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Mr. Nirmal Jain |
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Chairman & Managing Director |
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India Infoline Ltd. |
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Nirmal Jain, MBA (IIM, Ahmedabad) and a Chartered and Cost Accountant, founded India’s
leading financial services company India Infoline Ltd. in 1995, providing globally
acclaimed financial services in equities and commodities broking, life insurance
and mutual funds distribution, among others. Mr. Jain began his career in 1989 with
Hindustan Lever’s commodity export business, contributing tremendously to its growth.
He was also associated with Inquire-Indian Equity Research, which he co-founded
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Mr. R Venkataraman |
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Executive Director |
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R Venkataraman, co-promoter and Executive Director of India Infoline Ltd., is a
B. Tech (Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, IIT Kharagpur) and
an MBA (IIM Bangalore). He joined the India Infoline board in July 1999. He previously
held senior managerial positions in ICICI Limited, including ICICI Securities Limited,
their investment banking joint venture with J P Morgan of USA and with BZW and Taib
Capital Corporation Limited. He was also Assistant Vice President with G E Capital
Services India Limited in their private equity division, possessing a varied experience
of more than 16 years in the financial services sector. |
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The Board of Directors
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Apart from Nirmal Jain and R Venkataraman, the Board of Directors of India Infoline
Ltd. comprises: |
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Mr Nilesh Vikamsey
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Independent Director |
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Mr. Vikamsey, Board member since February 2005 - a practising Chartered Accountant
and partner (Khimji Kunverji & Co., Chartered Accountants), a member firm of HLB
International, headed the audit department till 1990 and thereafter also handles
financial services, consultancy, investigations, mergers and acquisitions, valuations
etc; an ICAI study group member for Proposed Accounting Standard — 30 on Financial
Instruments — Recognition and Management, Finance Committee of The Chamber of Tax
Consultants (CTC), Law Review, Reforms and Rationalization Committee and Infotainment
and Media Committee of Indian Merchants’ Chamber (IMC) and Insurance Committee and
Legal Affairs Committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI). |
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Mr. Vikamsey is a director of Miloni Consultants Private Limited, HLB Technologies
(Mumbai) Private Limited and Chairman of HLB India. |
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Mr Sat Pal Khattar |
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Non Executive Director |
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India Infoline Ltd. |
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Mr Sat Pal Khattar, - Board member since April 2001 - Presidential Council of Minority
Rights member, Chairman of the Board of Trustee of Singapore Business Federation,
is also a life trustee of SINDA, a non profit body, helping the under-privileged
Indians in Singapore. He joined the India Infoline board in April 2001. Mr Khattar
is a Director of public and private companies in Singapore, India and Hong Kong;
Chairman of Guocoland Limited listed in Singapore and its parent Guoco Group Ltd
listed in Hong Kong, a leading property company of Singapore, China and Malaysia.
A Board member of India Infoline Ltd, Gateway Distriparks Ltd — both listed — and
a number of other companies he is also the Chairman of the Khattar Holding Group
of Companies with investments in Singapore, India, UK and across the world. |
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Mr Kranti Sinha
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Independent Director |
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Mr. Kranti Sinha — Board member since January 2005 — completed his masters from
the Agra University and started his career as a Class I officer with Life Insurance
Corporation of India. He served as the Director and Chief Executive of LIC Housing
Finance Limited from August 1998 to December 2002 and concurrently as the Managing
Director of LICHFL Care Homes (a wholly owned subsidiary of LIC Housing Finance
Limited). He retired from the permanent cadre of the Executive Director of LIC;
served as the Deputy President of the Governing Council of Insurance Institute of
India and as a member of the Governing Council of National Insurance Academy, Pune
apart from various other such bodies. Mr. Sinha is also on the Board of Directors
of Hindustan Motors Limited, Larsen & Toubro Limited, LICHFL Care Homes Limited,
Gremach Infrastructure Equipments and Projects Limited and Cinemax (India) Limited. |
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Mr Arun K. Purvar |
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Independent Director |
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Mr. A.K. Purvar – Board member since March 2008 – completed his Masters degree in
commerce from Allahabad University in 1966 and a diploma in Business Administration
in 1967. Mr. Purwar joined the State Bank of India as a probationary officer in
1968, where he held several important and critical positions in retail, corporate
and international banking, covering almost the entire range of commercial banking
operations in his illustrious career. He also played a key role in co-coordinating
the work for the Bank's entry into the field of insurance. After retiring from the
Bank at end May 2006, Mr. Purwar is now working as Member of Board of Governors
of IIM-Lucknow, joined IIM–Indore as a visiting professor, joined as a Hon.-Professor
in NMIMS and he is also a member of Advisory Board for Institute of Indian Economic
Studies (IIES), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He has now taken over as Chairman
of IndiaVenture Advisors Pvt. Ltd., as well as IL & FS Renewable Energy Limited.
He is also working as Independent Director in leading companies in Telecom, Steel,
Textiles, Autoparts, Engineering and Consultancy. |
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