Board of Directors

Shri. C. Thangaraju is a practicing advocate and having nearly 3 decades of experience in advisory support, legal guidance, settlement of civil disputes, assisting in criminal matters. He was the Panel Advocate for United India Insurance Company Limited, The New India Assurance Co. Ltd and Bank of Maharashtra between 2001 to 2010.

Earlier, he was associated with Repco Bank and Repco Home Finance limited for nearly five years as Director in their Board during 2009 to 2014.

At present, he is one among the elected director(s) by repatriates in Repco Bank (the promoter), Chairman of Repco Home Finance Limited and Non-executiveDirector in Repco Micro Finance Ltd.

Shri. K. Swaminathan is having 35 years of experience in the field of banking. He is a former Executive Director of a Nationalised Bank. He has worked at various branches and offices across India in different capacities gaining experience and knowledge in all domain of Banking. He also had a four year stint in Hong Kong. Before his elevation as Executive Director, he was heading Mumbai Zone, comprising of 7 western Regions.

As Executive Director he was in charge of Corporate Credit, Recovery, HR, Accounts, Risk, IT, Digital Banking, General Administration Public Relation and Customer Service. He was behind the turnaround efforts of the bank during a turbulent banking scenario.

Shri. K. Swaminathan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce. He is a member of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India and Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst (ICFAI). He is also a certified associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).

Currently, he is the Managing Director & CEO of Repco Home Finance Limited and Nominee Director in Repco Micro Finance Ltd.

Dr.S.Nagoor Ali Jinnah, an agricultural graduate from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, post graduated in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad, earned a Certificate in Training & Development from Centre for Rural Development & Training, University of Wolverhampton, UK, and is a CAIIB. He has been awarded a Ph. D from TNAU.

He has vast experience of over 36 years in NABARD and headed Karnataka, Tamil Nadu ROs and also the Rural Infrastructure Development Funding departments of NABARD and retired as the Chief General Manager of NABARD. Dr. Jinnah was involved in the Microfinance movement and played a key role in nurturing SHG-Bank and JLG movement in Kerala, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and represented NABARD in the Preparatory Microcredit Summit organized by Consultative Group to Assist the Poor CGAP, World Bank in Washington in 1996.

Dr. Jinnah was a nominee director of Govt. of India on the Board of Anantapur Grameen Bank, and was also on the Boards of KSCB, TNSCB banks, NABKISAN, NABSAMRUDDHI, NABFINS, the subsidiaries of NABARD, and the private sector commercial Bank , the CSB Bank Ltd.

After his retirement in NABARD, Dr Jinnah served as the Financial Consultant, Finance Department, Govt. of Tamil Nadu in Secretariat.

Having had exposure in various states of the country, his main areas of interest embrace all 4 Es for sustainable development: Environment: natural resource management based sustainable farm livelihood, Empowering agriculture: funding for ‘in’ and ‘for” agriculture, Equity: ensuring equity through microfinance and community institutions such as SHGs and Employment: creating sustainable farm and nonfarm sector employment for the local youth.

Shri. V. Dasaraty is a Chartered Accountant by profession and is having more than 30 years of rich experience in the field of accounting and taxation. Presently he is senior partner of M/s. Venkatesh & Co, a Chartered Accountant Firm since 1986. He has in-depth knowledge in International Tax, Transfer Pricing, Indian Income Tax and Regulatory matters specializing across industrial sectors.

He has expertise knowledge in devising strategy, corporate restructuring, acquisition and outbound structuring, financial structuring, divestment advisory, inbound advisory, tax due diligence, promoter stake enhancement.

Shri R. Balachandran is a practicing Chartered Accountant with a standing of 35 years multidisciplinary experience in the areas of Direct and Indirect Taxation, Company Law, Insolvency Resolution, Audit and Assurance, Arbitration, Due Diligence for Merger and Amalgamation, consultancy services pertaining to establishment and operations of business entities.

He is graduated in law from the Madras Law College and an associate member of the Institute of the Company Secretaries of India. His doctoral thesis is on “Management Sciences”. He is a qualified Insolvency Professional registered with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India. He is an empanelled member of various Arbitration Institutions in India.

Shri. S. T. Kannan, Ex-GMReserve Bank of India having 34 years of service in various capacities in the areas of policy making, implementation of the Basel III guidelines, RBI Nominee Director on the Board of two banks which had corporate governance issues. Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd. (TMBL) from 2004 to 2010 and Dhanalakshmi Bank Ltd. (DBL) (from 2016 to 2020).

Before he was posted to the Reserve Bank Staff College (RBSC) the premium training institution for Managers to Chief General Managers, he was primarily engaged in the areas of supervision and regulation of commercial banks and cooperative banks for about twenty-three years. For a period of 5 years under his stewardship, he has convened seminars on various subjects comprising Regulatory Capital, Liquidity Risk, D-SIBs and G-SIBs, and the recent developments. Besides, he has handled subjects on regulation &supervision and primarily on Basel II and Basel III.

He was instrumental in drafting the policy guidelines on compensation packages for CEOs and whole time Directors, dealing with the appointment of chairman of private sector and foreign banks and also policy related issues on corporate governance.

Shri. R Suresh, is a Cost Accountant, M.com and CAIIB holder having nearly 4 decades of experience in Indian Overseas Bank and retired as a General Manager & Chief Risk Officer.

He is having diversified experience in various areas of Banking including Credit, Risk Management, Internal audit and had extensive tenure at the field level as Branch Head, Regional Head driving and controlling business of branches under the control of the Region and Zonal Head with responsibility for business growth and control spanning Regions under Zone’s control.

During his term he has handled significant assignments such as Chief Regional Manager of Bank’s Delhi region with business of more than 15,000 crores and more than 65 branches, Nominee Director of the Bank on Board of PSB Alliance P Ltd (Formerly Cordex India P Ltd) ,Zonal Audit office at Hyderabad with control over Eight Regions with branch network of about 480.

Shri. S Rathinasundaram by profession is an agriculturist and also a social worker. Previously he was the President of Vilar Village, Thanjavur District from 2011 to 2016. Presently he is one of the repatriate directors in Repco Bank...

As a social worker cum agriculturist, he supports the underprivileged by imparting awareness training, and entrepreneurship skills, employment support and serves the underserved section of the society.

Shri. A.G. Venkatachalam, General Manager of Repco Bank, started his career with Repco Bank in the year 1991. He has 3 decades of rich experience in banking under various capacities. By qualification, he holds Bachelor Degree in science and law and also a Master’s degree in Arts. He has completed Diploma in AML, KYC and Micro Finance and also holds professional Degree of CAIIB besides MBA. He has good knowledge in Banking and has worked in different branches and headed several branches at Repco Bank, prior to joining Repco Micro Finance he was heading the Credit Division at Repco Bank...

He has previously served on the Board of Repco Micro Finance for almost 5 years between 2012 and 2017 and under his management, Company had progressed well and micro finance business had grown remarkably. He is also on the ‘Board of Repco Foundation for Micro Credit’.