Board of Directors

Mr. Hoshang N. Sinor is the non-executive Chairman of the Company since July 24, 2003. A graduate in commerce and law, his illustrious career has spanned 43 years in the banking sector. He started his career in 1965 with Central Bank of India and in 1969 moved to Union Bank of India where he worked in various capacities to reach the position of General Manager. In 1996, he was appointed as Executive Director of Central Bank of India In 1997; he joined as Executive Director of ICICI Bank where he later on took over as Managing Director and CEO in 1998. After the merger of ICICI with ICICI Bank in 2002, he worked as the Joint Managing Director of ICICI Bank Limited and retired from the services of the Bank with effect from May 31, 2003.Mr.Sinor was the Chief Executive of the Indian Banks Association till July 31, 2008. His career has encompassed a wide-ranging variety of roles related to the operations of commercial banking. He has held several important positions during this period and has been exposed to every sphere of banking activities, balancing between the field and the administration functions. Mr Sinor has attended a large number of training programmes and seminars in India and overseas. He has travelled extensively and has been exposed to meeting with global bankers, funds managers, banking analysts, etc. He has worked on various committees of the Govt. of India, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and has hence contributed to policy and decision making processes in the system.

Mr. Hoshang Noshirwan Sinor
Chairman

Prof. Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, is Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, based in Chennai, India, and was department Chair till recently. He received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT Madras. Dr. Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks Group (TeNeT) at IIT Madras. This group is closely working with industry in the development of a number of Telecommunications and Computer Network Systems. Dr. Jhunjhunwala is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), INSA, and also a member of the Prime Minister’s Scientific Advisory Committee. He is also on the Advisory Board / Governing Council of the Institute of Financial Management and Research (IFMR), and on the Board of I-TECH (International Training and Education Center on HIV, India), the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) and the Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI) of IIT Madras. He has worked on various committees of the Govt. of India, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and has hence contributed to policy and decision making processes in the system.

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Director

Mr. Ashok Shah holds a bachelor`s degree in science with post graduate degree in Economics. Mr. Ashok Shah Joined Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) as a direct recruit officer in 1977. In the more than three decades in the Corporation, he has served in all important positions in Operations. He retired as Zonal Manager (Executive Director cadre) at Delhi and was in charge of LIC’s premier Zone, Northern Zone, for five years. Subsequently, he went on deputation to the National Insurance Academy, Pune, as Chair Professor. In June 2010, he subsequently joined LIMRA (Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association), a U.S. based entity as Director –India. His hobbies are Trekking, Photography and occasionally Mountaineering.

Mr. Ashok Shah
Director

Mr. N. S. Venkatesh is a Chartered Accountant and working as Chief General Manager & Head- Treasury in IDBI Bank Limited. He has vast experience in Banking spanning three decades, out of which over a decade in Treasury and has varied experience in credit, audit, merchant banking etc. He played a vital role in structuring and marketing of IDBI OMNI Bonds and IDBI Flexi Bonds. Under his leadership, IDBI, the development financial institution was transformed into Commercial Bank. He was also actively involved in Merger of IDBI Bank with IDBI Bank Limited and in takeover of United Western Bank (UWB) by IDBI. He was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IDBI Gilts Limited, the primary dealer in Government Securities Market. He set up the first overseas branch of IDBI Bank Limited in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) in Dubai.

Mr. N. S. Venkatesh
Director

Ms. Vishakha Mulye is currently the Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited. Ms. Mulye was earlier the Executive Director of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and the Group Chief Financial Officer of ICICI Bank Limited, the largest private sector bank and the second largest bank in India. Ms. Mulye is a Chartered Accountant and joined the ICICI group in 1993. She has worked extensively in the areas of project finance, structured finance, treasury, corporate planning and strategy, investor relations and resolution of distressed assets. She played a pivotal role in setting up the Special Asset Management Group, which was formed for proactive resolution of distressed assets. She played a key role in the merger of ICICI with ICICI Bank, which led to the creation of the second largest bank in India. Between 2001 and 2005, she set up ICICI Bank’s structured finance business. This pioneering effort led to the development of an active securitization market in India. During this period, she was also responsible for ICICI Bank’s client-related treasury and markets operations, capital markets business and relationships with domestic financial institutions and multilateral institutions. As the Group CFO of ICICI Bank, she was responsible for financial reporting, balance sheet management, planning, strategy, investor relations, corporate communications and market, and operational risk management functions of the bank. She has been instrumental in strengthening the bank’s capital base through the first simultaneous ADR and domestic equity offering from India and more recently through the first issuance of hybrid Tier-1 capital by any bank in India. Ms. Mulye received the award for ‘Most Powerful Women in Indian Business - 2007’ from Business Today. She also received the CA Corporate Leader Award 2008 (2nd in the ‘CA Young leader - Female’ category), organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). She received the India CFO Award, 2006, instituted by IMA for excellence in finance in a large corporate. The World Economic Forum also selected her as a ‘Young Global Leader’ for the year 2007. She is a member of Aspen Institute for ‘India Leadership Initiative’.

Ms Vishakha Mulye
Director

Mr. Madhivanan Balakrishnan is the Managing Director & Global CEO of 3i Infotech. Prior to joining 3i Infotech, Mr. Madhivanan was the Executive Director at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. Before joining ICICI Prudential Life, Mr. Madhivanan was the Senior General Manager, ICICI Bank and Head Customer Service & Retail Risk division. He was also in charge of the Internet Banking division for the bank. Further, he was on the RBI Committee on micro-payments and on the Boards of various entities in the financial space. Mr. Madhivanan joined ICICI Bank in 1999, with a strong background in Sales and Marketing. Mr. Madhivanan was a part of the team that launched the ICICI Bank card product and later he was made responsible for all aspects of the card business. Under his leadership ICICI Bank emerged as one of the leading players in the Indian credit card market and the personal loans business. As the Executive Director of ICICI Prudential Life he was responsible for providing leadership to the “Service Delivery Center” with varied functions such as Technology, Central Operations, Branch Services, BI and Marketing in driving the organizations objectives of quality growth, profitability and market leadership. Mr. Madhivanan holds a Bachelor Degree in Chemistry from Mumbai University and PGDM in Marketing from Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta.

Madhivanan Balakrishnan
Managing Director & Global CEO

Mr. Charanjit Attra is the Executive Director & Global Chief Financial Officer at 3i Infotech. Prior to joining 3i Infotech, Mr. Charanjit Attra was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at ICICI Securities Limited. Mr. Attra holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Mumbai University and is a Chartered Accountant and Certified Public Accountant (CP) from American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Denver, Colorado). He has been co-opted as a member on various committees of Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) of India and was a member of the Expert Advisory Committee and an invitee on the Accounting Standards Board of the ICAI. He has represented his employers on various forums including ICAI, CII etc. His association with ICICI group spans 10 years where he has worked in areas of Management and Financial Reporting for ICICI bank offices in India and abroad. As CFO in ICICI Securities, he was in charge of all strategic financial activities, business planning, forecasting and analysis, management system, setting up the internal control framework and management of all operating funds for working capital of the company. He was also responsible for the Structured Finance group which offers a range of financial services and IFRS advisory services to large corporate groups. Before moving to ICICI Securities, he was a General Manager and Chief Accountant – Financial Accounting and Reporting Groups in ICICI Bank. He was part of the core team involved in planning, budgeting, preparation of various management and financial reports. He was responsible for setting up of US GAAP accounting team at ICICI Bank Group level and preparation of financial statements of the foreign offices of ICICI Bank under their respective GAAPs and IFRS. He was part of core team responsible for merger of ICICI Limited with ICICI Bank Limited and the public issues (Equity & Debit) of ICICI Bank. He has earlier worked with KPMG as well. Mr. Charanjit Attra has been awarded the Best CFO in CFO 100 roll of honour for 2 years ( 2010 and 2011) in the areas of cost reduction and risk management, respectively.

Charanjit Attra
Executive Director & Global Chief Financial Officer