Board of Directors

GRK Reddy, Promoter, Director (Non Independent)

A first generation entrepreneur, GRK Reddy is the Chairman & Managing Director of MARG Ltd., a leading infrastructure development company in India.

Reddy completed his Advanced Executive Management Program from Kellogg Business School, USA. In the year 1985, he started his career as a Merchant Banker and joined CIFCO a premier merchant banking firm in the 1987 alongside JM Financials and DSP, who were the market leaders.

With astute business acumen learned from CIFCO he went on his own and founded MARG Constructions Ltd in 1994. He has been the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for its Chennai Zone. He is also a member of various councils like National Council on Infrastructure, National Council on Real Estate and Housing, CII Taskforce for building inclusive cities etc. wherein he has been giving valuable contributions.

Reddy is also nominated as a Chairman of Infra-2007 wherein he spearheaded the new development agenda for Chennai. The forum came out with a development plan famously called MAP, to transform Chennai into a world class city, which was readily appreciated by TN Government. Reddy is also the charter member of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), and global network for fostering entrepreneurship.

V P Rajini Reddy, Director (Non Independent)

V. P. Rajini Reddy is a whole-time director of KPPL. She brings with her, a vast experience of 12 years in high-calibre management. She holds an Engineering degree from Sri Venkateswara University. In the year 1996, along with two Business partners, she set up a training center to cater the training needs of all the IT and ITES sectors like – Medical Transcription, Medical Billing, and Call Center etc. In 1999, she started Exemplarr (Previously known as RR Infotech), a BPO with her husband, GRK Reddy to offer services in the HealthCare sector and later diversified into various domains like document management services, Legal services and E-Publishing.

Karanjit Singh Jasuja, Director (Independent)

Singh is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has been authoring articles on professional topics. He has held senior position in various industries. He is presently carrying on his practice as a Chartered Accountant. He has been advisor to all kind of Capital Market operations and is an expert on taxation and finance.

Dr. S. Narasimha Rao, Director (Independent), Technical Advisor

Dr. Rao has over 35 years of experience in the Marine Sector. A distinguished Professor with IIT, Chennai for ~ 30 years, he is Currently Director on the board of Dredging Corporation of India. He has coordinated the development works the Indo German Project and has been the project coordinator for more than 110 projects of CPWD, state PWD and major ports & harbors. He has also worked as the arbitrator for Marmugao Port Trust during 2001-2002 and Project at Mangalore during 2005-2006. He is a Civil Engineer from Andhra University and has a PHD in Soil Mech. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Dr Bala Balachandran, Director (Independent)

Dr. Bala is a world renowned management guru with over 40 years of teaching experience. He is currently J. I. Kellog's Distinguished Professor of Accounting Information Systems and Decision Sciences & Director of the Accounting Research Center. Prof. Bala has been instrumental in setting up of MDI, Gurgaon & Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. He was awarded the 'Padmashri' in 2001 by the Government of India in recognition of his contribution to the education in India.

Sachin Johri, Nominee Director ( Non-Executive) Professional

Sachin Johri is currently the Managing Director - Investments of IDFC Project Equity. He has over 16 years of international experience with leading global financial institutions. He joined IDFC in May 2006 as the first member of the Indian Infrastructure Fund (IIF) team. He led the acquisition of the first three seed assets identified for IIF and also assisted in the structuring of IIF for the Indian market.

Prior to joining IDFC, He served as a Senior Vice President at Macquarie's Singapore Office where he was responsible for regional corporate finance and infrastructure business. He directed Macquarie's initiatives in the infrastructure sector in India for origination and execution of transactions.

Prior to Macquarie, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where he headed the project finance advisory and arranging business division. He worked with large number of multinational clients, helping them raise finance for large projects and also provided strategic and bid advice to both government and private investors. In 2000, he moved to the firm's Singapore office where he was responsible for regional project finance and financial restructuring business. Sachin commenced his career in 1992 with ICICI Ltd., Mumbai where he worked on first set of project financings in India. He was also an advisor to State Governments in their program to select bidders to develop large Independent Power Plants.

Sachin holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Raja Kumar, Nominee Director (Non- executive) Professional

Raja Kumar is among the senior professionals of the Private Equity asset class in India. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Ascent Capital Advisors. Raja has a passion for supporting entrepreneurs and has successfully backed numerous teams including many first generation entrepreneurs. He serves on the Boards of the funds' portfolio companies and plays an active role in mentoring entrepreneurial teams.

Previously, Raja has served in various capacities such as Research Fellow at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Senior Officer of the Indian Civil Services, Regional Manager of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), India's capital markets regulator and as Executive Director of UTI Mutual Fund. He has also served as a director of five Indian stock exchanges and on the boards of several private and publicly listed companies.

Raja holds M.Sc. and M. Phil in Science, and is a graduate of AMP of the Harvard Business School.