23 | Annual Report 2023-24 Karina Isabel Alva Alfaro is a Non-Executive Nominee Director of the Company. She is an investment manager on the Financial Inclusion Private Equity team at Maj Invest. Prior to joining the firm in 2016, she has worked with a leading Latin-American credit rating firm. She started her career working with USAID supporting small businesses to access finance and Technical Assistance. She has more than 10 years of global experience in credit analysis, project management, and private equity. CA Ms. Rupa Rajul Vora is a Non-Executive Nominee Director of the Company. She was the Group Director & CFO - IDFC Alternatives for more than a decade and earlier, CFO of the Indian operations of Antwerp Diamond Bank N.V. and KBC Bank N.V. She was also associated with Calyon Bank and Oman International Bank S.A.O.G. Before joining the corporate world, she ran an independent practice as a Chartered Accountant for almost a decade. She has won the award for India’s Top Women in Finance 2023 by Equalifi. She has been a member of the Jury for the CFO 100 Awards by the CFO Institute and has been conferred with the “Women Leadership Excellence Award” at the IPE - BFSI Awards 2013 by the Institute of Public Enterprise. She has also been featured among India’s 10 most influential women in finance in India by Rediff.com in 2012. In addition to being an independent director on corporate boards, she is also a Fellow Member of the Institute of Directors and a lifetime member of the Independent Director’s Data Bank of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. She has been a member of CII’s National Committee on Financial Reporting 2020-2021 to 2023-2024. Mr. Ulhas Sharadkumar Deshpande is a Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company since January 15, 2024. He is a postgraduate in Human Resource Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and started his illustrious with GSK in 1982. In 2003, Ulhas decided to fulfil his entrepreneurial aspirations and set up Adventity Global Services, a company in the sunrise KPO/BPO sector catering to financial services sector in India and abroad. Thereafter he has set up an incubation start up in the microfinance sector which helped and provided expertise to entrepreneurs desirous of setting up microfinance companies, some of which later on became successful Companies. He returned to the corporate sector and worked with RPG Enterprises and Bharti-Axe Limited before retiring from active corporate work in November, 2014. He has also been a Mentor to few start-ups helping them scale up and build the right business model and organizations. He is a trustee of a school set up near Mumbai for the differently abled children and is actively involved in running the school. Mr. John Arunkumar Diaz is a Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company since January 03, 2024. He is a consultant, entrepreneur, mentor and an advisor to a Venture Capital company. He holds a degree in Mathematics and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has worked with Standard Chartered Bank for 28 years in all areas of banking with assignments in India, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific Region. He is on the boards of several companies and had a brief stint as Head, Reuters Consulting South Asia before taking up freelance consulting in Banking with assignments in Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Mauritius and Seychelles among others. More recently, he was MD of Jain Sons Finlease Limited, an NBFC which provides loans to SME and MSME companies with limited or no collateral. He also had some experience as an entrepreneur in the healthcare sector with two ventures in the healthcare delivery space; one a clinic and the other a hospital chain. He is also an active member of TiE-Mumbai (The Indus Entrepreneurs, Mumbai Chapter) and enjoys mentoring new upcoming entrepreneurs whilst also doing some Angel investments. Karina Isabel Alva Alfaro Rupa Rajul Vora Ulhas Sharadkumar Deshpande John Arunkumar Diaz
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