T. V. Mohandas Pai is a Padma Shri Awardee and the current Chairman of Manipal Global Education (

Manipal University Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is a private deemed university located in Manipal, India. The university also has campuses in Mangalore, Bangalore and Jamshedpur in India , and global campus in Dubai and Malacca (Malaysia). As of ...

). He was a former director of

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, and Head – Administration, Education, and Research, Financial, and Human Resources of Infosys Leadership Institute.

Education

Mohandas did his schooling at St. Joseph's Indian High School,

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. He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from St. Joseph's College of Commerce,

and a bachelor's degree in law (LLB) from

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. He is also a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). In 2011, Mohan, an alumnus of

, received an offer to co-chair the proposed Bangalore University School of Economics.

Career

Mohandas Pai joined Infosys in 1994 and served as a Member of the Board from May 2000July 2011. He was the Chief financial officer from 1994 to 2006. In 2006, he voluntarily demitted the office of CFO to lead efforts in the areas of human resources and education and research. The Infosys Annual Report, under his supervision, has won the top awards consistently from the Institute of Chartered Accountants and from the South Asian Federation of Accountants. In 2000, he, along with others, founded the Akshaya Patra Foundation, Bangalore, to start a midday meal program for school children. He was voted 'CFO of the Year' in 2001 by IMA India. He won the 'Best CFO in India' award from Finance Asia in 2002, and 'Best chief financial officer in India' in the best managed companies poll conducted by AsiaMoney in 2004. He still holds 728,000 shares of Infosys which were given to him as part of an

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Regulators

Mohandas has been active in working with regulators to improve the business ecosystem. He was also a Member of the Kelkar Committee, constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, for reforming direct taxes, the Non-Resident Taxation Committee, the high powered committee on E-commerce and Taxation. He served as a Member of the Board of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) from 12 September to 16 July. He was a Member of the Empowered Committee for setting up the Tax Information Network of the Government of India. He also works with the union government and state governments in the fields of education, IT and business. He has been working with decision makers to improve the quality of education and availability of skilled manpower. He has been recently appointed as the head of the panel formed by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to study the impact of fin-tech on securities market.

Memberships

Mohandas is a member of the board of CSIR-Tech Pvt. Ltd. He presently is also on the board of

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, India's foremost securities trading exchange and Havells India Ltd., one of the largest Indian consumer electrical company.

Additional activities

He is an ardent supporter of the

Akshaya Patra Foundation The Akshaya Patra Foundation is a non-profit trust of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The organisation operates the Midday Meal Scheme (a school lunch programme) in India. Mi ...

and is one of the members of the board of trustees of Akshaya Patra. He is an active investor and important part of Indian startup community. He has over 50 investments including

Zoomcar Zoomcar is an Indian car sharing platform, headquartered in Bangalore. The company was founded in 2013 by David Back and Greg Moran. It currently operates in 34+ cities. History American duo David Back & Greg Moran, met while studying at the ...

, Faircent,Tripfactory, Online Tayari, YourStory,

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, Justdoc, Mad Street Den, etc. He is also one of the producers of an animated Sanskrit movie, ''

Punyakoti ''Punyakoti'' (), also released as ''A Truthful Mother'', is a 2020 Indian Sanskrit-language animated film directed by Ravishankar Venkateswaran. It is the first animated film in Sanskrit. ''Punyakoti'' is an adaptation of a picture book for c ...

''. He is a Partner at Aarin Capital, General Partner at Exfinity Venture Partners, General Partner and Advisor at Ideaspring Capital, Partner at StartupXSeed, and an Investor in 3one4Capital.

References

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