Amit Bapna is the Chief Financial Officer at Reliance Capital. He has been with Reliance Capital since 2004 and with the Group since 1999. As CFO, he provides financial direction, oversight and control for Reliance Capital and Group companies and strategic leadership for Treasury. He has over eleven years of experience in varied business environments—manufacturing and financial services.

He earlier worked in the capacity of CFO of Reliance Capital Asset Management Ltd and Reliance Consumer Finance where he played a key role and had been a significant contributor to the exponential growth of our Asset management business and has brought in operational & process disciplines, which has been invaluable to the Consumer Finance business.

Prior to that he worked in the Corporate Treasury of Reliance Industries Ltd.

Amit is a chartererd accountant by qualification. He is interested in Travelling, Dining out and watching movies.

Amitabh Mohanty is Head of Debt Strategies at Reliance Capital Limited. In his current role, he is responsible for driving various debt related initiatives of Reliance Capital Limited and its subsidiaries. He is also responsible for various on-balance sheet debt exposures of Reliance Capital. He moved to this role after spending more than 7 years with Reliance Capital Asset Management Ltd. as Head of Fixed Income. He is a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager with over 16 years of experience.

In a prior assignment, he had a six year stint with Alliance Capital Asset Management Ltd. as Vice President, in charge of fixed income assets. He started his career in SBI Funds Management Ltd. where he was Deputy Manager responsible for managing fixed income schemes.

He is a management graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad from the 1996 batch and holds an electrical engineering degree from the IIT, Roorkee.

Anup Rau, is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Reliance Life Insurance Company Limited, one of the largest Life Insurance companies in India.

He is a Graduate in Economics from University of Delhi and holds a Masters in Management Studies from University of Bombay.

Anup has a vast and varied experience of over seventeen years in FMCG and Financial Services, out of which over a decade is in the Life Insurance space with a proven track record of successes, with broad understanding and in-depth insight of the business.

Prior to joining Reliance Life Insurance he was, Head-Sales & Distribution at HDFC Life Insurance and earlier spent considerable time with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company since their formative years.

In his role, at Reliance Life, he heads the entire business and his key focus is ensuring sustainable and profitable growth for the company. He also provides a strategic direction and leads his team towards achieving its vision of being the most admired Life Insurance Company in the Country. His focus is also to strengthen the company’s partnership with Nippon Life by adopting their long sustaining values and singular focus on customers.

A philanthropist by nature, Anup is passionate about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and strongly believes in giving back to the community he operates in. 

Arun Hariharan is President, Quality and Knowledge Management at Reliance Capital. The company has achieved significant business results from Quality and KM initiatives such as Lean Six Sigma and IdeaExpress including over Rs. 100 crore in savings so far. Thousands of employees have participated in these initiatives. Two of Reliance Capital’s businesses have won the “Economics of Quality” commendation Award from the Government of India and also been selected for the Asian Network for Quality Congress, in Japan in 2009.

Before joining Reliance Capital in October 2005, Arun led one of the most successful Six Sigma Quality & KM programs in Indian industry at Bharti AirTel. These have now become case-studies at leading business schools, including IIMs. His total work experience spans 23 years across different companies and roles.

He is frequently invited to speak at Quality and KM events. He has thrice been Chairperson at the International Quality and Productivity Council’s Six Sigma conferences around the world. Recently, he was a key speaker at the World Congress for Total Quality and Corporate Governance.

He is the author of several papers and articles in leading international journals on the topics of Quality Leadership and KM. This includes his white paper on Quality lessons for Leadership published by the American Society for Quality.

Arun’s educational qualifications include an MS (Finance) and MBA, both from the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His other interests are reading, travel, and music.

Asokan joined Reliance Capital Ltd as Head Compliance in Dec 2010. He is responsible for ensuring Regulatory Compliance of Reliance Capital Ltd and has oversight of the Compliance functions of subsidiaries of Reliance Capital Ltd . In this role he has close interactions with Regulators like RBI , SEBI, and IRDA .

Asokan has thirty years experience in Financial Services and has worked with the Reserve bank of India , ANZ Grindlays bank , Centurion Bank of Punjab and HDFC Bank . His last assignment was with KPMG Mumbai as a Senior Advisor in Forensic Accounting .

Asokan is 56 and is a Post Graduate in Physics and Financial Management . He is also a member of the CAIIB and is presently Co Chairman Of the Capital Markets Committee of the Indian Merchants Chamber.

K. Achuthan is the Chief People Officer at Reliance Capital. He has been with Reliance Capital since 2006. As the Human Resources Leader, he is responsible for conceptualizing and implementing state of the art and relevant Human Resource strategies to accelerate growth at Reliance Capital. He has eighteen years of HR leadership experience in diverse business environments—manufacturing, consulting, and financial services. He has worked in India, South East Asia, and in North East Asia. He has held a variety of roles ranging from organization development and staffing, management consulting, union relations, and HR leadership.

Achuthan’s last job was at General Electric. He is a post-graduate in social work from Madras University. He is also a trained CAP coach and facilitator. He has delivered several training sessions on Change Acceleration, Work-Out™ and Facilitative Leadership skills.

Achuthan’s is interested in hiking, photography, and playing the keyboard.

K. V. Srinivasan is the CEO of Reliance Commercial Finance.

KV has been leading the commercial finance business since December 2007. He has been instrumental in building a strong team to accelerate growth, responsibly. KV oversees both the companies that are building a quality portfolio of assets, and delivering significant return on investments.

He has been with the Reliance Capital for the past four years. Earlier, he was the COO of Reliance Life insurance, during which time that company became India's fastest growing life insurance company-having grown from 11th to 4th place. Before joining Reliance Capital, he was the Financial Controller and Company Secretary of Citicorp Finance, a Citibank subsidiary.

KV has done his MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is an outdoor and fitness enthusiast, and is very passionate about music.

Lav Chaturvedi is the Chief Risk Officer for Reliance Capital since October 2008. He is responsible for assessing and managing enterprise-wide risks at the group level covering various risks such as credit, market, operations, etc. across all businesses and geographies and risk aggregation for centralized risk and capital management. He is responsible for integral Internal Audit function at group level. He has been instrumental in developing best-in-class risk management capabilities and culture by creating a clear direct line of sight from risk management to stakeholder value. Before this, he was the Head, Risk Management in Reliance Mutual Fund, which he joined in January 2007.

Lav has worked with Ips Sendero, subsidiary of Fiserv (a Fortune 500 company), in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA at the senior management level, providing strategic and tactical consulting on balance sheet management to the clients and assisting in the resolution of advanced analytical and policy issues. He has rich and in-depth exposure to the entire spectrum of commercial as well as financial functions in the corporate finance, banking and consulting industries at the domestic as well as international level.

Lav has an MBA from Syracuse University, New York. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, USA. He is a steering committee member of PRMIA's Mumbai Chapter (Professional Risk Managers' International Association).

Lav is a great sports enthusiast and loves to play tennis, basketball, and racket-ball.

Madhusudan Kela is the Chief Investment Strategist with Reliance Capital Ltd. Reliance Capital Group of Companies manages assets worth more than 1.75 lakh Cr. for which Mr. kela provides strategic input and guidance. Prior to this, he was heading the Equity Investments at Reliance Mutual Fund for nearly 10 years. During this tenure, Reliance Mutual Fund’s assets grew from nearly 200 Cr in 2002 to more than 1 Lakh Cr. in 2011. Under his leadership, Reliance Mutual Fund received many awards and was rated the most trusted Mutual Fund House for three consecutive years by Economic Times.

Mr Kela was awarded the Business Standard Equity Fund Manager of the Year (2004) by Mr Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India.

Prior to joining Reliance Group, Mr Kela served in a senior position with UBS, Peregrine Securities and Motilal Oswal Securities.

Mr Kela holds a Masters Degree in Management (Year 1991) from Mumbai University and has more than 20 years of valuable experience in stock markets.

Mr.Rakesh Jain had earlier held the position of Director, Corporate Centre & CFO in ICICI Lombard. Mr.Jain was associated with ICICI Lombard since 2001. Mr.Rakesh Jain has total work experience of over 17 years in leadership positions in corporate management functions. He was pivotal in setting up ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited and as a part of the core team played a critical role in building the Company.

As Director – Corporate Centre & CFO his responsibilities included corporate finance, risk management, business strategy, underwriting, reinsurance, broking, investment, operations, legal, investigation and other control functions. During his tenure in ICICI Lombard, he was conferred with ‘Best CFO award in the Financial Services Sector’ by the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI).

 

Sam Ghosh is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Capital. He joined the company in April 2008.

Before joining Reliance Capital, Sam was the Regional CEO of Middle East and India Sub Continent region of Allianz, a German insurance company. Earlier, he was the CEO of Bajaj Allianz's India operations. Prior to that he was involved in setting up operations for Allianz in South East Asia. He spent ten years in Australia in various capacities with Allianz from CFO to managing subsidiary companies as well as operations in the Pacific Rim.

Sam Ghosh is a Chartered Accountant from England. He is an avid reader of all genres in his spare time.

Shirish Chitte is the Chief Technology Officer for Reliance Capital. Technology is a key contributor and an integral part of the organisation’s growth strategy. Shirish’s key responsibilities will include implementation of state-of-the-art technology to create a competitive differentiation for Reliance Capital and its businesses, besides driving increased adoption and productivity by lowering cost to serve our customers and employees.

Shirish brings with him over 14 years of extensive Technology leadership & client management experience ranging across consulting, life Sciences, retail, engineering, health care and financial services businesses. Shirish joins Reliance Capital from Accenture where he was responsible for offshore delivery and leadership to an UK Bank. Prior to this, Shirish founded and successfully managed his own software solutions company.

Shirish is an engineer from VJTI Mumbai and an IIM-Ahmedabad graduate.

He loves travelling and loves to explore newer places & cuisines and experience the culture around.

Sundeep Sikka is the Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Capital Asset Management, which runs India’s largest mutual fund, Reliance Mutual Fund. Before becoming the CEO in January 2009, he was the Deputy CEO of the company. Sundeep has been with RCAM since October 2003 and in that time he has been instrumental in expanding RCAM’s footprints in both domestic and international territories.

Sundeep and has more than fifteen years of leadership experience with NBFCs and Banks. Sundeep brings a proven track record of success and a broad understanding of the company's business. Prior to RCAM, Sundeep has held a number of other senior management positions; his last stint was with ICICI Bank.

Sundeep has an MBA from Pune University. His hobbies are reading and traveling.

V. R. Mohan is the President and Company Secretary of Reliance Capital. He has been associated with the Reliance Group since March, 1982. He was instrumental in incorporating Reliance Capital in 1986 and has been associated with the company since then. He has over two and a half decades of experience in the areas of corporate secretarial, legal, finance, and managerial functions. He is a law and commerce graduate from the University of Mumbai. Mohan devotes most of his spare time to working closely with the Sri Ganapati Sachchidanda Swamiji Ashram. He also enjoys listening to bhajans.

Vikrant Gugnani is the Executive Director of Reliance Securities Ltd – the broking and distribution of financial products & services arm of Reliance Capital.

Branded as ‘Reliance Money’, the company offers Equity and Derivatives trading, distribution of Mutual Fund and IPOs, Portfolio Management, Wealth Management and Investment Banking through its 5,000 outlets across India.

A Chartered Accountant & a commerce graduate from Delhi University, Vikrant has over 19 years of extensive experience in the financial industry and has worked in various countries with global firms like Citibank and S. B. Billimoria & Co (now Deloitte Haskins).

Prior to his current assignment, he was the CEO of Reliance Capital Asset Management (RCAM) Limited in India. Under his leadership, the company saw its asset under management surge from USD 3 billion to USD 22 billion and its net profit increase from USD 3 million to USD 28 million. RCAM, today, is a leading asset management company in India.

In January 2009, Asia Asset Management (an Asian Pensions & Investments Journal) awarded Vikrant as CEO of the year (2008) for India. Vikrant has also been listed by the Asian Investor magazine as one of the “25 most influential people in asset management in Asia” in May 2009.

Vikrant is passionate about traveling and playing golf.