30 years of experience in the field of microfinance and development, including having pioneered microfinance in West Bengal; Executive Board Member of Sa-Dhan;Member of the SIDBI Project Advisory Committee (Eastern region). A Visionary Entrepreneur,Mr. Ajit Kumar Maity, is considered to be the most successful pioneering person in the area of Microfinance in this country
He had a number of international exposure in the countries like USA, UK, Latin America, Bangladesh, Srilanka, Nepal ,etc in the field of development.He had attended a series of trainings and workshops organized by NABARD, BIRD,CARE,ISB,SIDBI,etc. He was also honoured by
1. Gem of India Award-2001 by All India Achievers Conference, New Delhi.
2. Vijoy Ratna Award by India International Friendship Society, New Delhi.
3. Vikas Ratan Award by International Institute of Success Awareness.
Mr.Kuldip Maity (Promoter Director)
Managing Director, Village Financial Services Private Limited.
Mr. Kuldip Maity is an young,dynamic entrepreneur in Microfinance sector and
under his effective leadership and guidance Village Financial Services Private Limited has become one of the leading micro finance institutins. A Management Graduate, Mr. Maity is an effective team builder and is having more than 9 years integrated experience in development and microfinance sector. He has earned experiences on International Microfinance Practices by visiting different countries like Bangladesh , Philippines , South Africa , Indonesia , Malaysia , etc. He has also attended series of training programs and workshops organized by National and International agencies like SIDBI, BIRD, NABARD, CARE, Sa-Dhan, CGAP, IRMA, etc.
Dr. Sankar Datta (Independent Director)
Dr. Shankar Dutta is a Management Graduate with basic training in Agriculture and Doctoral dissertation on 'Factors Affecting Performance of Village Level Organizations' in the area of Economics. He has been closely associated with promotion of rural livelihoods. He has an extensive working experiences in different types of organizations like Govt. promoted co-operative :MP OILFED ; NGO : PRADHAN,Anand Naiketan Ashram ; Academic Institutions : IIM-A,IRMA ; Microfinance & BDS providing Organizations :BASIX.
Dr. Dutta was responsible for designing & running the Livelihood School as a SBU for 3 years .He has a comprehensive responsibility for overall management of Indian Grameen Services (BASIX).He was Associate Professor of IRMA & Asst Professor in IIM - Ahmedabad.
Prof. R.K Bhattacharjee completed his Bachelor's program with dual specialization in Sociology & Social Work. After that he completed his Masters program in Applied Social Science with specialization in Rural & Tribal Community Development including administration of social development program from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He also persued Pre-doctoral-MPhill programme from Kashi Vidyapeeth.
He was awarded the prestigious Sir Dorabji Tata Research Fellowship and carried out the project in the field of comprehensive tribal development comprising children, youth, women and their educational and economic development. His most significant action experiments were Tribal Pre School, Mahila Mandals,Youth Work Clubs,Vocational-cum Leadership Training Centre and promotion of a high school and orientation training of IAS probationers where less than 0.5% population were literate.
Prof. Bhattacharjee also conducted 50 training program for Social Development, guided 9 research scholars of whom 3 are from foreign universities, delivered lecture in the area of social policy & development to a number of universities in national & international level. He has all about 34 major research studies and 3 published books
Mr. A Ramanathan (Independent Director)
Ex Chief General Manager of NABARD, managing SHG Bank linkage program, the largest microfinance program in the world . Having 35 years rich experience in various important positions in research, training, consultation, etc. He was the Joint Director of BIRD, Board Director of Malaprabha Gramin Bank, Karnataka, Board Member of different co-operative bank and Rural Development Banks.
