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Mr. Sunil Godhwani is the driving force behind Religare Enterprises Limited (REL). A man with a vision to create a global business of excellence, he is the inspiration as he spearheads the company’s management and global operations; strategizing and directing it through its next phase of growth. He oversees the service brands of the promoters which include Religare Enterprises (integrated financial services) along with Religare Technova (IT), Religare Wellness (formerly Fortis Healthworld), Super Religare Laboratories (formerly SRL Ranbaxy; Path Labs) and Religare Voyages (private air charter and travels business).

Mr. Godhwani brings to the company strong leadership skills, vigor and a passion for excellence. He believes in nurturing a culture that is entrepreneurial, result oriented, customer focused and based on teamwork. He has a diverse and wide-ranging experience of over two decades in managing large scale businesses.

Mr. Godhwani has given strategic direction to Religare’s growth since his joining in 2001. He has been instrumental in establishing Religare’s vast network and shaping the Company’s strategies in India and abroad. He is on a constant lookout for taking the Company to new heights by managing various acquisitions, finding new partners for joint ventures and scouting new avenues for the business.

Mr. Godhwani is a Director in Religare Enterprises Limited, Religare Securities Limited, Religare Finvest Limited, Religare Commodities Limited, Religare General Insurance Company Limited, Religare Technova Limited, Religare Venture Capital Limited, Super Religare Laboratories Limited, Religare Macquarie Wealth Management Limited, AEGON Religare Life Insurance Company Limited, Vistaar Religare Capital Advisors Limited, Religare Voyages Limited and Fortis Healthcare Limited.
Mr Rajiv Jamkhedkar is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at AEGON Religare Life Insurance. Mr Jamkhedkar has two decades of experience in Retail Financial Services in India. He has worked in all parts of the country – the North, South and Western India. Mr Jamkhedkar started his career as a Management Associate at Citibank N.A. During the course of more than a decade, he worked in Service, Sales and Product management roles in a variety of businesses in Consumer Banking.

During his last assignment at Citi, Mr. Jamkhedkar was head of Personal lending & SME segment, Citibusiness. His main achievement was that he quadrupled the balance-sheet in 5 years and made these as two of the most profitable businesses for the bank.

Mr. Jamkhedkar has been involved in start-ups including a three year stint in HSBC, where he started up the Retail Assets division of HSBC in India. He was part of the core team that was instrumental in transforming HSBC from being a corporate banking institution to being a significant retail-banking player.

Mr Jamkhedkar has a B.Tech Degree in Electronics Engineering from IT - BHU and an M.B.A. degree from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.
Mr Ravi Mehrotra has more than 25 years of work experience in financial services industry. Mr Mehrotra is the Director of Religare Enterprises Limited (REL) and is also on the board of various REL group companies. In his last assignment as the Global Head of Retail & Intermediary Sales at PineBridge Investments based in Hong Kong, he was responsible for the development of asset management companies of PineBridge Investments in China, East Africa, India, Korea and Taiwan and responsible for retail and intermediary sales across North America, Europe, Japan and Asia.

Mr Mehrotra joined AIG Investments, Asia in February 2006 as Managing Director and Regional Head of AIG Investments Asia AMCs having responsibility of Asia (Ex Japan) including China, Taiwan, India, Philippines, Korea and intermediary distribution in Hong Kong and Singapore since May 2007. Prior to this, he was the Regional Head of AIG Asst Management Companies based out of Mumbai.

During 2002-January 2006, Mr Mehrotra was the President of Franklin Templeton Asset Management Company, which was one of the largest mutual funds in India with assets of approximately US $4 Billion. He was also associated with Kothari Pioneer Asset Management as its Chief Investment Officer which he joined in 1993. He was also the co-founder of Prime Securities Ltd.

Mr Mehrotra began his career in 1985 with Bank of America NT & SA, where he served as a member of the Investment Banking and Treasury Group and was responsible for managing the Bank’s proprietary Government Securities and Bond portfolios.
Mr Kamlesh Dangi has more than 16 years of experience in Human Resources, both in India as well as abroad. The industries he is most familiar with are Financial Services, Banking, Retail, Healthcare, Technology and Consulting. His prior experience includes working with esteemed organizations like Toyo Engineering, Shoppers Stop and ICICI Bank.

As Group Chief People Officer, Mr Dangi is responsible for Religare's Human Resource Strategy which includes managing more than 10,000 employees spread across different business verticals and building various new lines of business like Emerging Markets Investment Bank, a very promising Health Insurance platform in India etc. He is a member of the core team responsible for making Religare one of the most promising new entrants in the industry.

He holds a graduation degree in commerce and an MBA degree from KJ Somaiya Institute with a specialization in Human Resources.
Dr Adarsh Kishore joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1969 with the Rajasthan cadre and was the Finance Secretary, Government of India from 2004 to 2006. During this period he was responsible for coordinating the preparation of the Union Budget, monitoring the implementation of the Budget announcements and expenditure management.

In the Indian Administrative Service, Dr Kishore held several important offices, including Finance Secretary and Secretary (Expenditure) in the Union Finance Ministry and Principal Secretary, Finance, in the Rajasthan Government. He also worked as the Secretary for Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises and Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.

Dr Kishore has also worked for three years as the Executive Director representing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka in the International Monetary Fund.
Mr Douglas Henck is Chairman & CEO of AEGON Asia, the newly formed business unit overseeing all of AEGON N.V.’s insurance operations in Asia. Prior to joining AEGON, Mr Henck served Chief Financial Officer at the Bahá'í World Centre, the global administrative headquarters of the Bahá'í Faith, from 2006 to 2009.

Mr Henck retired from the position of President, Sun Life Financial Asia in 2005 after more than five years of leading that organization. Prior to joining Sun Life Financial, he was Senior Vice President of the AIG Life Division of the American International Group, based in Hong Kong.

Mr Henck moved to Hong Kong in January 1987, and established the Asia Regional office of the US-based Aetna Inc.; he remained as the senior executive in the region for the next ten years before joining AIG. He first joined Aetna in 1974 after graduating with B.S. Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. He qualified as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1978.

Mr Henck is a Past Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, having led the organization during the historic 1997 calendar year. He also served two terms as Chairman of the Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce from 1993 – 1995. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Harmony Program, a New York based charity providing music lessons to economically disadvantaged children.
Mr Jan Aart Var Den Steen joined AEGON Asia as a Chief Financial Officer in November 2010. Since 2005, he has held a number of senior executive positions with the AEGON Group. Mr Jan Aart has over 18 years of experience as a Financial Executive. Prior to joining AEGON, he held a number of senior roles during his twelve-year career with Ernst & Young where he worked in offices in The Hague, Seattle and Rotterdam.

As a senior manager in the Multi National Clients practice, he was responsible for overseeing multi-million dollar audits at listed clients in the Building and Construction Industry, telecommunications, pharmaceutical industry, Oil and gas exploration and production and many other industries. His accounting expertise include thorough knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS.

Mr Jan Aart has a BA Accountancy from The Hague University, a degree of Chartered Accountant from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and an Executive Master of Finance and Control from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Mr David Wolf is the Chief Operating Officer of AEGON Asia since September 2011. He has over 20 years of experience in the insurance business. Previously, Mr Wolf was the President of ACE Life Insurance Company with businesses in 27 countries and headquarters in New York.Prior to joining ACE Life, Mr Wolf was the Senior Vice Presidentvof Prudential Financial and worked in various positions over 20 years in Tokyo, Shanghai, and the corporate headquarter in New Jersey.

Throughout his career, Mr Wolf has managed businesses in the Unites States, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. From 2003 to 2006, Mr Wolf was responsible for third party distribution, corporate planning & strategy, and risk management at Prudential’s Gibraltar Life Insurance Company in Japan. From 2006 to 2008, Mr Wolf was seconded to China Pacific Life Insurance Company in Shanghai where he held the position of Executive Deputy General Manager, responsible for most home office functions.

Mr. Memani aged about 72 years is a Chartered Accountant. He was Chairman and Country Managing Partner, Ernst & Young, India until 31st March 2004. He was also member of Ernst & Young Global Council for 10 years. Mr. Memani specializes in Business and Corporate Advisory, Foreign Taxation, Financial Consultancy etc. and is consulted on the corporate matters by several domestic and foreign companies.

Post retirement, Mr. Memani has joined boards of various companies. To name a few are ICICI Venture Fund Management Ltd, HT Media Limited, HEG Limited, DLF Limited, National Engineering Industries Limited, J. K. Lakshmi Cement Limited, Emami Limited, Aegon Religare Life Insurance Co. Ltd, etc.

He was also member of various Committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. For two consecutive years, Mr. Memani was on the External Audit Committee (EAC) of the International Monetary Fund and was appointed the Chairman of EAC for the year 1999-2000, the first Indian so far appointed in the committee. Mr. Memani is the past Chairman of American Chamber of Commerce in India and former President of Indo American Chamber of Commerce & PHD Chamber of Commerce. He is also member of managing committees of various Industry bodies, like FICCI, ASSOCHAM, PHD etc.

Mr. Memani was co-chairman of New Company Law Drafting Committee and first chairman of Quality Review Board, both set-up by Govt. of India.
Mr Sundaram is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as well as Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. He has been with the Times of India group for over 20 years and has diversified experience in the areas of Finance, M & A, marketing & selling and business development.

In the initial part of his tenure spanning 15 years in the finance department, Mr Sundaram has handled various aspects of the finance function including MIS, taxation etc. During the finance tenure he has played a pivotal role in the various forays of the group which include businesses such as Times Bank, Times Internet Limited, the radio broadcasting business, the magazine business JV with BBC etc.

In early 2005, Mr Sundaram moved to a business role and set up the latest innovation from the Times group stable – Times Private Treaties which he currently heading as the CEO. He has been instrumental in establishing Times Private Treaties as the fast growing business of the Times group which currently contributes 15% of the topline of each of the media vertical of the Times group. He also works very closely with Mr Samir Jain in ideating, incubating and implementing ideas for the BCCL’s groups media business.