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Name: Brij Gopal Daga
Designation: Director
Qualifications: M.Com, Associate Member of ICSI (London), AIA (London) and CAIIB”

Profile Brief:
With four decades, of experience, he has acquired extensive knowledge in diverse fields like Finance, Investment, Capital and Securities Markets, Regulatory Compliances etc. and has served premier institutions like RBI, UTI (as Executive Director) and CDSL (as MD). He has also served as Institutional Nominee on the Boards of several leading companies and has also been member on committee appointed by SEBI.

Name: Ms. Divya Modi
Designation: Additional Director
Qualifications: CFA charter holder, a Graduate n Economics and Business Finance (Hons.) from Brunel University, UK and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Southern California, USA.

Profile Brief:
Ms. Divya Modi has worked closely with Jones Lang and Lasalle and Haldford Associates to develop Spice Global’s first Entertainment Centre “Spice World” where she has been credited for tying up with the Key Anchor Stores for the venture. She was instrumental in setting-up the Management Assurance Services (Internal Audit function) for Spice Global and was also involved with various Financial Restructuring initiatives and Investor Relations for the group especially for its erstwhile listed entities. She was also involved in the M&A function at a group level.

Name: Madhukar R. Sardar
Designation: Director
Qualifications: B.A., CAIIB (Part I)

Profile Brief:
He has been a Corporate Consultant since his retirement as General Manager of Foreign Exchange Department of RBI and has a wide experience in the fields like External Commercial Borrowings, External Reserve Management, Forex Revenue Investments in India as well as abroad, Imports, Insurance, Aid and Govt. Forex Debt Management etc.

Name: Ms. Preeti Malhotra
Designation: Additional Director
Qualifications: Member of ICSI, Law Graduate from Delhi University

Profile Brief:
Ms. Preeti Malhotra had been the past President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) & was the first woman to be elected as President amongst the premier National Professional Bodies in India. She was a member of the Dr. J.J Irani Expert Committee constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), Government of India, to advise the Government on the New Company Law being framed. She specifically drove the discussions on Management, Board Governance and Shareholders democracy. She is a member on various expert panels on Corporate laws, Governance and regulation and regularly interacts with the MCA and SEBI on the new laws being framed. She is/has been Chairperson / Member of various Committees of ICSI and of various Chambers of Industries in India and is presently also the Chairperson of the National Council of Corporate Governance, CSR & Corporate Affairs of ASSOCHAM. She has received several awards and citations and was awarded the Bharat Nirman Talented Ladies Award in the field of profession and the Vocational Service Excellence Award by Rotary Club of New Delhi. She also received on behalf of ICSI as its Past President “Recognition of Excellence Award” for her Excellency from Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil (Hon’ble President of India) during the Celebration of India Corporate Week 2009 by MCA.

Name: Mr. Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Designation: Additional Director
Qualifications: Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant

Profile Brief:
Mr. Sudip Bandyopadhyay has over 23 years of rich & diverse experience in various areas of financial services. He has worked with reputed organizations like Reliance (ADA Group), ITC, ICI and HLL. He is currently the Managing Director and CEO of Destimoney Securities. He was the Managing Director of Reliance Money and was also on the Board of several Reliance ADAG Group Companies since May 2005. He was instrumental in leading Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s foray, amongst others, into Equity & Commodity Broking, Financial Products Distribution, Commodity Exchanges, Gold Coin Retailing, Money Changing and Money Transfer. Under his leadership, Reliance Money had aggressively expanded its footprint in India and across the globe. He was also responsible for the acquisition of AMP Sanmar through which Reliance launched its Life Insurance business. During his 16 years stint with ITC as head of Treasury and Strategic Investments, he managed investments in excess of Rs.4000 crores. He was responsible for the acquisition of strategic stakes in EIH, VST and several other companies by ITC. He strongly believes in empowering masses for making smart decisions related to investments, savings and spending through ‘Financial Literacy Programmes’. With this objective, he has taken various initiatives towards creating investment awareness and opportunities for the various segments of the population.

Name: Mr. Subroto Chattopadhyay
Designation: Chairman
Qualifications: Bachelor’s (Hons.) degree in Economics from St. Xavier College, University of Kolkata and also completed a course in Finance for Senior Management BAT from University of Michigan

Profile Brief:
He is Chairman of the Peninsula Foundation and Former Chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations and Trustee of Techno Serve of India. He is a member of Indian Polo Association and is associated with Sri Aurbindo Society in Pondicherry. He has worked for 28 years at management positions in Brooke Bond Limited (Unilever), British American Tobacco Industries (ITC Limited), PepsiCo South Asia Business where he was an Executive Director and RPG Enterprise where he was a Sector head and Board Member. His experience covers food and beverage industry. He taught in ASCI and ISB in Hyderabad and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has produced “The Japanese Wife” and published music albums with the likes of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.