Naveen Kundu (KMP)
Managing Director – EbixCash Travel and Holidays Division
Naveen presently leads all P&L aspects of EbixCash’s Travel Division worldwide, having spent approximately 4 years with the Company now. A nationally renowned travel industry leader, with experience of over 31 years in the travel industry, Naveen founded Leisure Corp in 1997, that became India’s leader in the travel hospitality and tourism meetings and events services space, before being acquired by EbixCash in 2018. Under his leadership, EbixCash’s Travel Division has emerged as one of Southeast Asia’s leading travel exchanges, with a 212,450+ agent network, 25 branches and a omni-channel travel network; processing an estimated ₹175,000 million in GMV (pre-COVID-19). EbixCash travel today provides services to the end consumer through a variety of web/mobile app based offerings, wherein end consumers can purchase its services and products through a variety of targeted omni-channel EbixCash travel platforms like Mercury travels, EbixCash.com, VIA.com, sastiticket.com etc. in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, UAE, Thailand, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Naveen is the recipient of the National Tourism award from the President of India for the year 2011-12. He presently also serves as the co-Chair of FICCI’S Domestic Tourism committee. Naveen is an MBA in Travel and Hospitality from the University of Mysore.
Yogesh Dhakras
Vice President and Head - EbixCash Financial Technologies, Bus Exchange Division
With an overall experience of over 28 years in varied leadership roles, Yogesh is presently leading all operational aspects of EbixCash’s Financial Technology Bus Exchange Division. A proven leader in the transport digitization industry with experience of over 13 years at EbixCash and Trimax IT Infrastructure Services, that EbixCash acquired in May 2020, Yogesh has overseen the Division’s strong organic top line growth, in the midst of the century’s biggest human pandemic COVID-19 while securing new prestigious clients like the transport corporations in Rajasthan, Pune, West Bengal and Kolkata in 2021 itself. EbixCash today has emerged as a dominant Bus Exchange automation player, powering Information Technology Management Systems(ITMS) in bus ticketing across more than 150,000 buses across 18 Indian States. EbixCash’s bus exchange Division is today India’s leader in the area of smart back-end technology solutions for Buses, handling approximately $1.7 Billion of annual transactions (pre-COVID 19), across 30% of India’s bus ticketing system network with more than 13 large state-owned public transport corporations as clients. Yogesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Communications and Electrical Engineering from Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil College of Engineering, Satara.
Vikas Verma
Director & Corporate Vice President - Finance, EbixCash
As Director and Corporate VP at EbixCash, Vikas has been handling all aspects of EbixCash Finance internationally since its inception. He was one of the first two employees hired by EbixCash in the year 2000 as a management trainee, and over the years, grew to occupy the highest accounting position at EbixCash. His journey at EbixCash is a story of hard work, educational expertise and on the ground learning over two decades, as EbixCash grew to its present size of more than 10,500 employees with offices in more than 150 locations across the Asia Pacific region. Vikas secured an MBA in Finance from IMT, Ghaziabad in 2005 and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) degree from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, Hyderabad in 2011. He also secured a Post Graduate Diploma in Insurance and Risk management from Birla Institute of Management and Technology in 2002. Vikas also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Delhi University.
Satya Kotru
Corporate Vice President - Administration, EbixCash
With 28+ years of experience behind him, Satya today handles all aspects of EbixCash administration expanse, across more than 10,500 employees and over 150 offices in India and overseas. Satya joined EbixCash in the year 2002, and has been involved with the EbixCash expanse since the early days. Satya has been a loyal EbixCash senior leader offering to lead in any area where the Company needed help. He has served in various functional lead positions at EbixCash over the years including Director of multiple EbixCash companies, and Head of HR, legal and administration groups. Prior to EbixCash, Satya worked primarily in the IT sector with names like ICIM, Lipi Data systems, Zenith computers, ICIM and IT&T Ltd. Satya secured a Diploma in Computers Science and Engineering in the year 1993.