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Name	Qualification / Brief Experience
Mr. Bharat Shah (Director / Chairman)	Age/Qualification 62 years/ B.Sc.Hons., University of Mumbai, Diploma in Applied Chemistry UK. Brief Experience Mr. Shah has been appointed as an independent director of Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited and is the chairman of HDFC Securities Limited. He has been one of the founder members of HDFC bank and joined HDFC Bank in December 1994 as an Executive Director. He is on the board of directors of various companies including Hexaware Technologies, Computer Age Management Services Private Limited, ADFC Limited, and Hill Properties Limited. He is the President of Vanita Vishram and on the Advisory Board of Flame Institute and Yatra Art fund. He started his career as a R&D Chemist in Pyrene Company Ltd after which he worked for Bradma India Limited & then worked at Technova. He was Marketing Head of Travelers Checks and the Rupees Travelers Check Operation during 1979-1983 with Thomas Cook. He worked with Citibank as Payment Product Division Head & then Real Estate Division Head from 1983 to 1993. Mr. Shah was an Investment Advisor for Union Bank of Switzerland, Singapore from 1993-94.
Mr. Sunil Kakar (Director)	Age/Qualification 54 years/ MBA in Finance from XLRI and a degree in engineering from IIT Kanpur. Brief Experience 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. Naval Bir Kumar (Nominee Director of IDFC)	Age/Qualification 44 years/ PGDM – IIM Calcutta, BA-Mathematics (Bombay University) Brief Experience Naval Bir Kumar is the President & CEO of IDFC Asset Management Company Limited. He has over 15 years of experience in the capital markets.Prior to joining IDFC, he was Director & Head Originations of Global Capital Markets for ANZ Investment Bank. In this role he has handled debt and equity capital market transactions for a number of leading Indian corporates. He joined the Bank in 1990 in the Merchant Banking Division and was appointed Head of the Merchant Bank for West India in 1994 and subsequently Head of the Investment Bank for West India in 1996.
Dr. Rajeev Uberoi (Nominee of IDFC)	Age/Qualification 52 years / Dr. Uberoi is a Canadian Commonwealth Scholar with a Masters from McMaster University and a Phd in Economics. He has done his MBA from MDI, Gurgaon and has a law degree. Brief Experience Dr. Uberoi has over 30 years experience in financial services and deep understanding of all facets of the business and a detailed knowledge of Compliance with SEBI, RBI and Company Law regulations. He was instrumental in establishing Non-Banking Finance Company, Business Process Outsourcing, Mutual Fund, etc and lead integration between banks. He has specialist expertise in the area of Operational Risk Management. Not only has he been on various Committees of the RBI and the Indian Bankers Association related to risk and compliance, he is also a regular contributor to the Indian financial press, and he continues to lecture at various institutes around the country as well as serve as visiting faculty for Risk Management at IIM – Indore/ Ahmedabad. Dr. Uberoi has joined IDFC from Standard Chartered Bank where he was Regional Head – Operational Risk & Assurance, South Asia. He has been associated with SCB earlier also as Regional Head – Legal & Compliance, India & Nepal. Prior to SCB Mr. Uberoi has worked with Citibank as Vice President & Regulatory Head; ANZ Grindlays Bank as Head – Risk Management & Compliance - India and at the Reserve Bank of India as Asst. General Manager, Dept of Banking Supervision.
Mr. Vikash Raj (Chief Executive Officer)	Age/Qualification B.Sc. (Physics), MBA Finance, CFPtm-Over 11 years of experience in the investment industry. Brief Experience His last assignment was with Citibank N.A. as Head-Investment Research in the consumer banking division. He has also worked with rating agencies like CRISIL and ICRA formulating models and analytics for rating rankings of mutual funds. He was involved in development of financial planning tools.
Ms. Jyothi Krishnan (Compliance officer)	Age/Qualification A. C. S., B.G.L., B. Com - about 6 years of experience in Compliance, Risk Management, Secretarial, etc. Brief Experience In her last assignment with ING Investment Management (I) Private. Limited, she was designated as VP – Compliance Risk (April 2005 – February 2009). Prior to this, she was with Standard Chartered Asset Management Company Private Limited as an Officer Management Trainee (June 2003-April 2005).
Mr. Rajendra Mishra	Qualification Completed his Engineering from NIT Jamshedpur and MBA from IIM Lucknow. Over 9 years of work experience including over 6 years in the investment industry. Brief Experience In his last assignment he was in Proprietary Equity Group,IDFC Limited where he was designated as Vice President. He had an overall responsibility of analyzing investment opportunities, closing transactions and monitoring & monetizing portfolio. Prior to IDFC he worked with JP Morgan in India as a Research Analyst.