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.
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.
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.
Mr. Subroto Chattopadhyay served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of
Entertainment Business of RPG Enterprises in addition of being a Member of its Management
Board. Mr. Chattopadhyay has also served as Head of the Pepsi Food Business in South
Asia and was part of Hindustan Lever, ITC Ltd., and Saregama India Ltd. amongst
others. Mr. Chattopadhyay has been the Chairman of Wall Street Finance Ltd., Chairman
of The Peninsula Foundation, Chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations, Inc., Chairman
of the Indian Music Industries as well as a Trustee of Washington-based development
agency Technoserve.
Mr. Chattopadhyay holds a Honours Degree in Economics, with Mathematics and Statistics
from the University of Calcutta and has done a course in finance for senior management
in BAT.
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.