Chairman's Profile

Our founder Chairman, Mr. V.S. Raveendran Pillai was born in a business family. He started his business career by assisting his father in their family business. On acquiring the business acumen and confidence, he ventured into dealership of buying and selling of old and new vehicles.

Thereafter, he started General Finance, a finance company along with a partner. Understanding its potential growth, one more partner joined the team to register it as a private limited entity. The finance business grew with consistent growth in the subsequent years and the management team was expanded to 7 directors. The company’s core business was to provide finance for purchase of vehicles, popularly known as Hire Purchase Business. With a tremendous growth in finance business the company was then formed as Art Leasing Limited and got the RBI registration. The Board of Directors then decided to divert from hire purchase business to other lucrative segments like Chitty, Gold Loan, Business Loan, etc. For rendering this valuable service to the masses, the company opened several branches covering a wide area in the Central Kerala region.

Mr. Raveendran Pillai continues to be the chairman of the company from the beginning and the company highly values sincerity, trust and satisfactory services to their customers. The management team has expanded to 10 Directors. ART Group of companies currently has 64 branches and many more are in the planning stage.