others. During his 16 years stint with ITC as Head of Treasury and Strategic Investments, he managed investments in excess of $1.5 billion. Sudip was also responsible for the acquisition of strategic stakes in EIH, VST and several other companies, by ITC. At Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group he was instrumental in leading its foray, amongst others, into Equity and Commodity Broking, Financial Products Distribution, Commodity Exchanges, Gold Coin Retailing, Money Changing and Money Transfer. Sudip was also responsible for the acquisition of AMP Sanmar through which Reliance launched its Life Insurance business. In his last assignment, Sudip was the Managing Director and CEO of Destimoney, a full service financial organization, promoted by New Silk Route – an Asia focused growth capital private equity firm with over $1.4 billion under management. It is Sudip’s long term vision to ensure Inditrade is an active participant in nation building. He firmly believes that Inditrade is today at a stage where it can take a quantum leap by pioneering change in the commodity lending & micro lending space, while building on its strength in the personal finance domain, in a substantial and sustained manner. Sudip sits on the Boards of a number of listed and unlisted domestic companies and is also an investor in many Fintech and other Technology related ventures. A visionary, Sudip is always on the lookout for emerging trends and new opportunities that they would unfold; a trait which he tries to inculcate amongst those who work and interact with him.

brij gopal daga Director

Mr.Brij Gopal Daga is a Master of Commerce and has professional diplomas in Banking, Accountancy, Co-operation and Secretarial Practice. In a career spanning over more than five decades, Mr. Daga has acquired extensive knowledge in diverse fields like Finance, Investment, Capital and Securities Markets, Regulatory Compliances, etc., and has served premier institutions like Reserve Bank of India (as Asst. Gen. Manager), Unit Trust of India (as Executive Director) and Central Depository Services (India) Ltd (as Managing Director). Mr. Daga has also served as an Institutional Nominee on the Boards of several leading companies and is an experienced independent director. He has also been a member on various committees, appointed by Securities & Exchange Board of India and is currently a member of SEBI’s Mutual Fund Advisory Committee.

k a somasekharan Director

K A Somasekharan is a Commerce and a law graduate and also holds AIII from Federation of Insurance Institute, Mumbai. He has got more than 50 years of experience in General Insurance sector. He was the Regional Manager of United India Insurance and the Executive Director and CEO of Reliance General Insurance Co. Under his leadership, Reliance General Insurance became the third largest private General Insurance Company. He was also the Principal Consultant of India First Life Insurance Company.

D. Sivanandhan IPS (Retd.) Director

D. Sivanandhan retired as the Director General of Police, Maharashtra state in 2011. He served as Commissioner of Police, Mumbai after the 26/11 attacks and was responsible for building up a world-class anti-terrorism mechanism. Sivanandhan is the recipient of the President’s Distinguished Service Medal, 2000 as well as the Meritorious Service Medal, 1993 and the Internal Security Medal, 1998.

Most recently, he has been a member of the special task force in the National Security Council Secretariat (Prime Minister’s Office) for revamping India’s internal and external national security measures. He was also the security advisor to the Reserve Bank of India for three years from 2012 to 2015. He has also co-authored a National best seller titled “Chanakya’s seven secrets of leadership” translated into five national languages.

Jhuma Guha Director

Jhuma Guha is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary and has over 25 years of experience in the field of financial services. She has worked with various reputed companies like ITC Limited, Reliance Securities Limited, Destimoney Securities Private Limited, etc., and brings along with her varied experience and expertise in the field of legal, compliance, finance, mergers and acquisitions.

Anand Maliwal Director

Anand is a business technologist with more than 16 years of experience in Banking & Financial Services. His experience is spread across a wide spectrum of technology functions across multiple geographies including India, Japan and UK. Anand has significant experience in the areas of managing core technology functions, deploying and rolling out programs, vendor management, technology outsourcing, multi-location team management and process consulting. He also has a sound understanding of newer programs in field of Mobility, Analytics and Cloud. His previous assignments include Destimoney Securities Pvt. Ltd., Networth Stock Broking, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Polaris Software Labs and India Infoline Ltd. In his present role as the Chief Digital Officer at Inditrade Capital Ltd., Anand is leading the digital transformation initiatives across the various group businesses<

Radhakrishnan Nair director

A finance professional well versed with Banking Operations, Treasury and Recovery Management. Securities Market Regulation & Insurance Regulation and Supervision, Radhakrishnan Nair is a Former Member of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India. His earlier assignments included being Executive Director at the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), General Manager at Corporation Bank and Managing Director of CorpBank Securities. Nair is a keen trainer and has delivered lectures on development of money and debt markets, energising corporate bond market at various training centres across the country. He currently serves on the RBI Technical Advisory Committee on Money, Foreign Exchange and Government Securities Markets, SEBI Corporate Bonds and Securitisation Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC), FSDC Sub-Committee on Early Warning, International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) Committee on Financial Stability etc.

Mr. SK Mitra director

An industry veteran with over four decades of experience, Mr. SK Mitra was one of the early batches of investment bankers in India. He was instrumental in setting up the Merchant Banking Divisions of Bank of India and Standard Chartered Bank. He then led the Corporate Banking and Investment Banking Division of American Express in India and was responsible for setting up the GIC Mutual Fund. He was also part of the Aditya Birla Group as Director, Financial Services and was responsible for setting up the highly respected and successful financial services activities for the Group.

Currently, he has been on the Board of Directors and Committees of several reputed companies in diverse industries as an Independent Director. He has also been an Advisor to a large international bank and to a few PE firms and start-up firms.

Sudhangshu Shekhar Biswal director

Mr.Sudhangshu Biswal is a graduate in Commerce from Utkal University, Odisha in 1990 and an accomplished Chartered Accountant (CA) and Cost & Management Accountant (CMA). He has also completed Strategic Finance Program Course from Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Manila, Philippines.

Mr.Biswal has been a part of the top management and on the Board of various organisations with cross functional experience (Corporate Strategy, Fund Raising, Fund Planning & Treasury, Accounts & Taxation, MIS & Budget, Secretarial & Board Compliance, Business Development, etc) of more than 25 years across various industry verticals like Consulting, Software, Aviation, Education, Infrastructure and Real Estate. Presently, Mr. Sudhangshu Biswal is a Director in the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (National Apex Chamber) and also a member of the Managing Committee and a Member of the Board of Advisors of Confederation of Young Leaders (CYL).