Corporate Governance

Mohan Sekhar is a recognized C-level global IT Consulting & Services industry thought leader with over 30 years’ experience in transforming both large and midsized organizations enabling market leading growth and profitability. He has led the rotation of business to Digital, transformed talent to new technologies and architected Innovation at scale, a first in the industry. He has served on the board of both publicly listed and privately held companies. The past 3 years, he has been part of the startup ecosystem in advisory roles.

Mr. Mathew Joseph has over 35 years’ experience with India’s Largest Housing Finance Company and superannuated as Member of Executive Management and Chief Risk Officer. Apart from overseeing Risk, his expertise included both Retail and wholesale Financing and was a Member of Core Committees of the Corporation. During his tenure with the Corporation, he led World Bank / IFC assignment’s for supporting and establishing Housing Finance Institutions in Africa and Asia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the Madras University and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He is a Director on the Boards of Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Ltd, Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Trustee Co Ltd, Veritas Finance Private Ltd and a Consultant with World Bank for their Affordable Housing Fund. He is also an advisor on Lok Capital, an Impact Fund.

Mr. Venkataramanan Anantharaman has over 30 years of experience in the financial services sector in India and overseas, having led corporate and investment banking teams in several leading international banks. He was also a Senior Advisor to British International Investment (formerly CDC), the UK Government Development Finance Institution. He is currently Chairman of Transunion CIBIL, India’s leading Credit Information Bureau and is on the Boards of The Indian Hotels Company Limited, Axis AMC and Ecom Express. He is an advisor to Lighthouse Funds, a leading consumer and healthcare focussed mid-market growth private equity firm. He brings strong Board level advisory experience across mergers & acquisitions, capital markets, risk management, HR and ESG. Anantharaman holds a BE in Metallurgy from Jadavpur University and a PGDBM from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has also has an FT Non-Executive Director Diploma and an ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Designation (GCB.D).

Mr. Kabir Mathur is Head of Asia Pacific within the Private Equities Department of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). He is responsible for leading all aspects of ADIA’s private equity activities in the Asia Pacific region and is a member of the Private Equity Executive Committee. Prior to joining ADIA in 2018, Mr. Mathur worked at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) where he was responsible for sourcing, executing and managing private equity investments in Asia. Mr. Mathur joined KKR in 2008, having previously worked at TPG Capital, also in their Asian private equity business. Mr. Mathur began his career in the Investment Banking division of Citigroup/Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Mathur graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a BSc (Hons.) in Economics.

Ms. Mohua Mukherjee is a seasoned development economics professional with thirty years of international experience. She was among the youngest candidates ever selected for the globally competitive Young Professionals’ Program of the World Bank in Washington DC. Her career at the World Bank included responsibility for designing and supervising World Bank investment projects, based on dialogue with Ministers and senior government officials in client countries. Mohua has led policy dialogue and formulated investment projects in 9 different sectors of the economy, in 44 countries on 4 continents, all pertaining to the UN’s Millennium Development Goals and later the Sustainable Development Goals. She is an experienced leader of multi-disciplinary teams and has received various awards of appreciation from government clients for her consultative approach.She headed the Corporate Finance department first at Citibank and then at ABN AMRO Bank Nairobi, Kenya. Apart from this hands-on financial sector experience in Kenya, Mohua also has energy sector investment experience in 15 African countries, plus Nepal and Bangladesh and of course India as well.From 2014-2017, Mohua led the India Solar Energy Team of the World Bank, and she was responsible for managing a large team of professionals to complete the delivery of a US$1 billion solar program to the government of India. The US$640 million blended-finance Solar Rooftops project with the State Bank of India, which she designed from the start, brought the OPEX model to the Indian solar rooftop market. Apart from the solar energy sector, Mohua also has a great deal of experience in the Indian electricity distribution company sector. She has contributed to various World Bank publications and also has three solo-authored books, with the most recent one being (in 2014) on private participation in the Indian power sector.In 2017 she ended her long career in Washington and moved to Bangalore for family reasons. Following her relocation to India, Mohua worked pro-bono for 2 years at the International Solar Alliance, to support its initial establishment. She is currently a World Bank consultant and she is Advisor to the India Smart Grid Forum.Mohua has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Economics, with distinction, and a Master of Business Administration degree in International Finance, all from Boston University. She also has a certificate in Public Private Partnerships from the Harvard Kennedy School.

He is a MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, a rank holder Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant. He started his career in 1989 with Hindustan Lever Limited (HUL), the Indian arm of Unilever. He founded Probity Research and Services (later re-christened as India Infoline Limited) in 1995; one of the first independent equity research companies in India. Under his leadership, IIFL Group has grown into a dominant and diversified player in the financial services space.

Mr. R. Venkataraman is a non-executive Director of our Company . He holds Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He has contributed immensely to the establishment of various businesses and spearheading key initiatives of the IIFL Group over the past 25 years. He previously held senior managerial positions in ICICI Limited, including ICICI Securities Limited, their investment banking joint venture with JP Morgan of US, and Barclays – BZW. He also worked with GE Capital Services India Limited in its private equity division. He has a varied experience of more than 32 years in the financial services sector.

Mr. Ramakrishnan Subramanian is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Master’s in Commerce. He has served several leading Banks, FIs in leadership roles since 1990 in India and abroad. He is a Sr Advisor & Nominee Director and a Strategic consultant with leading Private equity, Venture Capital, Fintechs. He has 30 plus years of leadership experience in Banking and Strategic Consulting in India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, APAC markets with expertise in Board, Advisory & Consulting, CEO & Country Head roles, Business Head, Risk.

Mr. Srinivasan Sridhar is an eminent personality in the Banking and Finance industry and has held several senior positions in retail, corporate and export/import banking in his career of almost 4 decades culminating as the Chairman of NHB and the Central Bank of India. In his stint as Chairman and Managing Director of the NHB, he was responsible for a number of new initiatives such as the NHB Residex, Rural Housing Fund, and Reverse Mortgage for senior citizens. Prior to this, he was associated with the Export Import Bank of India as Executive Director as well as the State Bank of India in the early part of his career.

Mr. Monu Ratra is a veteran in the mortgages industry with nearly two decades of experience. Mr Ratra has been associated with brands like HDFC Ltd., ICICI Bank and Indiabulls Housing. Prior to joining IIFL Home Finance Limited, his last assignment was with Indiabulls HFC as National Business Manager. Mr. Ratra has been a part of the pioneering teams leading various functions to provide excellence through process and quality initiatives, contributing to industry-leading growth. While with the last company, his efforts and vision led to building of a growth sales structure, starting from a scratch, in a start up like environment. At IIFL Home Loans, Mr. Ratra brings strong focus on developing and delivering customer satisfaction with ease and low turn around time.