ADVISORS
Mr. Jagdish Parihar
Mr. Jagdish Parihar has been Managing Director and Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Olam International. He has over 30 years’ experience in the commodities industry in trading and risk management. He joined Olam in 1990, starting up Olam’s operations in the UK and playing a critical role in the creation of many businesses in its portfolio, as well as overseeing the India and South
East Asian regions. He has held many roles including General Manager of Commodity Trading; Managing Director, Cotton and Regional Head of Asia Operations. He spearheaded Olam’s first largest acquisition of Queensland Cotton in Australia that consolidated its global leadership position in cotton. He was member of the Olam Executive Committee and Chairman of the Olam Executive Risk Committee. He was previously a Director at the International Cotton Association.
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He is based out of Singapore and currently consulting for various firms in USA , Europe, Singapore and India in areas of Risk & Strategy at C Suite and Board Level Engagements. He holds a Postgraduate Degree in Business Administration from BITS Pilani. He is prominent speaker in major international C Suite conferences on risk , M&A , Customer Loyalty etc.
Mr. Sudhansu Mishra
Mr. Sudhansu Mishra is a veteran business leader with four decades of experience in Banking Technology. He has the distinction of managing several automation projects of Syndicate Bank, a leading public sector bank in the eighties at a time when computerisation first started in India. Subsequently he headed the IT departments of Centurion Bank and Commercial Bank of Oman. Over the period he moved from core IT to business development function leading the sales teams of some of the leading IT companies in Banking, Treasury and Risk management products. He was Sales Director of Calypso Technology leading the sales and business development for Treasury and Derivatives products for South Asia including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan for over eight years.
With his vast experience and passion in building businesses, he is actively involved with start-ups as strategic consultant and advisor. His stated goal is to facilitate better understanding, acquisition and delivery of high-end technology solutions to Banks and Financial institutions across the world.
Dr. Saurav Roychoudhury
Dr. Saurav Roychoudhury is a professor of Finance & Economics at Capital University, USA. His expertise is in corporate finance, governance, computational finance and risk management in institutions. He has taught in Universities in the US, Canada, India and Thailand. He has owned teaching and research awards and has designed executive education programs in Finance in the US and India. He has published extensive, original research in the fields of Finance and Economics in various peer-reviewed journals, has authored a book and written multiple book chapters. His research has been cited in The Economist, the Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Slate Magazine. He has also received National Science Foundation (NSF) grants on developing computational finance materials. He has consulted for several private, non-profit and government institutions in the US.
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Dr. Roychoudhury has a Ph.D. with specialization in Finance from College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. He has a Master’s degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also holds a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification from the Global Association for Risk Professionals (GARP), globally recognized as the premier certification for financial risk professionals. He was also a Visiting Research Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 2013-14.