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Management Committee:
Apart from the Managing Director, Managing Committee (MANCO)
comprises of the following Senior Management personnel:
|
Name |
Designation |
Educational Qualification |
Work Experience |
|
No. of Years/Area of work |
Previous Employer |
|
S. Bhaskar
 |
COO |
ACA |
24 years
Started in
Pricewater House for 1 ˝ years. Later 20 years in
Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd. Initially
handled corporate finance and trade finance including bill
discounting etc and in the early years of Chola’s retail
foray, handled retail finance also. Later moved as CFO &
Treasurer and handled Risk management including internal
audit and business process.
Prior to
joining here, he was Murugappa Group Treasurer and Vice
President Internal Audit for the last two years. |
Murugappa Group |
|
K. P. Venkatesh
 |
Group President (Operations)
|
Post Graduate
Diploma in Business Management from Xavier Institute of
Management
(XIM-B)
Bachelor of Engineering –Mechanical
from Sri Venkateswara college of Engineering, Chennai. |
He has over 18
years of experience in sales and marketing which spans
across tangible (tyre) and intangible (asset financing)
products. He was till recently the All-India sales and
marketing Head for GMAC. He started his career in J.K.
Industries and then he moved on to Cholamandalam DBS Finance
where he was the National Product Head (Auto Loans). |
GMAC Financial Services Limited |
|
H. Mahalingam
 |
Group CTO &
President |
M.Sc Statistics
Systems Analysis and Design, HCL
New Delhi
Business continuity Plan, Business
Continuity Institute, UK
Information Security from SQTC, New
Delhi |
The first 7
years were in Pricol (Premier Instruments) Coimbatore,
Fusegear Electrical Engineering and Enfield India. Later was
head of I.T for Kothari group for 13 years and the last 7
years, he has been Head of IT for Cholamandalam DBS Finance
Ltd. As Head of IT for Cholamandalam, he is in charge of
their entire hardware, networking as well as the software in
terms of identifying right software platforms for the
various business applications of the company, networking and
hardware required for optimum performance at the right cost.
Cholamandalam is a pan India leading NBFC with over 180
branches and a volume throughput of about 1000 new customer
transactions per day |
Cholamandalam DBS Limited |
|
H.K.N. Raghavan

|
National Business Head |
Commerce Graduate from Osmania
University Executive MBA from IIM-Calcutta.
|
24 years
He has over 24 years of work experience with
various FMCG & retail companies like Hindustan Unilever, Con Agra Foods, Henkel,
Dabur & Subhiksha Trading Private Ltd. The work spans geographical area across
South, West and North of India.
Prior to joining Equitas he was Vice President - Private Labels for Subhiksha
based out of Chennai.
From 2008 to 2010 (2 years) he conceptualized and executed the food security
initiative through Equitas Dhanyakosha a Sec.25 company. |
Subhiksha Trading Private Ltd. |
|
S. Sethupathy
 |
Head-Operations |
BE Mechanical from BMS
College of Engineering, Bangalore
M.Phil in Management from Madurai
Kamaraj University
M.B.A with specialisation in
Operations Research from IGNOU |
Over 17 years
of experience in Shop floor in manufacturing and quality in
various organisations such as HMT, Sundaram Fasteners, Jay
Parabolic Springs and Yuken India. The work experience
covers various aspects of manufacturing and quality as well
as application of various quality tools such as TQM and 5S.
Prior to joining here he was Head of Manufacturing in Yuken
India Ltd, an auto component manufacturer based out of
Bangalore. Has presented papers on various topics such as
Kaizen in manufacturing, 5S and Lean manufacturing in forums
such as Indian Machine Tools Manufacturing Association, Auto
Components Manufacturers Association etc |
Yuken India Limited |
|
S. Muralidharan
 |
Head-HR |
BE (Mechanical) from Bharatiar
Univeristy
MBA from Bharathidasan Institute of
Management (BIM) Trichy |
Joined Ashok
Leyland from campus as Management trainee and after 1 ˝
years, moved to Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd
as branch manager in Salem. Later was promoted as Regional
Manager for Tamilnadu. Was with Cholamandalam for 5 ˝ years
and then moved to Citicorp India Ltd for 1 ˝ years handling
Tamilnadu and Andhrapradesh for their vehicle financing.
Last 7 years has been with Datamatics, a premier HR
recruiting and consulting firm with specialised focus on
recruitment and training. |
Datamatics Staffing Services |
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John Alex.A
 |
Head – Social Initiatives |
B.Sc. - Agriculture
|
32 years
After
graduating in Agriculture, he started his career as a Group
II Gazetted Officer in Tamil Nadu Government and served as
Extension Officer (Agri) & Block Development Officer in
North Arcot District, Tamil Nadu from 1979 to 1983.
Joined Indian
Overseas Bank as a Probationary Officer and served as Branch
Manager, Assistant Chief Officer, Senior Manager & Chief
Manager in Tamil Nadu & Andhra Pradesh from 1983 to
2008.
He is also
actively involved in various social activities with various
non-profit organizations as follows:
-
Treasurer
& Trustee of ExNoRa International-an Environmental
Club (NGO)
-
Charter
Founder member –TN Association of Voluntary blood
donors
-
Past Dist
Chairman-Lions Clubs International
During the stint at Indian Overseas Bank, he was
actively involved in the Self Help Group (SHG) programme
and has also presented a paper on SHG movement at the
invitation of UGN, Austria.
|
Indian Overseas Bank |
Suchindran V.G.
 |
Vice President & Head – Treasury & Risk
|
B.Com, FCA, ACS, Grad. CWA |
He has around 8 years of post qualification experience in treasury and capital markets. He started his career in the Corporate Treasury Department of Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Coy. Limited. Then he moved on to Citibank NA as a Treasury Analyst for the Consumer Banking division. Prior to joining Equitas he was Vice President-Operations for a US-based hedge fund administrator. |
Variman Capital Markets Services Private Limited |
|
E Varathkanth
 |
Chief Product Manager |
BTech (IIT Madras)
PGDM (IIM Bangalore) |
Prior to his
stint at Equitas, Varath lead the Strategic Marketing Group
at one of the largest business units at Cognizant Technology
Solutions. Apart from this strategic advisory role, he was
also involved in knowledge management and business
development activities. |
Cognizant Technology Solutions |
Profile of other Senior Management personnel
are as follows:
|
Name |
Designation |
Educational Qualification |
Work Experience |
|
No. of Years/Area of work |
Previous Employer |
Mohanan
B
 |
Deputy Zonal Manager -
South |
B.com,
MBA |
25
years
He
has a diversified experience in financial services. He
started his career as Officer - Accounts. Later he moved
onto to handle fixed deposits, vehicle finance as well as
receivables with various NBFCs like Sakthi Finance, Apple
Credit corporation, GMAC and Cholamandalam DBS.
Prior
to joining Equitas, he was Regional Manager (Vehicle
Finance) with Cholamandalam DBS Finance Limited for 4 years
handling Tamil Nadu-1 and Kerala.
|
Cholamandalam
DBS Finance Limited
|
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P Selvamani
 |
Head - Legal |
M.A, MBA, M.L.
|
Has over 18 years of experience in NBFC & Banking industry. Started his career in Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd. and handled Public Deposits - Marketing and Receivables Management in Vehicle finance for around 13 years.
Prior to joining Equitas, worked with HDFC Bank Ltd for the last 5 years as Regional Legal Manager - South for Retail Assets.
|
HDFC BANK Limited |
|
S. Shankar
 |
Head – Operational Risk |
B.Com, M.Com,
I.C.W.A.(Inter) |
24 Years experience in Banking & Financial Services
domain.
Started his career with Forbes Gokak Ltd (Formerly Gokak
Patel Volkart Ltd) Textile Mill belonging to TATA Group as
Cost Officer. Then he moved to Tamilnadu Industrial
Investment Corporation Limited. (TIIC) as Officer. Later, he
worked with a nationalized bank
Bank of Baroda, at New Delhi as Officer. Subsequently, he
joined M/s. Imperial Corporate Finance & Services Pvt.
Ltd, at New Delhi, a Cat-1 Merchant Banker, as its Asst.
Vice President and was subsequently promoted as Vice
President. Later he moved to M/s. Vivek Hire Purchase &
Leasing Ltd, a NBFC belonging to Viveks group, consumer
durable retail chain, in Chennai as its Vice President.
His last assignment before joining this company was with
M/s. AIG Consumer Financial Services India Ltd, a MNC NBFC
as Head-Sales Finance and later as National Sales Manager. |
AIG Consumer Financial Services
India Ltd. |
|
S.Kannadasan
 |
Senior General Manager - Finance |
B.Sc., ACA
|
16 years
Started his career as Accounts officer with M/s Transport Corporation of India Ltd., Asia's Leading Surface Transport company. Later he moved to Sugal and Damani Finlease Ltd., a Listed Company engaged in HP, Lease and deposit as Vice President – Finance. Then he has moved to M/s Gati Ltd as Manager - Accounts. The last assignment before this company is with Computer Age Management Services Pvt. Ltd. where he was Heading the Accounts and Finance division of the company. He has good experience in the Field of Accounts, Finance, Income Tax, Service Tax and
FBT.
|
Computer Age Management Services Pvt. Ltd. |
Balaji
Sankaranarayanan
 |
General
Manager – IT Applications
|
B.Com,
MBA, Oracle Certified Professional DBA
|
Over
10 years of comprehensive experience in software and
financial services industry, complete management of IT
Services including Project Management,
Technology & Infrastructure Building.
Started
as Analyst Programmer for 2 years, later on worked as
Officer in Charge for 1 year before moving on as Head of IT
for 5 years. The last 2 years he was involved in setting up
a start-up IT company.
|
United
Finance Company SAOG - Oman |
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Anand
Sharma

|
GM – IT Projects |
Post Graduate in Computer Science, from Banaras Hindu
University
|
15 years
Started his career in Development Consultants Limited
(August 1995), as Trainee Systems Analyst and moved up to Manager – Projects,
handling multiple projects in Banking & Financial Industries. Involved in
Complete Life Cycle of Branch Automation Software for a Chennai based Private
Sector Bank, and computerized the entire banking operations both at branches
& Head Office. Joined Bharat Overseas Bank Limited, Chennai in May 2003 as
Senior Manager – IT and moved up to AGM – IT (Head of Information
Technology) in June 2006. During his tenor in Bharat Overseas Bank Limited, he
was responsible for migrating existing Branch Automation System to Core Banking
Solution (FlexCube) and implementing other delivery channels like ATM , Phone
Banking etc & setting up Disaster Recovery Center. As directed by Finance
Ministry of India, Bharat Overseas Bank Ltd, was Merged to Indian Overseas Bank
on 1st April 2007
. Mr. Anand Sharma was the Project Lead (joint team
of Bharat Overseas Bank Limited & IOB) for data migration (from FLEXCUBE to
CROWN – In-house developed core banking solution of IOB). It was a highly
successful migration because of which all the Bharat Overseas Bank customers
where able to operate their accounts using CROWN from 3rd April 2007
. He was with Indian Overseas Bank till December
2008 and then Joined Equitas Microfinance on 3rd January 2009.
|
Indian Overseas Bank |
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Ronen
Kumar Das

|
Head -
Recruitments |
MBA from Bharathiar University
|
15 years
After
completing MBA, Ronen has worked in Sales & Marketing roles for 8 years with
5 years experience in FMCG sales in Tanzania. Prior to joining Equitas, he
worked with Datamatics Staffing Services (P) Ltd. for close to 7 years last as
Deputy General Manager. At Datamatics, he led the BFSI Practice managing
domestic and international recruitments in banking, insurance, audit &
consulting.
|
Datamatics
Staffing Services (P) Ltd |
|
K
B Ganesh

|
General Manager - Training |
Academic
B Sc Physics from Bharathidasan
University
Techincial Skills/
Ceritifcation
Honors Diploma in Information
and Systems Management from APTECH in 1995.
Diploma in Computer Programming
and Applications from National Computing Centre, U.K through APTECH in 1995
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Joined Asian Paints I Ltd in May
1995. During 5 ˝ Years in Asian Paints involved in handling dealers and later
on handling the “Large User Business” which involved handling architects,
builders, corporate accounts in the form of Hotels/ PSUs/ Hospitals. Joined
Bahwan Automotive Centre, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman in the field of Automobile
Sales for 1˝ Years (Nov 2000 to July 2002). Joined Godrej Tea Ltd (a new
venture of Godrej) for short stint of 6 months from September 2002 to May 2003
and then later on Worked in ICICI Bank Limited as Branch Sales Manager for
Mortgages (Home Loans) from May 2003 to July 2004. Worked as Area Sales Manager
in Development Credit Bank Limited for Mortgages (Home Loans) from July 2004 to
September 2005. Joined ABN Amro Bank NV (currently known as Royal Bank of
Scotland NV) as Manager sales for Unsecured Loans ( Personal Loans and Business
Loans) – September 2005 to June 2009.
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ABN Amro Bank
NV (currently known as Royal Bank of Scotland NV) |
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