Board of Directors
Rajendra Kashyap
Rajendra Kashyap, a member of Indian Railway Accounts Service, superannuated in April 2014 as the Financial Commissioner (Railways). He was also concurrently Chairman of Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC).
He has diverse experience in Finance, management, HR and policy formulation at various levels in Railways and Government of India spanning over thirty years, and in corporate leadership as Managing Director and Director (Finance) of IRFC for over nine years. Post retirement, he also served as a Member of High Level Railway Restructuring Committee set up by the Ministry of Railways. He is presently also Managing Director of Bharuch Dahej Railway Company Ltd.
He is an MBA in Finance from University of Strathclyde, (U.K) and also holds post graduate degree in Physics from Delhi University.
Debabrata Sarkar
Debabrata Sarkar is M.Com, FCA, CAIIB and a professional banker with more than 30 years of banking experience.
He assumed the charge of Chairman & Managing Director of Union Bank of India from April 1, 2012 to November 30, 2013. Prior to that, he was Executive Director at Allahabad Bank and also worked with Bank of Baroda in various capacities, including Zonal Manager, Head of Internal Audit Department in Mauritius and incharge of specialised Integrated Treasury operations.
B Gopalakrishnan
B Gopalakrishnan is a senior legal professional with over three decades of rich experience in legal areas encompassing Banking, Corporate, Capital Market & Business Laws.
He was President & Head of Law Department for 14 years with Axis Bank. He was the advisor legal and operations and HR of Arcil and is presently a corporate lawyer and guest lecturer in many law schools. Gopalakrishnan has completed his LLM from Kakatiya University and LLB from Kerala University and has done B.A in English Literature from Kerala University.
Jonathan Ferrara
Mr. Jonathan Ferrara is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a chartered member of CISI and a member of STEP and the IOD. He has a 35 year career with market leading financial services organisations in the premier locations of London, Switzerland and the Channel Islands.
He has acted as a principal person in Jersey for over 20 years, with Bank of America, UBS AG, Sanne and now with Vistra. During that time he held various senior leadership roles, most notably as Managing Director of Sanne in the Channel islands, Managing Director of the UBS Jersey Trust Company, Managing Director of UBS Wealth Management Jersey and Head of Operations EMEA for Bank of Americas' Private Bank. He has significant experience in strategy and leadership, and held Directorships in many regulated trading usinesses, as well as a number of associated entities including private equity funds, employee benefits structures, pension funds, investment funds, real estate funds, treasury entities and real estate/holding companies with strong governance background and a reputation for clear leadership. He is currently utilising these skills undertaking Non-Executive Director roles alongside my position at Sanne. He has also been advising organisations in areas ranging from acquisition/sale, strategy, systems, governance and business development.