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.
A qualified Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary, Jhuma has over 25 years
of experience across legal, compliance, finance, mergers & acquisitions. She has
worked with various reputed companies like ITC Ltd., Reliance Securities Ltd., and
Destimoney Securities Private Ltd. Being a perfectionist, Jhuma has a focused approach
towards ensuring company objectives are met. She not only takes executive level
decisions but also oversees and manages initiatives to improve company performance.
An insurance industry veteran, K A Somasekharan is a Commerce and a Law graduate.
He has spent over half a century in leading public sector as well as private general
insurance companies such as United India Insurance and Reliance General Insurance
where he was the Executive Director and CEO. Under his leadership, Reliance General
Insurance became the third largest private General Insurance Company. He was also
the Principal Consultant of IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company.
Gurmeet Singh has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management. He has more than 16 years
of experience in the Capital and Commodities Market and has worked with reputed
organisations like Baazee.com(eBay. in),ICICI Direct , Reliance ADAG Group and Destimoney
Securities. He has rich experience in the field of Marketing, Sales, Business Development,
etc., and also has proficiency in scaling up businesses.
Mr. Vijay Chugh served as Principal Chief General Manager, Department of Payment
and Settlement Systems of the RBI. He also served as the chief vigilance officer
of the Industrial Investment Bank of India Limited. He served as a nominee of the
RBI on the boards of directors of the State Bank of Patiala and the United Bank
of India.
Mr. Chugh holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Delhi University and a Master
of Arts Degree from the University of Rajasthan. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma
in Business Administration from the KC College of Management Studies, Mumbai. He
is a Certificated Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers and has been awarded
an Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation and Technology
from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
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.