An entrepreneur. A venture capitalist. A professional business manager. 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 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 other 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.
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 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 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 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 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<
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.
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.
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).
An alumnus of the London School of Business and Finance, Vignesh has over a decade
of feet on street experience in across micro finance and other non-banking financial
services. He has hands on experience in implementing various developmental and micro
enterprise activities. A natural leader, Vignesh not only has the ability to motivate
colleagues and investors but also has an excellent track record of generating new
business. He has previously been associated with Maximal Finance & Investments Ltd.,
and SWAWS Credit Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. Vignesh has also attended several professional
training programs in Micro Enterprise Development, Microfinance Incubation, Microfinance
Management, Financial Management, Strategic Business Plan, Internal Audit and Applied
Microfinance program conducted by reputed Institutions and Organizations like Reserve
Bank of India, IRMA, Micro Save, ASCENT – Friends of World Women Bank.
Abhishek has nearly two decades of rich and progressive experience in the financial
sector. He has established start-ups and converted them into profitable units for
the organization by taking care of the operational, sales movements and other related
activities. He has also been instrumental in uplifting the employee efficiency to
more than double while checking the attrition level to a significantly manageable
number.
With his leadership perspective and the varied experience acquired in the sector,
Abhishek has always provided strategic direction to his teams in the area of business
and branding.
Abhishek has a Management Degree in Business Administration from Southern Cross
University, Australia.
A business leader with over 26 years of high-performance track record, Rajib is
known for setting up businesses from scratch, transforming businesses and achieving
top and bottom-line growth in mature as well as start up environments. He has strong
strategic business planning & execution skills, market insight and expertise in
leading & motivating cross-functional teams to deliver on goals. Prior to joining
Inditrade, he was responsible for the transformation of GIC Housing Finance Ltd.,
from a micro housing finance company to a mega housing finance company with AUM
of INR 1,100 crore.
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
Naveen is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India. He has a decade
of experience across various financial verticals. Naveen’s previous assignments
included Destimoney Securities Pvt. Ltd. and WWIL
Shyam has an overall experience of 17 years' in the financial sector. A Masters
in IT, Shyam has global experience & expertise at designing & implemented customized
capital market products across geographies such as Middle East, Africa and South
Asia. Prior to joining Inditrade Capital, Shyam was associated with 3iInfotech as
their Global Delivery Head for Capital Market Products.