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Company Overview and Values

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Purpose And Vision

  • The Shriram Life insurance company works with the purpose - "To bring every family in the Indian society, especially the segments most vulnerable to the financial impacts of the loss of a breadwinner, into the safety net of Life Insurance."

    Operational efficiency, integrity and a strong focus on catering to the needs of the average Indian , by offering high quality and cost-effective customer solutions are the core values that drive the organisation. These values have been strongly adhered to over the decades and are now an integral part of the organisation’s DNA.

    Shriram Life prides itself on its deep understanding of the customer and the ability to develop innovative solutions that solve for its customer needs. The company extensively uses technology to reach its customers and deliver last mile service to families. It has been amongst the first in the Industry to launch and adopt various technological initiatives like - customer service application “ShriMithra”, salespeople app “Astra” along with facial recognition for eKYC authentication, virtual assistant ShriA, and Shriram Smart Suraksha Card that provides premium renewal, policy bond access and policy purchase seamlessly. True to its purpose over 40% of the company’s business is from the Rural segments with the company servicing customers efficiently in the urban as well as remote locations.

Other Directors

Mr. Bibhu Prasad Kanungo

Mr. Bibhu Prasad Kanungo was previously Deputy Governor with the Reserve Bank of India looking after the Department of Currency Management, Department of External Investments & Operations, Department of Government & Bank Accounts, Department of Information Technology, Department of Payment & Settlement Systems, Foreign Exchange Department, Internal Debt Management Department, Legal Department and Premises Department. Mr. Kanungo, a career central banker, joined the Reserve Bank of India in September 1982. He has worked in several functional areas of the bank including banking & non-banking supervision. He headed the regional offices of the Reserve Bank at Jaipur and Kolkata besides holding the position of the Banking Ombudsman for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. As Executive Director, he was responsible for Foreign Exchange Management, Internal Debt Management and Government and Bank Accounts. M Kanungo represented RBI in the International Committee on Global Financial System, Financial Stability Board.  He was Chairman of Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran Private Limited, Chairman of the Governing Board of Indian Institute of Bank Management, Guwahati and RBI Nominee Director on the Boards of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, National Housing Bank, Reserve Bank Information Technology Private Limited, etc .

Mr. Anand Raghavan

Mr. Anand Raghavan has over 20 years’ of rich experience in Sundaram Finance Limited, occupying several positions between December 1985 and June 2006. Experience includes Internal Audit, Finalisation of Accounts, representing before Regulators like RBI, SEBI, CBDT Corporate Affairs. He also has three years’ experience overseeing Tamil Nadu business operations relating to Vehicle Financing. Last Position held Vice President (Corporate Affairs). Over 10 years’ experience as Partner in Ernst & Young LLP between July 2006 and June 2016 covering Tax and Regulatory aspects of various industries like Financial Services, Real Estate, Auto and Auto components, Media and Entertainment. Speciality areas include NBFC Regulations, Corporate Tax and Foreign Investment and Exchange control regulation and Corporate restructuring. Advised Domestic groups in restructuring of business to achieve operational and regulatory effectiveness. Integral part of Lead Advisory engagements attracting private equity and strategic partners in industries covering Pharma, Financial Services and apparel manufacturing.

Mr. R S Krishan

Mr. R S Krishan is a Chartered Accountant (Institutes of Chartered Accountants of India and England & Wales (1986)).He has over 31 years of experience with mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity, capital markets (both Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets), securities/ cash equities, restructuring, structured finance, acquisition finance and similar lending activity and experience in Insurance industry.

Ms. Subhasri Sriram

Ms. Subhasri Sriram is currently the Joint Managing Director of Shriram Capital (P) Limited, the holding company and promoter entity of the financial services and insurance businesses of Shriram Group. She has more than 3 decades of professional experience including 24 years in Shriram Group’s Financial Services business and during this period for more than 15 years held the position of Executive Director & CFO of one of their listed Non-Banking Finance Companies. Has handled many critical assignments related to implementing new organization structures, improving business processes, raising several rounds of equity from marquee investors across the globe and raising external commercial borrowings. She has won the “Best Performing CFO in the NBFC Sector” for 2013 at the 8th edition of the awards instituted by a leading business television channel CNBC TV 18 and in 2016 she was also chosen as one of the most influential CFOs in India by CIMA. In the year 2022, won the Woman Leader of the Organization award from UBS Forums. She is a Postgraduate in Commerce, Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICMAI) and the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI). She also holds Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management from NIIT and Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Laws from NALSAR, Hyderabad and is in the board of several listed and unlisted companies across industries.

Mr Steven Phillipus Mostert

Mr Steven Phillipus Mostert has Graduated from the University of Stellenbosch, obtained an MBA from the same university, and also holds an Honours Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of South Africa. He has over 26 years experience in financial services. He has extensive experience in line management and delivering large transformation projects. He was instrumental in Sanlam's entry into India. He played the leading role in the implementation of a very successful Bancassurance programme across 5 African countries and Sanlam's entry into Nigeria. He is a member of the Sanlam Emerging Markets EXCO and serves on Shriram General and Shriram Life Insurance.

Mr Umesh Govind Revankar

Mr Umesh Govind Revankar holds Bachelor's degree in Business Management from Mangalore University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in finance. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has been associated with the Shriram group for the last 29 years and has extensive experience in the financial services industry. During his stint with the Shriram Group, he has shouldered various responsibilities and worked in several key roles of business operations. He is also the President of the Federation of Indian Hire Purchase Associations.

Mr Duruvasan Ramachandra

Mr Duruvasan Ramachandra holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce. He is a Commerce Graduate and has been serving the Shriram Group for more than 3 decades. He started his career with Shriram Chits at Chennai in the collection department and has worked his way up to being CEO and Executive Director of Shriram Chits P Ltd, Hyderabad. He was instrumental in the growth of the Company during his stint at Hyderabad and has expanded the Company from 16 branches to 202 branches. During his tenure the Company flourished as the largest chit fund company in the country. In terms of Auction Turnover, No of Branches, Manpower and Customer base, his contribution paved way for the Shriram Group to expand its Deposit and NCD portfolio. Mr. Duruvasan was the Managing Director and Principal Officer of M/s Shriram Life Insurance Company Limited. He also serves on the Board of M/s CES Limited, He has been inducted as Wholetime Director in Shriram Capital on 18th November, 2019.

Mr Daniel Hermanus Gryffenberg

Mr Daniel Hermanus Gryffenberg holds B.com(Hons) from University of Stellenbosch. Danie Gryffenberg is the current Head of Product Management within Sanlam Personal Finance (SPF) Actuarial where he is responsible for the pricing, experience investigations, reinsurance strategy and management and systems testing of most products of Sanlam Life. He was appointed in this role in January 2018 and has been with Sanlam since 2006.

Mr.Sanjeev Mehra

Sanjeev Mehra is a Director at TPG Capital Asia where he covers the Financial Services and Consumer sectors. He is based in Mumbai and has over 10 years of investing experience. Mr.Sanjeev has an MBA from London Business School and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Delhi University. He was appointed in the capacity of Non-Executive, Non-Independent Director of the Company in August, 2020.

Mr. V.Manickam

Mr. V. Manickam is a Science Graduate, Madras University and a Chartered Accountant by profession. He practised as Chartered Accountant in Chennai prior to joining LIC of India, Divisional Office, Nagpur in 1983. He has extensive experience in Life Insurance industry. Post retirement from LIC of India in 2012, he served for 8 years as Secretary General in Life Insurance Council – a Self-Regulatory Organisation under Insurance Act, 1938.

Key Persons

  • Mr Casparus Jacobus Hendrik Kromhout
    Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
  • Mr Manoj Kumar Jain
    Managing Director
  • Mr. Karanam Ramachandra Sekhar
    Managing Director
  • Mr Johannes Gilliam Van Helsdingen
    Appointed Actuary and Chief Risk Officer
  • Mr. Brahmaiah Telaprolu
    Chief Financial Officer
  • Mr Ajit Banerjee
    Chief Investment Officer
  • Ms. Samatha Kondapally
    Company Secretary & Chief Compliance Officer

Disclaimer

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