Board of Directors

• M. A. (Economics) from Yale University, USA; B.Sc. (Hons) from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata
• Served as a consultant to the World Bank in Washington DC
• Early career in the media, serving in senior positions with India's leading financial daily, The Economic Times and later with the country's leading magazine, Business India.
• Helped launch Indian business programming on TV.
• Heads Strategy and oversees Sales & Marketing functions at IRIS. Keen evangelist of structured data standards and the application of structured data in nonfinancial areas
• Past Chairman, IT sub-committee, CII, Western Region,
• Past member, Regional Council, CII WR
• Past Vice-Chairman, Indian Merchants Chamber, Navi Mumbai
• Past Honorary Chairman, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Navi Mumbai Kendra

• MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, B.Tech from Calicut University
• Prior to co-founding IRIS, he was with CRISIL (a Standard & Poor’s company) as group leader and senior analyst
• Heads the XBRL Consulting practice and leads development of new use cases for structured and unstructured data
• Board Member, XBRL India
• Past memberships: IFRS Taxonomy Consulting Group of the IASB, London; sub-committee on XBRL of MCA, Govt. of India; Steering committee on fraud prediction models, SFIO, Govt. of India

• MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• Previously worked at American Express Bank and headed CRISIL’s operations in North India
• Played a key role in managing large clients during the services growth phase of IRIS’ XBRL story.
• Heads HR & Operations at IRIS, with direct oversight of Carbon, SaaS product for disclosure management
• Profiled as one of 25 top entrepreneurs who graduated from IIM Ahmedabad in the bestseller, ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish?

• Mr. P K X Thomas comes with 30+ years of relevant experience across the sweep of information technology-related domains including product platforms, IT consulting, and business transformation projects.
• He has held top management positions with established corporate names such as Reliance Brand, Hopscotch Wholesale, and Cleartrip.

• Mr. Agarwala is an Advocate & Solicitor based in Mumbai.
• He is also a Solicitor, of the Supreme Court of England & Wales, and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India.
• He has been a practicing lawyer in Mumbai for the last 35 years, specializing in Corporate Law, Securities Law, Project Finance, Property Law, FDI, and Commercial law.

• Mr. Bhaswar Mukherjee is a Chartered Accountant who served as Director, Finance, on the Board of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited.
• He has also worked as CFO and Head, of HR, at Haldia Petrochemicals Limited.

• After a 19-year stint at Hindustan Unilever, Ashok Venkatramani moved to ABP News Network as CEO and to ZEE Media Corporation thereafter as MD.
• An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Harvard Business School, Ashok has been featured in the World CMO Council‘s list of India’s 75 top marketers.

• Haseeb A Drabu is a professional economist with a diverse skill set and wide-ranging experience.
• He has worked as a lawmaker, policy planner, banker, and economic commentator.
• He served as Chairman, of J& K Bank. He is also a former Finance Minister of Jammu & Kashmir.