Venkatesh Kannappan, MD & CEO
Mr. Venkatesh Kannappan, B.E (EEE), MBA Marketing and Systems, PGDSM
Software, was
born in the cultural city of Tanjore in the year 1976. He brings over 2
decades of rich experience to the table from the Banking and Finance
sectors. .
He has a strong background and expertise in start-ups, steering
business, risk management, product development and organization
building. Revenue generation and profitability for start-ups is his
strength. He is a senior banking professional who has worked with
leading banks and finance companies. .
Backed with the experience of building retail books of more than INR
13500 crores in various organisations across several products over the
last 20 years has a high-level expertise in building companies and large
teams from ground up. He has always specialised in assessment of
informal sector and in handling of multiple products such housing,
mortgage, vehicle, personal, gold loans etc.
In his role as the Regional Head, South, HDFC Bank he has been part of
founding team of CV
business. When he was the Business Head, Reliance Commercial Finance he
was heading
Sales & Distribution for team of 600 across the country. He had
brought in unique aspects of the market in lending policy and used a
bottom-up approach for building book..
From there he moved as the Group Product Head & Group Executive VP,
Yes Bank where he managed team of 40 product managers and held P&L
responsibility for retail assets. .
He responsible for various digital initiatives, analytics-based decision
making, automation of
underwriting process introduced during his time with the organisation.
In his previous role as the Chief Operating Officer, Hinduja Housing
Finance he was the
founding member responsible for up the HFC, hiring a team of 1500,
organizational built up
including IT infrastructure.