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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, Artha Group
As a professional entrepreneur, Suresh has established India’s first Financial Super
Market by launching Artha Money. 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 Artha Money, 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, Artha Group
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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Ameya Kapnadak
Chief Marketing Officer, Artha Group
As the Group Chief Marketing Officer and the head of the Marketing and Branding
Group, Ameya leads the critical role of spearheading the marketing, branding, PR
and corporate communications functions of the company. He is a nimble marketer with
an astute knowledge of consumers, their cultures, attitudes & behavior, and has
extensive experience in brand building.
Ameya brings with him over 12 years of experience in the field of Advertising and
Marketing, nearly 6 of which have been in the BFSI space. Prior to this, he was
with ICICI Bank in the International Banking Group and was responsible for marketing
the Bank’s products and services in the Middle East, USA, Canada and Sri Lanka.
Ameya holds a management degree from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management
Studies.
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Rahul Majumdar
Director, Alternate Channels
As CEO of the Internet Business, Rahul spearheads the business strategy, alliances
and the growth of business volumes for the financial services business through the
internet. 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
Chief Operating Officer, Artha Money
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 Artha Money 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
Chief Marketing Officer, Artha Money
Sheena is responsible for driving Marketing and Alliances for the online business.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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