Mr. S. H. Bhojani is a Partner in the Mumbai office of Amarchand Mangaldas since 2001. Prior to joining the firm, he has had a long and fruitful career with ICICI Limited (now ICICI Bank Limited) for almost 28 years, starting as a Law Officer and reaching the Board of Directors of ICICI Limited as Deputy Managing Director and General Counsel of ICICI Limited. As General Counsel, he was heading a department of more than 65 lawyers and was responsible for every aspect of legal matters of ICICI Limited. As Partner at Amarchand, he has been driving transactions in varied practice areas, such as, Corporate, including Capital Markets, both domestic and international, Securitisation, Debt Restructuring, Corporate Restructuring, Banking and Project Finance. He is involved in structuring transactions, suggesting business oriented solutions, planning strategy, negotiations review of documents and regulatory advice. His expertise and commercial insight are acknowledged by all relevant players in the financial market.

Venkattu Srinivasan
Business Head - Asset Reconstruction
Kotak Mahindra Bank

A management graduate, cost accountant and alumni of London Business School, Mr. Venkattu Srinivasan has over two and a half decades of financial services experience. Currently, he heads the Asset Reconstruction and few more lending businesses of Kotak Mahindra Bank. He is on the Board of Pheonix Asset Reconstruction Company Limited, promoted by the Kotak Mahindra Group. One of his greatest achievements has been in pioneering the Non Performing Loans (NPL) business in India. He has set up the Asset Reconstruction Business of Kotak Mahindra Bank, which is the market leader in the business. Currently, he manages NPLs worth over US$ 1.3 billion of face value loans. He has executed the first cash NPL transaction deal in India. Restructuring and unlocking of value from several distressed assets have been done under his leadership. He is on the panel of Indian Bank Association to recommend changes in the guidelines of Non Performing Loans to Reserve Bank of India. On the lending side, he has set up the Alternate Lending business of the bank, which concentrates on new lending opportunities in the market place.

Rajiv Ranjan,
President & CEO,
Reliance Asset Reconstruction Limited

As President & CEO, Mr. Rajiv Ranjan is responsible for managing this asset reconstruction company of the ADA (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani) Group. Mr. Ranjan holds a B.E. degree in Electronics and a PGDBM in Finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur . He has handled critical assignments in the course of his three-decade long association with India's premier bank, the State Bank of India, with stints in Stressed Assets Management, Factoring, Project Finance, Corporate Finance, Global Cash Management, Clearing & Settlement, Product Development and International Operations. As Chief Operating Officer of SBI Factors & Commercial Services (P) Ltd., Mr. Ranjan implemented strategic directional changes in business, spearheaded acquisition of Company's largest competitor, Global Trade Finance Ltd., and served as a member on Reserve Bank of India 's “Working Group on Bank Finance to Factoring.” Transaction highlights of some of his other assignments are: Stressed Assets Management: highest ever single-account recovery in SBI (J K Synthetics) and second-highest realization from liquidation sale in the country (U P State Cement Corporation Ltd.); Project Finance: pioneered project finance in the Telecom sector with deals of Idea Cellular, Bharti, Tata Cellular and Tata Telecom; International Operations, SBI, Los Angeles: trade finance deal involving BSE and Tandem Computers Inc. Mr. Ranjan has published several articles on issues of topical interest to the banking & financial services industry, one of which accurately presaged McKinsey's Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Plan for SBI by seven years.

Ranjeet Nabha,
Managing Director & CEO,
WL Ross India

Mr. Ranjeet Nabha is responsible for WL Ross' India initiatives. He is a Board Member of India Asset Recovery Management Limited (IARM) that advises on investments made in the areas of corporate turnarounds and restructurings in India by the India Asset Recovery Fund LP (IARF), WLR Recovery Fund III LP, and WLR Recovery Fund IV LP, amongst other WL Ross funds. He was instrumental in forging the alliance between WL Ross & Co. LLC (WL Ross) and Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd. (HDFC), and helped raise the capital for IARF. In 2007, IARF, along with other investors, completed the acquisition of OCM India Limited (OCM), a leading textile company, and in 2008, invested in one of India 's leading low cost airlines, SpiceJet Limited. Mr. Nabha serves on the Board of OCM and is expected to join the Board of SpiceJet upon receiving requisite regulatory approvals.

Prior to joining WL Ross, Mr. Nabha was Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Voicemate, a US-based venture-backed technology company focused on restructuring call-center operating costs via automation. Mr. Nabha was also a Vice-President at J.P.Morgan & Co. in New York where he advised US, European, Japanese and Indian companies on restructurings, mergers/acquisitions, capital raising and privatisations.

Sanjay G Hinduja
Director
KH Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Sanjay Hinduja is the founder Director of KH Consulting, an investment banking firm specialising in stressed assets advisory and fund raising. KH also focuses on structured transactions, having advised and arranged financing for promoter funding, acquisition funding, real estate and structured transactions.

He has over 15 years of experience in M&A, capital markets and technology having worked in the US , Middle East and India . Sanjay has spent more than five years with Merrill Lynch in New York.

He is a graduate from Boston University with a degree in Economics and Psychology.

Neeta Mukerji,
President & COO,
ARCIL

Ms. Neeta Mukerji holds a Bachelors degree in Economics and has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta . She has also completed the Wharton/RMA Advanced Risk Management program from the Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania . She is currently the President and Chief Operating Officer of Arcil. Ms Mukerji has 18 years of experience with India 's largest private sector bank viz. ICICI Bank Limited with multiple responsibilities spanning corporate banking, project finance, stressed asset management and risk management. She has extensive experience in assessing credit risk and structuring large complex financial transactions. During her tenure with ICICI Bank on several occasions she started new functions wherein teams were built and capabilities developed. She has played a key role in evolving the risk management policies and practices at ICICI Bank. She participated as ICICI Bank's representative on the Steering Committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India , for Basel II implementation in India . She enjoys senior level relationships with a number on India 's business houses. Her last assignment prior to joining Arcil was as Head – Global Credit Risk Management for ICICI Bank. Ms Mukerji has been with Arcil since October 2007 and has primary responsibilities for supervision of the operations of Arcil pertaining to acquisition and resolution of non performing loans.

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