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Senior Career-Banker with over 36 years of meritorious experience in the Indian Banking Industry. Joined the Bank in 1985 and have experience in all facets of Banking. As business leader and results-driven professional, have successfully performed a wide variety of roles and assignments at the Corporate, Circle, Administrative and Regional Business Offices of State Bank of India. In addition to Banking, I served as an Nominee Director of Board in RXIL (Receivables Exchange of India Ltd) and PSB Online 59 minutes.

Managing Partner
INDIA JURIS
International Law Firm
T: +91-11-29814816
M: 981 86 85 399
E: srastogi@indiajuris.com
W: www.indiajuris.com

Mr.Sameer Rastogi, a Corporate Lawyer, is Managing Partner, of India Juris, an International Law Firm having offices in New Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore. In his experience of more than two decades he has advised & represented clients from almost all the major countries in various business sectors. His areas of practice include Corporate laws, Foreign Exchange Laws, FDI, JVs, Foreign Collaborations, M&A, Capital Markets, ESOPs, International taxation, IPRs:- Trade Marks, Patents Designs etc.

Mr.Rastogi has been consistently nominated as Asia leading lawyer since 2012 for Corporate/M&A practices in India. On Corporate & Legal matters, he has been guiding many Entrepreneurs, Start-ups, Accelerators, Incubators, E-cells of various academia, PE & VC Funds, Seed Investment & Innovation platforms, Angel Networks and Angel Investors. His firm India Juris undertakes 350+ investment transactions and 250+ legal due diligences annually. One of the most trusted lawyer by investors and startups.

Mr.Rastogi is also registered as Insolvency Professional with Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India. He has been appointed as Resolution Professional for a large company.

Navin Kumar Maini has over 45 years of experience in commercial and development banking with UCO Bank, IDBI ,SIDBI and Credit Guarantee Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises(CGTMSE). He retired as Dy. Managing Director-in- charge of Small Industries Development Bank of India(SIDBI) and simultaneously chaired the Boards of CGTMSE, SIDBI Venture Capital Ltd, Indian SME Asset Reconstruction Company,SIDBI Trustee Co. Ltd and Indian SME Technology Services Ltd. He has also been on the Boards of Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Ltd.(MUDRA Ltd) and Micro Finance Institutions Network (MFIN), besides NSE Clearing Ltd and NSIC. He represented SIDBI on the Montreal Group, a forum of eight member countries under the auspices of Business Development Bank of Canada.

He is currently Chairman /Independent Director on the Boards of Capital Small Finance Bank Ltd, Aye Finance Pvt Ltd, and Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth Pvt Ltd; besides ,he is a part of the Advisory Board of IvyCap Venture Trust Fund , Lok Capital Group(an impact investment fund) and the Borbagh Group. He is Member of the Innovation and Transformation Aayog, Govt of Tripura and Mentor on the SIDBI Centre for Innovations in Financial Inclusion at IIM, Lucknow.

He has been a member of various Committees constituted by GoI/RBI including the Committee constituted to examine the financial structure for MSMEs in India, Expert group for setting up a DFI for SHGs, Committee to suggest guidelines for priority sector lending, etc. He was an Advisor to an expert panel of researchers of Micro Credit Summit Campaign, Washington D.C, USA and has been associated with the UN-ESCAP at Bangkok for brainstorming sessions to discuss national level studies on SMEs across Asia and the Pacific.

He holds a PG Diploma in Management from Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He is also an alumni of Indian Institute for Foreign Trade (IIFT), Faculty of Law, University of Delhi and St.Stephens College, University of Delhi. He has attended top management programs at Harvard, Stanford and Cranfield Schools of Management. He is a recipient of the prestigious ‘Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to the Micro Finance Sector at the Inclusive Finance India forum instituted by HSBC and Access Development Services.

Has experience of over 30 years in Auditing, Accounting, Finance, Law, Banking, Economics and MSMEs.

DIRECTORSHIPS HELD

I have served on the Board of following Banks / PSUs as Independent Director nominated by Shareholders, Ministry of Finance

• Dena Bank
• Artson Engineering Limited (a subsidiary of TATA Projects Limited) as a Special Director nominated by Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
• Hindustan Fertilizers Corporation Limited as a Special Director nominated by Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
• Madras Fertilizers Limited, as a Special Director nominated by Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
• JCT Electronics Limited, as a Special Director nominated by Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR), Ministry of Finance, Government of India

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

Invited by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Sh. Narendra Modi ji to discuss the current economic situation and way forward, especially for MSMEs.

We had almost three hours long meeting with the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Sh. Narendra Modi at his official residence in a small group of 10 business leaders.

MEMBERSHIP HELD

• National Board of MSME, Ministry of MSME, Government of India.
• Key Advisory Group on ARC, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
• Key Advisory Group on MSME, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
• Working Group formed by Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises to study and recommend the changes in the MSMED Act, 2006.

RESEARCH, LECTURES AND SEMINARS

• Presented "Report on Suggestions for Timely and Adequate Finance to MSME Sector" to H.E. Shri Pranab Mukherjee, then Hon'ble President of India.
• I was invited at U K Sinha Committee before finalization of its report on MSME.
• I had been invited by the Governor, Reserve Bank of India to discuss issues and suggestion for stressed MSMEs.
• As President of Chamber of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (CIMSME) presented Pre-Budget Memorandum for Union Budgets to Ministry of Finance, Government of India.
• Delivered various sessions on different topics related to Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises at FICCI, ASSOCHAM, PHDCCI & CIMSME.

Prof. (Dr) Rajiv Kishore Dubey, Former CMD, Canara Bank

Prof. Dubey is M.A. (English Literature), LLB, CAIIB, MBA (HR) and has done a PG Level Course in Development Banking from Victoria University of Manchester, UK and also attended a course at Christ’s College, Cambridge University. He has recently completed his PHd in 2021.

Prof. Dubey worked as Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Canara Bank from Jan, 2013 to Sept, 2014. He held the Office of Executive Director (ED) of Central Bank of India from Sept, 2010 to Jan, 2013. He started his banking career with Punjab National Bank (PNB) from Nov, 1977 as a Management Trainee and rose to the level of General Manager (GM) in March 2008 after working at different levels both in operations and administration across India.

During his tenure in Canara Bank, he turned around the bank in less than two years by galvanizng the entire staff of the Bank, turning focus on Retail banking, SME banking and technological advancements. Marketing vertical was setup by him to leverage the technology and boost the fee income of the Bank.

His focus on asset quality, CASA and fee income improvement led to tremendous business growth and involvement of all staff. This has been recognized by Ivey Business School in the form of a case study, being taught globally (https://www.iveycases.com/ProductView.aspx?id=69925). His leadership style has also been captured and researched by Late Padma Prof. Dr. Pritam Singh in his book – ‘The Leadership Odyssey – From Darkness to Light’ (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/theleadership-odyssey/book250221#contents)

He has also Co-authored an E-book on Data Privacy titled ‘Data Protection & Privacy Implementation – India Perspective’ (https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Data_Protection_and_Privacy_Implementati.html?id=AbZ AzAEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y)

He has also been awarded Honory Distinguished Professorship by Sri Sharda Institute of Indian Management – Research in 2018 (SriSIIM, New Delhi)

Presently, he is associated as Mentor/Advisor/Director of several companies and also on the Board of Governors of various academic institutions as under –

• Senior Retail Partner – Bajaj Allianze Ltd.
• PrestLoans – Lord Krishna Financial Services Ltd.
• Sri Sharda Institute of Indian Management (SriSIIM, New Delhi)
• Lal Bahadur Institute of Business Management (LBSIM, New Delhi)
• Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH, Greater Noida)
• TKW Institute of Banking and Finance, New Delhi
• iTruste- Technology & Financial Consulting Services LLP
• Astrapia Enterprises
• Senior Advisor at Skit (a voice-assisstant chat bot startup)
• Recently started legal advisory post receipt of Bar Council of Delhi membership and associated with a law firm SNS Legal and RDNS Financial and Legal Advisory Services LLP
• Life member of ISTD (Indian Society for Training and Development)
• Management Committee member – ISTD, Gurgaon Chapter
• Life member of ICA (Indian Council of Arbitration, New Delhi)