Corporate Governance

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.

Mr. S. Sridhar holds degree from IIT, Delhi and did his Master’s from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He is an eminent personality in the banking and finance industry with more than 38 years of rich experience and has held several senior positions in retail, corporate and export/import banking in his career. He is widely acknowledged as an innovative, market oriented banker and strategic thinker providing transformational leadership to the organizations he has worked with. He was the Chairman of National Housing Bank (NHB) and Central Bank of India where, he was responsible for a number of new initiatives such as the NHB Residex, Rural Housing Fund, Reverse Mortgage for senior citizens. Prior to this, he was associated with Export Import Bank of India and State Bank of India as an Executive Director. Mr. Sridhar has been a pioneer in championing the concept of affordable housing in India and contributed significantly to public policy formulation.

Mr. Nirmal Jain is Founder and Chairman of IIFL Holdings Limited. Coming from a family of commodity traders in Rajasthan, trading was in his blood. The IIM-Ahemdabad alumni, a rank holding Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant began his career in 1989 with Hindustan Lever’s Commodity export business. He floated a financial research and business information firm Probity Research which, later on, became India Infoline, one of the first independent equity research companies in India. He was instrumental in steering the Group’s foray into various businesses that have grown significantly over the years in terms of net-worth and profitability. Under his leadership, IIFL Group has emerged a dominant and diversified player in the financial services space over the past 24 years.

Mr. R. Venkataraman, Co-Promoter and Managing Director of IIFL Holdings Limited. He holds a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and MBA from Indian Institute of Management IIM, Bangalore. He joined the IIFL group in July 1999 and has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since its inception. He has been instrumental in establishing various line of businesses over the past 18 years. He previously held senior managerial positions at ICICI Limited, including ICICI Securities, its investment banking joint venture with JP Morgan, and Barclays BZW. He worked as Assistant Vice President with GE Capital Services India in its private equity division. He has a varied experience of more than 25 years in the financial services sector.

Mr. Kranti Sinha holds a Master’s Degree in Arts from Agra University and after completing the post graduation in 1963, he joined Life Insurance Corporation of India in 1965 as a directly recruited officer. He has served as the Director and Chief Executive of LIC Housing Finance from 1998 to 2002 and concurrently as the Managing Director of LICHFL Care Homes (a wholly owned subsidiary of LIC Housing Finance). He retired from the permanent cadre as the Executive Director of LIC. He also served as the Deputy President of the Governing Council of Insurance Institute of India and as a member of the Governing Council of National Insurance Academy, Pune.

Mr. Monu Ratra is a graduate of Architecture and MBA with over 17 years of work experience in the financial services industry.. Mr. Ratra has been instrumental in growth of IIHFL’s loan book substantially during the past three years. Under his leadership, IIHFL has aspired to become key player in affordable housing segment and to serve the need of housing finance, especially, of those who are underserved or untouched. Prior to joining IIFL Group, he was associated with Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited as National Business Manager where he was responsible for setting up and building the retail home loan business along with their home equity business. Mr. Ratra has also served HDFC Ltd., ICICI Bank.

Mr. Purwar is currently the Chairman of Tadas Wind Energy Private Limited as well as Eroute Technologies Private Limited. He also works as an independent director in leading Companies across diverse sectors, viz. Power including Solar, Wind, Thermal & Gas based power projects, Steel, Pharmaceuticals, Telefilms, Engineering Consultancy, Financial Services as well as Fintech. He also acts as an Advisor to Mizuho Securities, Japan. Mr. Purwar was the Chairman of State Bank of India the largest Bank in the country from November, 2002 to May, 2006. He held several important and critical positions like Managing Director of State Bank of Patiala, Chief Executive Officer of Tokyo Branch covering almost the entire range of commercial banking operations in his long and illustrious career at the Bank. He was also associated in setting up of SBI Life. Mr. Purwar also worked as Chairman of Indian Bank Association during 2005-2006. He has received CEO of the year Award from The Institute of Technology and Management (2004), "Outstanding Achiever of the year" award from Indian Banks' Association (2004) "Finance Man of the Year" Award by the Bombay Management Association in 2006.

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 AIDA’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.

Experience in financial services sector having led corporate and investment banking teams in leading international institutions, including Standard Chartered Bank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of America. Advisory experience in sectors including technology, consumer & retail, financial services, risk management. Engineering from Jadavpur University, MBA from XLRI, FT Non Executive Director Diploma and ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Designation.