Clemenston Varghese is a banking professional with 24+ years of experience across various banks and NBFC’s. He has handled various Retail Assets (Secured and Unsecured Loans) and Retail Liability products and has worked across all the major metros of India.
Govindarajan Kadambi is a Co Founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Dvara Money. He brings nearly three decades of experience in the technology sector to his role at Dvara Money. He has held significant positions at Infosys and Cognizant, and headed Sterling Software, a CAMS subsidiary, that is responsible for development and maintenance of platforms across mutual funds, alternative investments, payments, insurance, and pension funds. An alumnus of IIT Madras and the Indian School of Business (ISB), Govind now leads the Tech, Product, Finance, and Compliance teams at Dvara Money, driving innovation and strategic growth.
Samir is the Executive Vice-Chair and Co-Founder of Dvara Holdings. He oversees the strategic direction of Dvara Holdings’ mission of financial inclusion and manages the portfolio of group companies, with over three decades of experience in building institutions and market infrastructure.
Prior to joining Dvara Holdings, he was the Managing Director & CEO of NCDEX, India’s largest agri focused commodities exchange. During his tenure, the exchange had transformational impact on India’s agri economy through various technology and digital initiatives. He also worked closely with the warehouse regulator WDRA and the capital markets regulator SEBI to launch National E-Repository Limited (NeRL) to provide India’s first repository services for electronic negotiable warehouse receipts, which farmers can use to avail formal sector agri credit.
Before NCDEX, he was the Chief Business Officer of the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX). At DGCX he led the growth of the exchange to make it the one of fastest growing exchange in the world, winning several global awards, amongst them were Contract of the Year and the Best Commodity Exchange in 2012.
Prior to this, he worked at global information company Thomson Reuters for 17 years, where he held various capacities including being the Global Head of Business Planning and Operations for a new inside-Sales unit at Thomson Reuters called Direct; also led Reuters’ India operations as the Managing Director in South Asia.
Samir began his career as an investment banker in Mumbai helping companies unlock value through public offerings and buy-out deals. He is an MBA in Finance, a Mechanical Engineer and has completed an Advanced Management Program from Wharton.