Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors comprises industry leaders, governance experts and scholars who believe in the mission and vision of the company and will be instrumental in guiding Nestavia and shaping its future with a strong governance framework.
Ms. Nivedita P Haran
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr. Nivedita P. Haran, retired as the Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala.
She has served extensively in various capacities with Government of Kerala having worked through the ranks of Indian Administrative Services (IAS) leading Home, Revenue, Disaster Management, Energy, Labour and others.
She headed the Delhi Division in Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India as Director and Joint Secretary.
She was also the Civil Affairs Officer for the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo for five years.
She has a Ph. D. in Sociology from IIT, Delhi.
Mr. Venkataraman S
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr. Venkataraman S, retired as Chief General Manager and Head of Kerala Circle after serving SBI for over three and half decades.
He joined SBI as a Probationary Officer in 1983 and has over 36 years of experience in all facets of Commercial Banking such as Corporate Credit, Retail Credit, MSME Credit, Gold Banking, Deposit Mobilization, International Operations, Branch Management etc.
Among his international stints, he had served as CEO of SBI at London Main Branch and Regional Head of SBI at South Africa.
He currently serves as Independent Director in the Boards of Sundaram Trustee Company Limited (Trustee of Sundaram Mutual Fund) and Sundaram Brake Linings Limited.
He graduated in Science from University of Madras and is also a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).
Mr. Vaideswaran V
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr. Vaideswaran V, served as Executive Director at National Housing Bank (NHB), New Delhi until his retirement in January 2023, having held various positions in NHB for more than 30 years across roles in the areas of Regulation & Supervision and Refinance of Housing Finance Companies. He pioneered various housing finance products for the housing sector in India, including low-income housing, energy efficient housing and informal housing.
He has been involved in drafting multiple policy guidelines for the housing finance sector in India. He started his career and worked at National Informatics Center (NIC) , Delhi for nearly 5 years during the initial years of automation in Government of India.
He was a Nominee Director of NHB in the Board of CERSAI, New Delhi for three years from 2018 to 2021. He was also deputed by NHB in various committees of RBI and SEBI with regard to Housing Finance.
He has attended the Housing Finance program at Wharton School of Management, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Development Bank Management at Asia-Pacific Institute of Development Finance, Manila.
He is a post-graduate in Economics from University of Rajasthan after graduating in Science from University of Kerala. He also has a Diploma in Financial Management from IGNOU, Delhi and he is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).
Mr. Suchindran V G
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Suchindran V G is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Nestavia Home Finance Private Limited with over twenty-three years of experience in financial services and capital markets and more particularly in the inclusive finance industry where he has supported the scaling up of many entities from the start-up stage into well respected entities.
Before co-founding Nestavia, Mr. Suchindran was the CFO at Veritas Finance Private Limited, where he was responsible for functions of Finance and Treasury. He was earlier the CEO of IFMR Investment Adviser Services Private Limited, the fund management and investment advisory arm of IFMR Trust, where he successfully launched the fund platform in the alternative investment fund space. He has previously worked with Equitas Group where he was heading investor relations and business planning at Equitas Holdings Private Limited as well as Treasury, MIS and Risk functions at Equitas Micro Finance Private Limited and Equitas Finance Private Limited before it became a Small Finance Bank.
Prior to that, he worked as Vice President – Operations at Variman Capital Market Services, Treasury Analyst at Citibank NA and part of Corporate Treasury team at Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company Limited.
Post his graduation in Commerce from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, he completed his professional Diploma in Software Technology & Systems Management from NIIT after topping the Bhavishya Jyothi Scholarship Exam. He has completed three professional courses namely Chartered Accountancy (presently a Fellow member of ICAI), Cost & Management Accountancy (CMA) with an all-India rank in Final examination and Company Secretaryship (presently an Associate member of ICSI) with an all-India rank in Intermediate examination apart from Preeti Puraskar.