ABOUT US

Mr. Rajeev Kumar Sinha has done M Sc (Electrical engineering) from St. Petersburg University, Russia (erstwhile Leningrad Institute, USSR). He has also cleared UPSC and served in Ministry of Defense for a period of one and half years. He has joined IDBI bank in 1998 in Mumbai and worked in Corporate Finance upto 2006 and he was a part of the team implementing first Corporate Debt Restructuring in the Banking Sector of India.

In 2009, Mr. Sinha was posted at Dubai to set up and start the first overseas Branch of the IDBI Bank Limited and he served as CEO of Dubai branch at Dubai International Financial Center till November 2014. Later, in January 2015, he was posted to Corporate banking Group at Head Office in Mumbai.

She joined the Government of India on Central deputation in 2007 as Joint Secretary, Broadcasting in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. She became Member Secretary, National Commission for Women on promotion as Additional Secretary and was associated with drafting landmark amendments to the Criminal Law Amendment Bill and the Act for Prevention of Harassment of Women at the Workplace. She went on to serve as Additional Secretary Coal where she also held additional charge of CMD Coal India as its first woman CMD and chaired the IMG for monitoring and de-allocation of coal blocks. She became Secretary to the Government of India; Ministry of Textiles in Feb.2013. She has a keen interest in handlooms and handicrafts and introduced many new initiatives for the same, including the setting up of a Hastkala Academy in New Delhi for documentation, promotion and preservation of handicrafts. Post retirement, Ms. Chatterji is serving on the Board of NCML and Travel Corporation of India (TCI) as an independent Director. She was also the former non-executive Chairman of the UP Institute of Design.

Ms. Chatterji is a graduate in Physics from Miranda House, New Delhi. She did her post-graduation in English Literature from AMU and had her schooling in Loreto Convent, Lucknow. She is currently pursuing a PhD from the University of Lucknow and is the President of Alliance Francaise in Lucknow, an organization supported by the Government of France for the teaching of French language and the promotion of Indo-French cultural relations. Her many interests include painting, photography, dramatics and writing.

In January 2000, he moved to the ICICI Bank group where he headed a number of functions like the Retail Technology Group and Technology Management Group. In these capacities, he oversaw the deployment of technology across ICICI Bank’s domestic & international operations and was instrumental in creating a future-ready, platform independent & scalable infrastructure.

From 2005 till 2012 he was the President and Group CTO at ICICI Bank. His focus was to ensure a meaningful alignment of Technology with overall business goals and obtain the best from people, processes and information within the organization. The objective was to help ICICI Group remain agile, flexible and competitive. As a Group CTO, he played a key role in shaping the Bank’s technology investments through repositioning strategies across both execution and product innovation. By leveraging both new and existing technologies, he consistently focused on increasing efficiency, reducing costs and supporting competitiveness, as well as creating differentiated products which enabled the enterprise to retain market relevance. Mr. Vohra oversaw IT strategy & innovation, enterprise architecture, process automation, group IT infrastructure and was responsible for leveraging technology synergies across ICICI Bank and its group companies. He also carried additional responsibilities for facilities management, infrastructure and administration; in this capacity he oversaw the roll out of new branches, ATMs, two state of the art data centers and a large 4 million square feet office facility at Hyderabad.

What is unique is his ability to evaluate technology from a business perspective, leveraging it to reduce costs or generate revenues combined with incredible foresight in an ever changing landscape. With a stint spanning close to four decades in the industry, Mr. Vohra has immense experience and knowledge in IT architecture, domain expertise in financial products, process re‐engineering, IT operations and strategy.

Post his retirement from ICICI Bank in 2012, he mentored start-ups in the payments space and, more recently, completed a 2 year assignment with New Development Bank, Shanghai. He also continues to serve on the Technology Advisory Committees of organizations like the Bombay Stock Exchange, NCDEX, Indian Clearing Corporation and Power Exchange India etc. He also serves as an independent Director on the Boards of Thomas Cook India Ltd., IDFC Bank, NCML Ltd. & Quess Corporation.

Mr. Vohra has served on numerous technology & functional committees set up by organizations such as the Central Board of Direct Taxes, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI) as well as the Reserve Bank of India, the Indian Banking Association and NPCI. He has also served as a nominee director on the boards of Loyalty Solutions & Research Pvt Ltd, ICICI Securities Ltd, Firstsource Solutions Ltd and as an independent director on MCX India Ltd and Goldman Sachs AMC (India) Ltd. Accolades won by Mr. Vohra include The Asian Banker Achievement Award for Technology & Operations in 2006 and the Symantec Asia South Visionary 2008. He was also one of the three CIOs of international banks to have featured on the Information Week’s Global CIO 50 List for 2009.

He is passionate about leveraging the power of available and emerging technologies to solve real life business issues, improve operating efficiency, design new products and processes that would touch the lives of the Indian people.