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Board of Directors
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- Mr. Thiruvidaimarudur Krishna Prabhakara Naig
- Mr. Pandoo Naig
- Mr. Dhananjay Chandrakant Parikh
- Mr. Thirumakottai Subramaniaiyar Raghavan
- Mr. Ayodhyaprasad Chandra Shekhar Shukla
- Mr. Ashwani K. Tangri
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Mr. Thiruvidaimarudur Krishna Prabhakara Naig
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Mr. Thiruvidaimarudur Krishna Prabhakara Naig, aged 62 is the Chairman of our Company.
He has been associated with our company since its inception. Mr. Naig holds a bachelors
degree in Commerce from Madras University and has more than 25 years of experience
in the field of Capital Market and Investment Banking activities. He has previously
held the position of President and Managing Director of Indbank Merchant Banking
Services Ltd. (A subsidiary of Indian Bank) during the year 1997 to 1999. Prior
to that from 1983 to 1988, he was the Chief Manager, Merchant Banking Division of
Indian Bank. During his stint with Indbank, he assisted companies like Indian Railway
Finance Corporation, Punjab Alkalies and Chemicals Ltd, Lakshmi Electrical Control
Systems Ltd etc. in raising capital through Public Issues, Rights Issue and Private
Placement of Equity. He also represented Indbank on the Board of Offshore Funds
set up by FIIs like Shrodders, London, Invesco, London and Martin Currie, Edinburough.
In the year 2000, he held the position of Deputy Country Head and later Country
Head and Vice President of Union Bank of California, N.A.
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Mr. Pandoo Naig
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Mr. Pandoo Naig, aged 29 is the Managing Director of our Company. Mr. Naig is a
co-founder of our Company and has over 10 years of experience in capital markets.
He has been associated with our Company since its inception and has been handling
the affairs of Investment Banking where his focus has been on fund raising for emerging
companies, advisory and financial services.
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Mr. Dhananjay Chandrakant Parikh
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Mr. Dhananjay Chandrakant Parikh, aged 54 is the Non Executive Director of our Company.
He is a practicing Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountant
of India. He was appointed as the Non Executive Director of our Company on February
04, 2010. Throughout his professional life spam he has handled project loan for
various companies for setting up projects & working capital facilities from Banks,
like Oriental Bank of Commerce, State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Shamroa Vithal
Co-operative and Small Industrial Development Bank of India. In-depth work experience
of Audit of Stock Exchange and brokers audit with specialized knowledge of tax planning.
He is the Auditor of Vadodra Stock Exchange. He has held major positions as a statutory
Auditor in number of Companies, Internal Auditor in number of Companies, Project
Consultant in number of reputed companies, Member of Audit committee in four Companies,
Trustee of three trust, Treasure of Various societies, and member of reputed club
of Vadodara.
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Mr. Thirumakottai Subramaniaiyar Raghavan
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Mr. Thirumakottai Subramaniaiyar Raghavan, aged 71 is the Independent Director of
our Company. He holds Masters Degree in Arts from University of Madras. He was appointed
as the Independent Director of our Company on January 27, 2010.He is a Banking and
Finance professional, with almost 40 years of experience in his life time career
of banking. In 1965 he joined Indian Overseas Bank, Madras as a probationary Officer
and became the General Manager. He became Executive director of Vijaya Bank in 1996.
Subsequently he served as the Chairman and Managing Director for Bank of Maharasthtra
and then with Indian Bank from May 1997 till retirement. He is presently serves
the board of many corporates across various industries including Chairman of a well
known publishing and trading company. He is also active in social services and charities
relating to rural development and medical aid to poor amongst others.
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Mr. Ayodhyaprasad Chandra Shekhar Shukla
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Mr. Ayodhyaprasad Chandra Shekhar Shukla, aged 46 is the Independent Director of
our Company and was appointed on March 11, 2010. He is Masters in Business Administration
(Finance) with over 24 years of Experience in Capital Market. He is currently associated
with Joindre Capital Services Limited which is a member of BSE/NSE/MCX/NCDEX as
a President and Compliance Officer and working till date.
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Mr. Ashwani K. Tangri
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Mr. Ashwani K. Tangri, aged 60 is the Independent Director of the Company. He is qualified CAIIB (Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers) and a B.SC (Agriculture) graduate. He is presently working as Counselor/Incharge of Financial Literacy & Credit Counseling Center (FLCC) at Central Bank of India at Ahmednagar. He has a vast experience of 36 years in Banking. During his 36 years stint he worked in various departments of Central Bank of India and Oriental Bank of Commerce. He was actively involved in framing policy guidelines in regard to Agriculture, Retail, Microfinance and Small Entrepreneur Credit. He has been instrumental in achieving various awards for the Bank like Financial Inclusion Initiatives in the rural areas, Micro-Credit in the remote areas, Financing under Government Sponsored Schemes, Development of Rural Self Employment Training Institutes, Financing Rice Milling Units in the States of Punjab and Haryana, Distribution of Kisan Cards to the farmers.
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Audit Committee
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The Audit Committee was constituted by our Directors at their Board meeting held
on December 02, 2010.
The Audit Committee comprises of the following members:
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Status
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Mr. Ayodhyaprasad Chandra Shekhar Shukla
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Chairperson
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Independent Director
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Mr. Thirumakottai Subramaniaiyar Raghavan
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Member
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Independent Director
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Mr. Pandoo Naig
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Member
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Managing Director
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Mr. Ashwanikumar Tangri
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Member
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Independent Director
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Ms Bhavyata Raval is the secretary to the audit committee.
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Scope and terms of reference
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The scope and function of the audit committee is in accordance with Clause 49 of
the Listing Agreement and section 292A of the Companies Act. The audit committee
acts as a link between the management, the statutory, cost and internal auditors
and the Board of Directors and oversees the financial reporting process.
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Audit Committee’s terms of reference include the following: -
- Overseeing our Company’s financial reporting process and the disclosure of its financial
information to ensure that the financial statement is correct, sufficient and credible;
- Recommending to our Board, the appointment, re-appointment and, if required, the
replacement or removal of the statutory auditors and the fixation of audit fees;
- Approval of payment to our statutory auditors for any other services rendered by
them;
- Reviewing, with the management, the annual financial statements before submission
to our Board for approval, with particular reference to:
- Matters required to be included in the Director’s Responsibility Statement to be
included in our Board’s report in terms of clause (2AA) of section 217 of the Companies
Act;
- Changes, if any, in accounting policies and practices and reasons for the same;
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Major accounting entries involving estimates based on the exercise of judgment by
management;
- Significant adjustments made in the financial statements arising out of audit findings;
- Compliance with listing and other legal requirements relating to financial statements;
- Disclosure of any related party transactions;
- Qualifications in the draft audit report;
- Reviewing, with the management, the quarterly financial statements before submission
to our Board for approval;
- Reviewing, with the management, the statement of uses / application of funds raised
through an issue (public issue, rights issue, preferential issue, etc.), the statement
of funds utilized for purposes other than those stated in the offer document/prospectus/notice
and the report submitted by the monitoring agency monitoring the utilisation of
proceeds of a public or rights issue, and making appropriate recommendations to
our Board to take up steps in this matter.
- Reviewing, with the management, performance of statutory and internal auditors,
adequacy of the internal control systems;
- Reviewing the adequacy of internal audit function, if any, including the structure
of the internal audit department, staffing and seniority of the official heading
the department, reporting structure coverage and frequency of internal audit;
- Discussion with our internal auditors about any significant findings and follow
up thereon;
- Reviewing the findings of any internal investigations by the internal auditors into
matters where there is suspected fraud or irregularity or a failure of internal
control systems of a material nature and reporting the matter to the Board;
- Discussion with our Statutory Auditors before the audit commences, about the nature
and scope of audit as well as post-audit discussion to ascertain any area of concern;
- Reviewing our Company’s risk management policies;
- To look into the reasons for substantial defaults in the payment to the depositors,
debenture holders, shareholders (in case of non-payment of declared dividends) and
creditors;
- Carrying out any other function as is mentioned in the terms of reference of the
Audit Committee.
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Our audit committee is empowered, pursuant to its terms of reference, to:
- Investigate any activity within its terms of reference.
- Seek any information it requires from any employee.
- Obtain legal or other independent professional advice.
- Secure the attendance of outsiders with relevant experience and expertise, when
considered necessary.
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Our Audit Committee shall mandatory review the following information:
- Management discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations;
- Statement of significant related party transactions (as defined by the audit committee),
submitted by our management;
- Management letters / letters of internal control weaknesses issued by our statutory
auditors;
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Shareholders/Investors Grievance Committee
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The shareholders/investors grievance committee was constituted by our Directors
at the Board meeting held on December 02, 2010.The shareholders/investors grievance
committee comprises of the following members:
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Name of Director
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Status
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Mr. Ayodhyaprasad Chandra Shekhar Shukla
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Chairman
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Independent Director
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Mr. Thirumakottai Subramaniaiyar Raghavan
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Member
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Independent Director
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Mr. Dhananjay Parikh
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Member
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Non-executive Director
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Scope and terms of reference
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The shareholders/investors grievance committee is responsible for the redressal
of shareholder grievance in accordance with Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement;
it shall look into all matters related with the transfer of shares, issue of share
certificates, non-receipt of annual report and non-receipt of declared dividends.
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Functions of the shareholder/ investor grievance committee: -
- To approve and register transfer and/ or transmission of all classes of shares;
- Redressal of shareholders and investor complaints e.g. transfer of shares, non receipt
of balance sheet/ annual report, non receipt of declared dividend, interest, notices
etc.;
- Formulation of procedures in line with the statutory guidelines to ensure speedy
disposal of various requests received from shareholders from time to time;
- To sub-divide, consolidate and issue duplicate share certificates on behalf of our
Company;
- To do all such acts, things, or deeds as may be necessary or incidental to the exercise
of the above powers.
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Remuneration Committee
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The remuneration committee was constituted by our Directors at the Board meeting
held on December 02, 2010. The remuneration committee comprises of the following
members:
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Name of Director
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Status
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Mr. Ayodhyaprasad Chandra Shekhar Shukla
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Chairman
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Independent Director
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Mr. Thirumakottai Subramaniaiyar Raghavan
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Member
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Independent Director
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Mr. Ashwanikumar Tangri
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Member
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Independent Director
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Scope and terms of reference
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- The remuneration committee shall be formed in compliance with section 269 and Schedule
XIII of the Companies Act.
- The remuneration committee shall review the remuneration of the Executive, Managing
Director, whole time directors and the managers at the time of appointment or alteration
thereof subsequent to the appointment and re-appointment thereof;
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