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Brief Biographies of Directors

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Samit Ghosh

Mr. Samit Ghosh is the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of our Company. He founded the Company in 2004 and served as its MD & CEO until January 31, 2017. With the approval of the Reserve Bank of India, Mr. Samit Ghosh was designated and took charge as the MD & CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited (the listed subsidiary of the Company) effective from February 01, 2017 and he retired on November 30, 2019 from this position on attaining the age of 70 years. Prior to founding Ujjivan, Mr. Samit Ghosh was a career banker with over 30 years of experience in India & overseas with a specialization in retail banking. He was part of the management team which launched retail banking with Citibank in 1985, Standard Chartered Bank in 1993 and HDFC bank in 1996 and his last employment prior to founding Ujjivan was in Bank Muscat. Mr. Samit Ghosh holds a master of business administration degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited.

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K.R. Ramamoorthy

Mr. K.R Ramamoorthy is the Non-executive, Independent Director of our Company. He holds a bachelor's degree in arts from Delhi University and bachelor's degree in law from Madras University. He is also a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is the former Chairman and Managing director, Corporation Bank and former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, ING Vysya Bank. He has served as an advisor to CRISIL and as consultant to The World Bank. He serves as an independent director on the boards of Subros Limited, Nilkamal Limited and Amrit Corp. Limited.

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Mr. Sunil Vinayak Patel

Mr. Sunil Patel is a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is a certified management consultant from the Institute of Management Consultants’ of India. He was previously consultant and Director of A.F. Ferguson & Co. and Partner, A.F. Ferguson Associates. He served as a director on the boards of L&T Investment Management Limited and retired as the part-time Chairman of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Limited in January 2020. He was also on the Board of Ujjivan Financial Services Limited from 2006 till 2017 and on the Local Advisory Board of Bank Muscat India from 1998 to 2003.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Bombay University and a master of business administration degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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Ms. Mona Kachhwaha

Ms. Mona Kachhwaha is a Non-Executive, Independent Director of our Company. She has over 25 years of financial services industry experience, which includes 12 years with Caspian Impact Investment Advisers (2007-2019) and 13 years with Citibank N.A. (1994-2007). At Caspian, she managed the India Financial Inclusion Fund, a USD 89 Million impact fund with a focus on financial inclusion. She has also been a part of investment and credit committees of other funds managed by Caspian. She has graduated in Mathematics (Hons.) from Delhi University (1992) and holds an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur (1994). She completed an executive program in Private Equity from Said Business School, Oxford University in 2010.

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Anand Narayan

Mr. Anand Narayan is a Non-Executive Director of our Company. He is Managing Partner of Creador Advisors India llp from 2011. Prior to Creador, he was a Partner and Director of Veda Corporate Advisors Private Limited, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, sponsor coverage of private equity firms and raising structured debt for a number of mid-market corporates. He had also served in Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services as Vice President between 1994 -2006 and served various corporate entities like Zuari Agrochemicals and at Eicher Motors Ltd in the past in operational roles. Mr. Narayan holds an M.B.A. from IIM, Bangalore and graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur. He is also a non-executive director in Ashiana Housing Limited, Vectus Industries Limited, Paras Healthcare Private Limited and Redrock (India) Offshore Consultants Private Limited and is a designated partner of Creador Advisors India LLP.

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Renzo Christopher Viegas

Mr. Renzo Viegas is the Non-Executive, Independent Director of the Company. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai, India. He is a Chartered Accountant and Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He has extensive experience in the banking industry and started his career with Citibank India in 1985, where he progressively held senior positions in various Asia Pacific countries including leading the Consumer Finance business for Asia Pacific. Thereafter he joined RHB Bank (Asean) in 2008, and was the Deputy Chief Executive officer with primary responsibilities for the Consumer, Commercial and International businesses.
In 2012, he moved to be Deputy Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Group (Asean) and was Executive Director of CIMB Bank leading the Consumer and Commercial franchises for the region. He was a non-independent director of CIMB Bank (Vietnam) Ltd and CIMB Cambodia Bank PLC. He was also a non-executive director of Sun Life Malaysia Assurance and Takaful Berhad. He currently sits as an Independent director on the boards of Manulife Holdings Berhad and Manulife Insurance Berhad as well as Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad. Both these companies are listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange.