Board of Directors

Mr. Shantanu Mitra is the Non-Executive Director of SMFG India Home Finance Co. Ltd. (Formerly Fullerton India Home Finance Co. Ltd.) and also Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of SMFG India Credit Co. Ltd. (Formerly Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd.)

Shantanu has over 40 years of experience in financial services, with over 20 years at Standard Chartered Bank and Citibank where he had stints in India, Singapore and Thailand. His last role in Standard Chartered Bank was Senior Regional Risk Officer, India, Middle East & Africa, based in Mumbai. His previous experience with SMFG India Credit included a stint from 2010 to 2017, initially as Head of Consumer Risk for the parent company Fullerton Financial Holdings, Singapore and subsequently a very successful tenure as CEO & MD with SMFG India Credit.

He has extensive experience in Risk Management, spanning many geographies in Emerging Markets including Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Mitra holds a BSc in Statistics from the University of Calcutta, India and is a Member at Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales. Since his previous retirement from SMFG India Credit, Shantanu has served in various Board and Advisory capacities including, Non-Executive Director at DBS Bank, India; and Operating Partner with Global PE firm, Advent International including as Advisor in their portfolio companies.

Mr. Deepak Patkar is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of SMFG India Home Finance Co. Ltd. (Formerly Fullerton India Home Finance Co. Ltd.).

Deepak has over 25 years of experience in various leadership roles spanning Risk management, Audit, Quality Assurance, Sales and Distribution and Collections. In his previous stint at SMFG India Credit Co. Ltd. (Formerly Fullerton India Credit Co. Ltd.) as Chief Risk Officer, Deepak had established a strong balanced culture of business enablement with prudent risk measures, strongly backed by analytics, high governance and control standards

Prior to joining SMFG India Credit, Deepak has served in leadership roles across companies such as Magma Fincorp Ltd, Citibank, HCL Infosystems and Cable Corporation of India. He is an electrical engineer with a Masters in Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Mumbai.

Mr. Radhakrishnan B. Menon held senior leadership roles in HR in India with Best-in-Class global organizations such as General Electric (GE), Cadbury, Bausch & Lomb and had an early career stint with Hindustan Lever. He has had a wide range of experiences across diverse businesses, categories, cultures and geographies including a tenure with GE Plastics Europe in Netherlands.

In September 2007, he founded LBW (Leadership in Business Worldwide) Consulting Pvt. Ltd., a distinctive Leadership Development consulting firm. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director - HR & Corporate Communications for Cadbury Indian Subcontinent. From 2007 to 2015, he continued as Independent Director on the Board of Cadbury which later became Mondelez India. He has also served on the Boards of other reputed organisations.

Presently, as MD of LBW, he continues to actively consult, coach and advise diverse organisations in the areas of Organization & Leadership Development, Executive Coaching and Strategic HR across India and overseas in UK, Hong Kong, Middle east and South Asia. He holds a Master's Degree in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) of International Coach Federation (ICF). He has co-authored the book ‘Coaching in Asia - the First Decade’.

Ms. Dakshita Das is an experienced bureaucrat having served as an Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) Officer, and as MD & CEO at National Housing Bank.

Ms. Das has over 35 years of experience in the Government as a Civil Servant, including more than 11 years in the Ministry of Finance with a career spanning Infrastructure Financing, Public Finance and the Financial Sector including Insurance and Debt Recovery. She was the Chair of the Working Group constituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on Gender Budgeting and is currently a Ministry of Corporate Affairs Nominee on the Disciplinary Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India-Appellate member of the IPA.

She has handled the preparation of over 15 budgets for the central government including the Union budget, budgets for States under President’s rule & the Indian Railways budget. As MD & CEO of the National Housing Bank, she ensured deepening of supervision, tightening of regulations for systemically important companies while ensuring adequate availability of liquidity for the housing finance sector. As Additional Secretary in the Department of Financial Services, Ms. Das handled the charges of insurance and debt recovery and undertook key initiatives such as the first stage disinvestment of LIC.

Ms. Das has deep understanding of the FS sector and has been on several boards including as a government nominee in the Bank of India, NIIF Infrastructure Finance, GIC Re and Actuary Council of India. She is also an eminent speaker on various distinguished panels about Public Policy, Gender and other related matters.

Ms. Das is a graduate from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi and holds an M.Phil. degree on Vietnam Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University.