Suresh Kumar

May 18, 2022

Over 45 years’ experience (in globally-active banking and
financial institutions) comprising:
CEO & ExCo member in the Emirates Bank/Emirates NBD
Group (1985-2012) in Dubai. UAE.

Member & later, Chairman of the Boards of
Directors of
i. Federal Bank Ltd (2005-2013),
ii. IDBI Federal Life Insurance Co. Ltd (2011-
2015), and
iii. FedBank Financial Services Ltd (2009 to
2017)
• ‘Independent Director’, currently on the Boards of
i. ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company
Ltd, (2015 to date)
ii. ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd (2014 to date)
iii. Aster DM Healthcare (UAE & India -2015 to
date) and
iv. Emirates REIT @ DIFC (2010 to date).
• Board Member
Advisory Board

  • Evolvence Capital – Fund of Funds
  • A leading UAE business group (TKG),
  • Founder & First elected President of Indian
    Business & Professional Council (IBPC) Dubai
  • Founder – Dubai Community Theatre & Art
    Centre (DUCTAC) (2004-2012).
  • Educational Institutions;
    (Tips Tech – India, S.P. Jain, BuiD- Dubai)

Institutions – Building Experience
• Intra-Preneurial M&A Integration (in 1985, 1991 & 2007)
of five (5) banks in the UAE; Organic Growth
• Founder-CEO and Board Member of (a) Emirates Merchant
Bank Ltd, (b) Emirates Financial Services PSC (1998-2002)
• Founder-Chairman of (a) Emirates Funds LLC, (b) Emirates
Bank Austria Investments Ltd and (c) Tricolour Investments
Ltd.
Founder/Promoter-Director
Overseas
i. Tricolour Investments Ltd (Sept 2000 to date)
ii. Tricolour Values Investments PSC (July 2016 to date)
India
i. Values Alternative Investments International (VAII) P
Ltd(April 2012 to date)
ii. Tricolour Financial Services (TFS) P Ltd (July 2017 to
date).
Accomplishments & Accolades
• ‘Father of Mutual Funds and Capital Markets in the GCC
(1998) – for ‘pioneering innovation and institutions’-building
endeavours’; following successful launch of first-ever
domestic mutual funds & capital market issuances
(bonds/sukuks and equity IPOs) – pre-dating DFM & ADSM

SCA (1997-2002) in the UAE.
• Awarded the ‘Hind Rattan Award’ (2012)
• Annual Award from Indian Economic Society (2014)