Dear Stakeholders,
I am pleased to share with you the Annual Report of your company for
the year 2010-2011. It has been a year of transformative change within
and outside Future Capital Holdings. The Indian economy showed its
resilience towards external financial shocks and maintained a healthy
rate of growth. At Future Capital, we realised the need for change and
transformed ourselves to make the best of the new opportunities that
are coming up in the financial and consumption space in India.
The heart of a successful financial services company is always its
people, its leadership and the talent that they bring on the table. And
when we decided to bring in change at Future Capital, we knew we had to
start with the leadership team and the talent within the company.
I am happy to share with you that this year we welcomed three new
independent directors on our board. Mr. Anil Singhvi is well known for
his long association and stewardship at Ambuja Cements. What is lesser
known is his association and mentoring of a number of educational and
social initiatives across the country. Joining him is Mr. N. C.
Singhal, a highly respected member of India''s financial community,
former board member of ICICI Ltd. and a professional with diverse
experience in the banking and financial sectors in countries across
Asia and Europe. Last but not the least, we are happy
to welcome Mr. Pradeep Mukerjee, formerly Human Resources Director at
Citigroup, to aid and advise us on the talent-led transformation in the
company.
However, the most significant development that is now poised to take
Future Capital to new heights is the coming on board of Mr. V.
Vaidyanathan. Mr. Vaidyanathan has long been considered among the young
leaders who have changed the financial services business in India
through reach, technology, scale and innovation. Mr. Vaidyanathan
joined Future Capital as the Vice Chairman and Managing Director in
August 2010. His association with ICICI Bank and his achievements are
rather well documented. He was on the board of ICICI Bank and set up
and managed the bank''s retail banking business, since its inception in
2000, till 2009. The business built included 1400 branches, retail
deposits, mortgages, other consumer loans, SME and Rural Banking and he
and his organisation won many awards, domestically and internationally
for these achievements. More recently, he had moved to ICICI Prudential
Life Insurance as the MD and CEO, a position he held before his current
move. An alumnus of Harvard Business School, Mr. Vaidyanathan was also
with Citibank for a decade.
Mr. Vaidyanathan has also been successful in attracting and nurturing a
team that is now growing the consumer business, as well as
strengthening the balance sheet and asset quality of the company. Some
of the best names have joined him as senior management, who we believe
will take the company to great heights.
In the last couple of years, we had tried leveraging Future Group''s
extensive retail and distribution network to distribute financial
products to customers. These attempts have now given us knowledge and
insights on how a conventional consumer retail network can be leveraged
by a financial services business and create a symbiotic relationship
for both entities. In the forthcoming year, the Future Capital is well
set to leverage the Future Group''s network to set up financial services
superstores in over 100 stores in Future Group Stores. We are now
confident that we will be successful in rolling this out and create a
unique business proposition.
With the unmatched opportunities that India provides along with the
exceptional organisational capabilities that have been developed in
your company, our objective is to build a world-class financial
services organisation here in India. And to enable this we humbly
solicit your continued trust and wishes in turning our objective into a
reality.
Kishore Biyani
Chairman
Future Capital Holdings
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