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Mr. Manish Jaiswal is the CEO of Poonawalla Housing Finance. He is an engineer from VNIT, Nagpur and has done his Fast Track General Management from IIM, Bangalore.

Mr. Jaiswal has over 27 years of deep domain experience in Banking & Financial services industry and Heavy Engineering Industry. Mr Jaiswal joined Poonawalla after a successful 5-year stint with CRISIL where he spearheaded Businesses of Risk Advisory, Risk Solutions, Research and SME Ratings. In his Risk Advisory stint with CRISIL, he pioneered the implementation of Basel III with most banks, NBFCs in domestic and EEMEA region. Mr Jaiswal was an eminent member on SEBI committee of Corporate Bonds and Securitization Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC), and has also led consulting with the country’s foremost pension funds and regulators, be it EPFO or PFRDA. He was also a member of Usha Thorat Committee which promulgated the charter on “Revitalization of Distressed Assets”.

Prior to Crisil, Mr. Jaiswal has deep specialisation in building businesses grounds up or turning them around in great institutions like Citi, Fullerton ( A Temasek Company), Eicher Motors and Dhanbank. His deep skill and proficiency has been SME Banking and Assets Backed Financing and he has built assets of more than 15000 crores in the last 20 years.

Mr. Amar Deshpande is a M. Sc. in Statistics and holds Diploma in Financial Management; and has over 36+ years of experience in BFSI Sector mainly into NBFCs with an expertise in areas including Fund Mobilization, Corporate Funding, Project Finance, Debt Syndication, Credit Appraisal and Management Consultancy. Mr. Deshpande comes with long standing experience in Finance, Banking, Legal and Management spheres.

He was awarded as the “most influential CFOs of India” in the year 2015 by CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accounts).

He has spear-headed an arena of various departments such as Legal, Compliance, Operations, Finance, Treasury, Collections, etc. currently, as a Chief Operating Officer of Poonawalla Finance Private Limited, a systemically important non-banking financial company. Previously he was associated as the Vice President- Finance and Strategy at Electronica Finance Limited. Mr. Deshpande has been a visiting faculty to NIBM (National Institute of Bank Management), Pune and Reserve Bank of India College of Agriculture Banking, Pune.

Mr. Prabhakar Dalal, holds M. Com, LL.B., CAIIB, FIIBF, PGDFERM and PGDSL qualifications, and certificates in French and German languages and is a highly experienced banker in commercial and development banking, with 37 years of experience and extensive international exposure across the globe. He has worked with Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) for 31 years, including as the Executive Director for over 3 years.

Mr. Dalal has been serving as Independent or Nominee Director on the Boards of several companies/organizations in various sectors, including on the Board of West African Development Bank. He also served as a Member of Jury for Business Excellence Awards and has appeared as an expert on top-rated business news TV channel in their several call-in shows.

Mr. Dalal’s expertise lies in retail and wholesale banking, international trade and project financing, institutional and international relations, stress assets management, resource management, corporate and securities law and corporate governance.

Mrs. Bhama Krishnamurthy is Master in Science (M.Sc.) from Mumbai University. She was Country Head and Chief General Manager at SIDBI. She had a career spanning over 35 years in lDBI (now lDBI Bank) and SIDBI, an Apex Development Bank for micro, small and medium enterprises in India covering all areas of development in banking operations both from policy perspectives and relating to implementation aspects. Her key accomplishments over the years have been her association with framing various policy documents for SIDBI and piloting such policy papers in the Board for adoption. She has closely dealt with Multilateral and Bilateral Agencies in close coordination with the Government of India. Her areas of specialisation include, inter-alia, handling of Human Resource Development Division covering recruitment, training and promotion aspects; association with drafting of CSR Policy guidelines for the Bank; resource raising and management, integrated treasury operations, credit dispensation and management and risk management. She has been serving as Independent Director on the Board of several renowned Companies including NBFC’s, Banks and others.