Vedanarayanan Seshadri

Mr Vedanarayanan Seshadri is the Managing Director & Principal Officer of Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd, the Insurance broking subsidiary of Mahindra Finance. Prior to joining Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd in Feb’21, Mr Vedanarayanan was the President and COO for Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co. Ltd.

Veda is a management professional with 28 years of overall experience of which 18 years have been in the BFSI sector handling various assignments in Retail Banking, Life and Non Life Insurance.

Starting his career with Eicher Motors Ltd in automotive sales, he worked with BILT (Ballarpur Industries Ltd) in business development & internal consulting roles before joining ICICI Bank in 2003. In the retail Bank he worked in roles across both retail liabilities and assets and headed Product Development and Cross sell for the Mortgage business.

In 2007, he moved to Tata AIA Life Insurance handling several senior roles in Strategic planning, Partnership acquisition and heading the Eastern Zone for Tata AIA life. In 2012, Veda joined the non life company of the Murugappa Group, Chola MS General Insurance ltd as the Chief Marketing officer. In his 8 year stint with Chola MS, he built a strong retail franchise and handled multiple roles including setting up the Health Insurance SBU before taking over as President and COO in 2020.

An Engineer by profession, Veda has done his PGDM from MDI- Gurgaon and has also completed his Advanced Management Program (AMP) from INSEAD France.