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Management Team
Artha Financial Services Ltd. recognises that one of the key sources of sustainable
competitive advantage is the power of its human resource pool. Therefore, we foster
a mindset that embraces meritocracy and competency to reward performance. The company
is managed by a core team of professionals who bring with them a rich reservoir
of industry experience and domain expertise at each functional level.

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Suresh Rangarajan
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
As a professional entrepreneur, Suresh established India’s first Financial Super
Market by launching Artha Money and from there established India’s biggest property
super-market Artha Property. This is the first step in realizing his vision of Financial
Literacy for every Indian. A leader par excellence, Suresh is a strategic and innovative
thinker with strong execution skills and the ability to build and motivate large
teams. These qualities coupled with an hawk eye on risk and control make him a wholesome
leader. His wholesome leadership style brought him accolades in the form of being
selected the CEO with HR Orientation by the Asian HRD Congress. More recently, he
was conferred with the prestigious Udyog Rattan Award by the Institute of Economic
Studies.
A Chartered Accountant by qualification, safe money management is in his DNA. He
brings with him over 16 years of experience in banking and financial services, over
a decade of which was spent with Citibank. Prior to establishing the Artha Group,
Mr Rangarajan was the President of TimesofMoney and was responsible for setting
up the country’s first online money transfer service, Remit2India. Under his leadership,
Remit2India was adjudged the world’s best online money transfer portal in 2006,
and was also awarded the Savile Row Brand Leadership Award in 2007.
Suresh is widely regarded as an expert in the field of financial services using
new age channels. He has addressed numerous conferences across the world, on the
subject. Suresh is a Fellow Member from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
India. He has completed his Diploma in Business Management and holds a Bachelor’s
Degree in Commerce from Madras University.
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Venkatesh Vaidyanathan
Chief Operating Officer
As the Group Chief Operating Officer, Venkatesh is responsible for the critical
role of strengthening the overall framework for the company’s growth across all
businesses and geographies, in addition to being responsible for the day to day
operational excellence of the company. He is also responsible for overall Risk and
Compliance across the company and all its subsidiaries.
Venkatesh has over 13 years of banking and financial services experience, over a
decade of which has been spent with ICICI Group. He brings with him rich and valuable
experience in the areas of operations risk mitigation, process automation and optimization,
project management, resource planning and mapping. A Chartered Accountant by profession,
he holds the AICWA Gold Medal, attaining an all India 1st rank
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Rahul Majumdar
Director - Alternate Channels
As Director - Alternate Channels, Rahul spearheads the business strategy, alliances
and the growth of business volumes for the financial services and real estate businesses
through the internet and other alternate channels. He has over 13 years of rich
experience in the internet and financial services space.
Apart from eBusiness consulting for Banks, he has also had various stints in the
online space including setting up the online education strategy for NIIT and setting
up the remittance businesses at Remit2India and at ICICI Bank. His last stint was
with Development Credit bank handling Liability, NRI and Alternate Channels. Rahul
holds an MBA from IIM , Lucknow.
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Anand Ramakrishnan
Head - Technology & Product Development
Anand has over 10 years experience in consulting and implementation of systems in
the Financial Services world. Anand started of his career as a management trainee
in ICICI in the Information technology division and later moved to ICICI Infotech
to work as a Executive Assistant to the CFO and Asia Pacific head Infotech . Following
this, Anand worked in the Treasury and SAP implementation of ICICI Bank. After working
for four years in ICICI Group , he spend the next six years in Infosys in the Enterprise
solutions division and did consulting projects for many fortune 500 companies .Anand
joined the Artha group in Oct 2008 and is responsible for strengthening and optimising
the business and process framework for the internet business.
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Sheena Kapoor
Head - Marketing
Sheena is responsible for driving marketing and alliances. Sheena has over 9 years
of experience in international alliances, consulting and branding. Her previous
stint was with Times of Money, managing alliances and heading brand management.
Prior to that, Sheena worked with the Business Consulting Group. Sheena holds an
MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, and has completed a brand marketing
course from Indian School of Business.
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K R Sreenivasan
Area Director, Chennai
KRS leads the sales and distribution efforts across all businesses in Tamilnadu.
KRS comes with 12 years of experience in sales, credit management, finance, accounting,
audit and taxation. His last stint was with ICICI Bank where he headed the southern
region for mortgages and home loans. Before his stint in ICICI Bank, KRS worked
with Sundaram Finance.
KRS is a Chartered Accountant by qualification
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V S Karthikeyan
Area Director, Mumbai
Karthik leads the sales and distribution efforts across all businesses in Mumbai.
He is also on the board of directors of the various subsidiary companies of Artha
Group.
Karthik brings with him over 12 years of rich experience spanning corporate strategy,
finance, regulatory, compliance and HR functions. Prior to joining Artha Property,
Karthik was the Financial Controller at Times of Money. His previous assignments
have included stints in operations with the Reliance Group of companies.
Karthik is a Cost Accountant by qualification, and is an All India rank holder.
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Krishna Prasad Musunuri
Area Director, Bangalore
Prasad is a sales specialist and heads the property business in Bangalore. Prior
to joining Artha Property Prasad was a Vice President at HSBC. He has over 14 years
of experience across leading financial institutions such as ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank
& Andhra Bank.
Prasad holds an MBA from IIM Kozhikode.
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