Arjun Raychaudhuri served as MD & CEO at MMTC-PAMP India Private Limited till March 2020, a new joint venture between the Indian government and PAMP – a Swiss based global leader in precious metals refining and trading.

His work has been focused on scaling mid-stage companies and restructuring distressed institutions. In India, he has worked with IFMR as CFO and head of Strategy for their rural channels businesses. Prior to this, he was with J.C. Flowers, a global private equity firm overseeing portfolio companies in Europe, Russia and India.

He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and holds an undergrad degree St Stephens an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

He also serves on the Boards of OneSavingsBank India

Arun Seth is an Independent Director of our Company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a master’s in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. Arun was associated with Alcatel-Lucent India as a non-executive chairman from May, 2011 until May 2014.

He has worked for the BT Group in India in a variety of positions for over 17 years, retiring in July 2012. Currently, Arun is on the board of Jubilant Foodworks Limited, Cadista Holdings Inc., Centum Learning Limited, Usha Breco Limited and Samtel Avionics Limited. He is an active member on the boards of various non-governmental organisations such as HelpAge India where he chairs the resource committee, 'Katha', 'SPIC-MACAY' and 'India Sponsor Foundation'. He is also a trustee of the Nasscom Foundation, which drives corporate social responsibility initiatives for the IT industry.

Audrey Selian currently serves as Director of the Artha Initiative associated with Rianta Capital Zurich and is a team member/advisor to the Halloran Philanthropies.

She has been active in the impact investing sector since 2006, and is founder of ArthaPlatform.com, an online impact investment platform that is designed to tackle the economics of due diligence around high impact, small scale SMEs/SGBs. Through the associated vehicle Artha Networks Inc., the platform tool has been licensed for Latin America and is actively being considered for deployment in other sectors and geographies. Audrey has a background in management consulting from PricewaterhouseCoopers, and her entrepreneurial experience includes several years spent in business development, marketing and sales at an NSF-funded software start-up called Wireless Grids Corporation. She currently serves as a trustee for several non-profit organizations, sits on the board of a number of for-profits, and holds a PhD in Technology Policy & Development Studies from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She also holds degrees from The London School of Economics and Wellesley College. In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Devesh Kapur has a distinguished background in research and academia. He joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in July 2018 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, holding the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India. Prior to his tenure at Penn, he was Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard. Kapur received the Joseph R. Levenson Teaching Prize, awarded to the best junior faculty at Harvard College and Outstanding Teaching in Political Science by the American Political Science Association, in 2005.

Kapur’s research has focused on five broad areas that examine the political and institutional determinants of economic development: international financial institutions; political and economic consequences of international and internal migration; the effects of market forces and urbanization on the well-being of socially marginalized groups in India; governance and public institutions; and higher education. His book, Diaspora, Democracy and Development: The Impact of International Migration from India on India (Princeton University Press) earned him a 2012 Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association, while The Other One Percent: Indians in American (with Sanjoy Chakravorty and Nirvikar Singh) was a Choice Outstanding Title of 2017. His other publications include The World Bank: Its First Half Century (with John Lewis and Richard Webb) and Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs (co-authored with D. Shyam Babu and Chandra Bhan Prasad). His latest edited works are Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Education (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta), Rethinking Public Institutions in India (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Milan Vaishnav), The Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India (with Milan Vaishnav) and Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance (with Madhav Khosla)

EDUCATION: BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT (BHU) Varanasi; MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota; PhD from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton.

Marketing and Product leader accomplished in bringing new and disruptive Enterprise/Consumer products to greenfield markets. Career successes emphasize new products, SaaS, new markets, innovation initiatives, and complex cross-functional initiatives that take companies to their next revenue level.

Areas of expertise include:

• Enterprise software marketing • New product development • Brand management • AI product initiatives • SaaS product development • M&A • Direct response • Product marketing & management • FinTech • Retail design and development • Consumer financial services • Structured innovation • Market research • Security •

He Joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1983 and has served in various field and secretariat positions in India in the Government of Karnataka and Government of India. Among the posts he held are Deputy Commissioner, South Canara District Mangalore, Secretary Finance and Secretary Urban Development in Government of Karnataka.

Dr. Krishnan also served as Adviser to the Executive Director (Dr. Bimal Jalan), World Bank during 1994-97. He was Joint Secretary (Capital Markets), Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance during 2005-10. He served as Secretary, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister from July 01, 2010 till 13th August, 2012.

Before joining Government of India as Director General (DoC) and Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance on 12th July, 2013, he was with the Government of Karnataka as Principal Secretary (Coordination), DPAR in Karnataka Bhavan, New Delhi for about an year.

Head of Strategy at Setu.

Previously, Head of Consumer businesses at MMTC-PAMP, India's leading precious metals company. P&L responsibility for Digital Gold, Scrap and Minted Products. In 6 months time, I turned around MMTC-PAMP Consumer group and beat a stretch 12m PBT target.

Mar 2018 to April 2019 - Responsible for the Retail Business as also all Corporate Functions at Novopay, a rapidly growing fintech company in Bangalore funded by Khosla Ventures. ~200 employees across India, >$5 million net revenue.

Feb 2016 to Jan 2018, started and headed the team that built & launched Paytm Financial Services including business/consumer lending (Postpaid) & digital gold.

Previously, Managing Director & Head of Asia credit research at Barclays based in Singapore. Directly lead credit strategy and credit research for financial institutions for Asia Pac ex Japan.

Seed-stage investor in multiple Bangalore-based companies.

Mr. Basil is Founder and CEO of Villgro Innovations Foundation. Over the last decade, Mr. Basil has incubated over 130 innovative enterprises, creating over 4000 jobs, touching around 5 million lives in villages across India.

Mr. Basil also co-founded Menterra Venture Advisors, a seed stage, impact fund that makes venture investments in for-profit, impactful enterprises.

Apart from the core of his mission, which is incubating early stage, innovative businesses, Paul also has contributed to building the social enterprise eco-system in India. Unconvention, India’s leading conference on innovation and social entrepreneurship is organized in 15 cities across India, a Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at IIT-Madras that focuses on research and education, the ANDE India Chapter (Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs) a network of intermediaries that support small and growing businesses etc., are some of his achievements in building the eco-system in India.

Mr. Basil was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2002 for his outstanding social entrepreneurship in setting up Villgro. He has also been conferred the Samaj Seva Bhushan Award and the Star Entrepreneur Award

EXPERTISE

CLEAN ENERGY • CLEAN WATER • EARLY CHILDHOOD TO PRIMARY EDUCATION • ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY • FINANCIAL SERVICES • HEALTH DELIVERY • LIVELIHOODS • SMALLHOLDER PRODUCTIVITY • SUSTAINABLE MARKETS • WATER MANAGEMENT • WOMEN'S AND GIRLS' EDUCATION • YOUTH JOB SKILLS

Saurabh has extensive global experience over two decades of working with senior executives in defining strategy, providing thought leadership, creating new business solutions and leading large multicultural, cross functional teams to implement improved business processes in global businesses. He is co-founder of QYON (Question Your Own Notions) -an initiative for conscious change. He is Head of Leadership Development and coaching at Fractal Analytics. He is also Senior Advisor to Catalyst since 2016.

Taia Ergueta is an experienced operational executive and business strategist. She has managed the start, acceleration, and turn-arounds of businesses in the computer services, personal computing and life sciences industries. Ms. Ergueta was Vice President of Strategic Marketing for the scientific instrumentation businesses at Thermo Fisher Scientific and, before that, at Varian, Inc. Prior to that she held various General Manager and function manager positions. Her entire career has been in positions with worldwide responsibility. She has managed mergers and acquisitions in many industries and, at Hewlett Packard, she managed business development in Asia Pacific with emphasis on China.

Ms. Ergueta currently advises companies, non-profits and individuals facing tough transitions. She also advises companies and institutions on social entrepreneurship. She is active in non-profit work focused on helping resource-challenged single mothers build on their strengths. She has conducted business and entrepreneurship training in the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Nicaragua, Italy, and Mexico.

Adrian Ackeret graduated with an M.A. from the School of Management at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). From 2005 to 2009, he was with the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies, where he shared responsibility for the thematic and strategic development of the annual St. Gallen Symposium. Subsequently, he worked as a research associate in the field of strategy and entrepreneurship with RISE Management Research at the University of St. Gallen and as assistant to the board of trustees of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation. Adrian Ackeret joined the elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization in September 2013.

Prashant Sarin is a partner in Bain & Company's New Delhi office. He is an active contributor to the firm's Telecommunications, Media and Technology, Strategy and Organization practices.

Since joining Bain in 2006, Prashant has actively directed transformation programs with large family managed business conglomerates in the US, South East Asia and India. He has advised clients across a range of industries, including technology, infrastructure and industrial goods. His functional expertise is in strategy, organization and performance improvement, with a deep focus on implementation, change management and driving to results.

In 2015, Prashant was selected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum, Davos and as one of India's Hottest '40 Under 40' Business Leaders by The Economic Times, India's #1 business newspaper. In 2014, he was selected as one of India's Top 25 Hottest Young Executives by Business Today, India's leading business magazine.

Prashant has been cited and published in several leading mainstream and business publications, including The Economic Times, Mint, The Hindu and The Hindustan Times. He co-authored the first Bain-Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (IVCA) annual reports in 2009 and 2010, which have become the reference for the private equity industry in India. While at college, he wrote for and co-led a syndicate which authored over 300 articles in Hindustan Times and The Pioneer, two leading national dailies.

Prashant was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a Master's in Management Studies. He was an Aditya Birla Scholar at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he received an MBA. He graduated from Delhi University with a B.Engg. in Civil Engineering.