Mr. Vedanarayanan Seshadri is the Managing Director & Principal Officer of Mahindra Insurance
Brokers Ltd, the Insurance broking subsidiary of Mahindra Finance. Prior to joining Mahindra
Insurance Brokers Ltd in Feb’21, Mr Vedanarayanan was the President and COO for Cholamandalam
MS General Insurance Co. Ltd.
Veda is a management professional with 28 years of overall experience; of which 18 years have been
in the BFSI sector handling various assignments in Retail Banking, Life and Non-Life Insurance.
Starting his career with Eicher Motors Ltd in automotive sales, he worked with BILT (Ballarpur
Industries Ltd) in business development & internal consulting roles before joining ICICI Bank in 2003.
In the retail Bank he worked in roles across both retail liabilities and assets and headed Product
Development and Cross sell for the Mortgage business.
In 2007, he moved to Tata AIA Life Insurance handling several senior roles in Strategic planning,
Partnership acquisition and heading the Eastern Zone for Tata AIA life. In 2012, Veda joined the nonlife company of the Murugappa Group, Chola MS General Insurance ltd as the Chief Marketing
officer. In his 8-year stint with Chola MS, he built a strong retail franchise and handled multiple roles
including setting up the Health Insurance SBU before taking over as President and COO in 2020.
An Engineer by profession, Veda has done his PGDM from MDI- Gurgaon and has also completed his
Advanced Management Program (AMP) from INSEAD France.