Shri P D Gupta was an eminent and renowned professional and an ex-CGM of the Reserve Bank of India. He was a visionary and embarked on building a conglomerate of verticals in the financial services sector.
It was his thinking and foresight that led to the entities he promoted building for themselves a reputation for providing quality financial services and products. Mr Gupta’s guidance led to the further growth of group companies through demonstrated merit and consistency in rendering quality offerings to clients.
He nurtured and built a group of eminent and renowned professionals with relevant experience in investment, insurance, mutual funds, finance, accounting, taxation, and banking, including development and regulatory banking.
Mr. P. D. Gupta’s vision was and has continued to be the basis for the future plans for the group, including expanding beyond the current sector verticals into the broader financial sector.
Late Shri M. N. Goiporia, Former Chairman of State Bank of India, who also had to his credit having headed three other nationalized banks in succession viz. Dena Bank, Bank of Baroda and Central Bank of India, before heading State Bank of India.
Mr. Pankaj Gupta is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with experience of more than 40 years in sectors such as banking, insurance, merchant banking and financial services viz., corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, feasibility studies, project finance, private placements, accounting and taxation. Has handled assignments as Central Statutory Auditors of Banks and Institutions viz; Bank of Baroda, Central Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, General Insurance Corporation, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Indian Rare Earths and Zonal Audits of Steel Authority of India, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited besides private sector clients. He also has been associated with assignments involving Investigative Audits, Monitoring of Borrower Accounts, valuations among other related specialized professional assignments allotted to his firm of Chartered Accountants which was founded by him. The firm is on the panel of various Banks and Institutions. He is the Vice Chairman of West End Housing Finance limited and Invent Assets Securitisation & Reconstruction Private Limited, besides being a Senior Partner and founder of Shah Gupta & Co., an established firm of Chartered Accountants since 1976 and was a Member of the Primary Market Advisory Committee of Securities and Exchange Board of India in the past.
Mr. Rajiv Kumar Lal received his bachelor's degree from Allahabad University. In 1978, he joined the Indian Revenue Service. He retired as Chief Commissioner of Income Tax after more than three and a half decades of service in the Income Tax Department. He has diverse experience and expertise in the Income Tax Department, including but not limited to direct taxes and administration. He has extensive technical experience in the areas of complex tax law interpretation, investigation and analysis of company accounts in various businesses, and tax law and rule litigation.
The Government of India also nominated Mr. Lal to attend a prestigious six-week programme on 'Financial and Economic Management' at the University of Illinois in the United States. He has also represented India at an OECD annual convention in Paris, France. He spent a significant portion of his career in Delhi, Mumbai, and Gujarat.
Mr. Lal served as Member (Finance) for about 4 years at the Delhi Jal Board, a Delhi Government undertaking for the distribution of drinking water and sewage management in the National Capital Territory. Here he was responsible for budgeting the finances, supervising the tender processes, and granting approvals to various projects. He was actively involved in various projects, aided by the World Bank, the Government of Japan, etc., towards the modernization of water distribution, water conservation, rainwater harvesting, and sewage treatment that were undertaken by the Delhi Jal Board. in connection with which he visited Singapore, Australia, the USA, etc. for conducting financial viability and technical feasibility studies for such projects.
Mr. Lal was also on the board of Pipavav Railway Corporation Limited (PRCL, a joint venture company of Indian Railways and Gujarat Pipavav Port Limited) in the capacity of independent director during 2015–2018.
Dr. Venkateswara Rao Thallapaka have Graduate in Commerce, S.V. University, Tirupati (A.P.), CAIIB (Indian Institute of Bankers, Mumbai), Hon doctorate in International banking & Finance by ECOLE SUPERIEURE ROBERT DE SORBON University, France. He has over 35 years’ experience in Banking, Foreign Trade and Housing Finance Sectors with specialization in Management of Treasury, Investment and Corporate Finance Operations, Securitization and Structured Finance, Product development (reverse Mortgage etc.), Training, Research, Capicity Building and Regulation and Supervision of Housing Finance Institution. Directors on the Board of Corporates in NBFC, HFC and Manufacturing Sector.
Mr. Virendra Singh an IRS Officer of 1985 Batch attained superannuation as Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Bihar & Jharkhand Region after thirty-five years of distinguished service. He has rich and varied experience of working in different wings of the Income tax department ranging from Investigation, assessment, administration, International Taxation, Risk Assessment and large Taxpayer Unit. Besides, he has also worked for seven years in Economic Offence Wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation at Mumbai wherein he was entrusted with monitoring and supervision of investigation relating to various kinds of financial crimes/frauds. He has worked at different stations such as Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Jammu & Kashmir, Nagpur and Patna. As Commissioner of Income Tax, Jammu & Kashmir for more than four years, he established the reputation of the Income Tax Department as an absolutely honest, professional, transparent, fair, responsive & accountable tax administration by initiating taxpayer friendly measures of clearance of all the refunds pending for over 3 years within first 3 months of his posting.
