• Involved in developing a comprehensive strategy for a nationwide project enabling financial inclusion of rural masses leveraging a Mobile Transaction Platform.
• Honored with Global Leadership Award in 2008 by the Hon’ble Martin O’Malley, Governor of State of Maryland

Mr Subramanya K. Kusnur comes with an experience of over 20 years in BFSI, IT, and Public Affairs in both public and private sectors, both domestically and internationally. Having started his career with CANFINA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canara Bank, he subsequently moved on to the private sector to Equity Broking, Debt Market Operations, Resource Mobilization and Structured Finance. He then leveraged his experience in the BFSI segment to the IT arena spanning from e-business strategies to Enterprise Banking Software, Enterprise Risk Management and Payment Systems. He was also involved in developing a comprehensive strategy for a nationwide project enabling financial inclusion of rural masses leveraging a Mobile Transaction Platform.

Mr Kusnur has worked with major corporations such as Rolta India Ltd., TCG Group, Vaman Technologies R&D Ltd., C-SAM (company promoted by SAM PITRODA) and the Financial Technologies Group. In his last position as Managing Director & CEO of Riskraft Consulting Ltd., a Financial Technologies Group Company, he advised the Government of Mauritius in several areas. He set up a comprehensive risk-based supervision framework for the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius which regulates the non-banking sector. He was also instrumental in setting up the Global Board of Trade., (GBOT), a pan African multi-asset-class exchange dealing with equities, debt, currency and commodities in Mauritius. Besides, he has also been an advisor to Financial Technologies (I) Ltd and the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX).

For his outstanding contributions, the Hon’ble Martin O’Malley, Governor of State of Maryland, USA honored Mr Kusnur with a Global Leadership Award in 2008. He was also conferred upon the coveted title of “GOODWILL AMBASSADOR OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND” in recognition of promoting bilateral and cultural relations between India and Maryland.

• Worked with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for over 30 years
• Was chosen the Golden Jubilee Scholar of RBI

Dr Ashok Kumar Nag comes with over 30 years of experience in the Banking and Financial sectors. Currently working as Senior Vice President with Financial Technologies (India) Ltd., he looks after technical aspects of any project and its delivery. Some of the projects currently underway include developing risk calculator as per Basel II guidelines, developing a risk-based supervisory framework for Financial Services Commission, Mauritius, value at risk modeling for market risk, and derivative pricing models, among others.

During this illustrious career, Dr Nag’s main areas of interest and research have been application of statistical methods in banking and finance, national income accounting, financial econometrics, forecasting, data modeling, and information management and data warehousing for the banking sector.

Dr Nag has worked with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for over 25 years. As a senior executive, he was responsible for managing balance of payment statistics, forecasting and operational analysis divisions. He was also the project manager for RBI Enterprise-wide Data Warehouse This was a pioneering effort by any central bank.

Dr Nag has participated in many international conferences, including SAS User Group Conference, Melbourne (1998), FEMA User Group’s conference at Trinidad (1999), Bernoulli Conference in Hong Kong (2003). He was also a member of a number of study tours abroad including Information Warehouse of Australian Bureau of Statistics (August 1998), Data Management at Federal Reserve Board, Bureau of Computing Services, IMF (March 1999), and Information Management at Statistics Canada (August 2000).

Dr Nag has been very active on the domestic front as well. He was a member of the Committee on Credit Risk Model formed by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation. Besides, he has been a guest faculty on national income accounting subjects in various management institutes in Mumbai.

Mrs. Ujjwala Deshpande is into a very active and vibrant Legal Profession as an Advocate in Bombay High Court and also on the panel of MCGM as Senior Counsel.

Mrs. Deshpande started her Practice in the Hon’ble Bombay High court on Appellate side. Joined Brihan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as an Assistant Law Officer in 1987 and was promoted as Dy. Law Officer in 2000, then to the post of Joint Law Officer in 2011 and to the post of Law Officer in 2014.As an Advocate of the Corporation, represented the matters in all Courts of Mumbai including High Court and Supreme Court. Being well conversant with drafting and pleadings of all courts up to Supreme Court she served in BMC for 28 long years. As an exceptional Law officer she successfully appeared in courts and conducted matters in various Courts of Mumbai on behalf of MCGM on daily basis.

Mrs. Deshpande being well conversant with a variety of matters and an experience of 28 years in overall control and supervision over the administrative staff in works related to Service Matters, Domestic Enquiries, Retirement Benefits, Correspondence, Expenditure, Revenue, Budget, and Contracts in MCGM has also handled Court matters related to these issues. Overall supervision on performance of more than 100 advocates daily appearing in matters before various courts from Magistrate Court to Supreme Court of India and all Forums and Tribunals. Also has she personally conducted matters right from Labour Industrial Court, Small Causes Court, City Civil Court, High Court and Supreme Court.