Mr. V. Vaidyanathan is the Chairman and Managing Director of Capital First Limited. He recently concluded the India's largest Management Buyout of a listed company which is one of his most significant professional achievements. As part of this MBO, Warburg Pincus, one of the world's most reputed Private Equity players, with funds of over US$ 40 billion in 36 countries, has acquired a majority stake (70%) in Capital First Limited.

In 2010, in order to take an entrepreneurial role, he joined Capital First Limited (CFL) from ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company, where he was the Managing Director and CEO. From a largely wholesale financing company with assets of USD 200 million, he changed CFL into largely a retail lending company with loan assets over USD 1.3 billion, out of which 70% is retail assets. Since his joining CFL, he has successfully launched a number of retail businesses including MSME financing, Gold Loans, Two Wheeler loans Consumer Durable loans and Wealth Management. He was instrumental in implementing latest cutting edge technologies and scoring solutions for on-boarding, credit scoring and customer lifecycle management to improve asset quality and customer service significantly. Within 3 years, he has built a large retail franchise of 200 branches, 1200 employees across 42 cities, and has made CFL a leading player in lending to MSMEs. Under his leadership, the company's long term credit rating has been re-rated thrice from A+ to AA+ within 3 years.

He was earlier appointed as Executive Director on the Board of ICICI Bank at the age of 38. He was also the Chairman of ICICI Home Finance Co. Ltd, and served on the Board of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company and CIBIL, India's first credit bureau. He started his career with Citibank India in 1990 and served in the Consumer Banking Division of Citibank till 2000.

He joined ICICI Bank in early 2000 and helped transition the then ICICI Limited from a Domestic Financial Institution (DFI) to a Universal Bank. He was responsible for launching the Retail Banking Business since its inception in 2000 and managed the retail business till 2009. He built ICICI bank into a large retail powerhouse in the country and built a loan book of USD 30 billion in Mortgages, Auto, Consumer loans and credit cards, and took the bank to market leadership. He also built a network of 1400 ICICI Bank branches across 800 cities, built a vast deposit base, and a franchise of 25 million customers. He also built the SME business and Rural Banking Business for the bank. His key passion is the usage of new age technology to expand organized retail lending and deposits to a vast expanse of India.

Over the years, his contribution won him many domestic and international awards including Best Retail bank in Asia 2001, "Excellence in Retail Banking Award" 2002, Best Retail Bank in India 2003, 2004, and 2005 from the Asian Banker, "Most Innovative Bank" 2007, and was nominated "Retail Banker of the Year" by EFMA Europe for 2008 and 2009. He is an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School. He is a regular marathoner and has run 7 marathons. He lives in Mumbai with his family of father, wife and three children.

Mr. N. C. Singhal, aged 74, holds postgraduate qualifications in Economics, Statistics and Administration and was awarded the United Nations Development Programme Fellowship for advanced studies in the field of project formulation and evaluation, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. He received professional training in development banking at the World Bank, Washington D.C. and Kreditenstalt fur Wiederaufbau, Frankfurt. He was the founder Chief Executive Officer, designated as the Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of The Shipping Credit & Investment Corporation of India Limited (since merged with the ICICI). Earlier, he was a senior executive and then a member of the Board of Directors of ICICI Limited. He was a Banking Expert to the Industrial Development Bank of Afghanistan, for the World Bank project and a Consultant and Management Specialist with the Asian Development Bank in Philippines, South Korea, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.

Mr. Singhal is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Maritime Bureau, London and was the Vice-Chairman of the Commission on Maritime Transport of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris. He has been non-executive Chairman / Director of several companies; including, Axis Bank Limited, Shipping Corporation of India Limited and Max New York Life Insurance Company Limited.

Mahadevia joined Warburg Pincus in 2006, is co-head of the firm's Mumbai office and focuses on the firm's investment activities in India. Previously, he was a principal at Greenbriar Equity Group, a fund focused on private equity investments in the transportation sector. Prior to that, Mr. Mahadevia worked at Three Cities Research, Inc., a New York-based private equity fund, and as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. He is a director of Alliance Tire, Continental Warehousing, Gangavaram Port, IMC Limited, QuEST Global Services and AU Financiers. Mr. Mahadevia received a B.S. in economics with a concentration in finance and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Anil Singhvi is the Chairman of Ican Investments Advisors Pvt Ltd. Prior to establishing Ican Investments, he was the Advisor to Reliance ADA Group. Mr. Singhvi was the Managing Director of Ambuja Cements Ltd, which he joined in 1986 as Dy. Manager and rose to become the Managing Director. A CA by profession, Mr. Singhvi played a key role in the making of Ambuja Cements. He played a key role in the growth of the company from 0.7 million tonnes to 17 million tonnes. His biggest contribution was in the structuring and completion of the entire deal with Holcim where he single handedly introduced Holcim's entry into India and structured the deal with both ACC and Ambuja cements to sell to Holcim. The transaction involved over US$ 2.0 billion FDI into India.

Mr. Anil Singhvi is on various Boards of companies, some of which are Camlin, Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd, HCC Infrastructure Ltd, Mastek Limited, Capital First, IDFC Securities Ltd and Foundation for Liberal and Management Education (FLAME).

He is also closely associated with SAMPARC- a non-government organization (founded in 1990) that helps to empower the needy children and provides them not only shelter but a complete way of life. SAMPARC shelters over 700 such children by running 7 homes in the different part of the country.

FLAME was founded to impart Liberal Arts education for Undergraduate students. He has been involved with this Institute right from the inception. It is uniquely positioned as the only institute in India for Liberal Arts education. Flame has also set up Business School and School of Communication.

Apart from this, he is also on the Indian Advisory Board of Habitat for Humanity, an NGO involved with construction of Houses for needy and poor people.

Formerly Human Resources Director and Vice President with Citigroup. Founder Director of Confluence Coaching & Consulting and CEO of Potential Unlimited.

Mr. Rathi brings more than 24 years of experience in senior positions at some of India's most respected business houses. He brings knowledge and executive competence of a rare kind – encompassing Strategic Finance management in high growth organizations, treasury management , expansions, JVs and divestment, financial restructuring and fundraising (domestic and international), system driven operations, risk management and acquisitions. After spending about 5 years in various manufacturing companies, he worked as Controller, Corporate Finance with KEC International Limited (An RPG Group Company) in 1991, where he managed large treasury operations with a consortium of more than 22 banks. He set up and managed banking facilities of overseas projects in nine countries, interacting with foreign banks and multilateral funding agencies. Besides, he also designed innovative structures to finance overseas projects, enabled private placement of shares and managed Investor Relations.

He was part of the team managing the acquisition of SAE India Limited and capital market operations. In 1998 he joined as President (Finance) with H&R Johnson (India) Limited (a part of the Rajan Raheja Group ) , India's largest ceramic tile manufacturer with five plants and countrywide distribution. From 2005 – 2008 , he worked as Group CFO with Future Group wherein he was responsible for strategic business planning, joint ventures, mergers acquisitions, fund raising through private equity and public markets, corporate governance, treasury management, etc. and also instrumental in the build-up of the Real Estate Fund business for Future Group and setting up of Insurance business in Joint Venture with Generali of Italy . From 2008-February 2010, he worked as the Director of Motilal Oswal Private Equity Advisors where he worked on devising growth strategies for the Private equity Business, raised a new Real estate Fund , making new investments and mentoring investee companies and helping them in managing growth.

Mr. Rathi is part of the Executive Board of the Future Group and currently serves on the Board and Audit committees of Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd, Future Generali India Insurance Co. Limited, Capital First, In addition to his role as Chief Investment Officer for Future Ventures India Limited. Mr. Rathi is a first class Commerce graduate, a rank-holder Chartered Accountant (Ranked 33rd) and a qualified Chartered Secretary from The Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

Mr. Hemang Raja (age 54) is an MBA from Abeline Christian University, Texas, with a major emphasis on finance. He has also done an Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Oxford University, UK. He has a vast experience of over thirty three years in financial services encompassing fund based businesses such as Project Finance and Corporate Banking, together with Treasury management and Structured products with IL&FS. Mr Raja has also been the head of Capital Market activities in the Institutional and Retail Segments when he started and became the Managing Director and CEO of the then newly formed initiative by IL & FS, namely IL & FS Investsmart Ltd.

During the last five years, he has been involved in the Private Equity and Fund Management business with Credit Suisse and Asia Growth Capital Advisers in India as MD and Head-India. Over the course of his career he has cultivated and managed over a hundred strong Corporate Relationships and has been involved in the creation of a retail customer base of more than two hundred thousand, in IL&FS and IL&FS Investsmart Ltd. He has served on the executive committee of the board of the National Stock Exchange of India as also served as a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Mr. M S Sundara Rajan is a Post Graduate in Economics from University of Madras with specialization in Mathematical economics, National Income and Social Accounting. He is also a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers and Associate Member of Indian Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He was Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Indian Bank and has total experience of over 38 years in the Banking Industry. He has also earlier worked with Union Bank of India for over 33 years. During his Stewardship as CMD of Indian Bank, the said Bank has won many accolades and awards. He has been ranked 45th in the Economic Times India Inc's most powerful CEOs list (2009) and also Ranked No.2 among the CEOs of Nationalized Banks and No.6 among the CEOs of Commercial banks.