Geosansar

• Banking operations and microfinance specialist with over 25 years experience
• Previously was India country representative for Grameen Foundation USA managing and overseeing a number of MFIs with which Grameen had financed.
• Previous to this, Ramesh has worked with Basix as their Vice President and General Manager from 2002-8

Nish Kotecha, Consultant, Founder, Sphere Partners Limited

• Nish is Senior Partner and founder of Sphere Partners Limited
• Nish trained as an Investment Banker for over 12 years at Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan and BZW.  He has advised on raising equity finance (private equity, IPO's through to large privatisations and equity derivatives): debt finance (including hybrids) and on Merger and Acquisition strategy
• He has managed transactions worth over US$30 billion for companies worldwide
• Nish is Chairman of TiE UK (www.tie-uk.org) and elected member of TiE's Global Board of Trustees (www.tie.org); Member of the Advisory Board for Accion Frontier Investments Group (www.accion.org) which seeks to invest in new technologies and disruptive business that can powerfully enhance the way financial services are delivered to the poor. 
• Nish is graduate of the London School of Economics.

• Banking audit specialist with over 30 years banking experience
• Previously was inspector of bank branches for Andhra Bank overseeing compliance of banking operations across Andhra Bank
• Other roles include working within the external auditing team to oversee banking processes and in-branch compliance in State Bank of India

Mr. Sanjay Dutta - Non Executive Director

• Entrepreneur with over 30 years experience
• Indepth knowledge of India as an operator and strategist

Mr. Khozem Merchant - Non-Executive Director

• President and Country Head of Pearson for India.
• Previously, Country Head for the Financial Times India