Team Members

CEO

Kalyanaram Sivalanka

Kalyan is the Founder & CEO Trident Conglomerate. Kalyan has over 18+ years of progressive work experience within diversified industries. Demonstrated excellent competency in risk management, compliance, financial analysis, financial management, audit, internal control, operations, administration and staff supervision. He has worked with leading financial institutions in UAE, Singapore and India. He has worked as Associate Director – Compliance with Bank of Singapore in Dubai / DIFC and Singapore. He has also worked with Standard Chartered Bank in UAE as Compliance Manager and Head of Operational Risk, AML and Business Support. He also gathered a strong work experience at Ernst & Young, Ford India, Oracle India and Citibank India. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Certified Internal Auditor, Institute of Internal Auditors; USA. He is a CAMS certified professional.

Managing Director

Krishna

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Consulting Director

Rohit Ghai

Rohit is a Consulting Director of Trident. He brings a depth of consulting and strategic advice to the business. Rohit’s background in business consultancy was key in his founding of 10 Leaves Limited, a niche consultancy with a focus on regulatory authorisations in the DIFC and the ADGM. He spun off three verticals from this business, including 10 Zone, a business consultancy that provides turnkey solutions to individuals and businesses seeking to setup a base in the UAE, tenl.io, a venture that bridges startups from the UAE to Luxembourg, Berlin, Riyadh and Bengaluru and Legability, a legal consultancy that specialises in corporate commercial work in the UAE and Luxembourg, including investment fund structuring and documentation.

Rohit has consulted on market entry strategies, management and fund structures in multiple jurisdictions worldwide, including onshore in the United Arab Emirates, free zones and offshore centres like the Cayman Islands and Mauritius. He has also consulted on establishing onshore regulated structures in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), including credit provider, asset management, private banking, fund management, brokerage and investment advisor licenses.

Being an entrepreneur and investor himself, Rohit consults startups in the technology sector and acts as a director and mentor for early-stage entities.

Senior Director Compliance & AML

Terence Pinto

Terence has over 30 years of experience in the Financial Services industry where the last 15 years have been in Compliance, AML and Risk Management roles including 3 years of Shariah Compliance, having worked with Private Banks and Wealth Management firms. He also has good knowledge of DIFC Compliance and AML Regulations and is a DFSA authorised Compliance Officer and MLRO for Cat 3A and Cat 3C firms. Terence has worked with leading organisations such as HSBC Bank M.E., Bank of America – Merrill Lynch, Emirates NBD, Mashreq Bank and Burgan Wealth. He has held senior Regional and Global roles previously and more recently as Head of Compliance and MLRO. He also has a strong operations background having headed the Regional Wealth Management Operations at HSBC which also included 4 years of Compliance. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (B.Com) and has also completed M.Com (Part1) from University of Bombay and CeFA from the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Director Compliance & AML

Ashok Anant Bhat

Ashok brings in a wealth of experience in the field of Compliance and AML. He has been registered as an Authorised Individual for the Compliance Officer and MLRO function with the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority (QFCRA). He brings in a profound expertise from Private Banking / Wealth products across various jurisdictions, Corporate banking products and Fund management. He has worked as the Head of Compliance / MLRO (Authorised Individual) for Kitara Capital Limited-DIFC (Cat-3C) for over 9 years. Prior to that he was associated with ICICI Bank Limited, DIFC Branch (Cat-1) and ICICI Bank QFC Branch as an Authorised individual for carrying out similar functions. He also spearheaded the Compliance and AML function for ICICI Bank -UAE Representative Offices (UAE Central Bank regulated). Prior to moving into the Compliance roles, he was actively involved in key business roles like National Head of Transaction banking, Head of Pan India Clearing operations, Group Fraud Controller with established Financial Institutions. He is a CAMS professional. He has also completed CAIIB (Institute of Indian Bankers), and Cost and Works Accountant from India. He also holds a diploma in Management studies from Mumbai University.

Director Compliance & AML

Rahul Bajpai

Rahul holds professional experience of close to 19 years in the field of Compliance, AML, Risk Management, Banking Operations & Finance spread across banking, business process outsourcing, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, audit & assurance verticals. Rahul started his career with an audit firm in the audit & assurance domain. After that, Rahul moved into corporate world and he then worked with organizations such as Duncan, Genpact. Rahul had also been associated with ICICI Bank, Qatar as Chief Manager- Finance & Operations. His last engagement had been with BanyanTree Bank, Mauritius as Chief Operating Officer. Rahul graduated from the University of Calcutta in Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) with First Class. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Rahul has also been (a) CAMS certified and (b) FLMI professional.

Director Compliance & AML

Shashwat Sanyal

Shashwat holds over 21 years of experience with multinational corporations across two industries. He built a career in banking with Standard Chartered Bank for 17 years with a proven track record of delivery in leadership roles across a broad range of demanding appointments covering the challenging markets of Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and India.

His key competencies lie in Risk Management & Governance (Internal Controls, Portfolio De-risking) | Change Management| Operations/Process Efficiency| Conduct, Compliance/AML & Assurance| Cross Functional Matrix Team Management|. He carries significant experience in overseeing the delivery of sensitive regulatory obligations and was responsible in his role as Executive Director for structuring & delivery of Compliance programs for the implementation of SCB’s obligations to the US regulator (New York State Department of Financial Services) for Commercial Bank (2014) and DIFC regulator (DFSA) for Private Bank (2018).

With a Bachelor of Commerce & a Postgraduate in Business Administration, he holds a Specialist Certificate in Conduct Risk (Spec.Cert(Conduct)) and is an affiliate member of the International Compliance Association. He is also a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and is CAMS certified.

Associate Director Compliance & AML

Anusha Bharatwaj

Anusha brings with her over 10 years of rich experience across compliance, corporate secretarial and legal documentation primarily in the financial services sector. Prior to joining Trident, she was the Head of Legal and Compliance at Silverdale Capital Pte Ltd., a Monetary Authority of Singapore regulated fund management company in Singapore. In India, she has been part of the investment banking teams at Enam Securities Pvt Ltd (now Axis Capital) and A.K. Capital Services Pvt. Ltd. and the corporate secretarial team at Reliance Industries Ltd. By qualification, she is a Law Graduate, a qualified Company Secretary and an MBA in Finance.

Director Finance

C. N. Balakrishnan

Balakrishnan is financial service professional with 20+ years of experience solutions delivery experience spans across the field of financial management & reporting, cash flow management, financial restructuring, Accounting, Accounting policies, audit & assurance, financial risk management (including ICAAP & Liquidity Management), and business process improvement in addition to Financial consulting experience with a Big 4 audit firm. He has played a fractional CFO roles for Mid to Large sized corporates & his experience includes supervising the accounting system, Financial reporting to Senior Management & Board, Liquidity / Treasury management (Cash flow Management) & compliance with relevant IFRS & IAS. In his advisory capacity with a Big 4 audit firm, Bala has managed broad range of client engagements reviewing & advising financial institutions on the regulatory requirements with regards to Capital adequacy, Liquidity management, Stress testing scenarios, Basel III requirements and Regulatory reporting forms. In his role with Financial institutions he has gained expert knowledge in Risk management and basic understanding of compliance function. He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) & Cost Accountant (ICWAI) from India. He is also a Certified Risk Management professional from the George Washington University (GWU).

Director Finance

Pooja T

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Director Finance

Raghunathan Srinivasan

Raghunathan Srinivasan is a Chartered accountant from India and has worked in senior roles in different financial services companies in India as well as UAE.

He has been in UAE for the last 20+ years and had been working as CFO for a renowned financial services Company. Prior to that he was the Finance VP for Kotak Mahindra Bank in India. He is an authorized Finance Officer for DIFC.

Snr Manager Finance

Ritu Gamnani

Ritu is an experienced finance professional with more than 6 years of DFSA related finance experience. She started career with Emirates NBD as a project accountant and got promoted as Financial Analyst. She joined Nomura International PLC and Nomura Asset Management as a finance associate. She joined Centaur Asset Management as a Group Finance Manager and was instrumental in driving the finance function for their asset management and fund wing. She later joined Equitativa Group ( Emirates REIT Fund Manager) as a Group Finance Manager. She joined Noor Bank as Assistant Vice President in their Financial control and cost management department. She brings depth of financial knowledge to Trident. She is a commerce graduate from La Trobe University Australia. She has also completed CMA (USA) and Certified International Financial Reporting specialist.

Snr Manager Finance

Piriyathakshan B.

Thakshan is an experienced and trained VAT professional. He has held several senior executive positions for last 7 years. He started his career with KPMG and was providing support to Banking and Financial Services, hospitality, travel and Energy. After a successful stint at KPMG, he joined WNS Global Services in their Finance services. He grew up the ladder and was promoted as the Finance Manager. He joined as a VAT consultant for a leading Tax consultancy group in the UAE and honed his VAT skills. He joined Trident and has been serving DIFC based clients. He is adept at various financial modelling tools and accounting systems. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Northwood University (USA). He is an associate member of CIMA UK and is a CGMA.

Senior Compliance Consultant

Nagaraj

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