RM Vishakha

CEO
IndiaFirst Life Insurance

RM Vishakha, recognised for her result-oriented leadership approach towards challenging assignments including start-ups, restructuring and reorganisation, has had a diverse career spanning over three decades with special focus on Bancassurance. She was previously associated with IndiaFirst Life as the Chief Business Officer and prior to IndiaFirst Life, she was with Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company Limited as the Director of Sales and Marketing.

Vishakha’s constant endeavour is to maintain a critical balance of functional and company objectives, and to manage employee, manager, distributor and shareholder expectations. Through her ability to drive strategic growth backed by resourceful implementation, she has surpassed several challenges and scaled career-defining milestones, in her longstanding career. She successfully developed bancassurance models within public & private sectors as well as foreign banks and brought into being the first-ever retail bancassurance model. Her wide-ranging experience also comprises building and developing Group Insurance business.

Recognising the achievements through her journey in the Indian insurance domain, ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) honoured RM Vishakha with the Individual Achievement Award 2017. She was also acknowledged with the CA Business Leader – Woman Award from ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India), an eminent Indian statutory body. More recently, Vishakha made it among Fortune India’s list of Most Powerful Women in Business, Women Power Trailblazers by Forbes Asia and was featured in Business World’s Women Power Leaders.

Having ascended the corporate ladder, Vishakha has been dutifully fulfilling her role as a thought leader - voicing opinions on myriad areas of professional excellence - as a veteran member of the BFSI fraternity in august forums such as the ICAI’s Bahrain and Doha chapters and the Outlook Money Conclave. Her thoughts and corporate philosophies, aimed at inspiring and motivating a new generation of thinkers and leaders, have elicited much public and social media acclaim.

Vishakha is a commerce graduate and a Chartered Accountant. She is a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Systems.