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Ebix Travels taps Arun Batra as new managing director
MUMBAI: Ebix Group has appointed Arun Batra as managing director of Ebix Travels, signalling a renewed push to strengthen leadership across its travel and mobility businesses.
Batra will oversee Ebix’s travel operations across domestic and international markets, taking charge of performance, governance, and long-term value creation. His role includes aligning Ebix’s travel businesses, deepening partnerships, and refining offerings to create a more integrated, execution-driven platform.
With over 30 years of leadership experience spanning fintech, telecommunications, retail, media, and services, Batra has a proven track record of scaling businesses, building distribution networks, and leading large-scale operations. He has previously held senior and CXO roles at HCL, Vodafone, Brightstar Corporation in the USA, Reliance Infocomm, Zee Networks, and Matrix Cellular.
Commenting on the announcement, Ebix group chairman of Eraaya Lifespaces Limited Vikas Garg, “Ebix Travels is a strategic growth engine for the Group. Arun’s expertise strengthens leadership accountability and decision-making as we build a more integrated and execution-focused travel business.”
Batra added, “As the travel industry evolves, building strong teams and delivering customer-focused solutions will be key to sustained growth. I look forward to working with our partners and teams to drive innovation, strengthen execution, and create long-term value for customers and the organisation.”
Ebix Travels spans corporate travel management, Mice, luxury rail journeys, destination management, and technology-enabled travel platforms. Serving diverse customer segments across geographies, it remains a central pillar of Ebix Group’s travel and mobility strategy.
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YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
