Empowering People,
Communities and
Economies with Fast,
Simple and
Secure Payments

V. Balasubramanian

CEO, FSS Cashtech & Paytech

Jacob Mathew

Interim CEO, FSS

Nagaraj Mylandla

Founder, Director

Mylandla is banker turned entrepreneur, Mylandla is known for his expertise and vision for the Indian payments industry. He has pioneered and spearheaded the marketing and support of retail and wholesale payment solutions in India.

As the leader at the helm of FSS and face of the company, Mylandla has molded FSS as a technology services provider with comprehensive expertise across the payments ecosystem.

Sharada Mylandla

Director

Sharada comes from a unique background of Advertising and Communication Development. During the earlier days of her career, she has consulted top advertising firms like Ogilvy & Mather, Mudra, Rediffusion DY&R and Euro RSCG.

Sharada strongly believes that technology must act as an extension of the people using them, helping make their lives simpler. Creative, passionate, acute observer, empathiser, discoverer and deep-thinker are some of the words that could be used to describe Sharada’s lively personality. At a personal level, she is very keen on helping FSS’ women employees make a mark in their careers.

Bala Deshpande

Director

Bala Deshpande is the Senior Managing Director of New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd based in Mumbai and is responsible for creating and building the India platform for NEA.  Before joining NEA, she served as a Senior Director of Investments at ICICI Venture where she used her operational experience to identify opportunities for investment and played a strategic role in shaping the future of investee companies.

Bala has been a Director in several companies including Pantaloon Retail, Air Deccan, Nagarjuna Construction, Welspun, TechProcess Solutions, Info Edge etc. Her private equity experience has seen the full cycle from nurturing young companies to executing multiple exits including IPOs, buy-backs, strategic sales, and capital market divestments.

In addition, Bala has worked with leading multinational companies such as Bestfoods, Cadburys, and ICI. At Bestfoods, she was part of the Strategic Planning Team and was nominated for the Women Leadership Forum held at Bestfoods, New York.

Bala has a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Jamnalal Bajaj, Mumbai.

Srinivas Chidambaram

Director

Srinivas Chidambaram is the Managing Director of Jacob Ballas Capital India Pvt Ltd. (JBC) and is responsible for fund investments, day to day operations of the company and supervising the management team.

Srinivas joined JBC in 2005. He has 21 years of financial services and industry experience, including 13 years of private equity experience in India. From 2001 to 2003, Srinivas worked with HSBC Private Equity (Asia) Ltd, Hong Kong, responsible for private equity investments in India and South East Asia; previously, he served with its affiliate in India for six years, based in New Delhi. From October 2003 until March 2005, he served with HCL Technologies Ltd, a leading Indian IT services company, in the USA and in India, responsible for financial institution relationships and strategic alliances in the investment banking technology and operations division.

Srinivas commenced his career with SRF Finance Ltd. (since acquired by GE Capital) where he was responsible for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, based in Bombay. Srinivas holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Kerala and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Vijendar Dwarakanath

Director

Vijendar Dwarakanath is Director & CFO of Napean Trading and Investment Company (Singapore) PTE Ltd, part of Premji Invest group. He is responsible for Singapore operations and also heads portfolio finance for few India investments in the buyout fund.

Vijendar has 17 years of experience across various Industries. Vijendar joined Premji Invest in 2021 and was initially based out in Bangalore before moving to Singapore. In addition to being a CFO of Singapore entity, he is finance partner for buyout fund in India and US growth equity investments responsible for transactions and portfolio management. Prior to Premji Invest, From 2019 to 2020 Vijendar worked in Wework as Senior Director, heading pricing, business finance & analytics. Prior to that, 2017 to 2019, Vijendar worked in Myntra as Director Finance, a fashion ecommerce company part of Flipkart group heading business finance for the company.

Vijendar started his career in Wipro Technologies in 2006 and played multiple roles across in India & UK across various divisions. In his last stint in Wipro, he was CFO for Industrial Manufacturing vertical based in UK.

Vijendar graduated with a National Rank in Chartered Accountancy course and is a member of ICAI.