Board of Directors

Sri Ramasubramanian Chandrasekar is a Cost and Management Accountant by profession. He has rich and extensive professional experience of over 35 years with the Shriram Group.

He has been serving the Shriram Group for more than 3 decades in the areas of Finance, Accounts and other back office functions. He started his career with Shriram Chits in the year 1986 handling Finance and Accounts. From 1994 - 2004, he was in charge of business operations of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. From June 1998 he became a Director in Group Companies of Shriram. In the year 1999, he took over as the Executive Director in charge of Finance, Accounts, Systems, Administration and Secretarial Depts in all the 3 Chit Companies of Shriram Group and he was also the Chief Financial Officer of the Shriram City Union Finance Ltd for 6 years.

Presently he serves on the Boards of Shriram Chits (India) Pvt Ltd and Shriram Fortune Solutions Limited.

Ram Gopal has more than 30 years of experience driving transformation and growth in financial services. He last served as CEO of Barclays India, where he led a large-scale business transformation, scaling the corporate and investment banking franchise to $0.5 billion in revenue. Under his leadership, the capability center expanded to over 30,000 professionals, establishing the bank as a key player in India’s foreign banking sector.

Currently, Ram focuses on the intersection of climate action, technology, and financial sustainability as CEO and Co-Founder of Kaamyabi, a green energy startup focused on MSMEs launched in January 2024. He drives the development of renewable energy infrastructure and carbon reduction projects. Kaamyabi has built a solar pipeline of 2.5 MW with five active projects and forged more than ten strategic partnerships with energy advisory firms, EPC contractors, O&M providers, carbon registries, and financiers. Beyond solar, the company pursues innovative carbon solutions like biochar, compressed biogas (CBG), and nature-based enhanced rock weathering.

Ram also serves as an investor and advisor to four promising startups: PowerMarket.ai, a U.K.-based AI-driven solar analytics and energy trading platform; MyPetz.com, India’s omnichannel pet care platform; MyGALF.com, a corporate wellness platform backed by India’s Startup India Seed Fund Scheme; and Previu Health, a health tech startup focused on AI-powered early cancer detection and community health.

He is a Visiting Professor at GITAM University, contributing to executive education and full accredited courses on banking, finance, and entrepreneurship.

Ram’s core strengths include regulatory expertise, corporate governance, P&L management, business transformation, and scaling operations. He provides boards and enterprises with strategic guidance to navigate India’s low-carbon economy transition.

Dr. R.Varun Kishore has nearly two decades of experience in Life Insurance. He joined as a Management Trainee in Shriram Life Insurance and has grown through the ranks to become the Chief Marketing Officer.

He also worked with Sanlam Life Insurance in South Africa for 2.5 years. His expertise includes Distribution building, Channel Incubation, branding, marketing, Innovation, product management, underwriting, compliance and claims management.

He has a 360 degree view of the business that is acquired over the years by scaling and building channels in both retail sales and group sales, by working in agency distribution and partnerships, by developing opportunities in both Shriram ecosystem and in the open market and by leading in both frontline sales and back office operations.

He has MBA and PhD degrees and is an Associate of Insurance Institute of India.