Sanjay Sachdev

Independent Director

Mr. Sanjay Sachdev has over 30 years experience in the global financial services in leadership positions building game changing asset management businesses. He is the Global Chairperson and Board Member of Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB). He is also a Senior Advisor and Board Member to financial institutions including a reputed U.S. family and a private equity fund based in the U.K. called Apis Partners LLC. In addition, he is the Chairman of ZyFin Holdings and is currently involved in leading a unique Macro Research and ETF Asset Management business.

Aparna Sharma

Independent Director

Ms. Aparna Sharma made her foray into the corporate world through NOCIL and moved into different roles in the HR function in organisations like Monsanto, Novartis, UCB, Deutsche Bank, Lafarge & Greaves Cotton. In her diverse roles, Aparna has successfully been a learning partner, mentor and coach to leaders, leadership teams and organisations to build competencies, learning abilities and nimbleness for achieving purposeful performance.

With over 26 years of rich and diverse industry experience across Building Materials, Banking & Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals (including KPO), Biotechnology & Petrochemicals in HR, she is currently contributing as a Board Mentor with various boards & as an advisor to various corporates in areas such as Strategic Leadership, Planning, Organization Behaviour & Strategy for Board Room Effectiveness, Organization Culture & Development, Leadership Relationships, Temperamental Traits & Derailment Factors within Boards etc.

Nagesh Alai

Independent Director

Mr. Alai has had an extensive professional work experience across various functions namely management, strategy, finance, tax, legal, corporate law, corporate governance and human resources and has held top positions of responsibilities in India and abroad. Subsequent to his corporate stint of over 8 years in the pharma world between 1983 and 1990 in MNCs like Boots Pharmaceuticals ( now Abbott ) and John Wyeth ( now Pfizer ), Mr. Alai has been associated with FCB Ulka Advertising Pvt. Ltd.( a top four advertising communications group in India ), a wholly owned subsidiary of the NYSE quoted Interpublic Group of Companies, headquartered in New York, since 1990 to 2016, in senior management and leadership roles such as CFO, Company Secretary, General Counsel, Executive Director, CFO Asia Pacific and Africa and Group Chairman.

His extensive experience and expertise has seen Mr. Alai playing active leadership roles in industry bodies through his long career including helming the apex advertising industry association (AAAI) as its President between 2010-12 and the regional advertising industry body, Confederation of Asian Advertising Agencies Association as its Chairman between 2015 - 2017. Mr. Alai has been active in self regulation in advertising and has served on the apex watch dog, Consumer Complaints Council of ASCI. Mr. Alai has been on various committees of industry bodies like CII, etc. and is a guest columnist in Business India magazine, covering topical business, economic and finance issues.

Mr. Alai is also on the advisory board of pan-India NGOs and is an independent director on the board of few corporates. Mr. Alai is a guest faculty at his alma mater, teaching International Finance, Financial Markets and Corporate Finance to graduate and post graduate students. He is an active mentor to start ups and is the principal consultant in his business advisory firm. He is an avid art connoisseur/collector, voracious reader, high altitude trekker, a marathoner and a motivational mentor.

David Vaillant

Associate Director

Mr. Vaillant is in charge of finance, strategy and participations, including our JVs in Asia and Latam, and of business improvement and transformation. He is also Deputy CEO of BNPPAM France, and member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Vaillant is also Board member and Vice Chairman of BEAGF, a Chilean asset manager, and a Board member of the Allfunds Group. He is also a Director at Aquis Exchange, PLC, and Chairman of the supervisory board of Aquis Exchange Europe. Aquis is a technology driven exchange group, listed on AIM. M. Vaillant joined from BNP Paribas’ Corporate and Institutional Banking / FIC division, where he was Head of Banking for EMEA.

He has advised on some of the Group’s most transformational transactions (notably the acquisition of Fortis) and has been a significant contributor to the BNP Paribas franchise across Europe and emerging markets. Mr. Vaillant started his career as a lawyer with Skadden. He then joined the French central bank (Banque de France). Mr. Vaillant has taught finance, law and economics in various institutions. He holds Master in Management from HEC, a Master in Political Sciences and Public Affairs from Sciences Po, and a Master in Analysis and Policy in Economics (applied mathematics) from EHESS / Ecole Normale Supérieure, and studied fintech at Harvard. He also holds a Master in communications/ Intellectual Property law from Paris I Sorbonne and a Master in Business Law from Paris II Assas. He is a member of the Paris Bar.

Vincent Trouillard Perrot

Associate Director

Mr. Trouillard-Perrot spent all his career at BNP Paribas Group in vast areas of business and responsibilities in Paris and in many regions of the globe especially in Asia and in the Nordic countries. After experiences in CIB, General Inspection and Private Banking, Mr. Trouillard-Perrot joined the Asset Management business line in 2003 as President and CEO of BNPPAM Japan based in Tokyo. Then he was appointed CEO Asia and head of the regional APAC hub based in Hong Kong. He then joined Alfred Group (a subsidiary of BNPPAM) covering the Nordic and Baltic countries based in Stockholm.

In 2018, he was appointed back to the head office of BNPPAM based in Paris, to oversee a wide number of countries where BNPPAM has its operations, from Latam, Asia, EMEA and the Nordic countries. Since 2020, he has the overall responsibility of supervising and developing the strategic participations and Joint-Ventures of BNPP Asset Management.

With over 30 years of rich and diverse experience in financial industry, especially in Wealth Management for over 20 years (in Private Banking and Asset Management), he has accumulated a successful and relevant experience in dealing with many commercial and regulatory environments, as a leader and as a Board member.

Shinjini Kumar

Independent Director

Ms. Kumar has over three decades of work experience in senior positions across various organizations including Reserve Bank of India, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited, Paytm Payments Bank and Citibank India.

She is the co-founder and Director of Five Salts Private Limited and Seven Salts Private Limited, building a woman-first fintech platform offering personal finance products Ms Kumar has degrees in English Literature, journalism and Public Policy and is on various Boards and the Executive Council of CGAP.

Sanjay Kumar Grover

Associate Director

Mr. Sanjay Grover, a seasoned banker and treasurer, is a senior executive in Bank of Baroda. His area of expertise is Treasury Operations where he has spent most of his career and gained skills and expertise in the domain in true holistic sense. Presently, as Chief General Manager, he is heading Treasury and Global Markets in Bank of Baroda. Mr Grover is associated with Bank of Baroda since 1993 in different positions. He has completed two sought after stints of overseas posting. One as Treasury Dealer in Dubai, UAE and second as prestigious position of Chief Executive (European Operations) and Managing Director & CEO of Bank of Baroda (UK) Limited.Mr Grover hold Master degree in Economics and is a certified associate of Indian Institute of Bankers. He has successfully participated in Leadership Development Program of IIM-B which is an initiative of Bank Board Bureau in collaboration with IBA and supported by Department of Financial Service, Ministry of Finance (GoI).

Mr. Grover has participated in numerous seminars, workshops and training programs in India and overseas throughout his career.

Ashok Jangid

Independent Director

Mr. Jangid has an experience of over 40 years in the profession of Legal, Compliance and Secretarial. He is currently an Independent Corporate Advisor and also a Director on board of certain companies. He holds membership in ICSI, Institute of Directors (IoD) and Indo- German Chamber of Commerce. Since August 2013 he has been engaged in primarily advising European companies on M&A deals, setting up operations in India, Wind Energy Projects, Corporate Law and Governance matters. He is also advising and supporting some Indian companies on IPOs, buyback of shares, Corporate Governance, Compliance policies, wind projects, etc. which includes interacting with the Regulators and Government agencies and Departments.

Deepak Narang

Independent Director

Mr. Deepak Narang has more than 44 years of experience in the banking industry and was associated with United Bank of India as an Executive Director during March 2012 to March 2015 (upto his retirement from the bank). Mr. Narang also held charge of the bank from February 2014 to December 2014. Mr. Narang has worked in senior level positions across various capacities in the bank, especially in the areas of credit sanctioning and recovery. Currently, Mr. Narang is an Advisor (Credit & Recovery) to the Catholic Syrian Bank, Mumbai and is the Non-Executive Chairman of RARE ARC Ltd.

Punit Saxena

Independent Director

Mr. Punit Saxena has a wide experience of over 42 years of which, more than 14 years was at the CEO/MD level and more than 20 years at the Board level positions. Mr. Saxena has been associated with the Unit Trust of India since 1989 upto 2003, in senior level positions across various functions such as marketing of financial products, management and administration. Subsequently, Mr. Saxena held the position of Chief Executive Officer in UTI Infrastructure and Services Ltd. since January 2004 till its merger with UTI Technology Services Ltd. in May 2009. Thereafter, Mr. Saxena was the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of UTI Infrastructure and Technology Services Ltd. since May 2009 upto June 2017. Mr. Saxena was an Independent Director in Flair Writing Industries Ltd. from August 2018-June 2020.

I. V. L. Sridhar

Associate Director

Mr. I.V.L. Sridhar is a Bachelor’s in commerce and a Chartered Accountant and has handled various roles in the Banking Industry where he handled areas of work as Head – Subsidiaries & Joint Ventures, worked in Compliance Function, Head-Financial Accounting(INDAS) etc. Prior to Bank of Baroda, Mr. Sridhar has worked for Vijaya Bank and worked in various roles and functions.

Jyothi Krishnan

Associate Director

Jyothi was previously the Head of Compliance, Legal and Secretarial at BNP Paribas Asset Management India.

Ms. Krishnan has over 20years of experience in the legal domain and oversees all legal services at BNPP AM. She is responsible for managing legal and regulatory compliance programs that enable BNPP AM to operate across India while adhering to the highest ethical standards. With an eye for detail, she leads a team that sharply analyses customer facing processes and activities of the AMC from a legal and regulatory perspective.

Prior to joining BNPP AM in May 2013, she served IDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd. apart from various prestigious mutual funds firms in India. Ms. Krishnan is a Company Secretary, a Bachelor in General Law and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the University of Mumbai.

Ashutosh Bishnoi

Independent Director

Mr. Ashutosh Bishnoi has over four decades of rich corporate experience and expertise in Asset Management industry. His last stints included Mahindra Manulife Investment Management Private Limited, Association of Mutual Funds in India, L&T Mutual Fund, State Street, Orbis Capital Limited, etc. He is serving as a member of the NISM Committees for Empanelment of Resource Person and the NISM Committee for CPE Accreditation since 2010. He is also the visiting faculty member at NISM since 2009 and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management since 2011. He has also received the Best Alumni Award in 2005 by Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. He was the speaker at the Harvard India Conference in 2020. He has written the courseware for ‘Managing & Marketing of Financial Services’ and ‘Insurance Products & Service’ for the Indian Institute of Banking & Finance in 2004.