Rohit Arora, Founder & Chairman
Rohit has over two decades of experience in business process
outsourcing, investment banking and management consulting.
He has advised Fortune 1000 corporations on their India
entry strategy including identifications, negotiations and
selection of joint venture partners.
Rohit is also the founder director of AR Credit, a transaction
processing company focused on the domestic BPO market. This
company has been providing services to leading multinational
banks and telecom companies for about 18 years. Rohit has
complete familiarity with the issues involved in the processes
in retail banking space.
He was earlier the Managing Director of AIA Capital India
Pvt. Ltd, the Investment Banking arm of AIG - American International
Group. He was responsible for setting up AIA. The company
is engaged in providing investment banking and corporate
finance services to corporates in India and overseas.
Earlier, Rohit was a consultant with A. F. Ferguson &
Co. (former correspondents of KPMG in India), wherein he
gained exposure to management consulting especially in the
areas of systems design / implementation and organization
studies. During the course of this assignment, he handled
consulting assignments for the World Bank, Indian Armed
forces, Multi National Corporations and large Indian Public
Sector Corporations.
Rohit is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of India
Nikhil Sinha, President & Co-CEO
Dr. Sinha is one the pioneers of third-party business processing
in India and has over 15 years' senior management experience
in international information technology, transaction processing
and telecommunications. He most recently served as Associate
Dean of the College of Communication at The University of
Texas.
Prior to that, Dr. Sinha was the Executive Vice President
of eFunds, Inc., where he oversaw corporate P&L and
global product management sales and marketing for the publicly
traded provider of electronic payment solutions, decision
support, risk management and IT and BPO services. Before
joining eFunds, Dr. Sinha was the President and CEO of iDLX
Technology Partners, a provider of IT consulting and Business
Process Outsourcing services to financial institutions,
which he helped merge with eFunds in March 2000.
Dr. Sinha has also served as Managing Partner at Sinha &
Lariviere, Ltd., an international high technology consulting
firm specializing in helping U.S. IT and telecommunications
companies make strategic international investments. He has
also served as an advisor to the World Bank and governments
of India, Chile and South Africa. He was an advisor to the
Indian Telecom Commission and the Indian Planning Commission.
Dr. Sinha serves on the Board of Directors of the US-India
Business Council, the leading organization representing
US companies doing business in India and on the Board of
Directors of Works Inc., an Austin, Texas based payment
management company. In addition, Dr. Sinha was a Professor
of International Business and International Communication
at The University of Texas.
Dr. Sinha holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of
Pennsylvania and a B.A. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi
University.
Richard Lariviere, Board Member
Dr. Lariviere is the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
at the University of Kansas, the Judson Neff Fellow in the
IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.
He is a founding member of the Society for Design and Process
Science. He has more than 10 years experience providing
strategic advice to companies in the IT industry including
Cisco, Perot Systems, General Instrument, HCL, and others.
An expert on Indian legal history and an internationally
recognized expert on India, Dr. Lariviere uses his in-depth
experience to assist growing businesses in both India and
the United States. As Director of the Center for Asian Studies
at the University of Texas, he initiated the "Doing
Business in India Seminar" involving management from
corporations such as Pepsi Foods, J.C. Penney and Union
Carbide. He is a regular lecturer in the Business School's
International Business Fellows Seminar.
A successful business developer, manager, scholar and fundraiser,
Dr. Lariviere's contacts and experience in Asia are extensive.
In addition to his work as a consultant, Dr. Lariviere has
served as a technical advisor to Perot Systems Corporation
and also serves on the Board of Directors of HCL/Perot Systems.
He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
John (Gus) Blanchard III, Board Member
Gus received a B.A. degree from Princeton University in
1965, and immediately joined the American telecommunications
giant, AT&T. Including his military service during the
period 1966-1968 and his 1978 acquisition of an MS degree
at MIT's Sloan School of Management, he spent 25 years at
AT&T, taking an early retirement in 1990 from his position
as Senior Vice President and Head of its national sales
force.
From 1991-93, he then served as Chairman and CEO of Harbridge
Merchant Services, a privately held credit card processing
company.
This was followed by a 16-month stint as Executive Vice
President and Chief Strategist for a cable set-top box manufacturer,
General Instrument Corporation.
During 1994 and early 1995, Gus was elected President and
CEO of Deluxe Corporation. He added the Chairman of the
Board title in May 1996, and served as CEO of the nation's
largest check printer and provider of other banking services
for more than five and half years. When Deluxe spun off
its electronic banking and risk management services businesses
into the eFunds Corporation in June 2000, Gus became its
first Chairman and CEO and served in this capacity until
his retirement at year-end 2002.
Including Deluxe and eFunds, he has served on seven public
company boards over the last twelve years, but now serves
only on two. He has been a Director of Norwest Corporation
and then Wells Fargo & Company since 1996. He is now
the non-executive Chairman of the Board and a Director of
ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
His other activities include the Chair position of the Minnesota
Opera Company, and the church council of St. Andrews Lutheran
Church in Minnesota.
Rahul Shah, Board Member
Rahul Shah is a Managing Partner at IL&FS Investment
Managers Ltd (IIML), the private equity investment arm of
Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited
(IL&FS), a leading investment bank in India. He also
represents IIML on the Board of various companies and has
been a consultant to various corporates advising them on
business strategy and other commercial and financial matters.
Rahul has evaluated various investment opportunities across
sectors and provides management inputs to Investee Companies.
He was responsible for helping UTV, a media house restructure
its various operations into a single entity.
Most recently, Rahul was part of the exit team for the India
Games investment, which was sold to a Hong Kong based strategic
investor at 14 times entry price at an IRR of 71% p.a. He
recently also originated the transaction for Arch Pharma.
Prior to this, Rahul was earlier employed with IL&FS
in its Securities Management Group, where he was involved
in broking, research, secondary markets and fund management.
Rahul is a Chartered Accountant with an aggregate work experience
of 18 years in private equity, capital markets and management
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