A general management professional, he has deep interest in corporate strategy, product management, human centred design, technology management and risk management. Modan comes with extensive experience in the Banking and Financial Services industry where he spent more than 17 years before joining Tata Group in his current role.
In the last role, Modan was responsible for Corporate Strategy, Strategic Investments and New Initiatives of Axis Bank and led the creation of the first bank-led fin-tech lending platform in India, Invoicemart.com. At Axis Bank, he also served in a senior leadership role in Risk Management, managing Enterprise Risk, Market Risk, Risk Analytics, Operational Risk and Risk Data Management. Earlier, as the Joint Managing Director & CEO of Axis Securities, he built a next generation online investment platform and built it into one of the largest and finest retail broking platforms in India. Before that, at ICICI Bank, he was a founding member of the International Business Division and led its Product and strategy function in Private Banking and Global Remittances. Post his MBA, he started his career with Tata Strategic Management Group.
Modan is a graduate in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.