RattanIndia Enterprises Ltd. has formed an Advisory Board with a mix of distinguished industry experts and new age entrepreneurs. Advisory board will advise the management on i) Investment Strategy ii) Review of Investment Proposals iii) Monitoring performance of Investee companies and subsidiaries and iv) assist management with external relationships and any other specific tasks.
Initial members of the Advisory Board will be the following:
- Arun Duggal, Chairman of ICRA (A Subsidiary of Moody’s USA) and ex-Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America – India ll.
- Yashish Dahiya, Co-founder and Group CEO of Policybazaar
- Ranu Vohra, Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Avendus Capital
- Jan Preiss, Co-founder and CEO of Oxford Latinitas Ltd., UK
- Rajiv Rattan, Founder and Chairman, RattanIndia Group
- Anjali Rattan Nashier, Business Chairperson, Rattanindia Enterprises
Anjali Rattan Nashier will chair the Advisory Board. The company may expand its Advisory Board further with more members who are prominent and distinguished in their field like the present members, the company said in its statement.
Arun Duggal is Chairman of ICRA (a subsidiary of Moody’s USA). He is on the Board of Directors of ITC Limited and Jubilant Pharma Limited, Singapore. He is an experienced international banker and has advised companies and financial institutions on Financial Strategy, M & A and Capital Raising. Duggal had a 26 years’ career with Bank of America, mostly in the U.S., Hong Kong and Japan. During his stellar career with Bank of America, he rose to become Chief Executive of the bank in India.
Duggal has vast international experience and has been Chairman and on the Board of Directors of the companies in Korea, Australia, Singapore, London and South Africa. A Mechanical Engineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (recipient of Distinguished Alumni Service Award), Duggal holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award). Duggal is a Trustee of Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). CMI is a Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Research in Mathematical Sciences. Arun Duggal is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Duggal is also the Chairman of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) Endowment Fund. IITD Endowment Fund is India’s first alumni endowment fund by an educational institute.
Yashish Dahiya is Co-founder and Group CEO of Policybazaar. Dahiya is a pioneer and thought leader in fintech space in the country with an experience of scaling up India size businesses. Prior to starting his entrepreneurial journey with Policybazaar, Dahiya has worked as CEO, First Europa Global Insurance Broker, Managing Director for Ebooker Pic, a FTSE 250 company and with Bain & Co. as a Management Consultant at their London office. Dahiya is a graduate from IIT Delhi, and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and INSEAD, France.
Ranu Vohra is Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Avendus Capital. Vohra is a thought leader and has vast experience in finance sector. He has been instrumental in making Avendus a leader in institutional financial services in India — including investment banking, wealth management, alternative asset management and credit solutions. He has spent the last 25 years in the Indian financial services industry concluding several marquee transactions in investment banking and private equity. Vohra also serves as an independent Director on the board of Mahindra Logistics. He holds an MBA degree from FMS, New Delhi and has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi.
Jan Preiss is the co-founder and CEO of Oxford Latinitas Ltd., a UK-based educational company. He is a young entrepreneur with interest and experience in machine learning (with a particular focus on natural language processing) and linguistics. Preiss ranked second in class at University of Oxford and was a scholar at Winchester College, UK. He is also the youngest winner of the Czech National Physics Olympiad.
Preiss will provide a young mind’s perspective to the board which could be of significant value to the company especially in its pursuit of new age businesses, the statement said.
Rajiv Rattan is the Founder of RattanIndia Enterprises Limited. An alumnus of IIT Delhi, Rattan is a_ first-generation entrepreneur. He co-founded Indiabulls Group in 1999, founded RattanIndia group in 2014 and is a serial entrepreneur. Rajiv Rattan is also Chairman of Rattanindia Power Ltd., Rattanindia Finance Pvt. Limited and Revolt Intellicorp Pvt Ltd.
Anjali Rattan Nashier is Business Chair of RattanIndia Enterprises Ltd. Rattan is a dynamic entrepreneur having created businesses varying from turnkey real estate projects to renewables. Rattan founded RattanIndia Solar, scaled it to 306 MW in a short span of time and got General Electric as an investor in her solar business. She sold the solar assets in 2019 to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). She is known in the solar industry for her superb execution skills and the highest quality of the projects. Rattan studied Electrical Engineering. In addition to that, she is a law graduate. She is an alumnus of Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, has also studied HR strategy at London Business School and is currently pursuing OPM (Owner’s President’s Management Programme) at Harvard Business School, Boston.
Anjali Rattan, Business Chair of RattanIndia Enterprises said “We are very happy to have industry stalwarts like Mr. Arun Duggal, Mr. Yashish Dahiya, Mr. Ranu Vohra and Mr. Jan Preiss as members of the Advisory Board. Their deep experience and wisdom will be of great help to the company as it steers its business in new age sectors.”
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