Board of Directors
V. Raman Kumar
Joginder Rana
Alok Kochhar
Raman is a successful tech entrepreneur and private equity investor. He is the founder & former Chairman/CEO of NASDAQ listed M*Modal Inc, a leading voice recognition, healthcare document technology company that he took from a start-up to until it was sold to One Equity Partners for over a billion dollars in 2012. Since then, he has actively invested in a number of ventures across India, Middle East and USA. He is also a limited partner in three large international private equity funds. He recently joined the board of THub- one of India’s most successful tech incubator.
Joginder Rana, a veteran banker, joins as the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of CASHe. Mr.Rana brings in over three decades of global and domestic experience in the banking & ITES industry essentially covering wholesale, retail, rural & FI banking.
He has also held senior management positions in leading banks such as RBL Bank, and Citigroup in which he brought transformational changes to reshape their business strategy, technology architecture, processes and risk management. At Bank of Baroda Global Shared Services, Rana successfully created a state-of-the-art Global Shared Services Centre that helped in integrating and consolidating all the acquired banks to deliver an enhanced customer experience through digitized processes.
Mr. Kochhar is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the financial sector. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he managed various functions across APAC, developing a deep understanding of financial environments and market challenges. He played a key role in establishing new businesses for the bank.
As a Senior Advisor at The Boston Consulting Group, Mr. Kochhar worked on consulting projects in Banking, Capital Markets, and Wealth Management for Banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions across APAC, Europe, and the Middle East.
Mr. Kochhar also served as a Director at Catholic Syrian Bank, where he turned the bank around and founded a PE fund for majority ownership. Additionally, he founded Inaltare Consulting, a niche advisory firm focused on governance, management, and arranging new capital for distressed companies.
He is a Senior Advisor at BondEvalue, a Singapore-based fintech firm, and serves as President of Beyond Social Services, an NGO focused on at-risk children from underprivileged families in Singapore.
Dr. Pulak Ghosh is Professor of Quantitative Methods at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). Prior to Joining IIMB, he was a Professor at the Georgia State University and Emory University, Atlanta, USA. He was also senior associate Director for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, USA. He has a PhD, MSc., BSc in Statistics.
He was named as the “top 10 most Influential Analytics Leader” in 2015 and was the only academician in the list. He was recently rated as one among the “5 most influential Indian data scientists “by Tec radar. His rise from Assistant to Full Professor in mere 8 years is widely considered in the top 5 fastest in the history of Statistics, Analytics and Marketing globally.
Dr. Pulak Ghosh is currently serving in the Advisory group of Big data at the United Nations (UN) Global Pulse, a big data initiative by UN and the knowledge commission of UNESCO-MGEIP. He is also an academic fellow at the Center for Advanced Financial Research and Learning promoted by Reserve Bank of India. He is also a senior fellow at Niti Aayog – Data Analytics Cell. He is advising several companies on analytics and big data. Based on his outstanding and innovative contribution to Statistical application, the International Indian Statistical Association awarded him with the Young Scientist Award” in 2011.
Sudhir is a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years’ experience in finance. He was the global controller of CBaySystems (M*Modal) from January 2007 until March 2011. Prior to that he was a senior partner at Chandabhoy & Jassoobhoy, a reputed accounting firm where he specialized in audit, M&A advisory, corporate structuring for large clients in banking, finance, mutual funds, capital markets, securities exchanges, manufacturing, technology, BPO / KPO sectors. He is currently CEO of Aeries Technology Group.
Mr. Deepak Amitabh has over 40 years of experience in the Indian Power Sector and with the Government of India. Currently serving as an Advisor for Business Development with the Adani Group and a member of the Energy Apex in Ahmedabad, Deepak is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, and a 1984 Batch Indian Revenue Service officer.
His career includes extensive experience in tax assignments, financial advisory roles, and key leadership positions. He played a pivotal role in establishing the Indian Power Market and India’s First Electricity Exchange. He served as Chairman and Managing Director of Power Trading Corporation of India Limited (PTC) from 2012 to 2021, overseeing significant operations in power trading and financial services. He has also held various board positions and was involved in multiple industry associations, bringing a wealth of knowledge and strong relationships with both the private sector and government entities.