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Jio Financial names Sandeep Khetan group chief risk officer
Khetan gets five-year term after joining last year
MUMBAI: Jio Financial Services Limited has announced a change in its senior management personnel, with the board accepting the resignation of group chief risk officer S Anantharaman, and appointing Sandeep Khetan as his successor.
Anantharaman will step down at the close of business on 20 March, 2026. Khetan will assume charge as group chief risk officer for a five-year term beginning 23 March, following approvals from the nomination and remuneration committee and the group risk management committee.
Khetan joined Jio Financial in July 2025 as head of integrated risk management. Since then, he has played a key role in building a unified risk governance framework across the company’s lending, insurance and payments businesses, with a focus on technology-led controls and a strengthened second line of defence.
A chartered accountant with over 24 years of experience, Khetan previously spent more than two decades at ICICI Bank, where he held senior roles across credit appraisal, risk policy, SME and MSME lending, supply chain finance, and retail and business banking distribution.
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Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
