Mr. Sundaram's experience spans corporate finance, business performance, monitoring operations, governance, mergers & acquisitions, talent / people management and strategy.

Mr. Sundaram joined Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), the Indian listed subsidiary of Unilever Plc, as a management trainee in June 1975 and served in various capacities including six years in Unilever, London as Commercial officer: Africa and Middle East (90-93) and as Sr. V.P for South Asia and Middle East (96-99). He was the Chief Finance Officer of HUL from April 99 to March 08 and as the Vice Chairman and CFO from April 08 to July 09.

He is a two-time winner of the prestigious “CFO of the Year for FMCG Sector” award by CNBC TV18 (2006 and 2008). He was awarded as the 'Best Independent Director in 2019' by Asian Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability in December 2020.

Mr. Sundaram is currently the Vice Chairman (Non-executive, Non-independent) of TVS Capital Funds in managing a growth capital Private Equity Fund (TVS Shriram Growth Fund.) Sundaram is a post-graduate in Management Studies (MMS), Fellow of the Institute of Cost Accountants, and has done Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program (AMP). He currently serves as an independent director on the boards of Infosys, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited and Schneider Electric India Private Limited.

He is also on the Executive Council of KREA University.

Arijit is an experienced financial services professional with extensive experience across retail, investment and corporate banking in a wide variety of leadership, credit, business and product development roles.

Prior to being appointed Chief Executive Officer at HDFC Credila, Arijit was heading Strategic Planning & New Initiatives for HDFC Limited. At HDFC, Arijit was responsible for driving the development and execution of key strategic initiatives as well as executing new strategic investments in areas linked to HDFC's core business.

Previously, Arijit worked in Investment Banking with Nomura in London in a Special Situations Proprietary Trading team within Credit Structuring and in Product Strategy in HSBC UK managing global projects of vast scale and complexity. Arijit also had a stint working in a start-up bank in the UK as part of the leadership team as Head of Product. Arijit had a previous stint in HDFC, where he set up and ran the UK operations of HDFC growing it to a substantial profitable business.

Arijit has a Masters in Finance from the London Business School.

Mr. Abhijit Sen retired from Citi India in February 2015 after serving as the Chief Financial Officer - India Subcontinent for over 18 years. On retirement from Citi, Mr Sen is associated with E&Y from August 3, 2015, as a Senior Advisor, to provide broad strategic support for their activities in the Banking and Financial Services Sector. He currently serves on several Boards in the BFSI sector and chairs the Audit and Risk Committees He recently joined the Risk & Investment Committees of the National Stock Exchange. In the past, he has served on the Board of National Securities Depository Ltd. IDFC First Bank, India First Life Insurance, Trent Ltd, U Gro Capital, Ujjivan Financial Services and has been an Advisor to General Atlantic. He also mentors several start-up entrepreneurs.

In his advisory work, Mr Sen provides his domain expertise on banking and NBFC policy, governance, regulatory compliance and operations with special focus on balance sheet optimization and capital planning. He has assisted several entities in connection with their banking and NBFC licences. In his Board governance role, he specializes in financial and general management, strategy, risk management and regulatory compliance.

As Chief Financial Officer, India Subcontinent - Citi, he was responsible for the Finance function in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka for the entire Citi franchise encompassing the Bank and several other legal entities, covering Governance, Controllership, Corporate Treasury, Financial Planning, Product Control and Tax. In addition to his CFO role, Mr Sen was Chairman of Citicorp Services India Limited which provides a variety of services in the analytics, financial modeling and planning, processing and technology space engaging over 3000 professionals serving a variety of Citi businesses overseas.

During his long career Mr Sen has held various Board positions in Citi entities responsible for technology solutions. He has played a critical role in setting up a large Technology centre in Pune under Citicorp Services India Limited which has been involved in developing technology architecture for a number of Citi businesses globally. His B.Tech specialization in Electronics and his MBS dissertation in Management Information System design have aided in developing his technology skills.

Mr Sen holds a B.Tech ( Hons) from IIT, Kharagpur and a PG Diploma in Management, specializing in Finance from IIM Calcutta. He has enjoyed several academic distinctions throughout his career.

Mr. Bharat Shah holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from University of Mumbai and a Diploma in Applied Chemistry from Borough Polytechnic, London.

Bharat has a rich experience in the financial services sector and has expertise in the fields of banking, finance, real estate and securities market.

Bharat has been with HDFC Bank since its inception and has played a key role in the formation of the bank. He joined HDFC Bank as an Executive Director in December 1994.

Presently, he is the Chairman of 3M India Limited and Exide Industries Limited.

Anuranjita Kumar is a human resource veteran with over twenty-six years of experience working across the globe managing various assignments, including senior human resource roles in Asia, North America, and Europe through her stints at the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Citibank.

Anuranjita kicked –off her career with Procter & Gamble in 1994 and joined Citi in 1995. During her exceptional journey in the world of HR, she has held a variety of roles including Senior HR Generalist for Corporate and Investment Banking, Staffing and Development manager. Anuranjita was the first South Asian and woman leader to be appointed as COO & Head of HR, Global Banking EMEA In 2007. Also, Anuranjita was the first woman management committee member at Citi India. All this led Anuranjita to be recognized as an ‘Upcoming South Asia Leadership Talent’ by Asia Networks. She was head of HR was International hubs till recently with RBS. She is now a partner with IndusCap Venture and the founder of Women in Technology, India.

Anu has Been synonymous with work in diversity/ inclusions and actively engaged globally in cross-cultural issues and forums. Kumar has been recognized in many forums. For her excellent contribution to the field of HR, she was honored as ‘Most Powerful HR Professionals of India’, by the World HRD Congress in 2012 and amongst the ‘Most Powerful Woman Leaders’ by Fortune in 2013.

Recently she featured on The Economic Times ‘Women Ahead List 2018’ for being a role model for India Inc and further by the leading Asian D&I organization – House of Rose Professionals (Singapore-based Asia firm) as a Visionary Diversity and Inclusion Leader in 2019.

She Chairs the Board of the American India Foundation, is a director on the board of Plaksha University – a new age modern thinking tech university geared towards future-tech learning as well as on the Advisory board member of SHRM.

Anu is an accredited executive coach with foundation certification from School of coaching UK, Post graduate certification from I-coach academy UK and certified Integral coach from Third space and New venture west coaching institute in the US. She has over 1000 hours of coaching work under her belt and is well known for CXO coaching.

She is also a gifted author having launched her second book – ‘Colour Matters?’ primarily addressing the issue of racial and colour discrimination still prevalent. Her earlier bestseller book ‘Can I Have it all?’ addressed the opportunities of being a woman in today’s life – and in the need to opening oneself to accept these as privileges. Anu is also a philanthropist involved in volunteering with underprivileged children and a mentor to several upcoming start-ups.

A management graduate from XLRI, specializing in Human Resources. She attended Welham’s Girls School and is a gold medallist and topper in industrial psychology from Delhi University. Apart from her regular work, Anuranjita spends considerable time coaching Senior Executives and Start-up Leaders around the world.

Mr. V. Srinivasa Rangan was the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of erstwhile Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Delhi and is an Associate of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) qualified as rank holder.

He is an expert in finance, accountancy, audit, economics, corporate governance, legal & regulatory compliance, risk management and strategic thinking. He has vast experience in housing finance and real estate sector. Mr. Rangan has worked on international consulting assignments in housing finance in Ghana and the Maldives.

He has been a member of various committees related to financial services such as RBI’s Committee on Asset Securitisation and Mortgage Backed Securitisation, Technical Group formed by National Housing Bank (NHB) for setting up of a Secondary Mortgage market Institution in India, NHB’s Working Group on Covered Bonds and NHB’s Working Group on Credit Enhancement Mechanism.

Mr. Rangan was conferred the "Best CFO in the Financial Sector for 2010" by ICAI. He was also honoured with “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the sixth edition of Financial Express CFO Awards 2023.

He is the Executive Director of HDFC Bank.

Mr Rajnish Kumar is former chairman of State Bank of India. He completed his 3 years term as chairman in October 2020. He is credited with steering the bank successfully through very challenging times. During his tenure, Bank developed YONO, a digital platform, which has established bank as a global leader in adoption of technology and innovation.

Mr Kumar is a career banker with nearly 4 decades of service with State bank of India. His expertise in corporate credit and project finance is well recognized. He served the bank in various capacities across the country including in the North East as Chief General Manager. He successfully managed UK operations of the Bank.

Ashish Agrawal is a Partner in the EQT team, focusing on investment activities in India. Ashish worked for BPEA from 2008 until 2022, when the company joined forces with EQT and was renamed EQT.

Prior to joining BPEA, Ashish was a Senior Vice President with Lehman Brothers’ private equity group in Mumbai where he was responsible for deal origination, execution, and monitoring of private equity investments. Prior to that, Ashish was with Bank of America’s private equity group in Mumbai and subsequently Chicago. Ashish also worked with JM Morgan Stanley’s corporate finance group and as an equity research analyst with ICICI Securities.

Ashish received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the SGS Institute of Technology & Science. He has also received the CFA Charter.

Jimmy Mahtani is a Partner in the BPEA EQT team and joined BPEA in 2006 to set up the India business. He is currently Co-Head for BPEA’s investments in India in addition to being a member of the Investment Committee, Portfolio Management Committee and Co-Head of the Technology Services team. Jimmy currently serves on the boards of several portfolio companies including Citius Technologies, CMS Info Systems, Virtusa Technologies, Sagility Health, Straive, IGT Technologies, AIG Hospitals, AGS Healthcare, Indira IVF and HDFC Credilla. Jimmy was previously with General Atlantic in Mumbai whose India office he set up. Prior to this he worked for Bear Stearns & Co. in New York. Jimmy graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a triple major in Finance, International Business and Marketing.

Kosmo Kalliarekos is a Partner at BPEA EQT, based in Hong Kong. Kosmo has served as an advisor to BPEA starting in 2004 and fully joined in 2008. He is currently a member of the Investment and Exits and Liquidity committees and chairs the Portfolio Management Committee of BPEA EQT.

Before BPEA, Kosmo was with Bain & Company and was a founding member and Senior Partner of The Parthenon Group/EY, an advisory firm headquartered in Boston, USA. Kosmo serves on the board of several portfolio companies, including Nord Anglia Education and Lumenis among others. Kosmo co-leads investments in Education, where BPEA EQT is a global leader.

Kosmo holds a BSc from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar).

Mr. Sanjay Kukreja is a partner and part of the founding team of ChrysCapital, India’s leading Private Equity Firm with over $5.5 bn in AUM across nine funds. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer at ChrysCapital, overseeing all of the firm’s investment activities. Prior to his CIO role, Mr. Kukreja led the Financial Services and Business Services sectors, which together accounted for over $1.5 billion of invested capital and almost $3 billion of realizations for the ChrysCapital funds.

Mr. Kukreja currently serves on the Boards of Hero Fincorp, GeBBS Healthcare Solutions, Infogain, Intas Pharmaceuticals, and has previously also served on the boards of several other companies such as KPIT Technologies, LiquidHub, and Shriram Transport Finance Company.

Mr. Kukreja holds an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University. He has also attended the Executive Leadership Course for top management at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.