Board of Directors
Mr. Balan Wasudeo, B.Sc. from the University of Madras and PGDBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has over 35 years’ experience in the areas of Treasury, Finance, Projects, Strategic Planning, Risk Management and General Management. His significant achievements include financing large organic and inorganic growth through various debt and capital market instruments in India and abroad. Mr. Balan’s career spans a unique combination of Multinational Companies, Public Sector Companies and Family Owned Indian Companies. Mr. Balan has played leadership roles in corporate restructuring, large fund-raising exercises and project management. He has received the Best Performing CFO Award in Logistics Sector from CNBC TV18 in 2006. He has been on Board of Directors of several reputed Companies.
A Chartered Accountant in public practice, Mr. Elavia retired as Senior Partner of M/s. Kalyaniwalla & Mistry – Chartered Accountants. He is currently a Director on the Board of Directors of various listed companies and a number of other unlisted public & private companies. He is also a Member of the India UK Accountancy Task Force constituted by the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. The Reserve Bank of India appointed Mr. Elavia as a member of the Indian Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited where he was the Chairman of its Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee. He is on the Boards of Trustees of several charitable organizations established for supporting education and religious causes.
Mr. Bhattacharya has served as Managing Director of State Bank of India. He has wide experience of over five decades in Banking, Trade and Commerce. Mr. Bhattacharya was the Chairman of Finance and Banking Committee of the Indian Merchants’ Chamber, Mumbai. He has also served as a Member, Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) for 2 years. He has been on the Board of Directors of other reputed companies.
Mr. Venkattu Srinivasan
Mr. Srinivasan has experience of over 3 decades in the area of financial services. Mr. Srinivasan has extensive experience and skills in acquisition, resolution and restructuring non-performing loans. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree and is also a Cost Accountant. Mr. Srinivasan has been associated with Kotak Mahindra Bank for more than 2 decades and has played crucial role in setting up several lending businesses such as commercial vehicle loans, tractor finance, construction equipment, farm equipment, business loans etc.
Ms. Agarwal has experience of over 3 decades in banking Industry. Ms. Agarwal is presently working as President – Global Transaction Banking at Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited and is managing the Large Corporates Division. Prior to joining Kotak Mahindra Bank, she has worked with ICICI Bank for 20 years. Her experience includes various aspects of banking viz. market research, corporate banking, stressed asset management and lending to Small and Medium Enterprises. Ms. Agarwal is post graduate in Business Management.
