Board of Directors

Dr Radha Binod Barman
Dr. R. B. Barman, former Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India, holds a Masters degree in Statistics and Ph. D. (IIT-B) in Economics. The main areas of his professional interest also include Business Information Technology and Payment Systems. Dr. Barman advises the National Payments Corporation of India, which is entrusted with the responsibility of setting up a state-of-the-art retail payment system for India. His contributions in the development of RTGS, NEFT, NECS, Mobile Payments, ATMs and the policy thereof are well known. Dr. Barman spearheaded the Business Intelligence initiative of the Reserve Bank, which in 2001, was one of the earliest such initiative, and was considered as a model for many central banks in BI space. He has been consultant on BI for premier Indian institutions. He contributed richly in the area of Official Statistics - particularly on price and output statistics. As econometrician, he honed skills in modelling and forecasting. His contribution in these areas spans several journal articles. Dr. Barman was President of The Indian Econometric Society, Vice President of The Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth and Parton of Indian Society on Statistics and Computer Applications. In international arena, Dr. Barman was Vice Chairman of Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics, BIS and Member of the International Data Forum. Post retirement, Dr. Barman was Visitor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai and Adviser (Research), Indian Institute of Capital Market. He is Adjunct Faculty of the C R Rao Advanced Institute for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Applications, Hyderabad. Dr. Barman has been associated with a number of organizations as Director of Board, Adviser and Consultant. The list includes HUDCO, NEDFi, NCPI, SEBI Committee on Data Warehousing, Member of Board of Governors, IIM-Indore, TechProcess Payment Solutions ltd, Reliance Asset Reconstruction Company, Sarvatra Tech Pvt Ltd etc.

Mr. Satya Narayan Sahu Mr. Sahu is a postgraduate in Agriculture as his basic education qualification, further holds a LLB degree, has cleared CAIIB(Part I & II) and also holds BOH Degree. He worked with United Bank of India and retired as General Manager (North East) on 31/01/2014. He was posted as Chairman of Assam Gramin Vikash Bank for a period of three years and he knows the banking industries in and out in the entire north eastern part of India. Currently he is associated with the AFPL as an Independent Director of the Board of the Company.

Mrs. Himani Roy Mrs Himani Roy is a Graduate from Gauhati University. She has experience in the rural area and has expertise in running dairy business. She is the only woman director in the company and plays an important role in the Human Resources Committee of the Company.