Board of Independent Directors

Mr Dass is senior advisor, KPMG. Assisting KPMG team in the region to develop and further strengthen core businesses, by maximizing business opportunities, optimizing market synergies and complementarities across industry sectors as also strengthening relationship with the Regulators, various trade bodies and Government Departments at Centre and State Level. He completed his Masters in Linguistics (an Inter Disciplinary Course) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Economics from Delhi University, New Delhi, India.

Ghanshyam has had a career in domestic, international banking and Capital Markets for over 32 years. Ghanshyam joined NASDAQ OMX Group in 2000 and up until February 2009, he was Managing Director – Asia Pacific & Middle East, prior to which he was the General Manager and Chief Executive of Majan International Bank (a subsidiary of Commerz Bank A. G., Frankfurt, Germany) in the Sultanate of Oman. He also worked on several assignments, including the British Bank of the Middle East for two years as the Chief Executive Officer for its India operations, and with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for over ten years as Manager – South Asia & Middle East, Financial Institutions Group amongst other assignments.

In his early career, he spent over nine years with US Educational Foundation in India (as Research Assistant to a Senior Fullbright Scholar), Bank of India, Wells Fargo Bank N. A., (as Assistant Representative for India) and Marine Midland Bank, N.A.

He worked as Senior Advisor, INTEL Capital up until July 31, 2010 - Assisted Intel Capital team in the region to develop and further strengthen core businesses across Information Technology, Telecom and other related sectors.

Currently he is

• Independent Director on the Boards of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd, Jubilant Industries Ltd., Mayar Infrastructure Development Pvt. Ltd., Powerica Ltd., Estel Communications Ltd., Estel Technologies Ltd, Jubilant Agri & Consumer Products Ltd.,BQ Padmavathy Finance Academy Private Limited and Mayar Health Resorts Ltd.
• Member, The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE)
• Founder Member Association of Outsourcing Professionals (AOP), and President – Masters Athletic Federation of India.
• Member, Governing Council, Bangalore International Mediation, Arbitration and Conciliation Centre (BIMACC).
• Vice President, Para Athletics Federation of India.
• Special Advisor to NASDAQ OMX Group
• Trustee, The Braj Foundation
• Advisor on the Abhaya Foundation's National Advisory Council

Mr. Parker is a Managing Partner at JP Advisors in London, England. Mr. Parker founded JP Advisors in 2012 to provide financial capital markets advisory services to private and public companies. He is an experienced sales and marketing professional, having spent the past 30 years first with technology companies in Silicon Valley and then with major financial institutions including Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers (Citigroup), ING Group, WestLB AG and Uralsib Capital.

He has helped companies raise over $25 billion in 130 different transactions from 30 different countries. Mr. Parker has extensive knowledge of equity and debt capital markets combined with broad and deep relationships across private equity, asset management, and the banking industry in the US and Europe. He has a strong international background, having run institutional equities teams and broker dealer platforms in New York and London.

He has managed sales organisations where he has built teams from the start up stage, restructured underperforming teams, rebuilt platforms suffering from high employee turnover and improved performance to reinvigorate growth. Additionally, Mr. Parker has worked with publicly listed companies, assisting in debt and equity capital raising and investor relations advisory, with a particular emphasis on the development of the equity story, presentation material and investor targeting, to ensure the optimal market valuations for his clients.

He has experience in sales and marketing, strategic planning, business plan development, equity story development, regulatory compliance, financial modelling, budgeting, P&L; responsibility and board level communication and interaction. During his career, John has worked and/or conducted business in the U.S., Latin America, Western Europe, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, India and Singapore.

Mr. Parker has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California, Irvine and a MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

Dave Nichols has over 14 years of experience in entrepreneurial and startup businesses. As co-founder and managing director of Pangea Capital Partners, Dave built a portfolio of carbon emissions projects in China, South Africa and Indonesia.

Dave is the co-founder and managing director of Pangea Capital Partners. He is responsible for building Pangea’s global business presence in the environmental sector and manages its carbon emissions trading business. He has in-depth knowledge of project finance, carbon emissions, environmental policy, commodities sales and trading, and principal investing. At Pangea, Mr. Nichols expanded and operated the business in developing markets including China, Indonesia, and South Africa. He develops and executes projects in many sectors such as renewable energy, energy efficiency and water mitigation. At Pangea, Dave is directly responsible for the origination and development of over 30 carbon emissions reduction projects under the Kyoto Protocol CDM Mechanism.

Mr. Nichols also has a track record of successfully negotiating contracts in developing markets. In China he successfully signed and developed over 30 CDM projects with counterparties ranging from small private Chinese companies to large state owned enterprises. In 2009 Mr. Nichols joined Deegon Inc. where he originated and negotiated physical commodities transactions in both the oil and coal markets with leading Chinese companies including Norinco and Sinochem. Dave successfully brokered a $50 million fuel oil deal with a company in China. At Deegon, Dave had the additional responsibility of managing logistical aspects of the commodity deliveries. At Pangea Capital Partners Mr. Nichols also leads a successful project finance group raising capital for projects in China and other developing countries.

Dave has valuable experience in emerging markets and has built a presence in the environmental markets sector, including Asia, Latin America, Africa and the U.S. He has extensive knowledge in investment management, corporate finance, foreign exchange markets and business operations. Prior to Pangea Capital Partners, Dave was President of MTD, Inc. a developer of medical imaging technology. Dave earned an MBA with distinction from Columbia University and a BS in Environmental Science from University of Delaware.