Our Board

Ratan Naval Tata
During his tenure as the Chairman of Tata Sons, the group revenue increased manifold from $5B to $100B. In addition to India’s second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, he has been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and lifetime achievement award from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Dr. Vijay L. Kelkar
Dr. Kelkar was the Chairman of a committee constituted for Revisiting & Revitalization the PPP Model of Infrastructure Development and the Chairman, Forum of Federations, Ottawa from January 2010 to March 2013. He was the Chairman of the Finance Commission in the rank of a Union Cabinet Minister, 2010. Earlier, he was the Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan at the IMF. He has held positions of Finance Secretary, GOI; Director & Coordinator, International Trade Division, UNCTAD, Geneva; Secretary, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, GOI, 1985–1988. Dr. Kelkar is Chairman and member of Board of Directors and on Board of Governors of various global companies and organisations. Dr. Kelkar holds B.S., from the University of Pune, India, 1963, M.S., from the University of Minnesota, USA, 1965 and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley, USA, 1970.

Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is the Chairman of Infosys. Subsequent to Aadhar, Nandan has spearheaded architectures for national scale public good platforms popularly known as India Stack. Innovations he has mentored include the GSTN, ESign, UPI. Most recently, Nandan has co-founded philanthropic platforms like EkStep (universal literacy), Avanti (financial inclusion) and the Societal Platforms think tank. Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 & 2009. Nandan holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.

Manish Thakkar
Manish has over 23 years of experience in financial services, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, deal negotiation and transaction structuring. He turned entrepreneur after 17 years in Investment Banking including Nomura.

Lalitesh Katragadda
Lalitesh is a pioneer in crowdsourcing and building population-scale platforms for the underserved. His Startup was Google’s first acquisition. He co-founded Google's first international engineering centre and retired from Google as Head of India products. His creation, Google Mapmaker, was used to create Google maps in 187 countries with no maps. Lalitesh has spoken at TED and the Whitehouse.

Annette Caustin
Annette has 40 years experience in the international financial sector holding a variety of executive positions including a C-suite role for a large global bank (ABN AMRO/RBS). During her time at ABN AMRO she was a key driver and foundation member of the Eco-Markets Board, a virtual team which concentrated on green and sustainable financial products. More recently Annette was a Non Executive Director on the Supervisory Board of social impact investor and global co-operative Oikocredit (2014-2020). She was Chair of the Governance Committee (which she established in 2015) and Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board for her last two years of tenure. Annette’s experience focuses on governance, risk and control management and financial oversight.

Sunil Kumar Tadepalli
Sunil has over 22 years of experience, across industries, in Organization Effectiveness, Strategy and Executive Coaching. He has worked in diverse cultural contexts & led global teams. Sunil has worked with C suite clients and has prior consulting experience in Financial Services. His previous role was with Accenture in Strategy.