About Us - Management Team

Rajesh has twenty years experience in the financial services sector, of which he has spent ten years in the Indian Life Insurance industry. Visualizing the scope and growth, he became a part of this sunrise industry in 1999, much before it was opened to the private players. Over these years, he has contributed significantly through his strategic vision to the development of the private life insurance industry in areas like regulatory & policy formulation, product development, policyholders’ protection and distribution models. He is widely recognized for the pivotal role he played towards three different life insurance ventures in the country. In the first, he played a critical role as a key project team member that led to the successful formation of the JV. With the second life insurance company, a start-up, he was one amongst the first five employees instrumental in launching and growing its Indian operations. Finally, in his third stint he has been leading another life insurance company – MetLife, of which he is the Managing Director for India for the last three and a half years. Rajesh joined MetLife India in 2006 and has transformed the organization since then. With exceptional skills in business strategy & planning, he has laid the foundation for MetLife’s success in the Indian market.