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 ½ 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

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

24 years

S. Sethupathy

Head-Operations

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 ½ 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 ½ years and then moved to Citicorp India Ltd for 1 ½ 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

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

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.

E Varathkanth

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

Name

Designation

Educational Qualification

Work Experience

No. of Years/Area of work

Previous Employer

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. 

P Selvamani

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.

S. Shankar

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. 

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. 

Anand Sharma

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.

Ronen Kumar Das

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.

K B Ganesh

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

Joined Asian Paints I Ltd in May 1995. During 5 ½ 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 1½ 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.