D Arulmany is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Veritas Finance. Arul has more
than two decades of experience most of which is in the financial services industry. He has been part
of Cholamandalam DBS and has been credited with many new initiatives and has driven the
company's foray into Light Commercial Vehicles, Three Wheeler Finance among other things.
He also
initiated the Captive DSA model and the Franchisee Model which helped the business expand to
smaller towns and reach out to more than 300 locations. He was also a part of the Strategic
Innovation forum at the the Murugappa Group and he was considered by the group as a successful
mentor of the Management Trainees.
Before starting Veritas Finance, Arul was associated with Aptus Value Housing Finance as President
& CEO since inception. Arul joined Aptus when it was merely an idea and leading from the front, he
was an integral part of building the organization, to become a formidable player in the affordable
housing finance segment. He has been invited to be in the Selection Board of TAPMI and visits Major
business schools regularly for lecturing the Management Graduates.
Arul has done his Post Graduate Programme in Rural Management from (PGDRM) IRMA with
graduation in Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Madurai Kamaraj University. He has also
done his GMP from University of Michigan.
Dr. T S Sridhar, Trustee
Dr T S Sridhar, M.A., Ph.D., IAS (Retd) is a member of the premier Civil Service of India from the 1978
batch having superannuated from Govt of Tamilnadu in the rank of Additional Chief Secretary. He
possesses over 40 years of rich and varied experience in diverse fields of administration including
implementation of welfare projects at grassroots level as District Collector, Virudhunagar, as well as
policy planning, coordination and monitoring of Development programs from the state Secretariat .
As Secretary, Higher Education department, he Coordinated the educational activities of the state
Universities and Colleges in TN. In his capacity as Commissioner of Revenue Administration and
Disaster Management, he was actively involved in several development projects benefiting the rural
community, including computerisation of Drought Relief by DIrect Benefit Transfer, OAP, Aadhar and
issue of Certificates for land and educational purposes.
As Director of Small Savings and Raffles he
introduced number of attractive incentive schemes and simplified the payment procedure for
investors and agents through ECS . He is now Advisor to the SRM group of Educational Institutions,
Ramapuram, Chennai directing the programs for aspiring students towards success in competitive
exams .
Dr Sridhar is an independent, non - executive Director on the Board of City Union Bank, a private
sector bank with long years of exemplary customer service. As the Commissioner of Archeology &
Director of Madras Museum, Chennai he successfully coordinated the World Tamil Conference, 2010
in Coimbatore. He is also keenly involved in Social, Cultural and Charitable activities in the Poverty
alleviation , Skills and Rural Development sectors.
Mr. N Mohanraj Nair, Trustee
N. Mohanraj is the former Director & Chief Executive Officer of LIC Nomura Mutual Fund and
Executive Director of Life Insurance Corporation.
He is a seasoned professional with rich experience
spanning over three decades in financial services cutting across insurance, mutual fund and
investments.
As a Nominee of LIC, he served on Boards of many companies including Punjab Tractors Ltd, HEG,
Larsen & Toubro, Grasim Industries Ltd and Venture Funds like UTI VF, India Value Fund and IDFC
Fund.
He holds a Masters in Economics from Loyola College, Chennai.
Mr. Venkatesh Natarajan, Trustee
Venky Natarajan is the Co-Founder and Partner of Lok Capital and has been involved in the impact
investing for more than 16 years.
He had served as a director on the boards of many financial
services companies including Ujjivan, Suryoday and Equitas Finance. He holds an MBA from Cornell
University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University.