Vikram S. Pandit

Vikram S. Pandit is currently the Board Member and Lead Independent Director of the EXLs board. He previously served as the Chairman of our board of directors from January 2022 until April 2024. He has been a member of the board of directors since October 2018.

Mr. Pandit is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Orogen Group, an operating company he created with Atairos Group in 2016 that makes significant long-term strategic investments in financial services companies and related businesses with proven business models.

Mr. Pandit spent his career in financial services beginning at Morgan Stanley in 1983, where he ultimately became President and Chief Operating Officer of the institutional securities and investment banking businesses. Mr. Pandit left Morgan Stanley to become a founding member and chairman of the members committee of Old Lane, LP.

When Old Lane was acquired by Citigroup in 2007, Mr. Pandit became Chairman and CEO of Citi Alternative Investments and later led Citi's Institutional Clients Group. Vikram was appointed CEO of Citigroup later in 2007 and led the company during the 2008 financial crisis successfully revitalizing it before he left in October 2012.

Mr. Pandit is a member of the Board of Directors of Fair Square Financial Holdings, Westcor Land Title Insurance Company, and JM Financial Credit Solutions Ltd. Mr. Pandit is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Mr. Pandit earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in finance from Columbia in 1986.