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| Carl Saldanha |
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Carl Saldanha is a Senior Finance professional with rich management experience. He was the Country Head for South Asia at Chase Manhattan Bank, Country Head - Corporate Banking at Deutsche Bank apart from holding senior positions with Hong Kong Bank and American Express Bank. He has also been the CFO of Essar Oil and Jet Airways and is currently the Global CFO of First Source Solutions.
He holds a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila. Carl is a keen squash and golf player. |
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| Atul Sahasrabuddhe |
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Mr. Sahasrabuddhe is a Foreign Exchange, Money Markets and Derivatives expert. He was the India Head of Treasury at American Express Bank and the former MD & CEO of ING Bank NV, India. He has been associated with the Maharaja Group, Sri Lanka and the Saudi Investment Bank in Riyadh. Today, he is a much sought after independent consultant in India and the Middle East.
Atul is a Chartered Accountant with a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Law. He is also an alumnus of the ING Business School at Heemskerk in the Netherlands. He has wide international experience with stints in London, Singapore, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. |
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Surinder Mehra
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Surinder Mehra has rich and varied experience of over 35 years in banking and finance. He has had long stints with the State Bank of India and Deutsche Bank where he held senior positions and led diverse businesses.
He has sectoral expertise in the telecoms, oil, gas and energy sectors and is an authority on trade finance, project finance, international banking and risk management. He has worked in several locations in India and Hong Kong. He is currently based in New Delhi.
He has been a Group Director at Claridges and Director Finance at a premier infrastructure consultancy firm. He holds an M.A. from St Stephen's, New Delhi and is a CAIIB.
Email: surinder.mehra@yencon.com |
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S. Vaidyanathan
Director |
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After starting his career with Tata Steel in 1977, S. Vaidyanathan successfully transitioned to banking holding senior positions with Citibank / Citigroup from 1986 to 2008 where he was responsible for Project Management, Asset Management of India Real Estate Investments.
He is an expert in Real Estate and is actively involved with overseeing the feasibility of projects, financial structuring and fund raising for clients. “Vaidy” as he is popularly called holds a B. Tech from IIT Chennai and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Based in Bangalore, Vaidy is an avid sportsman, plays a mean game of golf and is a competitive bridge player.
Email: s.vaidyanathan@yencon.com |
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Satish Menon
Director |
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Satish Menon is a senior Corporate and Investment Banking professional with over 20 years experience in international banks. He has handled a wide spectrum of financial services including financial institutions, private equity, micro finance, trade finance and structured finance.
He has had successful stints with ING Vysya Bank, Deutsche Bank AG,ANZ Grindlays Bank, Bank of America and Pan Am Corporation, USA . Most recently, he was the Director and Regional CEO, South India for Barclay's Bank.
He holds a BA Eco. (Hons) from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Email: satish.menon@yencon.com |
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Ajay Karkhanis
Director |
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Ajay S. Karkhanis is a management consultant with over 20 years of extensive and varied experience in project engineering, project financing and management consulting.
He has held senior positions at ICICI Limited and has sector expertise in chemicals and petrochemicals, synthetic fiber and textiles, automobiles and services industries. His expertise is in the areas of business strategy, value chain analysis & restructuring of under performing assets. In 1998, he co-founded Technology Network (India) Ltd (TechNet) along with Mr.N.Vaghul (Chairman of ICICI) and Dr. Ashok Ganguly (former Chairman of HLL). He is currently the Managing Director of TechNet.
Ajay is a chemical engineer from BITS Pilani and holds an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. He has done advanced management programs at Stern School and Harvard.
Email: ajay.karkhanis@yencon.com |
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