Mr. Vijay Maniar is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI) and carries 35 years of extensive experience. Presently, Mr. Maniar acts as an Independent Director and Member of Audit Committee of FDC Limited and is associated as an Advisor and Mentor to ASA & Associates. Prior to this, he was associated with S. R. Batliboi & Co. LLP for 22 years. Mr. Maniar has extensive experience of managing statutory audits of listed and unlisted corporates across a multitude of sectors including Finance, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Packaging, Hospitality, Other Manufacturing and Real Estate companies. He was a special invitee on the Accounting Standards Board of ICAI for two years and has been a Member of the Accounting and Auditing Committee of the Bombay Chartered Accountants Society for more than 15 years. During his initial professional years, he was associated with Maniar & Maniar / Chandrakant Mehta & Associates for setting up their professional practice.

Ms. Lata Pillai carries 34 years of extensive experience with ICICI Bank, Deutsche Bank, Edelweiss group, Yes Bank Limited and JLL Limited. Ms. Pillai holds a Bachelors degree in Science (B.Sc (Microbiology)) and a Masters degree in Management Studies from Mumbai University. Presently, Ms. Pillai acts as a Head of the India Capital Markets team of JLL Limited.

Prior to this, she was associated with Yes Bank Limited as Head of the Corporate Finance - Urban Infrastructure vertical looking at real estate, hospitality, education and healthcare business from April 2019 to May 2021. From April 2018 to March 2019, she was associated with Edelweiss group as Head of the real estate financing business. Since the NBFC crisis in August 2018, she was actively involved in resolutions of troubled assets within the portfolio. From January 2007 to March 2018, she was associated with Deutsche Bank AG as Head of the Commercial Real Estate group. As part of the role, she looked at opportunistic investments within the capital chain i.e. pure equity, mezzanine facilities, structured debt, onshore and offshore lending. Post the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), she moved to a coverage role looking at originating structured finance transactions in the real estate, infrastructure, asset financing and promoter financing areas.

From August 1988 to December 2006, she was associated with ICICI Limited/ ICICI Bank Limited in the project financing team. From 1993 to 2000, she handled the project financing transactions amongst other assignments and also had a stint in the stressed asset management team. From 2001 to 2006, she was responsible for setting up and managing the real estate financing team.

Mr. Lalit Tyagi, having started his career as Probationary Officer in Bank of Baroda in 1996, has over 28 years of rich experience in various spectrum of commercial banking, particularly in Corporate Finance, Risk Management, International Banking and Administrative Roles. He has been an operational banker having vast experience of working in different branches/ offices in India and abroad, including two stints in Bank’s overseas operations; viz. Brussels, Belgium and New York, USA.

He has successful experience of leading Bank’s important units such as Regional Head of Bangalore Region, General Manager & Branch Head of Bank’s largest Corporate Financial Services Branch, Mumbai and Chief General Manager (Chief Executive) of Bank’s largest overseas territory US Operations, New York.

Prior to his appointment as Executive Director of Bank of Baroda on November 21, 2022, he was the Chief Executive of Bank’s US Operations, New York. He has also served as Director in Canbank Computer Services Ltd. (CCSL – a wholly owned subsidiary of Canara Bank) and Non-Executive Chairman of Bank of Baroda (Guyana) Inc. in the past. Currently he is serving as Nominee Director in BOB Capital Markets Limited, India Infradebt Limited, IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company Limited, Indo Zambia Bank Limited, Bank of Baroda (Uganda) Limited and Bank of Baroda (UK) Limited.

As Executive Director in Bank of Baroda, he currently looks after Corporate & Institutional Banking, Treasury & Global Markets, Mid-Corporate Business, International Banking, Domestic Subsidiaries/ Joint Ventures.

In the past, he had also overseen the key platform functions such as Compliance, Risk Management, Audit & Inspection, Credit Monitoring, Collections, Legal and HRM.

Mr. Tyagi is known for his leadership and motivational skills.

He has Post Graduate Diploma in Banking & Finance (PGDBF) from National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Pune and is also a Certi?ed Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers. He has been identi?ed as one of Public Sector Bankers by Bank’s Board Bureau (now known as Financial Services Institutions Bureau) for future leadership roles.

Ms. Swati Vatsa is currently the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at Citicorp Finance (India) Limited (CFIL), bringing with her 11 years of experience from her time at Citi. She oversees all Risk-related regulatory and governance matters relating to CFIL and serves as the single point of contact for all risk matters relating to the businesses.

Prior to this, she has worked in a number of roles in Citibank across Product Sales, Early Warning and Credit Risk for Large Corporates, MME and SME clients. She has extensive experience in areas like portfolio monitoring, stress testing, industry analysis, credit approval, regulatory reporting, governance and handling regulatory inspections.

Ms. Vatsa holds an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai with specialization in Finance and a BTech from NITK, Surathkal.

Mr. Suvek Nambiar is the Managing Director and CEO of India Infradebt Limited (Infradebt), the first Infrastructure Debt Fund (IDF) NBFC to commence operations in India. Infradebt has been set-up by ICICI Bank Limited, Bank of Baroda, Citicorp Finance (India) Limited and Life Insurance Corporation of India.

Mr. Suvek has over 26 years of experience across various leadership roles in Infradebt, ICICI Bank Limited and ICICI Limited. He started his career with the project finance group at ICICI Limited and was extensively involved in the structuring and financing of the first private sector projects in infrastructure in India. After leading the structuring and financing of infrastructure projects for about nine years, he was one of the key resources who led the initiative to start the international business of ICICI Bank, heading the Singapore branch for over four years. Subsequently Mr. Suvek was the MD & CEO of ICICI Bank UK PLC for over four years and returned to Mumbai in mid-2012 as a Senior General Manager with ICICI Bank Limited leading the efforts to set up the first IDF NBFC. He has a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering, and a post graduate qualification by way of PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.