Board of Directors

Mr. Ashwini Kumar Tewari is a career banker and started his career in SBI in the year 1991 as a Probationary Officer and has spent more than three decades with the bank in India and abroad in various assignments.

Presently since 21.11.2023, he is the Managing Director (Corporate Banking and Subsidiaries) of State Bank of India and a Whole Time Director handling the Portfolio of Large Corporate and Commercial Credit business of the Bank alongwith Associates & Subsidiaries of the Bank. This includes major non-bank business like Credit cards, Mutual Fund, Life & General Insurance, Capital Markets, Custodial Services etc. and serving on the boards of all these companies.

Prior to this assignment, he was Managing Director (Risk, Compliance and Stressed Assets) since June 2022. There he was focusing on driving Climate Risk Management in the bank and shaping the Stressed Assets Strategy of the bank. Earlier he was the Managing Director, handling International Banking, Information Technology and Non-Bank Subsidiaries of the Bank from January 2021. He was also involved in a big refresh in the technology space in SBI. Prior to becoming Managing Director at SBI, he served as Managing Director and CEO of SBI Cards and Payment Services Ltd where he oversaw key partnerships inked with GPay, PayTM, BPCL etc. and steered the company through the immediate aftermath of the Covid period.

Earlier, he was the Country Head of the US Operations of State Bank of India from April 2017 to July 2020. Prior to that he was the Regional Head and General Manager, East Asia, for SBI, based in Hong Kong.

Over the years, he held other leadership positions at State Bank of India, including, the Deputy General Manager (Operations & Information Systems) International Banking, Head of SBI¿s Cash Management, Regional Manager, Branch Head, among others.

An Electrical Engineer by degree, he is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB), Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and has done a Certificate Course in Management from XLRI.

Shri S V Sastry, a graduate in Science from Government College, Anantapur (Andhra Pradesh) joined State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer on 01st October 1985. He retired from the services of the Bank on 30th September 2022 as Deputy Managing Director (Global Markets). During his career spanning 37 years, Shri Sastry held various assignments in the Bank-both in India and abroad.After his initial banking stint in the North East at various Branches including as Branch Manager, he worked as a forex dealer between 1996 and 2003 in Mumbai. He held the position of Chief Dealer at SBI Frankfurt and Chief Dealer at SBI London between 2003 and 2008. As Deputy General Manager (Treasury Management Group) at the Bank’s Corporate Office in Mumbai, he was overseeing treasury operations of overseas offices between 2008 and 2011. As General Manager (Network II) in Ahmedabad Circle he was leading retail operations of around 400 branches. As General Manager (Forex) at the Banks’ Corporate Office in Mumbai he was overseeing the forex operations of domestic offices.Shri Sastry was MD & CEO of SBI DFHI Ltd., a subsidiary of the Bank and a Standalone Primary Dealer between November 2017 and May 2020. Thereafter, he moved to Head the Treasury operations of SBI as DMD (Global markets).Shri Sastry was Chairman of FIMMDA between July 2020 and September 2022, wherein he had numerous opportunities to interact with officials of RBI on a regular basis. For a major portion of his career in the Bank, he was associated with the markets both forex as well as Rupee.

Shri S.A. Ramesh Rangan – BSC, CAIIB, Management Diploma from Dukes University, Leadership & Corporate Accountability from Harvard Business School.Banker, with 40 years’ experience of which 7 years have been in Board Level Positions.

Retired as Managing Director, State Bank of Patiala and held various assignments in the Bank in Credit, Operations and Other specialist assignments with Govt. of India.

Headed State Bank of India, Ahmedabad Circle (Gujarat) from 2011-2013 as Chief General Manager.

Presently Independent Director in Sumedha Fiscal Services Ltd., Omkara Asset Reconstruction Co and Equitas Small Finance Bank.

Was Advisor to the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Banking Division, New Delhi

Former Member of the Managing Committee of the Indian Bank’ Association, (IBA),

Former Director and Member – Managing Committee & Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Banking & Finance

Member of the Task Force on MSME formed in Gyan Sangam I and II, conducted by Department of Financial Services, Government of India

Member of the Technical Committee of AICTE formed to promote entrepreneurship-based education in Engineering Courses in India

Dr Brinda Jagirdar is a senior economist with specialization in areas relating to the Indian economy and banking. She is an Independent Director on corporate boards. She is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance and is on the Governing Council of Treasury Elite, a knowledge sharing platform for finance professionals. She is member, Executive Committee of the All-India Bank Depositors Association of the Forum of Free Enterprise. She is a member in Banking and Finance Committee of the Indian Merchants Chamber. She retired as General Manager & Head, Economic Research Department, State Bank of India, Corporate Centre Mumbai.

In March 2019 Dr. Brinda Jagirdar was recognised as among India’s Top 100 Women in Finance by the Association of International Wealth Management of India.

Dr Brinda Jagirdar was associated with the Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reforms in India, was a member of the Planning Commission’s Sub Group on Household Sector Savings for the 12th Five Year Plan and member of the Ministry of Finance Group on Deepening India’s Household Financial Savings.

She has a brilliant academic record, with a Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, M.S. in Economics from the University of California at Davis, USA, MA in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune and BA in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune. She has attended an Executive Programme at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA, and a leadership programme at IIM Lucknow.

She has participated and presented papers at several seminars and conferences in India and abroad. She is regularly invited to make presentations and speak on topics relating to the economy and banking. She has contributed articles and columns in business newspapers and journals and is frequently invited to be a panellist on TV business channels.

Shri Pravin Kutumbe is a Chartered Accountant having more than 35 years of experience. He was working with Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India during the period from 1985 to 2018 and had worked as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer in LIC. He has vast experience in investment, accounting, taxation, and finance. He was also a Board Member in the Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India (IRDAI), State Bank of India, Tata Power, Stock Holding Corporation of India, Stock Holding Services Limited. He is presently on the Board of Catalyst Tursteeship Co. Limited and Aditya Birla Sun Life Trustee Pvt. Ltd. as an Independent Director. He was a member in the Committee of Development of Bond Market in India and Early Warning Group of Inter-Regulatory of RBI, SEBI, IRDAI & PFRDA. He was closely associated with various academic activities viz. visiting faculty at National Insurance Academy, Pune and Panel Member, Moderator & Keynote Speaker at seminars on Bond, Equity Markets and Corporate Governance.

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan is Chairman and Founder of 5F World, a platform for Digital Start-ups, Skills and Social Ventures in the country. He is also Co-Founder of Lighthouse Communities Foundation, Global Talent Track and Skills Alpha.

Ganesh has a Masters’ in Industrial Engineering from NITIE Mumbai, PhD from IIT Bombay and Advanced Management from Harvard Business
School. He has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Bombay and NITIE and has been recognized by EY and the Asia Pacific HR Forum
for excellence in technology entrepreneurship and people-centric leadership. He has completed two successful CEO tenures over twenty-
five years at APTECH and Zensar Technologies. Harvard Business School has written and teaches two case studies on Dr. Ganesh Natarajan and his success through Vision Communities and Innovation.

He commenced his career after completing his Masters in 1981 at Manufacturing firm Crompton Greaves Ltd, did a three-year entrepreneurial
stint and then headed Mumbai Region and Corporate Consulting and Training in IT Education and Consulting firm NIIT. He became CEO of
APTECH in 1991 and grew the company to be a global market leader with over 1200 computer training centres in forty-two countries. In twenty-four of these countries including China, APTECH became the market leader. He left in 2001 after listing the company on the London Stock Exchange and took over as CEO of Software Start-up Zensar Technologies Ltd.

Between 2001 and 2016, Zensar was Ganesh’s most successful corporate stint. He grew the company’s revenues over fifteen times and made it a
leader in providing digital transformation solutions for manufacturing, retail and financial services firms. Most of the work was for Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 organisations in the USA and Europe. During the last five years of Ganesh’s tenure as CEO, Zensar recorded a market value of forty-four percent CAGR, a record in the stock markets for the technology industry. During his tenure, Ganesh lived and worked in India, UK and the USA.

After 2016, Ganesh has been a successful entrepreneur and investor, building companies with a successful track record of digital deployment and serving on chosen industry and social boards. He is Chairman of the Board of Honeywell Automation India Limited and Lighthouse Communities. He also serves on the Boards of Hinduja Global Solutions, SBI Payments Ltd, Systech Inc USA, Educate Girls and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, Singapore.

Since 2016, Ganesh has served on the Central Board of the State Bank of India, Principal Asset Management Limited, Fino Payments Bank and LHI Digital. He has been Digital Adviser to McKinsey & Co and Bajaj FinServ and the President of the HBS Club of India and IIIE Pune. He was also Chairman of the SBI Board Committee on Information Technology Strategy and oversaw the digital and strategic technology initiatives of India’s largest bank which serves over 400 million customers in India and all over the world.

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan has been Chairman of Industry association NASSCOM and NASSCOM Foundation, has served on the National Councils of CII and AIMA and been President of the HBS Club of India. He served for three years as Chair of Social Venture Partners India and was
also a member of the Global Board of SVP International. He is a Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and a Fellow of the Computer Society of India.

Ganesh is the author of thirteen books and a regular writer and speaker at national and international forums. His last three books on Digital Success, Facing up to the China Challenge and India’s Pathways to Success have been best sellers and recipient of business book awards.

Shri V Kumar ( Kumar Viswanathan) joined State Bank of Travancore (SBT) as a Probationary Officer in March,1987. In a career spanning over three and half decades, he has held critical assignments in the Bank both in India and abroad.

He has considerable experience covering different aspects of banking, key roles being:
1) General Manager & Head ALM, State Bank of India
2) Dy. General Manager ( COO), SBI, CAG, BKC
3) Chief Executive Officer, SBI, QFC Branch, Doha, Qatar
4) Chief Dealer ( Forex), in an Integrated Treasury set up

He worked as Chief Dealer of Forex Treasury and as Assistant General Manager & Branch Head, Pune after having worked as a Manager/Chief Manager ( Credit), in large Credit Intensive branches/Head Office Credit department of SBT. He has considerable exposure to and experience in ALM, large value credit, forex treasury, SME lending, Stress Assets management & Retail banking. He was on the Regional Credit Committee and Regional Investment Committee of SBI Regional Head Office, MEWANA, handling high value Credit/Investment proposals during his stint from 2012-2016

He was promoted as Chief General Manager in State Bank of India in June, 2022. He is presently posted as MD & CEO of SBI DHFI Ltd.