Partho H. Chakraborty, Arvind Sonmale
Arvind
Sonmale
is a career banker having been in the finance sector for more than 36
years. He has been with State Bank of India for about 10 years, with
Export-Import Bank of India for 20 years and as the MD & CEO of Global
Trade Finance for over 6 years.
Arvind
Sonmale has in a sense been a pioneer in introducing International Factoring in
India through his stewardship of Global Trade Finance (GTF) which had an 85%
market share of international factoring in India. He was with GTF between 2004 and
2010 and during this period transformed this start-up factoring company into
one of India’s top factoring companies.
GTF
won the 1
st Prize in Marketing in 2006 awarded by Factors Chain
International (FCI) amongst its over 200 members spread over 60 countries.
He
is an experienced practitioner of international factoring and has shared his
large body of experience in this book for the benefit of those engaged in
Factoring today.
Partho has over 20 years experience in
Banking and Financial Services. He is an expert in transaction banking,
consulting and business development and has extensively advised banks and corporates.
He has trained people in Transaction banking for over a decade and has worked
in Pioneering Forfaiting and Commodity Loans Transactions.
He was the ex-Representative of
Standard Bank London Ltd and the Advisor to The South African Trade Desk. He
has put up 18 papers in Slideshare and it can be viewed through LinkedIn also. Kindly
use the link:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/parthohc
Currently he is The CEO of Annona IT
Solutions Pvt. Ltd. which is a Start-up in Supply Chain Finance providing
innovative IT solutions.
He holds a B.Sc. degree in Maths from
Mumbai University and an MBA from Pondicherry University with First Class and he
is a member of professional bodies such as Equinoccio, Guidepoint Global, etc.