Yusuf Lanewala
Chairman and Managing Director

Yusuf Lanewala is a seasoned IT Strategy and Management professional with 35 years of global industry experience. Since starting his professional career in the Management Consulting Division of Price Waterhouse, Mr. Lanewala has held leadership positions with several leading IT services companies. Most recently, he served as CEO for Malomatia QSC, a 100% subsidiary of the Qatar’s Supreme Council of Information and Communications Technology (ictQatar), which provides domain-specific enterprise IT solutions to the Government, Education and Healthcare sectors.

As an Independent Consultant, Mr. Lanewala has advised several IT services companies in business strategy, and also consulted for several leading financial institutions in areas such as IT selection and deployment of systems for core banking, anti-money laundering, business intelligence, card management as well as channel management, including ATM deployment, internet and mobile banking.

Mr. Lanewala was a board member of an IT services subsidiary set up by The Saraswat Cooperative Bank, a leading bank in India. He has been closely involved with various industry associations. He is also one of the Founding Directors of The Business Process Council, an organization created to collect, produce and enhance a common body of knowledge of business processes to help the industry achieve productivity faster and boost the career prospects of professionals.

Mr. Lanewala has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and an MBA from the State University of New York. He also attended an Executive Education Program in Change Management at the Harvard Business School.

Javed Gaya
Independent Director

Javed Gaya is an Independent Director and member of the Mindteck board. He is a lawyer by profession, practicing Civil Law in India and overseas for many years. Mr. Gaya has extensive work experience with English Law firm, Nabarro Nathanson in Dubai contributing much to cross border transactions. He had a challenging role at Advani & Co. in Mumbai where he worked as a partner and successfully established its branch extension to New Delhi.

In 2000, Mr. Gaya had set up his own Law firm in Mumbai. His clientele includes successful MNCs, Construction, Oil and Gas, and Pharmaceutical companies. He also spends his time working with other Indian subsidiaries of foreign clients. Mr. Gaya sits on the board of Mindteck and Mecklai Financial contributing to administrative resolutions and policies of these companies. He was also appointed and served as Liquidator of TAIB Capital (TCCL) and TAIB Securities Ltd.

Mr. Gaya received his Law degree from Oxford University in England. He has been a member of the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London.

Narayan A. Menon
Independent Director

Narayan Menon is a retired Banker with nearly four decades of banking experience, spanning a wide gamut of commercial banking and investment banking activities, both in India and overseas. During his banking career, he served State Bank of India, in India and overseas, for a period of 25 years, and contributed to, and controlled, the quality and profitability of loan portfolios aggregating more than US$ 5 billion, of 14 international branches. He was also responsible for general management, team building, leadership development, tight house-keeping and profit-center responsibilities in all his assignments. He also served TAIB Bank in Bahrain for a period of 14 years as Senior Vice President-Risk Management and was responsible for enterprise-wide Risk Management for TAIB and its 8 active subsidiaries. Mr. Menon has had the benefit of a multi-cultural living experience from his tenures abroad.

Mr Menon holds a Masters Degree in Business Management from IMEDE, Lausanne, Switzerland (now IMD), and a high First Class Bachelors Degree in Physics from Loyola College (now Loyola University), Madras (now Chennai).

Jagdish Malkani
Independent Director

Jagdish Malkani is an accomplished finance professional with extensive experience in India and Nigeria spanning over 30 years. He is an active member-broker in the capital market and futures/options segments of India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE), as well as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Mr. Malkani manages portfolios for a select clientele of domestic and NRI high net worth individuals, both directly and through a dealer network. Renowned for Indian equity markets expertise as a fundamental analyst, he makes frequent guest appearances on CNBC, ET Now, Bloomberg UTV and NDTV Profit.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Malkani held the role of Country Manager (India) for TAIB Capital Corporation Limited, a corporate finance, private equity and merchant banking subsidiary of Bahrain-based TAIB Bank. He also spent twelve years in Nigeria moving up the ranks to become the Managing Director at Inlaks Plc, the trading arm of Swiss-based Inlaks Group—one of the largest conglomerates in Nigeria at the time.

Mr. Malkani was a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California where he earned a Master of Science degree in Management. He also holds an MBA with specialization in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. In 2011, Mr. Malkani served as Honorary Secretary of the Rotary Club of Bombay, the oldest, most prestigious Rotary Club in India; today he remains a member.

Prochie Mukherji
Independent Director

Ms. Mukherji is a seasoned business professional with over 42 years of experience in the fields of Industrial Relations, Labour and Consumer Laws, and Human Resources. She has held senior positions at both Indian and multinational companies in diverse industries, including consumer products, white goods, financial services, pharmaceuticals and light engineering. Hindustan Lever, Glaxo, ICICI and the Tata Group are among the companies she has served. Presently, she serves as Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff to the Chairman and Managing Director of Mahindra Group, and also serves as the Convener of the Group Executive Board. She has deep interest in the areas of corporate history, education, core values and social responsibility.

Ms. Mukherji holds BA (Hons.) and LL.B. degrees from the University of Bombay where she topped the University in 2nd and 3rd LL.B. She also holds a Master’s degree in Law (LLM) from Yale Law School in the US.

Meenaz Dhanani
Executive Director

Mr. Dhanani is a 30-plus year New York investment banking veteran with experience and deep knowledge spanning international credit, trade and project finance, corporate finance, real estate investment, private equity and venture capital investment.

Prior to joining the senior management team at Mindteck, Mr. Dhanani ran the investment advisory subsidiary of Bahrain-based TAIB Bank where he was directly responsible for managing the firm’s US real estate portfolio and technology services companies.

Mr. Dhanani, a B.A. graduate of Bernard M. Baruch College who majored in Finance and Investment Analysis, has held NASD Series 63 and 7 licenses and has numerous certifications in various disciplines related to investment banking and asset management.