Dr. Shailesh Mehta
Dr. Shailesh J. Mehta is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company viz. Firstsource Solutions Limited. He has been on the Company’s Board since 2005 as non-executive Independent director. He is founder and managing general partner of Granite Hill Capital Partners, an India-focused private equity fund. He is former Chairman & CEO of Providian Financial Corp. Dr. Mehta joined the founding team of Providian Financial and successfully built it to a Fortune 300 company with over US$30 billion in assets and over 18 million customers. He has also been general partner with Invesco funds and operating general partner of Sequoia India.
Dr. Mehta has done B. Tech - Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, M.S. Operations Research, Computer Science and Ph.D in Operations Research and Computer Science from Cleveland, USA. He also has honorary Ph.D. from California State University
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Ananda Mukerji
Ananda Mukerji is Vice Chairman of Board of Directors of the Company since July 2010. Prior to this, he was Managing Director & CEO of the Company for a period of 9 years. He is also Group Director of Bharati Airtel. He has over 23 years experience, working in a number of areas including project finance, corporate finance and investment banking. His association with the ICICI Group spans over a decade during which he set up and/or managed a number of new businesses for the group including the infrastructure, structured finance and advisory businesses. He has also been CFO of Enron India Limited and Group CFO of BPL Communications Ltd.
Ananda has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and a graduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
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Matthew Vallance
Matthew has been responsible for driving the company’s Banking and Financial Services, Telecom and Media businesses globally. Prior to this, he was responsible for establishing the company’s presence in the UK market. He joined Firstsource in 2002, through its acquisition of CustomerAsset, where he was part of the start-up management team in 2000.
Prior to joining CustomerAsset, he founded an offshoring advisory business, before which he held various leadership positions in the area of technology marketing and communications, including two years as head of the Indian subsidiary of Text 100 Plc.
Matthew holds a Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in European Business Studies from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK
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Rajesh Subramaniam
Rajesh has an overall work experience of 17 years with organizations including ICICI Bank, KPMG, E&Y, Pioneer ITI AMC (now part of Franklin Templeton) and GIV Venture Partners, in leadership roles.
Prior to joining the Company in 2011 as Dy. MD & CFO, he was the Managing Director of Walden India Advisors Private Limited, responsible for leading all investment initiatives and managing portfolio companies. He has also been the CFO of Firstsource from November 2002 to June 2008. During his tenure with the Company, he was instrumental in building the Company to its IPO. He was also responsible for Strategy, M&A and Corporate Development.
Rajesh has completed his MBA from Richmond College, London, and is a commerce graduate from Madras University.
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Mohit Bhandari
Mohit Bhandari is a Director at Temasek Holdings Advisors India Private Limited ("THAIPL") where he is part of the direct investment advisory team providing consultancy services to Temasek Holdings in India.
Prior to joining Temasek Holdings Advisors India Pvt Ltd in March 2008, Mohit was with DSP Merrill Lynch as part of the Investment Banking/M&A team for 8 years. Mohit holds Computer Engineering degree from Mumbai University and MBA from IIM Calcutta.
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Ram V. Chary
Mr. Ram Chary leads FIS' Global Commercial Services. In his role, he manages businesses important to Company growth and profitability related to global contact center operations off-shore resource and technology opportunities and Global supply chain operations. Mr. Chary joined FIS in 2007 from the acquisition of eFunds, where he led the Company's Professional Services Organization. Prior to eFunds, he had a 13 year career at IBM Global Services in both Infrastructure outsourcing and technology consulting and served in a number of leadership roles in global operations and finance and sales.
He received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Colorado and Ms in Finance and Operations Management from the Krannert School at Purdue University. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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Pravir Vohra
Mr. Pravir Vohra, is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers and a postgraduate in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. His areas of expertise include domain expertise in financial products, process re-engineering, IT operations and strategy. He is the Group Chief Technology Officer of the ICICI Group and has been associated with ICICI Bank for over 10 years. He oversees Information Technology (IT) strategy & innovation, enterprise architecture, process automation, group IT infrastructure and is responsible for leveraging technology synergies across ICICI Bank and its group companies. Prior to joining ICICI Bank, he worked with Times Bank as Vice President in charge of the Corporate Services group. He began his career in the banking industry with State Bank of India where he worked for 23 years. He has held various senior level positions with the State Bank of India, both in India and abroad. His assignments included responsibility for the technology function for State Bank’s branches in USA and Canada.
He is the recipient of The Asian Banker Achievement Award for Technology & Operations in 2006 and the Symantec Asia South Visionary 2008. He has also featured on the Information Week's Global CIO 50 List for 2009. He is also a Non Executive Director on the Board of ICICI Securities Limited.
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Y. H. Malegam
Y.H Malegam is a Chartered Accountant from India and England & Wales. He has been a Managing Partner of S. B. Billiomoria & Co., Chartered Accountants and Co-Chairman of Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Chartered Accountants. He has also been President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has been a member of several major committees in the financial sector appointed in recent times including The Narasimhan Committee for reforms in the financial sector, The Janakiraman Committee to enquire into the securities transactions of banks, The Dr. Dave Committee on private sector mutual funds, The Dr. Shah Committee on non-banking finance companies and The Madhav Rao Committee on urban co-operative banks.
Mr. Malegam was Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to review disclosure requirement in the Offer Documents (The Malegam Committee). He was also a member of the Study Group appointed by SEBI on accounting policies, net asset values and pricing of mutual funds and a member of the Kumar Mangalam Birla Committee appointed by SEBI on corporate governance. He is currently the Chairman of SEBI’s Accounting Standards Committee. He is also a member of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. He is also a director of the National Stock Exchange and of several large public limited companies.
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Donald Layden Jr.
Donald W. Layden, Jr. currently serves as an advisor to Warburg Pincus, LLC, a leading global equity firm, for its payments and transaction processing investments. He is also a partner at Quarles & Brady, LLP, a Milwaukee, WI-based law firm, with a focus on corporate law and complex corporate transactions. In addition, Layden serves as a Director of Online Resources Corporation (ORCC:NASDAQ), a US public company that provides technology outsourcing to enable banking and payment transactions. Previously, Mr. Layden served as president of the International Group and senior executive vice president of Corporate Development at Metavante Technologies, Inc. He also served as General Counsel and Secretary of Metavante, which merged with Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE: FIS) in 2009. Prior to joining Metavante, Layden held senior positions at Fiserv, Marshall & Ilsley and NuEdge Systems, a customer relationship management software company that was acquired by Metavante in 2004.
Mr. Layden holds a B.A in Economics and Political Science from Marquette University and a J.D.with honors from Marquette University Law School.
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Charles Miller Smith
Charles Miller Smith is former Chairman of Scottish Power, which he served since 2000. He was appointed as Chairman to the Scottish Power Advisory Board in 2007, following its integration with Iberdrola. He has also been Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries, where he joined as Chief Executive in 1994. Prior to that, he was a Director at Unilever, where he held financial and general management positions in UK, Netherlands and its Indian branches. He has served as a Non-Executive Director of Midland Bank Plc. and HSBC Holdings Plc. and has been an International Advisor to Goldman Sachs International. He has also served as a Non-Executive Director of Midland Bank Plc. and HSBC Holdings Plc.
Charles has M.A. (Hons) Degree in Medieval and Modern History from St. Andrews in Scotland and he was awarded Honorary Doctorate in 1995.
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K.P. Balaraj
K.P. Balaraj is a Managing Director of WestBridge Advisors Private Limited. He was co- founder and Managing Director of WestBridge Capital Partners. He was also co-founder and Managing Director of Sequoia Capital India. Prior to founding Sequoia Capital India, he was part of the private equity group at Goldman Sachs in Asia. Earlier, he was an investment banker at Salomon Brothers in New York and a summer fellow at the White House in Washington DC.
Mr. Balaraj received an MBA from Harvard Business School in Boston and a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University in Hawaii, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class.
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