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 and Managing Director of Bajaj Finserv Limited, the holding company of the financial services of the Bajaj Group.

Under his leadership, Bajaj Finserv Limited has emerged as one of India’s leading diversified financial services companies – operating at the cusp of consumer financing, online commerce, and payments.

With a consumer-first, digital approach and a culture focused on excellence through innovative disruption, he has reshaped digital consumer financing in India. He is on the board of many of his group operating companies and is a member of the Board of the Indian School of Business, a member of the International Advisory Board, Allianz SE, and the International Technology Advisory Panel of Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the Regional Stewardship Board for India and South Asia 2019-2020 of the World Economic Forum.

Sanjiv has been elected as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2022-2023. He has been engaged with the industry body for many years at the state, regional and national levels and has led the CII National Committees on Insurance & Pensions, and the CII Taskforce on Fintech.

Sanjiv is the younger son of Rahul and Rupa Bajaj and was born on November 2, 1969. He completed his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune and his M.Sc. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering with distinction from the University of Warwick, UK. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, USA.

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Rakesh Bhatt is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Bajaj Finance Limited and a member of the executive management team. As the Deputy CEO of the company, he oversees the functional responsibilities of Technology, Operations, Marketing, and Legal. He is also responsible for driving sustainable growth for all the company’s strategic initiatives.

Rakesh’s journey in the Bajaj Group started way back in 2009. He was the Chief Operating Officer at Bajaj Finance Limited until 2018 and led a large portfolio of critical functions, including Technology, Analytics, Credit Operations, Customer Experience, and Quality. He was the CEO of Bajaj Finserv Direct Limited for 4 years and spearheaded the launch of a diversified Digital Marketplace business (Bajaj Markets) in financial services and e-commerce. He continues to serve on the board of Bajaj Finserv Direct Limited.

In his earlier assignments, Rakesh has held leadership positions in reputed companies such as AIG Consumer Finance, GE Money, Reliance Industries, and 3i Infotech.

An M.Sc. in Computer Applications, Rakesh brings on board three decades of rich industry experiences and unmatched technical know-how to further our transformative efforts of bringing financial services solutions closer to the consumers.

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.