Bio:
Senior Management:
Over 45 years’ experience (in globally active banking and financial institutions) comprising
• CEO ExCo member in the Emirates Bank/Emirates NBD Group 1985 2012 in Dubai UAE
• SBI Manager Overseas Branch in Mumbai, India 1972 1979 Experience/Expertise
• Project Finance, Treasury, Credit Corporate banking, mutual funds, investments banking private equity
• Tresurer for Dubal the Govt of Dubai Projects 1979 1984 for capital raising of US 1 8 billion Dubal establishment management of treasury and project finance units Institutions Building Experienc
• Intra Preneurial M &A Integration (in 1985 1991 2007 of five 5 banks in the UAE Organic Growth
• Founder CEO and Board Member of ( Emirates Merchant Bank Ltd,Ltd,( Emirates Financial Services PSC 1998 2002
• Founder Chairman of ( Emirates Funds LLC, b) Emirates Bank Austria Investments Ltd and ( Tricolour Investments Ltd Founder/ Promoter Director Overseas Tricolour Investments Ltd Sept 2000 to date) Tricolour Values Investments PSC (July 016 to date) India Values Alternative Investments International (VAII) P Ltd(April 2012 to date) Tricolour Financial Services (TFS) P Ltd (July 2017 to date).
Accomplishments Accolades
•’Father of Mutual Funds and Capital Markets in the GCC 1998 for ‘pioneering innovation and institutions’ building endeavours’ following successful launch of first ever domestic mutual funds capital market issuances (bonds/sukuks and quity IPOs) pre dating DFM ADSM SCA 1997 2002 in the UAE
• Awarded the ‘Hind Rattan Award’ 2012
• Annual Award from Indian Economic Society 2014 Suresh Kumar
Governance & Positions:
• Member later, Chairman of the Boards of Directors of Federal Bank Ltd 2005 2013 IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co Ltd 2011 2015 and FedBank Financial Services Ltd 2009 to 2017
• Independent Director’, currently on the Boards of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd, 2015 to date) ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd 2014 to date) Aster DM Healthcare (UAE India 2015 to date) and Emirates REIT DIFC 2010 to date)
• Board Member Advisory Board Evolvence Capital Fund of Funds A leading UAE business group (Founder First elected President of Indian Business Professional Council ( Dubai Founder Dubai Community Theatre Art Centre ( 2004 2012 ducational Institutions (Tips Tech India, S P Jain, BuiD Dubai)
Educational Qualifications:
– Economics ( Sydenham College, in Mumbai, India
– Rotary International Scholarship California, U S A
– Lord Aldington Banking Research Fellowship (U K Belgium Germany)
– Fellow of the Indian Institute of Bankers
– Stanford University London Business School Investment Management Programmes Columbia University Advanced Management
