Board of Directors

Anil Kothuri joined Fedfina in August, 2018 as MD & CEO. He has over twenty five years of experience across various asset businesses including Mortgage, SME Financing, Auto Loans, Share Finance and Unsecured Lending. Prior to joining Fedfina he was the head of the Retail Lending business of the Edelweiss Group. He has also worked in Citibank where he led key assignments across functions in Audit, Operations, Sales, Product Management and Marketing. He is an MBA graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Computer Engineer from Andhra University.

Balakrishnan Krishnamurthy joined Fedfina as Chairman and Independent Director since September, 2019. He has over 30 years of professional experience, of which around 25 years have been in the Financial Services business in India, providing strategic and financial advice to a variety of Indian and Multinational Corporations, Financial Sponsors and private business families. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary. Currently, he is the Chairman of Kriscore Financial Advisors Pvt. Ltd. With excellent client relationships and domain knowledge, he was instrumental in originating and leading execution of most of these transactions. During his tenure with Lazard, he worked on advisory assignments with a variety of large Indian and multinational clients. He also served as Head of Corporate Finance and Advisory for HSBC Investment Bank and was responsible for the corporate finance and advisory business of HSBC Investment Banking in India. He has also worked with Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd, Mumbai, and led teams both on advisory and financing assignments.

Shyam Srinivasan has joined Fedfina as Non-Executive Promoter Director of the Company since March 2011. He joined the Federal Bank as the Managing Director & CEO with effect from 23rd September 2010 after having worked with leading multinational banks in India and overseas across Middle East, India and South East Asia, where he has gained significant experience in retail lending, wealth management and SME banking. Before joining Federal Bank, Shyam Srinivasan was with Standard Chartered Bank, the largest foreign bank in India, where he was responsible for strategy, development and management of the Bank's Consumer Banking Business spread across a large network of branches in India employing over 6,000 people. Prior to that, he was Country Head of Standard Chartered Bank's Consumer franchise in Malaysia where he focused on broad-basing the revenue streams and delivered significant increase in profitability while developing a strong team of local professionals. Shri. Shyam Srinivasan is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapally. He has completed a Leadership Development Program from the London Business School and has served on the Global Executive Forum (the top 100 executives) of Standard Chartered Bank from 2004 to 2010.

Gauri Rushabh Shah has joined Fedfina as an Independent Director of the Company since February 2015. She is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years of experience in Tax, Financial, Business Advisory and Estates & Succession Planning Services. She has worked with Deloitte Haskins & Sells for five years.

Maninder Singh Juneja joined Fedfina as Nominee Director (Nominee of True North Fund VI LLP) since December, 2018. A thought Leader in Banking Industry with experience in setting independently retail asset, deposits, transaction banking franchise and now chartering the banks digital journey. Influential in policy circles through board position on CIBIL (credit bureau of India Ltd) and NPCI (National Payment Council of India). Personal Leadership philosophy is led by example and at ease with Strategizing decisions and nitty-gritty of execution. He has over 25 years of hands on experience in strategizing, planning and setting up Branch franchise and managing top line and P&L of retail banks across Assets, deposit, Wealth Management, Small Business loans, NRI Segment, Credit, Policy, Business Intelligence, Digital Channels, collections and Fraud control, Strong business development professional skilled in Negotiation, Interest Rates, Management, Management Information Systems (MIS), and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). Presently a Partner with True North Managers LLP, role involves Identify, Acquire and Lead one or more Financial Services Businesses as CEO/Managing Director. The objective is to create a large and one of the most admired, new age tech centric financial services business.

Mr. Ashutosh Khajuria joined Fedfina as Nominee Director (The Federal Bank Ltd.) since April, 2020.

He is a Graduate in Science from the prestigious Banaras Hindu University and is a Bachelor in Law as well. He is also an Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer of Federal Bank. He has been the Group President and Chief Credit Officer of other institutions overseeing Corporate, Institutional and Commercial Banking.

He has a total Work Experience of more than 34 Years in various senior level roles in leading organizations. He has a very keen eye on the financial markets and features regularly in panel discussions in FEDAI/FIMMDA conferences and also on various television channels.

Sunil Gulati is a B. Tech degree holder from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and a Gold Medalist from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is the Part-time Chairman of Fincare Small Finance Bank and an Independent Director on the boards of Merisis Advisors, SBI Mutual Fund Trustee Company, Perfios Account Aggregation Services, Kinara Capital, Samunnati, Boson Systems, Revgro Capital, Tapstart, and Arthan Finance.   

Mr. Sunil is also a Senior Advisor to Ambit Finvest, Adani Capital, Varthana Finance, and WEH Ventures. He has recently completed two terms as an independent director of PNB MetLife India Insurance Ltd. He is a member of the Mutual Fund Advisory Committee constituted by SEBI and has chaired Working Groups for the development of passive funds and framing regulations for Mutual Funds exclusively dealing with passive funds.  

He has experience in various sectors, including banking, retail, capital markets, and agricultural/financial inclusion. He was the Chief Risk Officer at RBL Bank from October 2010 till August 2016, during its transformation from a small regional bank to a national player. He previously headed the GE Commercial Finance business and was part of the core team that helped ING acquire a controlling stake in Vysya Bank.

Mr. Sunil was an early-stage investor and Board Member at Aztec Technologies, helping it grow and take public in 2000. He worked on merging Aztec into Mindtree in 2009 and served on the Board of Trustees for ING Investment Management in India. He was on the Board of Trustees for ING Investment Management in India from 2010 to 2014. He attended Wharton School for Independent Directors and CERG Advisory Group's Independent Directors Forum. Sunil's banking career included relationship management, corporate development, and investment banking at Bank of America, earning him the CEO's Golden Eagle Pin for Outstanding Achievement.

Mr. Ramesh is a graduate in Engineering from IIT Madras and a post-graduate MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Mr. Ramesh comes from a Banking Technology background having worked in Technology and Operations functions with large multinational banks for over three decades. He has been in CIO/COO level positions for more than 15 years. Mr. Ramesh started his career with Standard Chartered Bank in India and then moved to Singapore followed by stints in Philippines, Korea, Indonesia and CIMB Bank, Malaysia over the next 25 years. Upon returning to India in 2021 he took on the role of Country Head, Zan Compute, India, a US based Internet of Things (IoT) startup, where he directly manages the software development and engineering teams based in Coimbatore and client relationships outside US.