MD & CEO

 

V.P. Nandakumar

 

Shri V.P. Nandakumar is the Managing Director and CEO of Manappuram Finance Ltd. based at Valapad (Thrissur District), Kerala. Manappuram Finance Ltd. was the first listed corporate entity in India to enter the field of gold loans and it went on to transform this traditional business.

 

The company's origins go back to 1949 when it was founded in Valapad (a coastal village in the Thrissur District of Kerala) by the late V.C. Padmanabhan, father of Shri Nandakumar. Its activity was mainly money lending carried out on a modest scale. Shri Nandakumar took over the reins of this one branch business in the year 1986 upon the demise of his father.