Trusted partner of over 50,000+ home owners

A first-generation entrepreneur, Mr. Sanjay Chamria overcame several regulatory and business-related hurdles in the late 1980s to build a company having presence in 250+ locations across India and employing 7,000+ people. He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and steered the company effectively in its earlier avatar (as Magma Fincorp Ltd). He is currently the Executive Director (ED) and Vice Chairman (VC) at Poonawalla Fincorp Ltd (PFL) and lends his expertise and advise to chart PFL’s future growth.

Mr. Chamria periodically leads various industry representations namely Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) to the Government of India and Reserve Bank of India. He is one of the promoters of the company.

Mr. Manish Jaiswal is the CEO of Poonawalla Housing Finance & SME Business. 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.

Mr. Sajid Fazalbhoy is a Business Management Graduate (BBA) from European Business School, London UK and Regents College London UK. Additionally he has completed executive education courses on Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Indian School of Business (ISB) and has over 10 years of work experience in Private Equity and Venture Capital. He has led investments in over a dozen companies across seed, growth and late stages in sectors that cover technology, financial services, retail and healthcare. He has significant experience in deal sourcing, structuring, portfolio management, fund management and fundraising.

Mr. Sajid Fazalbhoy is a Partner at growth stage venture capital fund, Iron Pillar. He was formerly engaged as Principal Investments and Venture Advisor at Blume Venture Capital, a $250m early stage venture capital fund from 2012 until 2021.

Mr. Sajid is an independent director of IVP Ltd - 2015 to present (NSE/BSE listed). He also serves as a board observer on Wellness Forever (Retail chain) and Svasti Microfinance (NBFC – MFI). He was also the founder CEO of Amedeo Software (focused on call center solution software and mobile value added services) from 2005- 2010, which rolled out several large scale contracts for Alcatel Lucent, Genesys Telecom Labs, Nuance, Reliance Communications etc.

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.