Management Profiles

Shri R S Agarwal, 77 years, has completed B.Sc., B.E. (Chemical Engineering) and started his career in 1965 and after serving in various capacities with a leading paper mill of Northern India for 9 years and with Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) for 28 years, retired as Executive Director of IDBI. While in service with IDBI, he had dealt with many subjects and projects including –

• Member of “Satyam Committee” set up by Government of India in 1999-2000,
• Preparation of policy paper and guidelines on development of “Special Economic Zone” in the country for the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India in January 2002
• Head of the Infrastructure Finance Department and Project Appraisal Department of IDBI from February 1999 to March 2002.

He has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since May 29, 2009.

Smt. Soundara Kumar, 66 years, holds a bachelor’s degree in science and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (CAIIB), she joined the State Bank of India as a Direct Recruit Officer and had worked for 39 years as officer in State Bank of India from 1975 to 2014 with various responsibilities including managing Bank’s business while ensuring smooth merger with State Bank of India. She served as the Managing Director of State Bank of Indore from 2008 to 2010 and also served as Deputy Managing Director and Group Executive of Stressed Assets Management of State Bank of India. She headed Wholesale Banking Credit Committee at Corporate Centre, for over three years, evaluating high value commercial credit proposals including project finance for infrastructure. She also headed Credit Committees at State Bank of Indore, SBI Bangalore Circle served on the Boards of SIDBI Ventures, SBICI (State Bank of India Commercial and International Bank Ltd.) and CERSAI (Central Registry of Securitization Asset Reconstruction and Securities Interest). She was a permanent member of Corporate Centre Investment Committee and Credit Policies and Procedures Committee. She has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since March 27, 2015.

Shri Sankar Krishnan, 52 years, is a B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad. He is an ex-partner of McKinsey & Company, who led McKinsey’s healthcare practice, initially in India, and then in Greater China. During his 14 years at McKinsey, he focused on healthcare, serving a variety of multinational and local pharmaceutical companies, government and quasi-government bodies, hospital chains and health insurance companies across India, China, lsrael and West Asia and South East Asia. His primary areas of expertise include organizational and leadership development, sales and marketing and operations. He left McKinsey in July 2006, to set up as an independent consultant in the not-for-profit sector in Asia. He was also the Pro Vice Chancellor of Ashoka University, Sonepat. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since May 11, 2018.

Justice Shri P P S Janarthana Raja (Retd.), 69 years, is a graduate in Law from the Madras Law College, had been in active practice mainly on the Taxation matters for the past four decades from 1977. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of High Court of Madras during December, 2005 and had become a Permanent Judge of the High Court from April, 2007. After a term of seven (7) years as High Court Judge, he retired on 21st January 2013. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Company since August 29, 2018.