Mr. Dhruv Prakash

Independent Director

Mr. Prakash is a Management Consultant and Executive Coach. He has 42 years of experience in a variety of industries out of which about 22 years has been in very senior positions. He has an extensive background in consulting and had work with several of India's leading businesses to manage change, coach senior management, build high performance cultures, align executive compensation, restructure organizations and conduct post merger integration. Currently, he is serving as a advisor to helion Advisors who advice a venture fund and Space Matrix Design Consultants.

Prior to setting up his own practice, Mr. Prakash had held several important positions, viz:

Managing Director, Korn/Ferry International, Gurgaon (March 2010 - November 2011) ;

Director HR, Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd (January 2008 - February 2010);

Practice Leader, Hewitt Associates (June 1998 - December 2007);

President and whole time Director of DCM Financial Services Limited (1994 - 1997);

Chief Financial Officer of DCM Toyota.

He had also held several senior positions in finance at Escorts, HCL and Amar Dye Chem and has also served on the Board of Intec Capital Limited, a NBFC, from May 2014 to October 2015. Currently, Mr. Prakash is a director on the Board of IndiaMart InterMesh Limited.

Mr. Shriniwas Y. Joshi

Independent Director

Mr. Joshi has been practicing as a Chartered Accountant for more than 31 years and is a Senior Partner in CVK & Associates, Chartered Accountants. As a part of the practice he has carried out several Accounting, Auditing, Certification Assignments, Valuation and Taxation work for various clients such as Banks, Public Limited Companies, Private Limited Companies, Partnership, Trusts, Societies, Individuals, etc. He has been elected as Member of Western India Regional Council of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (WIRC of ICAI) since 2004 for three consecutive terms. He was Chairman of WIRC of ICAI for the year 2011-12. He has been elected as a member of Central Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for the term 2013-15 and is a member of various standing and non-standing committees of ICAI. Mr. Joshi is also a Director on the Board of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) India. Mr. Joshi has done B.Com (Mumbai University), Fellow Member of ICAI & Associate Member of ICSI.

Mr. Richard Mendonca

Associate Director

Mr. Richard Mendonca has over three decades of experience in the functional areas of Accounting, Auditing, Compliance, Secretarial and Finance. He has held various senior finance and related positions in a number of esteemed organisations – mainly multinational companies like J.Walter Thompson, Pennzoil India Ltd., Esab India Ltd. and SKF Bearings India Ltd. His experience spans various types of industries which include engineering, lubricants, welding, ball bearing ,advertising and communication. Mr. Mendonca is currently Operations Director, Commercial Finance Team, J.Walter Thompson located at Mumbai. In his current role he oversees a team which is involved in data collection and analysis of some of J. Walter Thompson’s global multinational clients. Mr. Richard is a B. Com (University of Mumbai), Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary.

Mr. Sunil Gulati

Independent Director

Mr. Sunil Gulati has over three decades of global experience in the banking industry across investment banking, corporate finance, relationship management, risk management and corporate strategy. In the last 15 years, Mr. Gulati was a key member of the management teams at RBL Bank Ltd (Chief Risk Officer), Yes Bank and ING Group, India. Mr. Gulati headed the GE Commercial Finance business for a short period. He was the head of the ING Barings business in India and was part of the core team that helped ING acquire a controlling stake in Vysya Bank. He was head of the Corporate and Investment Banking business at ING Vysya after the acquisition.

Mr. Gulati also worked with Bank of America, where he initiated their investment banking efforts in India in 1997. Before that, he was based in Hong Kong with primary responsibilities for Bank of America investment banking activities in North Asia. Mr. Gulati also handled strategic and corporate M&A exercises for Bank of America, throughout the Asia-Pacific region, including the divestment of its subsidiaries and branches in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia. Mr. Gulati had also worked with Standard Chartered Merchant Bank and with the management consultancy division of A.F. Ferguson & Co. in India.

Presently, Mr. Gulati is the non-executive Chairman of Merisis Advisors Pvt. Ltd., a boutique investment bank and is an Independent Director on the Boards of Fincare Small Finance Bank Ltd; Thirumeni Finance Pvt. Ltd, Visage Holdings and Finance Pvt. Ltd., Tapstart Capital Pvt Ltd, Samunnati Financial Intermediation & Services Pvt. Ltd., PNB Metlife India Insurance Company Ltd, Arthan Finance Pvt. Ltd., Paradime Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Empays Payment Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Gulati holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1984 and B.Tech. in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1982.

Shri Ashwani Bhatia

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Ashwani Bhatia is an Officer in the rank of Deputy Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI) and is on deputation to SBI Funds Management Private Limited since July 09, 2018.

Mr. Bhatia started his career with SBI in 1985 as Probationary Officer and has varied experience in areas like Retail, International Banking, Treasury and Credit. In a span of over 34 years in SBI, he has served in various geographical locations spread across different circles and overseas. Before taking over the present assignment, he was posted as Chief General Manager in SBI and was in-charge of revamping of the Corporate Credit Structures and Processes in the Bank. Previously, he was President and Chief Operating Officer at SBI Capital Market Limited and Chief General Manager (SME) at SBI.

Mr. Fathi Jerfel

Associate Director

Mr. Fathi Jerfel has an Engineering degree from Ecole Poly-technique, Engineering degree from the Institut Français du Petrole & Post graduate degree in Economics (Petroleum Management) from the University of Dijon. Mr. Fathi Jerfel is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Amundi SA in charge of investment solutions for Retail Network Division. After a start at Credit Lyonnais as Head of Financial Engineering and Fixed Income (1986-2001), he joined Crédit Agricole Asset Management in 2002 as Head of Derivatives Arbitrage & Cumulative Research. In 2005, Mr. Jerfel was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Crédit Agricole Structured Asset Management. Mr. Fathi is a Chairman on the Board of various Companies viz., Amundi Hellas; Amundi SGR S.P.A., Amundi Private Equity Funds, Amundi Immobilier, LCL Actions France, IKS KB, Etoile Gestion, Amundi Finance Emission, Amundi India Holding, Amundi Polska, LCL Emission, Amundi Issuance and Director on the Board of AMUNDI, Societe Generale Gestion, Wafa Gestion (Monoc), Structura, Amundi Japan Ltd, DNA, Radian, Amundi Finance, BFT Gestion, Nextstage SAS & Bawag PSK Invest.

Mr. Jashvant Raval

Independent Director

Mr. Jashvant Raval is a Practicing Chartered Accountant and is the Principal Partner of JCR & Co. since its inception in 1972. He has over 43 years of experience in statutory audit, internal audit, consultancy & investigation etc. Mr. Raval has extensive experience in statutory & internal audit of various companies including Banking / financial companies as well as advising for obtaining approval from RBI for Foreign Direct Investments, joint ventures and loans in foreign currency and rupee loans, Government of India’s approval for external commercial borrowings, long term finance from Financial institutions, divestments and obtaining required permissions (Overseas), investment companies abroad on tax laws and compliance in India (Overseas) etc. He has also handled fraud investigations in a co-operative bank, public company, investigation in a public interest litigation covering allegation of misappropriation of public issue money, investigation of a person notified by the Custodian under the Special Courts (TORTS) Act, 1992 etc. Mr. Raval is also a Director on the Board of JCR Consulting Private Limited.

Mr. Nicolas Simon

Deputy CEO

Nicolas Simon has been deputed from Amundi Group as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SBI Funds Management Private Limited w.e.f from November 1, 2015. Prior to joining SBI FM, Nicolas worked as CEO for Amundi Real Estate and CAAM Real Estate (2006 - 2015). Previously, he was associated with Henderson Global Investors as Head of Property, France (2003 - 2005) and with Generali Real Estate as CIO (1996 - 2002). He brings with him over 25 years of rich experience in Financial Services. He holds a post graduation in Law from Paris Pantheon-Assas University and Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Toulouse Business School.

Mr. Om Prakash Gahrotra

Independent Director

Mr. Om Prakash Gahrotra has rich experience of over 35 years in various areas. viz. administration & finance sectors. He belongs to the 1969 batch of Indian Administrative Services (IAS), Maharashtra Cadre and retired as Additional Chief Secretary to the Government of Maharashtra As an Additional Chef Secretary, Finance he has responsible for the overall budgeting, planning and fiscal management of the State Of Maharashtra and during his tenure, the Government Presented Revenue Surplus budgets for the years of 2005-06 & 2006-07 (after a break of 13 years) which helped in rising the CRISIL rating of the Govt. of Maharashtra to 'Investment Grade'. Some of his key positions are Sales Tax Commissioner, Chief Secretary & Managing Director Maharashtra State Textile Corporation ad MD of Maharashtra State Co-operative Cotton Growers Marketing Federation Limited. As a Senior Executive Director of SEBI his responsibilities included regulating Primary Market, Foreign Institutional Investors, Corporate takeovers, Overseas Coordination and interaction with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) to ensure that the regulations and guidelines framed by SEBI are in line with international standards. He also handled the functioning of Secondary Markets in India including all Stock Exchanges. During this period, he was responsible for the introduction of Demat and the Derivative trading in the Indian capital market. Presently, Mr. Gahrotra is on the Board of various Companies, viz, Kalpataru Limited, Synergy Li Power Resources India Pvt. Ltd, Uttam Galva Steels Ltd, Intarvo Technologies Ltd, Banyan Tree Bank, Mauritius & Onang Management Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd

Dr. Prafulla Agnihotri

Independent Director

Dr. Prafulla Agnihotri holds a Master’s Degree in Management Studies (M.M.S.) in Marketing and Ph.D. in International Marketing Strategy and also holds a post-graduate diploma in Training and Development. He has a very rich experience in the Industry in sales, marketing and training as a professional corporate trainer and conducted numerous corporate training programmes like Management Development Programmes. He also has rich experience in Academics as professor, he teaches topics like Marketing Management, International Marketing, Services Marketing and Strategic Brand Management. He is the Founder Director & Professor of Marketing & Strategy at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Tiruchirappalli. Before taking over the current post, he was a Professor of Marketing & Strategy at IIM Calcutta since July 2006 to February 2011 (currently on special leave to set up IIM Tiruchirappalli). He has co-authored a book titled ‘Principles of Marketing’, with Philip Kotler, Northwestern University, USA; Gary Armstrong, University of North Carolina, USA and Ehsan Ul Haq, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan which has been published by Pearson Education (Prentice Hall). He was declared the Best Teacher in Marketing Management at 16th Business School Affair and Dewang Mehta Business School Awards in September 2008 and was awarded the Best Professor in Marketing award at the Asia's Best B-School Awards by CMO Asia on 23rd July, 2010 at Singapore. He was also awarded with the "Bharat Jyoti Award" for his exemplary services in the education sector by India International Friendship Society.

Mr. Dinesh Kumar Khara

Associate Director

Mr. Dinesh Kumar Khara is the Managing Director (Global Banking & Subsidiaries) of State Bank of India. He holds a Board level position in the Bank supervising the businesses of Global Market, Corporate Banking and the businesses of non-banking subsidiaries of the Bank. The subsidiaries are engaged in diverse financial activities such as Asset Management, Life Insurance, General Insurance, Custodial Services, Primary Dealership, Investment Banking, Broking, Credit Cards, Pension Funds and Factoring services. He is entrusted with the role of supervision of 18 Regional Rural Banks (sponsored by SBI) having over 5,500 branches, with more than 55 million customers.

Mr. Dinesh Kumar Khara, 58 is an Alumni of FMS (University of Delhi) and Delhi School of Economics. He is also a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB). Mr. Khara joined SBI as Probationary Officer in 1984 and has over 35 years of experience in all facets of Commercial banking such as Retail Credit, SME/Corporate Credit, deposit mobilization, international banking operations, branch management, etc. During his tenure with State Bank of India, he held various positions including Chief General Manager – Bhopal, Network General Manager Chennai & has been posted to the Bank’s Chicago office.

Mr. Jean-Yves Glain

Associate Director

Mr. Jean-Yves Glain is the Head of the International Support and Marketing Intelligence Departments of Amundi, Paris and also responsible for joint venture supervision of Amundi. He has over 32 years of experience in the Finance industry. Mr. Glain has been associated with Amundi since 1995 and has worked in various capacities like Secretary General of the Support Department, heading the international development of the Amundi. Prior to joining Amundi, he was also associated with Cyril Finance Gestion (French asset manager) as Head of Sales from April 1991 to July 1995; BAFIP (French asset manager) as member of Institutional Sales team from Oct 1987 to March 1991 and with Bank of America, Paris from Feb 1985 to Sept 1987.

Mr. C. N. Ram

Independent Director

Mr. C. N. Ram has done B.Tech (Electronics) from IIT, Madras & PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad. Presently, he is associated with Warburg Pincus India Private Ltd. as Senior Advisor since 2015.

He started his career in 1979 as a graduate trainee at Tata Steel in Jamshedpur and moved to Bank of America in Mumbai in 1982 managing IT and served as VP & Country Systems Manager till 1994. Mr. Ram joined HDFC Bank as Chief Information Officer and Head of Information Technology since July 1994 and was responsible for its IT activities as well as its subsidiaries. He supported the entire range of banking services from Retail Banking to International operations and managed a team of 350 IT professionals. He worked at HDFC Bank until June 2008. He also worked with Essar Ltd as Group President – CIO from 2010 to 2013.

Mr. Ram is the Co-Founder & Director of Rural Shores Business Services, a socially-oriented commercial company to help rural entrepreneurs set up BPOs in villages. He has served as a member of the Global Customer Advisory Board of NCR Corporation for their Self-Service business, the Asia-Pacific Technology Advisory Board of VISA International & the Customer Executive Advisory Board of Sun Microsystems. He was also a Member of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) IT Advisory Committee. He had served on committees constituted by the RBI to advise on Cheque Truncation, Technology for Financial Inclusion, setting up of a multi-bank telecommunications network etc. He has also served as an Advisor to the National Depositories Limited and the National Payments Corporation of India Limited. Most recently he was on the RBI’s Technology Committee for Mobile Banking and the Forward Markets Commissions’ Advisory Committee on Technology. He is also a member of the CIO Angel Network (CAN).

Mr. Ram is the first recipient of The Konrad Zuse Medal of Honour for Lifetime Achievement in Business Technology instituted by the CIO Association of India in 2013. He was conferred the CIO Masters Lifetime Achievement Award instituted by Biztech2.com & Network18 in 2013. He is also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by the CIO Leadership forum C-Change in 2015.