Gopal Balachandran

Chief Financial officer

ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited

Gopal Balachandran joined ICICI Lombard in 2002, India’s number one private general insurance company and the first general insurance company in India to be ISO 9001:2000 certified. ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited is a joint venture between ICICI Bank Ltd. and Canada based Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.

Gopal Balachandran completed his Chartered accountancy (CA) course in Year 1998 and Company Secretary (CS) course in year 1999. After completing his CA course, Gopal Balachandran worked with ICICI Bank in the Corporate Accounts and Taxation department for 2 years.

Initially in ICICI Lombard, he was responsible for the accounting of personal lines division and currently he heads following departments:

• 1. Finance & Accounts which has following functions under it: Financial Reporting, Management Reporting, Taxation, Secretarial
• 2. Business Intelligence Unit and
• 3. Risk Management functions.

He has been handling the risk management function since the last one year.