Key People

Progressive Cooperative Credit Society is established and managed by experienced professionals from eclectic backgrounds. Each one, driven by the same passion to empower the underprivileged through financial inclusion. Our Board is independent and works with the highest levels of corporate governance and compliance, while bringing strong professional, moral and intellectual values to the Cooperative movement.

MR. O.P. BHATT - THE BANKING LEGEND

The banking legend, Mr. Om Prakash Bhatt (66) is the former Chairman of India’s banking giant SBI (State Bank of India). In the 38 years that Mr. Bhatt served at SBI, he worked on several important national and international assignments. which ushered in financial inclusion, leading the project team that pioneered SBI’s technology initiative in the 1990s, assignments at SBI’s London and Washington offices, general management roles between 2004-2006, and managing director of SBI in 2006, culminating in his appointment as chairman in the same year. Under his leadership, SBI rose on the Global List rankings of Fortune 500.

He serves as an Independent Director on several Boards including Standard Chartered Bank plc, Tata Consultancy Services and Hindustan Unilever and Chairman of Greenko Energy Holdings. He was formally appointed as the Chairman of Tata Steel with effect from November 25, 2016. He was also an independent non-executive director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.

Mr. Bhatt was nominated ‘Banker of the Year’ by Business Standard and CNN – IBN Indian of the Year for Business in 2007. Mr. Bhatt was Chairman of the Indian Banks’ Association. Mr. Bhatt was Chairman of the Indian Banks’ Association. He has also been a part of India’s eco-diplomacy as member of the Indo – US, Indo – Russia and Indo-French CEOs Forum. Presently, he is the Governor on the Board of Centre for Creative Leadership, USA.

Mr. Bhatt holds a Graduate degree in Physics and a Post Graduate degree in English literature (Gold Medal).

Mr.Ram Chandra Gaur - Chairman

A Mechanical Engineer from IIT Kanpur and a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers. He has 36 years of experience with the State Bank of India in senior positions. Some of his career highlights include, CEO of State Bank of India, South Africa; General Manager, Local Head Office, Patna, overseeing 930 branches in Bihar and Jharkhand; and General Manager, Inspection and Audits Corporate Centre, Hyderabad, Lucknow Zone. From 1998 to 2002 (5 years), he was head of State Bank of India (SBI) operations in Sub – Saharan Africa, based in Johannesburg (managing assets worth US$ 500 – 600 million). SBI had branches in Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth cities and he also undertook the representative functions for countries such as Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, etc.He has served in the financial inclusion of the poor for over 10 years.


(Retd.)Commander Thomas Mathews

An aerospace engineer by profession. Has worked in the Indian Navy for 23 years. He has been the Vice President of CyberG India, a US based software company. He has a Bachelors in Engineering from College of Engineering,Trivandrum and a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from IISC,Bangalore. He is currently the CEO of a company engaged in the work of setting up rural technology infrastructure to provide access to Internet and other software related services across India.


Mrs. Angeline Moses

Vastly experienced in academics; a lecturer by profession. Mrs. Moses has been contributing to the field of science for more than a period of twenty two (22) years. She is currently serving as the Head of Department (Physics) in one of the most renowned, reputed and the oldest woman’s educational institution in the Asia region. She has done her Masters in Physics from Madras Christian College. She holds a Masters degree in Arts and a M.Phil from Department of Nuclear Physics from the University of Madras.


Mr. Briddhi Narayan

An accountant by profession, Mr. Briddhi Narayan has a Bachelors Degree in Arts and Education and has been contributing to the field of Finance and Accounts for more than a period of 10 years.


Mr. Samuel Dorman

A Merchant Navy Officer by profession. Mr. Dorman, has studied from GBIC Bareilly.He did his Marine Engineering from Naval Dockyard Mumbai.He is serving as Chief Engineer in various top companies of the world for past 20years.


Dr. R. N. Trivedi Indian Administrative Service (IAS)

Currently serving as advisor for VFL Ltd., Mr. Trivedi is an Engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur who joined IAS in 1972 and retired from UP Cadre in 2008 at a Chief Secretary rank. He has held various administrative assignments in the undivided Uttar Pradesh and has deep knowledge of the region. He is a PhD and D. Lit. in economics and the topic of his thesis is Poverty Alleviation Programme of the Government and Banks.


Mr. A. Palanivel (IPS)- A retired Indian Police Services official.

A retired Indian Police Services official, Mr. Palanivel is a post- graduate in Mathematics with 3.5 years of experience in teaching graduate and post- graduate students. He is a retired Indian Police Service officer who has put in 33 years of service in the UP police, retiring from the rank of Director General of Police. He is a recipient of the Indian Police Medal for his long and meritorious service and the President’s Police Medal for distinguished service.

Mr. Ramesh Gaur - Manager,Internal Audit & Control.

Has worked with SBI for 38 years and was the Chief Manager of the circle audit department for the Lucknow Head Office. He has audited hundreds of SBI branches over his last five years with SBI. Also having over 10 years audit experience in NBFC and Company delivering credit to poor.


Mr. Atique Ahmed - Manager Finance.

Has worked with SBI for over 38 years. He was associated with Finance & Credit and for more than 23 years with specific experience in investment and evaluation of company proposal. He was Branch Manager of medium branches for more than 8 years and have an experience in credit delivery to downtrodden and under privileged section of society.


Mr. Ajay Prakash - General Manager

Heading the operations team as General Manager at Progressive Cooperative Credit Society Ltd.,and has a vast experience of 21+ years in social development & upliftment sector across various major organizations in UP. Since inception of the organization, he has been rigorously working with the organization towards the fulfillment of social and organizational goals.


Ms. Aparna Mukherjee - DEPUTY MANAGER, HR

Arts Graduate from Guwahati University and Post Graduate Diploma in HR Management. Has worked with ITC Group of Companies in the HR team for 7 years, and is associated with PCCS since the last 6 years.


ANKITA R NAIR- DEPUTY MANAGER , ACCOUNTS & FINANCE

She is M.Com (commerce) and CA Inter with 3 years of experience. Her expert areas are Income tax filings, tax computations and preparation of balance sheets.

MR. MOSES PRASHANT RAO

A post graduate in Personnel Management from a premier business school and has over 28 years of experience of which the last eighteen years have been in the social space handling relief, rehabilitation and poverty alleviation projects. The first ten years of his work was in the space of Human Resources working for large multi nationals including setting up and scaling their operations in India. In the last eighteen years he has been involved in providing livelihood support to over 500,000 families across north India providing them Credit, Credit Insurance and Life Insurance services. He has been selected to participate in various international programs and has widely traveled. He has been trained at the Harvard Business School for Strategic Leadership in providing services to the Bottom of the Pyramid.