Ms. Nishi Vasudeva is an internationally acclaimed leader and is the first woman to chair an oil and gas company in India.

She represented HPCL as Chairman / Director on the board of several Joint Venture companies. She was responsible for developing the vision and long term objectives, improving growth and profitability, driving a high performance culture geared towards operational excellence and consistent value creation for shareholders & all stakeholders.

Prior to assuming responsibility as C&MD, she served on HPCL Board as Director-Marketing and was responsible for pan India sales (B2B & B2C segments), Brand building, Efficient supply chain management, Infrastructure development and leading HPCL foray into new business lines.

Her career at HPCL included leadership positions in Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Planning and Information systems and has led key business transformation & organizational restructuring projects.

She is the first Indian to be awarded the Global CEO of the year at Platt’s Global energy awards 2015. She received the SCOPE Award for excellence and outstanding contribution to Public sector Management from the Hon’ble President of India and was also recognized with Outstanding Women Manager Award by SCOPE.

She has been a member in several committees for development of policy in the Oil Industry and Hydrocarbon sector in India. 

She holds BA (Economic Honours) from Delhi University and an MBA from IIM Calcutta with over 38 years of experience in the petroleum industry. 

With a rich experience of over three decades, Mr. Dubhashi has worked in multiple domains of Financial Services such as Retail & Infrastructure lending, Rural Finance, Corporate Banking, Cash Management, Credit Ratings, Insurance and Wealth Management.

He has been associated with L&T Finance Holdings Limited since 2007 and has been instrumental in scaling up the retail business operations manifold, across customer segments and geographies. During his tenure as MD & CEO, since 2016,L&T Finance Holdings Limited has achieved several market leading positions in Farm Equipment Finance, Two-Wheeler Finance, Micro Loans and Renewable Power Finance.

The strategy roadmap defined under his leadership has transformed L&T Finance Holdings Limited into an organisation focused on delivering sustainable returns through decisive strategic choices. The increase in retail proportion of loan book under his leadership, to 51% in FY22, has been built on the foundations of distinctive digital and analytics-based offering and a robust risk management framework.

As a part of his professional journey, he has also been associated with organisations such as BNP Paribas, CARE Ratings and SBI Capital Markets in various capacities.

He has been co-chairing the FICCI Committee on NBFCs since 2018 and is also on the Board of the Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC). He is a Postgraduate from IIM Bangalore and holds a B.E. (Mechanical) degree.

Dr. Rupa Rege Nitsure is the Group Chief Economist of L&T Finance since March, 2015, responsible for advising and guiding the L&T Finance Management on its outlook related to various macroeconomic and policy issues. She also contributes towards business planning, treasury management and risk planning by providing timely business leads, macro calls and early warning signals. Her key areas of specialisation are Macroeconomics and Financial Intermediation.

Prior to joining LTF, she held the position of Chief Economist and General Manager at Bank of Baroda (2003-2015) and Senior Economist at ICICI (DFI) and ICICI Bank (1989-2003). At Bank of Baroda, she also headed Investor Relations and regularly represented the Bank in several deal and non-deal road-shows in India and abroad. While at the ICICI Bank, she organized an International Conference on “Regulation of Financial Intermediaries in Emerging Markets” involving researchers from the World Bank, IMF, BIS, Indian and US Academia. Subsequently, she co-edited and brought out a book on the “Conference Proceedings” in 2005.

She has served on various important Policy-Making Committees appointed by the Government of India/Reserve Bank of India and published several articles in the field of policy-oriented research. To name a select few, she was the Member of the “Standing Advisory Group on Indian Statistical Databases”, Reserve Bank of India, during 2004 to 2007. She was the Member of the “Committee for Integration of Banking Structures”, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, 2011. She was the Member of the “Expert Committee to Revise and Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework”, Reserve Bank of India (Chaired by Deputy Governor: Dr Urjit Patel), 2013-14.

In her professional career spanning more than three decades, Rupa Rege Nitsure has richly contributed research articles to academic journals. She is a regular commentator on economic and policy issues in print (business dailies) and electronic media.

Rupa Rege Nitsure had served as the Director on the Board of L&T Investment Management Ltd., L&T FinCorp Ltd. and L&T Infrastructure Debt Fund Ltd. She was on the Indian Banks’ Association’s (IBA) Monetary Policy Consultative Group and on the Editorial Committee of the IBA journal - Indian Banker. She was also on the Academic Council of the School of Economics (Post Graduate Department of Economics), Mumbai University. She is the Honorary Fellow of the Indian School of Political Economy, Pune, is on the Academic Advisory Committee of Vidyalankar School of Information Technology (VSIT), Mumbai and on the Board of Studies for Economics for the Shiv Nadar University at Chennai. Additionally, she is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance’s (IIBF) Journal Bank Quest. She acted as the Guest Faculty for Bankers’ Quotient Academy that was engaged with developing the future leaders for the Indian Banking industry. Since August 2021, she has been a part of the Academic Advisory Council (AAC) of the Reserve Bank of India Academy as an External Expert.

She holds M.A.(Economics), M.Phil (Economics) and Ph.D (Macro-Econometric Modelling) from the Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics, Pune.

Thomas Mathew T. has over four decades of strategic leadership and operational experience in the Life Insurance & Reinsurance industry. He was the Managing Director and Interim Chairman of L.I.C. He was also India MD & CEO of 'Reinsurance Group of America'. He was nominated by SEBI as the Chairman of the Metropolitan Stock Exchange of India. He has served as Director on the Boards of Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Tata Power Co. Limited, Voltas Limited, IFCI Limited and Corporation Bank. He was a member on the Governing Council of the MDI, Gurgaon, Actuarial Institute of India & Chairman of The National Insurance Academy, Pune.

He is a Director on the Boards of PTC India Financial Services Limited, Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance Company, LIC (International) B.S.C.(c), Bahrain and subsidiaries of the Company. He is also member of the 'Take Over Panel' of SEBI.