IT Strategy Committee

Naushad Forbes, born on 13 May 1960, is a Non-Executive and Independent Director of our Company. He is the Co-chairman of Forbes Marshall, India's leading process and energy efficiency company. He was an occasional lecturer and consulting professor at Stanford University from 1987 to 2004, where he developed courses on technology in newly industrialising countries. He received his Bachelor, Masters and PhD degrees from Stanford University.

He is on the board of several educational institutions and public companies and Chairman of the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research, Pune. He has long been an active member of CII and has, at various times, chaired the National Committees on Higher Education, Innovation, Technology and International Business. He was President of CII for 2016–17. He is a founding member of Nayanta University, a full service university opening in 2024, spearheaded by CII.

His book, The Struggle and the Promise: Restoring India’s Potential, was published by HarperCollins in 2022.

Rajeev Jain is the Managing Director and a member of the executive management team of Bajaj Finance Limited. Charting an ambitious growth trajectory for the company, Rajeev has transformed it from a captive auto financing company into one of India’s largest and most diversified NBFC companies.

Rajeev joined Bajaj Finance Limited in 2007 as the CEO. Since then, he has been leading the company towards a ‘new way of doing business’ by envisaging it as an omnipresent financial services company that enables customers to engage, transact, and get serviced seamlessly – online and offline.

An unwavering champion of innovation and disruptive ideas, Rajeev harnessed the power of digital technologies to deliver faster solutions and seamless experiences for customers amidst a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Rajeev is an industry veteran with nearly three decades of stellar experience managing diverse consumer lending businesses, including auto loans, durable loans, personal loans, and credit cards. He has spent a decade and a half with Bajaj Finance Limited, driving long-term, profitable businesses and large-scale digital transformations to create long-term value for shareholders.

Before Bajaj Finance, he worked with GE, American Express, and AIG.

Rajeev holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the American College in Madurai and a Management degree from the T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal.

Sanjiv Bajaj is the Chairman of Bajaj Finance Limited and Chairman and Managing Director of Bajaj Finserv Limited, the holding company of the financial services businesses of the Bajaj Group, one of India’s oldest and largest conglomerates, with 9M consolidated revenue of over Rs. 58,447 crore ($ 7.14 billion)* and consolidated profit after tax of over Rs. 4,648 crore ($ 568 million)* for FY2022-23.

*US$ considered at INR 81.82 as on December 31, 2022.

Under his leadership, Bajaj Finserv Limited has emerged as one of India’s leading diversified financial services companies with solutions across lending, life insurance, general insurance, and wealth advisory categories. With a consumer-first, digital approach and a culture focused on excellence through innovative disruption, he has reshaped digital consumer financing in India.

Sanjiv is on the board of his group operating companies as the Chairman of Bajaj Finance Limited, Bajaj Housing Finance Limited, Maharashtra Scooters Limited, Bajaj Finserv Asset Management Company Limited and the two insurance subsidiaries, i.e., Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited and Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited. He is also the Managing Director of Bajaj Holdings and Investment Limited (since 2012) and serves as a non-executive director at Bajaj Auto Limited.

Sanjiv is the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2022-23. He is a member of the Steering Committee appointed by the Government of India for B20 as part of India’s G20 Presidency FY 2022-23.

Sanjiv is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, USA. A Member of the Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB), a Member of the International Advisory Board (IAB), Allianz SE and the International Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Regional Stewardship Board for India and South Asia 2019-2020 of the World Economic Forum. Over the years, he has been lauded with several prestigious honours for his contribution to the financial services space, including:

• AIMA’s Transformational Business Leader
• AIMA’s Entrepreneur of the year 2019
• Economic Times Business Leader of the year 2018
• Financial Express Best Banker of the year 2017
• Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year in 2017
• Transformational Leader award at the 5th Asia Business Responsibility Summit in 2017
• Business World’s Most Valuable CEOs in India for 2015 and 2016

He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (first class with distinction) from the University of Pune, a master’s degree in manufacturing systems engineering (with distinction) from the University of Warwick, UK and a master’s degree in business administration (with distinction) from the Harvard Business School, USA. He lives in Pune, Maharashtra, with his wife, Shefali and their two children.

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Rajendra Bisht is a senior IT professional with a rich experience of over 25 years in the Information Technology (IT) domain, including Digital & Business Transformation, IT Operations & Delivery Management, Program Management & Business Analysis. Having worked with various blue-chip corporates in the IT domain for over two decades, Rajendra thinks of himself as a strategic business partner. Rajendra has provided cutting-edge and cost-effective transformational technology solutions in a secure environment to businesses on various technology platforms, including Web, third-party COTS Products, SAP, SFDC, Mobility, Social Media and more.

Rajendra believes in the philosophy of being more of a strategic partner to the business unit heads and assisting them in achieving their business goals by discovering how to best leverage the technology. He has repeatedly and consistently adopted new technology and applied the latest techniques while minimising risk for businesses to achieve their targets cost-effectively. Having won multiple industry awards from various media publications and industry bodies, Rajendra continuously strives to transform businesses in every organisation he has worked with.

Rajendra holds an MBA degree in Information Technology. Besides providing technological solutions as a passion, Rajendra is also an avid long-distance marathon runner interested in spirituality and reading non-fictional books.

Anurag Chottani is the Chief Technology Officer at Bajaj Finance Limited. With over two decades of handling senior roles in the industry, he has been with Bajaj Finance for 14 years. Anurag is responsible for managing business applications through data technology, consumer apps, ODC, and corporate strategy.