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Name Age/Qualification Brief Experience
Mr. Jamsheed Kanga 77 Years / M.A, LLB, Masters in Public Administration (MPA), Harvard, USA Retired IAS Officer In his career as an I A S officer, he held various important positions including that of Managing Director, Maharashtra State Agro Industries Development Corporation and Maharashtra State Tourism Development Corporation, Joint Secretary, Finance Department, Maharashtra State, Joint Secretary (Projects & Finance), Department of Atomic Energy, Secretary to Government of Maharashtra, Municipal Commissioner, Bombay Municipal Corporation, Chairman and Managing Director, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India in the rank of Secretary to Government of India. After retirement, he had been the Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Tata Housing Development Co. Limited and now is a Senior Corporate Advisor to Tata Housing Development Co. Limited from April 1997. He is also a Consultant to Forbes Gokak Limited.
Mr. Dattatraya M. Sukthankar 76 Years / M.Com, Retired IAS Officer In his career spanning over 34 years till 1990 as an IAS Officer, he had held very important portfolios in the Govt. of Maharashtra including that of Secretary, Education Department, Secretary, Industries Dept, Metropolitan Commissioner, Municipal Commissioner, Greater Bombay, and finally as Chief Secretary to the Govt. of Maharashtra. He was also the Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India for two years.

Other Directorships :
1. Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited
2. Phoenix Township Limited
3. Indoco Remedies Limited
4. HDFC Developers Limited
5. Sangit Mahabharati, Mumbai-Vice Chairman
6. The Society for Recycling of Waste of Recoverable    Disposal (REWARD), Mumbai- Board of    Trustees/Management
7. The Electoral Trust, Mumbai- Board of    Trustees/Management
Mr. Sunil Kakar 54 years/ MBA in Finance from XLRI and a degree in engineering from IIT Kanpur. Prior to joining IDFC, Mr. Kakar worked with Max New York Life Insurance Company since 2001, as CFO. He led numerous initiatives including Planning, Investments / Treasury, Finance and Accounting, Budgeting and MIS, Regulatory Reporting and Taxation. As part of the start-up team in Max New York Life, Mr. Kakar was part of the core group responsible for the successful development of the insurance business. In his previous assignment, he worked with Bank of America for 18 years in various roles, covering Business Planning & Financial Control, Branch Administration and Operations, Market Risk Management, Project Management and Internal Controls. As a CFO from 1996 to 2001, Mr. Kakar spearheaded the Finance function at Bank of America.

Other Directorships :
1. IDFC Pension Fund Management Company Limited
2. IDFC Investment Advisors Limited
3. IDFC Capital Limited
4. IDFC Securities Limited
Mr.Geoffroy Sartorius 54 years/ Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale de La Statistique et de l’Administration Economique –ENSAE Mr.Geoffroy Sartorius has been associated with Natixis Global Asset Management (NGAM) since June 2008 as Deputy CEO and group CFO. He led numerous initiatives in the field of Finance and accounting, Tax Planning, relationship with Shareholders Acquisitions etc.

In his previous assignment, he worked with Ixis Capital Markets/Natixis for the period September 2004-June 2008 as Chief Financial Officer/Deputy Chief Financial Officer. He led numerous initiatives Finance and accounting, relationship with rating agencies, oversight of investments within the group, Tax planning, Relationship with the regulators prior to which he was the Head – Money market and government bonds with Ixis Capital markets (ICM). He was also the Head – Capital markets with Caisse Nationale Des Caisses d’Epargne (CNCE) wherein he had an oversight over 40 traders and was also responsible for business development.

Other Directorships :
1. Natixis Asset Management
2. Natixis Multi Manager
3. Dorval
4. Natixis Global Asset Management Participations 1
5. Natixis Global Asset Management Participations 2
6. Kennedy Financmeent Luxembourg
7. Natixis Global Asset Management Participations 3
8. Natixis Captiva Partners
Mr. Tara Sankar Bhattacharya 63 years/ Master of Science in Nuclear Physics and post graduate in Management Science from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management, Mumbai. He is the full time Advisor to Ernst & Young Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai since 2008. Prior to this role, he was the Managing Director of State Bank of India from 2005 to 2008 and responsible for overall superintendence and control over the affairs of the Bank. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of SBI (Indore) from 2004 to 2005.

Other Directorships :
1. Speciality Restatuants Limited
2. Sayaji Hotels Limited
3. Amartex Limited
4. Surya Roshi Limited
5. JSPL Stainless Ltd.
6. Abhishekh Power Ltd.
7. IDFC Securites Limited
Mr. Venkatesan Sridar

64 years/ BSC and Chartered Accountant

Mr. Venketesan Sridar was the CMD of UCO Bank Kolkata from Dec 2004 until July 2007 and was responsible for Overall development of the Bank. Prior to this, he was the CMD of National Housing Bank, Delhi and responsible for overall development of the Housing Finance Market and supervision of HFC’s. Prior to this he was the Executive Director of UCO Bank, Kolkata between Dec 2000 to Nov 2002.

Other Directorships :
1. STCI Finance Ltd (Erstwhile Securities Trading Corporation of India Ltd ).
2. STCI Primary Dealers Ltd.
3. Seshasayee Paper and Board Ltd.
4. Ponni Sugars (Erode) Ltd.
5. Morpheus Capital Advisors P Ltd.
6. ICICI Bank Ltd.
7. Lanco Tanjore Power Co Ltd.
8. Lanco Vidarbha Thermal Power Co Ltd.
9. Sarda Metals and Alloys Ltd.
10. Hindustan National Glass Industries Ltd.
11. SPBl Paper Ltd.
12. SICOM ltd.