Senior Leadership | DMI Finance (2024)

Shivashish Chatterjee is a Co-Founder of the DMI Group where he is a driving force behind the Group's vision and strategy.

A 25-year veteran of international financial markets, Shivashish Chatterjee brings a wealth of experience in Global Fixed-Income trading and analytics that complements and informs DMI’s activities. Shivashish Chatterjee spent the vast majority of his Wall Street days at Salomon Brothers, a storied fixed-income powerhouse that was eventually acquired by Citigroup Inc. One of the youngest-ever Managing Directors at Salomon Brothers and Citigroup Inc., he held a wide variety of positions spanning core research in interest rate and prepayment modelling to trading a range of interest rate derivatives and mortgage-backed securities. Shivashish Chatterjee became Co-Head of all securitised products trading in North America in 2004 before leaving in 2008 to start DMI.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics. He is very active in Harvard alumni activities in NY City including serving on the Schools Committee for the Greater NYC area. Shivashish is very passionate about technology and is an active angel investor in technology startups.

Yuvraja C. Singh is Co-Founder of the DMI Group, where he is jointly responsible for all aspects of the firm’s activities.

Yuvraja C. Singh brings over two decades of experience in finance to his role, with an expertise in fixed income structuring, trading and risk management. He began his career in the risk management department at Commodities Corporation, a leading commodity and futures trading firm, now a part of Goldman Sachs. In 1995, Yuvraja Singh moved to Wall Street, trading mortgage-backed securities at Lehman Brothers and eventually running the firm’s mortgage derivatives desk. In 2000, he took on a new challenge and followed his entrepreneurial passion, becoming partner at Compro Technologies, a small software development firm in India. In 2003, Yuvraja C. Singh returned to Wall Street and joined the Fixed Income Department at Citigroup, where as a Managing Director he oversaw the agency CMO fixed rate and IO/PO trading desks.

Yuvraja C. Singh is a graduate from Princeton University’s class of 1994, with a B.A. in Economics. He currently serves on the Founders Council of the MS Chadha Center for Global India at Princeton University and has previously served on the Board of Governors of The British School in New Delhi. He resides in New Delhi with his family.

Arindam Das leads the Digital Consumer and SME Finance businesses at DMI Finance.

Arindam Das has close to two decades of experience in various verticals including Business Development, Product, Distribution, Operations, Risk Management and Audit. He has conceptualised, built and scaled large teams in Consumer, SME and Corporate Lending through Branch & Non-Branch based platforms. Prior to DMI, he was at Citibank, Merrill Lynch, India Infoline and Capital First. He had an entrepreneurial stint as Co-Founder of On Demand local services marketplace.

He is an Economics graduate with an MBA from K J Somaiya, Mumbai.

Jatinder Bhasin oversees the Operations, Compliance and Internal Audit for the DMI Group.

With over twenty years of finance and operations experience, Jatinder has an extensive background in strategic planning, general management, corporate finance, controllership, financial planning and analysis, tax, operations and risk management. Prior to joining DMI, Jatinder spent over 18 years with General Electric, where he was richly exposed to several businesses (Capital, Global Operations, Energy, Lighting) in different stages of growth cycle in both developed & emerging economies across US, Europe and Asia. Amongst many roles, Jatinder was the Chief Financial Officer for their Money Servicing business (with operations in India, Philippines and Guatemala) and was also heading senior project management role for Global Operations across Asia Pacific.

Jatinder graduated with Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering in India, before completing MBA (Finance) and MS (Operations Management) from US. He is also a graduate of GE’s prestigious Corporate Audit Staff and Financial Management Programs.

Vivek Wadhera is the Group Chief Financial Officer managing the Accounting, Finance, Treasury, and Investor Relations.

Vivek has over 25 years of cross-functional experience in which he has held prestigious positions such as Group Country CFO of large global conglomerates and Business Head of large-sized geographically spread businesses. His experience spans across multiple industries: Banking and Financial Services, Real Estate Lending, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Logistics and Transportation, Telecommunication, and Software. Additionally, he has extensive experience in launching new businesses and fundraising. Prior to DMI, he has worked with Lucent, Citi, and ORIX.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a Sri Ram College of Commerce graduate.

Anmol Nayyar manages strategic relationships for the DMI Group, in addition to which he has other key responsibilities across DMI Group businesses.

With over 15 years of experience in advisory and financial services and as an entrepreneur, Anmol started his career as a lawyer helping build the India practice at Ashurst in London, after which he was an entrepreneur in financial services, building cross-border Europe-India platforms in private equity and investment banking before joining DMI.

He graduated from Reed College in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Phi Beta Kappa) and holds the degree of Juris Doctor from the Northwestern College of Law. He is an active angel investor and an advisor to the UK Government in relation to entrepreneurship globally.

Pooja Malik has overall responsibility for Human Resource M anagement for the DMI Group.

A seasoned HR professional, with a successful track record in strategic HR leadership positions, including end-to-end HR Management in varied cultures and industries, Pooja Malik designs and implements initiatives related to HR transformation strategies, talent and performance, compensation, R&R programs, talent acquisition & sourcing, talent development and engagement programs across functions and levels, etc.

Saurabh Nigam oversees IT Operations and leads initiatives in IT solutions for the DMI Group.

He has over 20 years of experience managing IT functions in the financial services sector. Prior to joining DMI, he served as the Director IT of CRISIL Limited and has also worked at Computer Age Management Services, Tata Consultancy Services, HCL Technologies and Scandent Solution. He has the distinction of being named amongst the Top 100 Future CIOs of India in 2013 by IT NEXT magazine.

He has a Masters Degree in Engineering and Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc), Bangalore.

Vivek Gupta oversees the real estate lending business of DMI Finance.

He has almost 15 years of experience with more than a decade in real estate. Prior to joining DMI, he was part of the Transaction Real Estate Advisory Group at Ernst & Young, where he was responsible for structuring Public Private Partnerships and advising clients on the feasibility of real estate projects. He started his professional career at Tally Solutions before joining ICICI Bank, first as a Credit Manager in its Home Loan Division and subsequently, as a consultant in its Real Estate Advisory practice.

He is a CA (2004), CFA and an alumni of IIM Bangalore.