Mr. Jagdish Capoor holds a master’s degree in commerce from Agra University and a fellowship from the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He has over 40 years of experience in banking and finance. He joined the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1962 and served as its deputy governor prior to his retirement in 2001. During his service with the RBI, he was also appointed to the boards of several banks like Bank of Baroda, State Bank of India, the National Housing Bank, NABARD, and Exim Bank. After leaving/retiring from the RBI, he was appointed Chairman of HDFC Bank, Agriculture Finance Corporation, and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). He served on the boards of several notable corporations, including LIC Pension Fund Ltd, LIC Housing Finance Ltd, Manappuram Finance Ltd, AGS Transact Technologies Ltd, and others. From 2003 to 2011, he served on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. Mr. Capoor is currently on the board of Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd. as an independent director and also holds directorships on the boards of Fintech Products and Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd. and Finsec AA Solutions Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Pankaj Kumar Gupta is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with experience of more than 40 years in sectors such as banking, insurance, merchant banking and financial services viz., corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, feasibility studies, project finance, private placements, accounting and taxation. Has handled assignments as Central Statutory Auditors of Banks and Institutions viz; Bank of Baroda, Central Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, General Insurance Corporation, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Indian Rare Earths and Zonal Audits of Steel Authority of India, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited besides private sector clients. He also has been associated with assignments involving Investigative Audits, Monitoring of Borrowal Accounts, valuations among other related specialized professional assignments allotted to his firm of Chartered Accountants which was founded by him. The firm is on the panel of various Banks and Institutions. He is the Chairman of West End Investment & Finance Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. and Vice Chairman of Invent Assets Securitisation & Reconstruction Private Limited, besides being a Senior Partner and founder of Shah Gupta & Co., an established firm of Chartered Accountants since 1976 and was a Member of the Primary Market Advisory Committee of Securities and Exchange Board of India in the past.

Mr. M. N. Singh brings in years of experience in public administration and law enforcement. After obtaining a Master's degree in Physics from Banaras Hindu University, he joined the 'Indian Police Service' in 1967. At the end of a distinguished career spanning over a period of thirty five years, he retired as Director General of Police. In his long years in service, Mr. M. N. Singh held many important field and staff assignments. He was specially deputed as the Head of Maharashtra's Prison Department during the difficult days of insurgency and rise of underworld gangs in Mumbai city. His work as Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch (CID) in Mumbai city during the ninety's and later as Police Commissioner of Mumbai between 2000-2002 were highly acclaimed for effective policing and strong leadership. As Joint Commissioner of Police, he successfully led the investigation in the serial bomb blast cases of March 1993. As Commissioner of Police of Mumbai city, he effectively curbed organized crime and rid the city of the scourge of underworld gangs. Having worked as Chiefs of Mumbai's Crime Branch (CID), Maharashtra State's (CID) and Anti-Corruption Bureau, Mr. Singh has acquired vast experience of handling economic offences. Mr. Singh has also held important staff assignments at the State Police HQrs and the Home Ministry. He had a long stint as Managing Director of Police Housing Corporation which saw a period of impressive turn around.

Mr. Singh is considered to be an authority on organized crime. He has authored an exhaustive report on 'Growth of Organised Gangs' in Mumbai City. He has also authored a book on 'Communal Violence'. Both these works are important reference material for serving police officers and executive magistrates in Maharashtra State. Mr. Singh has represented India in international conferences on terrorism and has carried out investigations abroad. He was trained in 'Senior Command Management' with the British Police and in 'Disaster Management' with American Police. Mr. Singh is a recipient of 'Indian Police Medal' for meritorious services and 'Presidents Police Medal' for distinguished services.

Post retirement, Mr. M. N. Singh continues to pursue his academic interest in internal security issues. As an extension of this pursuit, he has special interest in following up the phenomenon of money laundering, fraud and intellectual property right issues. He has worked as Advisors to reputed companies and sits on the Board of a few others.

Virendra Singh, an IRS Officer of 1985 Batch attained superannuation as Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, Bihar & Jharkhand Region after thirty-five years of distinguished service. He has rich and varied experience of working in different wings of the Income tax department ranging from Investigation, assessment, administration, International Taxation, Risk Assessment and large Taxpayer Unit. Besides, he has also worked for seven years in Economic Offence Wing of the Central Bureau of Investigation at Mumbai wherein he was entrusted with monitoring and supervision of investigation relating to various kinds of financial crimes/frauds. He has worked at different stations such as Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Jammu & Kashmir, Nagpur and Patna. His professional achievements include highest ever settlement of undisclosed income to the tune of Rs.1910.76 crores on the basis of evidences recovered during search action and the post search investigation in the case of Sahara by the Income Tax Settlement Commission.

He is the first IRS officer to be appointed by the Government as Superintendent of Police in the CBI. During his tenure as SP/DIG, CBI EOW, Mumbai he brought about significant improvement in functioning of the Economic Offence Wing of CBI, including in the areas of investigation, the diversity in nature of cases of financial fraud taken up for investigation, coordination with other agencies in India & abroad which led to appreciation by US Department of Justice and Government of United Kingdom.

As Director General (Risk Assessment), CASS committee was headed by him for two years which brought about qualitative changes by bringing transparency in the process, holding wide consultations with field formation, in validating the rules, and using better business intelligence tools for ensuring that the cases selected were representative of different income levels, sectors and businesses.

Mr. Rajiv Kumar Lalhas joined Indian Revenue Service in 1978 and has retired as the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax. Mr. Lal has more than three and a half decades of experience in the matters related to but not limited to Direct and Indirect Taxes and administration of Income Tax Department. He has extensive technical experience of more than 36 years in the field of Direct Taxes including interpretation of complex law, investigation, analysis of accounts of companies engaged in various business and litigation. He spent major part of his career in Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat.

He also served as Member (Finance) in Delhi Jal Board, A Delhi Government undertaking for distribution of drinking water and sewage management in the National Capital territory for 4 years. Mr. Lal was also on the Board of Pipavav Railway Corporation Limited (PRCL is a joint venture company of Indian Railways and the Gujarat Pipavav Port Limited) in the capacity of Independent Director during 2015-2018.

Mr. Arun Dasgupta was the Executive Director LIC of India during the period from 2004 till 2007. He was the Managing Director LIC of India from 2007 till 2012. He also served as the Insurance Ombudsman Mumbai 2013-16.
As Insurance Ombudsman at Mumbai, he resolved the highest number of cases in the country and settled over 25000 cases of disputes between the Policyholders and the Insurance Companies. Build mechanism to enhance the quality and timeliness of the decisions and also created fraud analytics to help the Companies and Customers to resolve grievances in a fair and transparent manner.
During his tenure as MD of LIC of India, he was the main architect of various strategies and path breaking initiatives in the areas of IT/CRM/ Marketing/Investment and Risk Management areas to keep the Organization ahead of competition through. The key exposures during his career includes but not limited to the following:

• Long and intensive exposures to financial services and retail/corporate distribution
• Ensuring the service standard for a customer base of over 300 million customers
• Develop IT enabled services/CRM/ HR and skill sets of large work force
• Managing the largest Investment portfolio in the country of over $300 billion
• Emphasis on Risk management/ Yield Optimization/managing NPA’s
• Building up organization

He has been on the Board of several financial institutions and companies and has also been appointed as Nominee director on the Board of various companies