Advisors & Mentors

Advisors & Mentors

S Sridhar
Ex-CMD of Central Bank of India and National Housing Bank

S Sridhar is a banker with about 38 years of experience in commercial and development banking of which 10 years was at the CEO/ Board level. He started his career with State Bank of India, India's largest commercial bank where he worked for about 12 years in various capacities. He has served/ serves in various national level committees and task forces for framing financial sector policies. He was on the Managing Committee of the Indian Banks' Association, and continues to be a member of the Board of Management of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He was Chairman and Managing Director of Central Bank of India until May 31, 2011 and earlier of National Housing Bank, India's regulator of Housing Finance Companies and apex Financial Institution for housing.

Sridhar studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He was awarded the Lord Aldington Banking Research Fellowship for the year 1984 by the Indian Institute of Bankers. He has received many awards/ honors, particularly for his innovative business models and institution building.

Sanjay Kumar Bhattacharyya
(Ex) Managing Director and Chief Credit & Risk Officer, State Bank of India.

Sanjay Kumar Bhattacharyya, the former Managing Director and Chief Credit & Risk Officer with State Bank of India, is an astute senior level banker with over 38 years of experience spanning International and Corporate Banking across geographies, Retail Banking, Credit & Risk Management, Liability Management, Human Resource Management as CEO of three banks, including State Bank of India, State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur and SBI (International) Mauritius.

He has participated in providing leadership to the Indian Financial System and being in the forefront of various initiatives undertaken by the SBI Group

A graduate of St. Stephens college, Mr. Bhattacharyya was the Managing Director of SBI from October 2007 to October 2010, and was responsible primarily for the management of the entire credit portfolio of the bank, ensuring implementation of sound credit and risk management policies and procedures and, in addition, being involved in the overall management of the bank in terms of policy formulations and strategies.

Subhash Chandra Bhargava

Mr. Subhash Chandra Bhargava, B.com, from Delhi University is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Shri Bhargava brings in over 40 years of experience and knowledge in the field of Banking and Finance. He had held number of leadership roles within Life Insurance Corporation of India. He has served as Executive Director (Investment) with the Life Insurance Corporation of India wherein he was responsible for looking after investment functions like debt, equity, monitoring corporate sector, investment in infrastructure as well as social sector which involved dealing with State Government bodies and Central Government Undertakings etc. He was with Life Insurance Corporation of India from December 12, 1967 till he retired in July 31, 2005. Presently he is practicing as an independent Financial Consultant over a reputable clientele including Banks and Financial Institutions like Bank of Rajasthan and IL & FS Invests mart etc. He serves as the Chairman of A. K. Capital Services Limited and OTC Exchange of India.

He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director at Cox & Kings Limited; Escorts Limited; and Jaiprakash Associates Limited and has been an Independent Director of Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited, as a Director of Antique Finance Private Limited, UTI AMC Limited; A.K. Capital Services Limited; UTI Retirement Solution Limited; G.K. Industrial Park Private Limited; Escorts Construction Equipment Limited; Max Mobile Communications Limited, Swaraj Automotives Limited etc.

Ashok Dutta

Shri Ashok Kumar Dutta is a very Senior Banker having spent a career spanning over 36 years in Banking. He started his career with the Allahabad Bank in 1978 and rose to becoming General Manager in 2010. Thereafter he joined the Dena Bank as executive Director and retired as a Whole time Director of the Bank in 2014.

He is qualified M Sc Geology, CAIIB Banking (IIBF) and MBA Finance. He brings in his mature experience to Strugence in all aspects of Banking.

Ashok Shinkar

Mr. Ashok Shinkar was the CEO – Wholesale Credit at Capital First Limited (CFL), a NBFC, and majority owned by Warburg Pincus. Prior to which he was CFO of CFL.

Ashok was on the Board of Wanbury Limited, a Pharma company, where he headed finance function & also handled strategy, accounts, taxation, mergers and acquisitions and finance mobilizations

Past experiences include, investment banking experience in SSKI and JM, Morgan Stanley, where Ashok, handled Corporate Finance Advisory; M&A; Private Equity; Debt and Equity Structuring; and Merchant Banking activities

Ashok is a Bachelor of Commerce from Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai and a Chartered Accountant.

Jaydeep Banerjee

Jaydeep Banerjee heads the Retail Advisory Services at Strugence. He undertakes consulting projects for start-ups, retail expansions, leasing/re-zoning including operations planning and execution.

He has played strategic and executive roles in retail in his previous assignments. He was the Managing Director at Birla Pacific Medspa Limited, an integrated wellness concept. Prior to that, he has worked as the CEO/President of the MMTC-Gitanjali Joint Venture and held various roles, including VP, COO and Head of Operations within the retail industry/fraternity. His engagements have included evaluation, structuring and mergers of retail businesses.

He is widely travelled and closely understands the retail space. He has a heavy transaction background, including start-up operations, and operations planning.

He is a published author. His first book "Serving You" is widely acclaimed and is currently working on other books.
"A start up is exciting; creating value for investors while keeping the professional aligned to daily tasks is challenging and highly rewarding"
"‘Joie de vivre’ is in creating numbers and not keeping them"

Dasharath Satam
Chartered Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst.

He has been a hardcore banker with 17 years of experience. He has worked with UTI and IDBI(DFI). He is experienced on both sides of the Balance Sheet. He has represented IDBI at various Judicial / Quasi-Judicial Forums viz. BIFR, AAIFR, DRT, DART and CDR. He was also involved in setting up of Insurance JV of IDBI.

J S Chiney
Retired as General Manager-Treasury of Bank of India.

Jayant Chiney has been a banker throughout his career spanning 36 years in India and abroad. He retired as General Manager (Treasury Operations) of Bank of India.

Our Team

Prem Shinkar
 

Prem Shinkar has been an Entrepreneur having spent over 29 years in the Printing & Publishing and IT space. Starting his career in 1987 with ORG Systems as a Marketing Executive of Unix based & Oracle based supermini systems as well as application software products, he handled accounts in the BFSI space. He moved on to enterprise in 1990 in Desk Top Publishing & Printing business. Since he was always in touch with IT, Internet & Web based technologies he pursued a second profession with Telescient Technologies as India Marketing Head. He is a co-founder and Director at Strugence Business Platforms Private Limited an IT enabled Services and Software development Company. At Strugence Business Platforms he has led the creation of several IT assets - Growthvistas.com, Assetvistas.com, CSRNOBLE.com, Strugencerealtyinvestments.com and SIMS (Structured Investments Management System). He is involved in defining the Business requirements, the scope, the architecture, the user interfaces of the IT products and project management of the development, branding etc. as well as operations and administration of the Portals.

Sanjeev Verma
 

Sanjeev Verma has been working in the field of CSR, sustainability and impact investing for fast several years. He Co-Founded Indian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) as advisory, training and research firm to advice Indian companies on CSR & sustainability strategy. ICCSR launched India's first MS Program in CSR & Ethical Management in association with UAS, Vienna. He has advised companies on CSR/Sustainability Strategy and conducted workshops for senior Management. He was founding editor of 'CSR Today'. Earlier, he worked in sectors such as technology, Media, Manufacturing and retail with Naval Dockyard, Raptakos-Brett, Vogel-Jasubhai Media, ERIL/Adfactor Group,CBS Interactive, Belle View Pic in leadership positions.

He is a graduate in engineering from National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) with specialization in marines Engineering from Naval Technical Institute. He earned MBA from Southeastern University Washington DC.