Mr. Conrad D’Souza currently serves as a Member of the Executive Management and Chief Investor Relations Officer of Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC), a leading housing Finance Company in India. He has been with HDFC since 1984.
In HDFC Mr. D’Souza is responsible for strategy, corporate planning and budgeting, corporate finance and investor relations, wholesale lending to corporate and other non individual entities. He had held the position of Treasurer of HDFC for nine years and responsibilities included fund management, investments, resource mobilisation both domestic and international, asset liability management and investor relations. He has been associated with HDFC’s international funding from the multilateral agencies and in the international syndicate loan markets and the Floating Rate Note issue of July 2002 won the IFR Asia India Capital Markets Deal of the year for 2002. He also managed HDFC’s US $ 500 million Foreign Currency Convertible Bond issue which was the largest issue out of Asia in 2005.
He serves on the Boards of HDFC Investments Ltd., India, HDFC Education And Development Services Pvt. Ltd., India, HDFC Holdings Ltd., India, HDFC Sales Pvt. Ltd., India, Chalet Hotels Pvt. Ltd., India, Kooh Sports Pvt. Ltd., India, Association of Finance Professionals of India (AFPI), HDFC Sales Pvt. Ltd., India and Housing Development Finance Corporation plc, Maldives. He has been a consultant to USAID / UNDP and IFC (Washington) and has undertaken assignments in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.This gentleman has a Master’s Degree in Commerce, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and is a Senior Executive Program (SEP) graduate of the London Business School.