Mr. Kalidas Ghose

Vice Chairman & CEO at Vietnam Prosperity Bank Finance Company, Ltd. (FE CREDIT)

Mr. Kalidas Ghose is currently Vice Chairman and CEO of FE Credit, largest consumer finance company in Vietnam, and a subsidiary of Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VP Bank). FE Credit has served more than 10M customers to achieve 53% market share, with over $2.7B in receivables and $1B in annual revenues.

He is a retail banking and consumer finance veteran with 25+ years of experience in global financial institutions across multiple geographies. Ever since his inception as head of the consumer finance unit at VP bank, he had led the journey to build one of the largest consumer finance businesses in ASEAN region.

He led the digital transformation since early 2018, aimed at digitizing every function from front-end customer touchpoints to back-office processes and people management. He is strongly reputed for building a highly motivated management team of world-class leaders, who have delivered superior business results in one of the fastest growing markets in the world. In July 2019, he was honoured with “CEO of the Year” award from Asia Pacific Customer Service Consortium, as a testimony of his vision and leadership in building the organization with strong customer loyalty, brand image and a sustainable financial performance with customer centric culture.

Prior to joining Vietnam Prosperity Bank, he had worked with Citigroup as CEO of CitiFinancial Corporation Philippines, led the Retail Banking and Wealth Management (Indochina) for ANZ Bank, and was the first CEO of Prudential Vietnam Finance Company Ltd.

Mr. Kalidas has an MBA from XLRI and a graduate degree in mechanical engineering from Jadavpur University.

Mr. Ashish Sahu

Vice President Amity Institute of Training & Development

Ashish combines project management skills with a leadership training background to manage learning and development interventions of complex nature with sensitivity to client needs. He is representing Amity Institute of Training & Development, Amity University managing client relations, training projects & business partnerships.

He has lead training projects for more than 50,000 personnel so far. Prior to joining Amity group, he has worked with NIS Sparta (Reliance ADAG), Godrej, Ricoh India & Modi group companies with a rich experience of Training & Development, Operations, Key Account & Channel Management.

He has successfully trained personnel on Leadership Skills, Team Building, Selling Skills, Customer Service Excellence and had also been instrumental in Performance Coaching. Led some significant large scale pan India training projects of Public & Private Sector Banks, Election Commission, Commonwealth Games, Samsung, Sony Ericsson & Reliance Communication.