Mr. C V Rao

MD & CEO

Mr. C V Rao, popularly known as “CV”, has over 24 years of experience in the Banking and Financial services Industry with a proven track record in managing portfolio risks. He has got a unique blend of experience with a wide variety of retail banking products - secured and unsecured lending products, Investment products, Liability products and financial inclusion and cross-section of functions - Product design, Business Development and Marketing.

Mr. Sunil Rohokale

Director

Mr. Sunil Rohokale is a Private Equity Real Estate Practice at ASK, is currently Chief Executive and Managing Director of ASK Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd., renowned for its strong research based Investment Management. Mr. Rohokale is responsible for the vision of ASK group and spearheads the strategy of the group, which manages 35,000 Crores, assets under management in Equity, Real Estate, Private Equity and Wealth Advisory.


Mr. Monik Koticha

Director

Mr. Monik Koticha is part of the promoter family of ASK Group, a diversified financial services company and has been with the firm for over 10 years working in various different capacities. He is currently spearheading the groups foray into new strategic businesses with a focus on creating a credible lending platform through a qualified and regulated Non-Banking Financial Company.

Ms. Debanshi Basu

Nominee Director

Ms. Debanshi Basu has over 21 years of experience encompassing private equity, investment banking and audit and assurance services. She serves as a Partner at Baring Private Equity India, and leads investments and portfolio management in Financial Services, FinTech, Agri-inputs and other sectors. She has been actively involved with investments and portfolio management of companies such as SK Finance, Nivara Home Finance, Acko, Manappuram Finance and Muthoot Fincorp, among others. She is currently a Board member of SK Finance, Nivara Home Finance, Nehat Technologies, Infrasoft Technologies and has served on other Boards in the past. She joined Baring in 2009.

In her prior position, Debanshi was part of the original team of the Investment Banking practice at Goldman Sachs in Mumbai, where she spent 6 years scross sectors like healthcare, general manufacturing, large industrial, IT and commercial banks. She was involved in execution of several M&A and fund-raising efforts both in the equity and debt markets.Prior to this, she was with Ernst & Young, involved in conducting statutory audits and internal control assessments for mid-cap listed and private companies. Debanshi is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Osmania University.

Mr. Muthuswamy Venkata Jayaraman

Independent Director

Mr. Muthuswamy Venkata Jayaraman holds Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Post Graduate Diploma in Banking from Annamalai University. He has attended Director’s Program with IIM, Bangalore and completed One-year Advanced General Management Program from IIM, Bangalore. He is also a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers - CAIIB.

He has over 36+ years of in-depth knowledge & experience in banking functions – Risk, Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Branch Banking, Forex and Operations–Wholesale and Retail. He is a Banking professional with strong business acumen capable of strategizing any given issue and scrutinising even the smallest detail to ensure successful execution. Further, he is Competent in administering various branch operations facilitated by in-depth understanding of the banking industry, statutory requirements, and banking policies. His last assignment was Chief Risk Officer, Fincare Small Finance Bank. Further, he had held leadership positions in various banks like Kotak Mahindra Bank/ING Vysya Bank, ICICI Bank, Corporation Bank & Andhra Bank.

Mr. Krishna Gopalaraman

Independent Director

Mr. Krishna Gopalaraman is a Mechanical Engineer from Bombay University and a Post-Graduate in Management from IRMA, Anand. He is also an Associate Member of ICMAI & a Chartered Financial Analyst of ICFAI.

He has over 30 years of experience in various organizations including Deloitte and Tech Mahindra.

Lead outcome-based consulting engagements in Manufacturing & Financial Services Operations, Supply Chain & Distribution and Project Management (Capital Projects/ Plant Shutdowns or Turnarounds) for M&M (Auto & Farm Sector), ACC, Vedanta, etc. as well as Engagements in IT - Business Intelligence & Data Analytics for various US based Fortune 500 Companies.

His work expertise includes building machine learning applications and has led Business Units in areas of IT-Analytics and Process Transformation.