The Board consists of three founders.
Mr. Annasaheb Jolle as an entrepreneur, rural banking specialist, successful cooperative model innovator and a visionary, provides strategic direction to the company.
Mr. Annasaheb Jolle founded Shri Beereshwara Cooperative Credit Society Limited way back in 1991 in Karnataka which got converted into a multistate Cooperative Credit Society. He believes in empowering the rural youth, women and masses and empowered more than 2 lakhs women through Amulya Microfinance and served lakhs of people by founding multifaceted organisations like Jyoti Multipurpose Sahakari, Oil Seeds Growers Society, Sahakar Education and Social Welfare Society, Amruta Self Help Groups and more. He is also serving Chairman of Karnataka Oil Federation (KOF), Karnataka.
Mr. Annasaheb Jolle made his commitment for a sustainable future of India by founding renewable energy focused Sanfan Energy Private Limited.
Dr. Ishwar Hegde is the Co-founder and Managing Director. He is involved in the strategy development, business delivery and execution. He is leading the compnay's renewable power operations to make it one of the India’s largest pure play renewable energy developer. He comes with over 20 years of industry experience in corporate strategy, business intelligence & analytics, marketing research, and global marketing & business development. During his career, he has partnered with CEOs and apex leadership team in charting out profitable growth paths and building performance oriented organizations.
Prior to starting Sunfan, he was managing global marketing and also spearheading the group strategy responsible for organization-wide strategy formulation, initiation and driving strategy projects across the Suzlon Group globally. The Suzlon Group is world’s fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer with over US $3.5 bn turnover and 15000 MW installed capacity in 20 countries.
Previous to joining Suzlon, Dr. Hegde was associated with the Essar Group (US$39 Billion Group) as Chief Economist for over 5 years. He was involved in developing medium to long term business plans for diversified sectors such as steel, power and oil.
Dr. Ishwar Hegde is a gold medallist and Ph.D. in Economics. He had a teaching stint on international business to management students and research at the renowned Indian Institute for Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi, India . He had the privilege of being consulted for the World Bank and Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Dr. Hegde is associated with various national and international organizations, expert committees including World Economic Forum, IEA, IPCC and GWEC.
Mr. Shridhar Hegde is the Co-Founder and the Executive Director of the company. He oversees business development, finance, operations and compliance of the company. He specialises in business incubation, growth strategies and investor value creation.
Shridhar Hegde has more than 20 years of industry experience in Asset Finance, Financial Services, Insurance and Fast-Moving Consumer Durables sectors. He worked with India’s leading corporates like Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited (www.cholamandalam.com), an INR 39000 crores company; Kotak Mahindra Prime Limited (www.carloan.kotak.com), India’s largest car finance company; HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited (www.hdfcergo.com), India’s leading general insurance company and Ion Exchange India Ltd ( www.ionindia.com), India’s largest Water and Environment management company.
Mr. Shridhar Hegde is a new generation entrepreneur and has investments and business interests in Human Resource Development, Education, Minerals and Energy. He is the founder and cofounder of various companies in the above sectors.
He holds an MBA in Finance & Marketing and an MBA in Environmental Management. He also has completed his courses in Senior Management Program(SMP) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Insurance Management(PGDIM) and is also a Fellow of Insurance Institute of India(FIII)