Board of Directors - AMC

Mr. Bruno Guilloton is a Shareholder representative for AXA IM’s joint ventures in Asia. He joined AXA Investment Managers Paris in 1999 as Head of Equities. From 2000 to 2002 he served as Chief Executive Officer of AXA Investment Managers Tokyo and then led the merger between AXA Rosenberg Japan and AXA Investment Managers in 2002. Mr. Guilloton left Asia in the Spring of 2005 and became Global Head of Internal Audit, a position that he held till recently. Prior to joining AXA Investment Managers, Bruno was Head of Equity Fund Management at Credit Mutuel Finance for 5 years and before this worked for 10 years for Banque Indosuez as a Financial Analyst and as a Portfolio Manager, before being appointed joint Head of Equity Management in France at Indosuez Asset Management.

Mr James W Young is the Chief Operating Officer of Asia Pacific division of AXA Rosenberg Asia Pacific since January 2006. Prior to this, he was the Chief Financial Officer of AXA Rosenberg Global Services for three years. He has also worked with AXA Rosenberg Tokyo as the Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to February 2003. Overall he has 15 years of global experience with particular expertise in Asia in the fields of Operational strategy, Financial Strategy and Management. He is a CA from ICAI, New Zealand and is a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration, Accountancy & Bachelor of Arts, Economics from Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.

Mr. Sudhir Chand has 36 years of industry experience starting at Crompton Greaves Ltd. for initial 7 years and after a brief job stint in between followed by Exide Industries Ltd. for 28 years. He was on the Board of Exide for 10 years, first as Director-Automotive, handling the company’s largest division as profit centre head and then as Director-Corporate Affairs for the Company - including HR, Training and Corporate Social Responsibility. He retired from Exide in March 2006, after which he started his own consultancy and management education company - Inflexion Management Services Pvt. Ltd., a consultancy firm in areas of Organization and Marketing Strategy, infrastructure software & Training. He has continuously been associated with academic work. He is a guest faculty for MDP programmes at IIM, Kolkata and Calcutta Management Association. He is also on the Advisory Board of ICFAI and academic councils of Globsyn Business School, Future Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata and Board of Studies (Management Studies) of the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. Currently, Mr. Chand is a Senior Associate of Grow Talent Company Ltd. (one of the largest and most respected HR firms consulting in senior level HR development) working in areas of Talent Appreciation, Development Centres and Leadership Development for some of the premier companies in India.

Mr. Sanjay Gupta has more than 20 years of experience in leading and advising corporations through major transformational initiatives spanning set up, consolidation, migration, outsourcing, restructuring of delivery capabilities spanning multiple geographies. He is currently, a senior executive with American Express Bank, a Fortune 50 company, leading a large global team (having joined the Bank in 1996). He is a pioneer at establishing one of India’s first ever global operations center. He is responsible for creating and formulating breakthrough transformational strategies, optimizing Financial and Customer operations. His role in American Express includes having created a global Functional operating structure with strong underlying six sigma capability in US, UK and India. Before American Express, Sanjay has worked with a large telecom services provider during 1994-1996 setting up paging services business, and before that as Chief Financial Officer with soft drinks major and a tractor major respectively.

Mr Atul Sahasrabuddhe is a Financial Consultant since 2002 and is currently Vice-Chairman – Advisory Board of Yen Management Consultants where he is responsible to guide and oversee the Firm’s business, a business with which he has been associated with since November 2006.
Mr Sahsrabuddhe started his career with American Express Bank which he joined in November 1984, and was with that bank till December 1993. During this period, he was involved in various activities including forex trading and derivatives. In 1994, he joined Maharaja organisation, a Sri Lankan group, as Executive Director and Group Treasurer. Mr Sahasrabuddhe joined ING Bank, India in January 1995 as Head of Financial Markets, responsible for the bank’s money market and foreign exchange operations. In 2000, he was elevated as CEO of ING Bank, India, and was responsible for the Bank’s commercial, investment banking and financial markets (Treasury) activities for the Asian sub-continent region. He stepped down from the CEO position in October 2002.