1. Independent Directors Services for SME’s
Risk Consulting & Management
Riskpro India Ventures (P) Limited
New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore
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2. Who is Riskpro… Why us?
ABOUT US MISSION
Riskpro is an organisation of member firms
around India devoted to client service Provide integrated risk management
excellence. Member firms offer wide range consulting services to mid-large sized
of services in the field of risk management. corporate /financial institutions in India
Currently it has offices in three major cities Be the preferred service provider for
Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore and alliances complete Governance, Risk and Compliance
in other cities. (GRC) solutions.
Managed by experienced professionals with
experiences spanning various industries.
VALUE PROPOSITION DIFFERENTIATORS
You get quality advisory, normally delivered
by large consulting firms, at fee levels Risk Management is our main focus
charged by independent & small firms
Over 200 years of cumulative experience
High quality deliverables
Hybrid Delivery model
Multi-skilled & multi-disciplined organisation.
Ability to take on large and complex projects
Timely completion of any task due to delivery capabilities
Affordable alternative to large firms We Hold hands, not shake hands.
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3. RiskPro Highlights
Large talent pool of risk experts, consultants and
associate partners in India with deep domain skills for
domestic and global clients
11 service locations across Indian region with key
offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore
Deep expertise in consulting with over 200 years
of cumulative consulting experience
Operating Groups: Risk-Advisory, Consulting,
Training & HCMS
Service Lines : Credit, Operational, Fraud Risks,
ERM, Regulatory Compliance, Outsourcing
Management, Corporate governance
We are fastest growing risk consulting company
and have realistic plans to capture coming
opportunities while competing with Big - 4’s for
superior, unmatched, low cost services to our
clients
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4. Risk Management Advisory Services
Basel II/III Advisory Corporate Risks IT Risk Advisory
Market Risk Enterprise Risk Assessment IS Audit
Credit Risk Fraud Risk Information Security
Operational Risk Risk based Internal Audit IT Assurance
Operations Risk IT Governance
SERVICES
ICAAP
Forensic services
Operational Risk Governance Other Risks
Process reviews Corporate Governance Business/Strategic Risk
Policy/ Process Review Business Strategic risk Reputation Risk
Process Improvement Fraud Risk Outsourcing Risk
Compliance Risk Forensic Accounting Contractual Risk
Insurance Risk
Training Recruitment
Banking – E Learning
Corporate Training Virtual Risk Managers
Regular Risk Management Training Full Time Risk Professionals
Online Training material Part time Risk Professionals
Workshops / Events Risk Managers on call – free
ISO standards- 31000
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5. Our Network Presence
New Delhi
Agra
Ahmedabad
Kolkata
Mumbai
Pune
Salem
Bangalore
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6. Independent Director- Definition & Context
Independent director shall mean a non-executive director of the
company who does not have any material pecuniary relationships or
transactions with the company, its promoters, its directors, its senior
management or its holding company, its subsidiaries and associates that
may affect independence of the director.
Is not related to promoters or persons occupying management positions
at the board level or at one level below the board.
Has not been an executive of the company in the immediately preceding
three financial years.
Is not a partner or an executive or was not partner or an executive during
the preceding three years.
Is not a material supplier, service provider or customer or a lessor or
lessee of the company.
Is not a substantial shareholder of the company i.e. own more than 2
percent of the voting shares.
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7. Indian SME Industry Prologue
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), particularly in
developing countries, are the backbone of the nation's
economy. They constitute bulk of the industrial base and
also contribute significantly to their exports as well as to
their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In India, Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) contribute 8% of it’s
GDP, 45%of the manufactured output and 40% of
exports. It provides employment to about 70 million people
through 30 million enterprises.
The MSME Sector is the largest generator of employment
in the Indian economy. It forms a major portion of the
industrial activity.
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8. Indian SME’s Environment
MSME sector in India is highly heterogeneous in terms of the size of
the enterprises, variety of products and services produced and the
levels of technology employed.
More than 94% of SMEs are unregistered, with a large number
established in the informal or unorganized sector.
86% present of total business firms belong to the informal sector, i.e.
Proprietorship and Partnership dominated by family run businesses.
Lack of professional strategic outlook in managing efficiently run
business model.
Need for industry professionals involvement for removing historical
redundant corporate business management practices while overseeing
and implementing best practices…
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9. Need for Independent Director’s – SME’s (Family Run Businesses)
Corporate governance abuses that have come to light in the recent
past have alarmed both the investors and the regulators about the
manner in which corporate boards function.
Public scrutiny has grown immensely on how the promoters govern
their businesses.
Independent directors have largely been passive and at times even
riddled with conflicts of interest.
Corporate governance in present times makes it paramount upon
family businesses to induct ‘truly’ independent directors on their boards
to allow objective evaluation of the management’s performance and
well-being of the company without any conflict of interest or undue
influence of interested parties.
Inclusion of experienced professionals as independent directors on the
board has gained importance not only for the stakeholders or minority
shareholders but also for the promoters.
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10. Current Scenario & Future Outlook – SME Boardroom
• Conventional boardroom with family • Paradigm shift in functioning of a professionally
members/promoters business discussions managed board with independent director’s role
as a coach
• Absence of a true professional guide with right
blend of business ethics and guiding growth • Inculcating objective view point to the board
strategy with experience
• Introducing a fresh & innovative perspective into
• Need for a mentoring coach helping develop business DNA
long-term plans allowing business to function
efficiently & profitably • Balancing element between
shareholders/promoters as objective judges of
• Lack of direction to stakeholders and family run disagreements
promoters on business strategic vision
• Induction of business knowledge while
challenging current thinking
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11. Typical Board Governance Structure
Shareholders
Board of Directors
Information and Communication
• Achievement of strategic objectives and value creation
• Fulfil responsibilities and duties in law and prescribed functions
Chairman
Key Areas of Responsibility
Board Strategy
Board Operations
Meetings
Corporate Policies & Procedures
Corporate
Secretary Board Governance Instruments
Reporting &
Disclosure Monitoring and Evaluation
Governance Board Committees CEO & Management
System and
Controls Audit Remuneration Other Executive Internal Controls
Committee Committee Committees Committee & Assurance
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12. Independent Director’s at SME- Understanding Key Elements
• Enrichment • Introducing
Value Addition
Qualities
SME Future Roadmap
of Talent • Knowledgeable Diversity
Pool policy
• Sensitive • Appoints directors
through an independent
• Mentoring and objective process
• Objective
• Establishes appropriate
board committees
• Objectivity in Business • Inquisitive
External Perspective • Sharing information in a
timely fashion with
• Forthright independent directors
• Oversight
• Develops and follows a
• Available code of conduct
• Bridge family branches • Adopts a consultative
• Prepared approach in setting
meeting agendas
• Records and shares
• Good Team-workers
minutes of the meeting
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13. Role of Independent Director’s
Independent directors have emerged as the cornerstones of the
worldwide corporate governance movement.
Increased presence in the boardroom has been hailed as an effective
deterrent to fraud and mismanagement, inefficient use of resources,
inequality and unaccountability of decisions.
Most significant instrument of compliance with corporate governance.
They contribute to the board by constructively challenging the
development of policy decisions and company strategies.
They scrutinize the performance of the management and hold them
accountable for their actions. Their independence, on account of lack
of affiliation which is likely to prejudice their decisions, allows them to
fulfill these tasks more efficiently.
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14. Our Value Proposition-
‘We link Right People as professional decision mentors for your organization’
• Corporate governance
• Qualified Industry professionals
Riskpro management expert advisory &
oversight
• Subject matter experts in
corporate governance • Prepare & publish enterprise
mission statement
• Plethora of industry wise
experience in managing SME’s/ • Large unmatched database of • Enterprise policy statement to
mid sized companies prospective experienced senior manage business growth engine
professionals for recruitment
• Enterprise succession planning
• Systematic assessment of
needs, comparing the • Management structure and
company’s strategic plan with an level of professional qualification
up-to-date profile of the skills relevant to industry
and experience of the current
board. • Stakeholder relations
management
• Understanding of the specific
needs of the board and an • Legal and statutory compliance
insight into the unique nature of
a company — its people, its
products and its strategy
• SME industry interface services
with right resources for the right
Independent corporates
SME’s
Director
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15. How you Benefit- Independent Director Onboard
Clear articulation of Protect and facilitate
Promoting transparent and
responsibilities among exercise of shareholder’s
efficient market as per laws
various authorities rights
Encourage active co-
operation between Timely and accurate
Equitable treatment of all
corporation, stakeholders, disclosures on material
shareholder’s including
with an opportunity to matters regarding
minority and foreign
obtain effective redress for ownership and governance
violation for their rights
Better governance
Strategic guidance of the Effective monitoring of leading to higher
company management by the board profitability &
revenues
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16. Riskpro Clients Our Clients
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17. Team Experiences Our Experiences
Our team members have worked at world class Companies
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18. RESUMES – Our team Credentials
Co-Founder - Riskpro
CA, CPA, MBA-Finance (USA), FRM (GARP)
Manoj Jain
Over 10 years international experience – 6 years in Bahrain and 4 years USA
15 years exp in risk management consulting and internal audits, Specialization in
Operational Risk, Basel II, Sox and Control design
Worked for Ernst & Young (Bahrain), Arab Investment Company (Bahrain),
Navigant Consulting(USA), Kotak Mahindra Bank (India) and Credit Suisse(India)
Sox Compliance project for Fannie Mae, USA ( $900+ Billion Mortgage Company)
Co- Founder - Riskpro
CA (India), MBA (Netherlands), CIA (USA)
Rahul Bhan
Over 15 years of extensive internal and external audit experience in India and
abroad.
Worked with KPMG United Arab Emirates, PKF South Africa, Ernst and Young
Kuwait, Deloitte Netherlands and KPMG India.
Worked with clients in a wide variety of industries and countries including trading,
retail and consumer goods, NGO, manufacturing and banking and finance. Major
clients include banks, investment companies, manufacturing organizations,
aviation etc.
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19. RESUMES - Our team Credentials
Co-Founder - Riskpro
Casper Abraham
PGD (Electrical & Electronics & Computer Programming)
30 years of experience in Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Solutions
for Retail, Garments, Manufacturing, Services Industries.
Has created Companies, Divisions, Products, Brands, Teams & Markets.
Consulting in Business, Technology, Marketing & Sales & Strategic Planning.
Advisory, Training, Workshops & Implementation in Systems Thinking, Systems
Modeling & Balanced Scorecard
Worked with TIFR, Mahindra, Ambience, Communico-Graphique & Ionidea Inc, USA,
Sr Vice President – Risk Management
MBA, PDFM,NSE-NCFM, PMP, CSSGB,ISO 9001:2000 I.A,GARP-FBR, ITILV3,CPP-BPM
Hemant Seigell
Professional with 17 years of rich experience into diverse Consumer finance/ Lending
operations ,Risk Management,BPMS, Consumer Banking, NBFC, Management Consulting &
Housing finance in BFSI industry having successfully led key business strategic
engagements across multi-product environment in APAC, Australia and US regions.
Worked with GE, ABN AMRO Bank, Citigroup, Accenture, Deutsche Postbank
Highly skilled and expert Trainer in Risk areas across Credit, Fraud, Operational, Corporate
Risk management.
Specializes in Fraud Control, AML/KYC Compliance ,QA ,ERM and Regulatory governance.
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20. RESUMES - Our team Credentials
Head - Insurance Risk Advisory services
B.sc, Associate of Indian Institute of Insurance
Licensed Category A Insurance surveyor
R. Gupta
26 years of experience in Insurance advisory services, Loss adjusting for large
corporates,Claims management.
Has assessed more than 4500 high value insurance claims across various industry
sectors.
Risk management inspection
Valuations of fixed assets for insurance purpose.
Head - Human Capital Management
Nilesh Bhatia
Chartered Accountant, Lead Assessor ISO 9000, Six Sigma Trained, Trained on Situational
Leadership, Trained on interviewing skills and Whole Message Model.
Over two decades of international, multi-cultural experience in finance and human resources
viz. internal audit, accounting operations, accounting process review & re-designing, risk
management, business solutioning, six sigma projects, talent acquisition, talent retention,
organization design/redesigning, compensation and appraisal processing, employee and
customer satisfaction surveys, knowledge management and finance services.
Worked with Citicorp/MGF, India Glycol, Delphi, American Express India, American Express
USA, Fidelity International and Macquarie Global Finance Services India.
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21. RESUMES - Our team Credentials
Co-founder- Riskpro
B.Com, FCA
Rajesh Jhalani
Senior Partner with 48 year old Delhi based Chartered Accountant firm, Mehrotra
and Mehrotra
Over 19 years of experience in the field of Audit, Taxation, Company law matters.
Major clients served are NTPC, BHEL, Bank of India, PNB, Airport Authority of
India etc.
Specialist Risk Consultant – ERP & IT Compliance
SAP Certified, MBA (Finance), SAP Security trained (from SAP India), SAP GRC Access
Gourav Ladha
Controls trained (from SAP India)
Over 7 years of experience working in the area of ERP/IT Risk advisory, primarily focusing
on SAP, for ‘Fortune 500’ clients in around 8 countries including US, UK, UAE, Hong Kong,
etc
Specializes in SAP Risk & Controls Advisory, SAP Business Process Controls Audit, SAP
Security & Segregation of Duties Control Audit, ERP Trainings,
Strong Industry experiences ranging from Beverages, Insurance, Energy, FMCG,
Pharmaceutical, Retail, Telecommunication to IT Services
Worked for risk advisory teams of reputed organizations like Ernst & Young, EXL Services
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22. RESUMES - PARTNERSHIPS Credentials
Consultant – Information Security & IT Governance
LLB, CA, CISA, CWA, CS, CFE and others
Anjay Agarwal
Over 15 years of experience in the field of Audit, Taxation, Investigations.
Specializing in the field of Systems Audit, Cybrex Audit, Computer Crime
Investigations, IS Forensics
International Committee Member of Governmental and Regulatory Agencies
Board and Academic Relations Committee of ISACA, USA
Consultant – Quality Management
Founder of PMG, a TQM Consulting Co in Delhi
Piyush Kumar
Mechanical Engineer
20+years experience in TQM concepts.
Strong skill set in various productivity & quality improvement projects including
Six Sigma offerings
Past experiences include reputed organizations like Andersen Consulting, Eicher
Consulting & Nathan & Nathan consultants
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23. RESUMES - PARTNERSHIPS
Specialist Risk Consultant – Business Continuity
Andrew Hiles
Founder and 15-year Chairman of Survive, the first international user group for Business
Continuity professionals
Founding director and first Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute
Over 25 years international consulting expertise in Risk, Crisis, Emergency, Incident, and
Business Continuity and ICT Disaster Recovery Management
Multi-sector experience including Banking, Insurance, Finance, Oil, Gas, Energy,
Manufacturing, Retail, Hi-Tech & Telecom
Western Press Award for services to business, 1994; BCI/CIR nomination for
lifetime achievement in BC, 1999, London; inducted into BC Hall of Fame by CPM magazine,
2004, Washington DC.
Specialist Risk Consultant – Enterprise Risk Management
Chris E. Mandel
Highly skilled risk and insurance professional with 25 years of experience designing,
developing and implementing large, global corporate risk management programs for Fortune
500 firms.
Principal Consultant and Founder - Excellence in Risk Management, LLC. (Texas, USA) Co-
founder and EVP, Professional Services, rPM3 Solutions, LLC (Maryland, USA).
Past experiences include Head of Global Risk Management for USAA, PepsiCo/Tricon
Global and American National Red Cross
Additional risk and insurance experience at Verizon Corp,. Marsh USA and Liberty Mutual
Insurance Co.
2004 Risk Manager of the Year – 2007 recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Award for
“Excellence in ERM” (at USAA) – former President, Risk and Insurance Management
Society, Inc.
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