Well-Wishers

Mr. P.V. Maiya served in the State Bank of India for 32 years in various capacities. He took early retirement to start the ICICI Bank in 1994, of which he was the first executive chairman till retirement in 1998. During his tenure, the Bank set standards for its service, innovativeness, customer-friendliness, and leading-edge technology, creating in the process an energetic competitive environment in banking; the Bank was the first to introduce internet banking in India. Soon on retirement from the Bank, he was invited to establish Central Depository Services Ltd. [CDSL] as the first Managing Director. Post- retirement, he was nominated by the Government of India to serve as a Director for three years on the Board of Indian Bank, rated then as a ‘weak’ bank. Later between 2007 and 2013 when he was elected as shareholder Director on the Board of Canara Bank. At present, Mr. Iyer is a director of Brigade Enterprises Ltd, Neuland Laboratories Ltd and Ocean Sparkles Ltd.
He is a Trustee of Brigade Foundation, which among others, runs three schools. He is also a Trustee of the Indian Musical Experience centre. He is the President of Yogakshema Trust, involved in a number of socially relevant activities.

Mr. S.R. Iyer was a former Managing Director of State Bank of India, one of India’s premier banking institutions. After retiring from SBI, Mr. Iyer was appointed as the First Executive Chairman of the Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited (CIBIL), a joint venture promoted by State Bank of India (SBI) and Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC). Mr. Iyer presently serves on the Boards of several companies as an Independent and Non-Executive Director. He is also a Member of the Investment Committee of National Dairy Development Board and Chairman of the Infrastructure Finance Credit Committee of Aditya Birla Finance Ltd. He has made important contributions to policy making in the Indian financial services sector through Working Groups and Committees appointed by RBI and the Govt. of India.

Mr Iyer had also been the Managing Director of State Bank of Mysore and Chairman of Canfin Homes Ltd.

Mr. Elangovan has been with the IT services industry for over 28 years, having worked with Infosys and was a Senior Vice President at iGate, managing North America, Global Banking and Financial Services, Advanced Technology Groups and Tech Training.

Elan was twice the recipient of Infosys Chairman’s award for excellence and iGate CEO award. He balances his professional career with volunteering for causes like those championed by YogaKshema, Lake rejuvenation (Whitefield Rising/Varthur lake) by bringing together citizens, scientists, govt agencies, corporates, media and all stakeholders, mental health (Banyan/Association for the mentally challenged) etc. Elan is an Alumnus of National Institute of Technology, Trichy.

 Jayashree has done her MCM(Computer Management) from Pune University. Jayashree is the CTO at Zinnea, a firm into software consulting. She was a Committee member at Association for Mentally Challenged (AMC) in Bangalore for 9 years.  Jayashree is the co-founder of Popmart.

http://popmart.in/

Usha has done her schooling in Delhi and is a graduate in Sociology from Miranda House, Delhi University. She started working in the development sector after diverse stints in mass media for ten years. Since nearly ten years, she is involved in “Namma “Muthuru” a development intervention at Muthur village & its surrounding panchayat area in Chikkaballapur District of Karnataka, in memory of Sanjoy Das Gupta, IAS, who used to be associated with the village. The work is chiefly in the domains of health, sanitation, environment and education, with a host of activities being done for and through the two govt. schools in the village. She is the founder of Gramaantara Trust, a rural development organization currently functioning in the district of Chikkaballapur.

https://www.gramaantaratrust.org/home  
 

 Samit  is one of the Founders/Promoters of Chaitanya and an Executive Director at Chaitanya. Samit has a MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University. Before Chaitanya, Samit has worked in Olam International Limited, a global leader in the supply chain management of agricultural products and food ingredients. Samit spent his initial five years in Africa and subsequently he setup Olam’s coffee operations in Brazil and led the business for four years as its country manager.  He has acquired significant experience in setting up systems and processes related to agricultural procurement, financing and trading.  He has been associated with Chaitanya since 2008 April.  Samit also led the Tech based lending Inititatives of Navi Technologies Private Ltd