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Starting out as a Manger of Finance and Accounts in Sodexo (Formerly RKHS), quickly walked up the ladder to work various key roles in QIPCO Holding Company, Inflow Technologies and serving as VP Finance in Embrace Innovations. He holds an illustrious profile of streamlining financial and accounts processes to better reflect the current trends and negotiating banking needs of the company. With an eye to detail and key understanding of various industries, Srinivasan brings a wealth of experience as Chaitanya’s Chief Financial Officer.

He came to Chaitanya with a vast experience of more than 40 years, starting as Senior Audit Assistant with U P PAI & Company, Chartered Accountant Firm in Mumbai. He has worked in various industries like Insurance, Pharma and Construction. Vasudeva joined as a Financial Controller in the year 2009 to Chaitanya and is one of the earliest employees, and has played a significant role in its growth story.

With a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from Mangalore University and started his career in a Chartered Accountants firm. He has played a key role in Chaitanya's growth story. Currently he is Head of Business Support, and handles Accounts, Financial Control across all branches, setting up processes through ERP and providing Training & support for operational team.

Starting his career as a computer faculty and high school teacher, he moved to Azeem Premji Foundation, where he trained Government teachers and students about Computer Aided Learning, focusing mainly in the rural areas of the country. He has been one of the early employees of Chaitanya and has been instrumental in designing and developing training programs for employees.

After his Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Govt-RC College Bangalore, he completed his Master’s Degree in Commerce through correspondence. He comes to Chaitanya with three years of experience managing Accounts and Finance for Tibil Solutions. He is currently responsible for managing operational data from across the country that provide key insights for strategy and decision making process.

After completing MA in Sociology at Mysore University, he has worked in various NGOs and Government Projects as officer and head of the project teams in tank renovation and watershed project activities under the Government of Karnataka. He joined Chaitanya’s Audit team in 2010 and is currently the Internal Auditor for South Business Unit.

With direct access to the Board of directors, she plays a key role in ensuring compliance as per the legal and Secretarial standards, and handles statutory compliances under FEMA, RBI and Companies Act 2013.

He hold a Six-Sigma Green Belt certification in Quality Control. He has gained a wealth of knowledge in Credit & Mortgage Underwriting, Process Improvements and Insurance working for institutions like WNS, American Home Mortgage Services India and SLK Pvt Ltd. At Chaitanya he currently handles the different IT necessities of the company along with implementation of digital platforms that support the core business.

He has conducted concurrent audit of the Capital Market Operations for Europe and Asia Pacific Regions, for Deutsche Bank Operational International. At Chaitanya he supervises and reports to the top management about the concurrent financial audits carried out at the branches across the country. He also acts as a Principal Officer in monitoring and reporting of AML.

After earning his I.Sc from Bihar Intermediate Education Council, Sailesh graduated with B.Sc from Veer Kunwar Singh University, Arrah and went on complete his MBA from Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University. Sailesh comes to Chaitanya with a hands on experience of being a Field Executive at BSFL, Relationship Manger at Axis Bank for microfinance and Deputy Branch Manager at ICICI Bank for Retail Banking. He currently heads the Audit Team for the North Business Unit of Chaitanya.

With nearly 10 years of experience prior to starting at Chaitanya in different sectors like Microfinance, Payments and Design Engineering, she has developed a key set of skills in Technology Adoption and Business Development. At NPCI she was instrumental in the RuPay& IMPS business for Co-Operative banks.

He has worked in manufacturing and service sector companies like Batliboi Ltd, Indus Fila Ltd and also holds good experience in social welfare from his work at Agastya International Foundation.

His expertise lies in Recruitment, Performance Appraisal and HR Policy Creation and Implementation. He has been instrumental in setting up two Start-Up enterprises where he recruited the staff from scratch to 250+ employees and comes to Chaitanya with experience in managing entire gamut of end-to-end HR activities.

An avid reader, Abhik has had a panoramic exposure to Corporate, Retail and Microfinance sectors across Banks, NBFCs and more. He brings a wealth of experience to Chaitanya from his career at Indian Railways, Axis Bank and SREI Equipment Finance Ltd.

She graduated in physics from Stella Maris College, Chennai and did a PGDBA from Annamalai University through distance education program. She comes with a banking experience of about 20+ years having worked in the retail banking space with banks like Dhanlaxmi bank, HDFC and ICICI bank.

With experience as Senior financial Analyst in Spiderlogic India Pvt Ltd and Audit Manager with BK Ramadhyani & Co LLP, she has handled various audits in different industries including, Banking, Manufacturing, Management Services, Software Development and Real Estate. As a manager of Finance and Accounts she play a key role in Finance control of Chaitanya.

His expertise being in timely finalization of accounts, imparting necessary training for juniors and providing insights and advice in key decision making processes. He graduated with a Master’s Degree of commerce from Andhra University in 2005 and currently at Chaitanya serves as a Manager of Accounts.

He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Sheshadripuram College prior to that. He joined Chaitanya in the Accounts and Finance department, but after recognising his key skills he was asked to manage Debt Fund Raising. He currently maintains relations with bankers and lenders in order to arrange funds in time for the smooth operations of the company and reports to them about the proper utilisation of the funds raised along with progress made in the company.

He is a graduate in Industrial and Product Engineering from SGS Institute of Technology and Science and an MBA in HR from Devi Ahilya University Indore. He has gained a wealth of experience in Organisation Development, Performance management, LeadershipHiring &Coaching, and Employee Relations while working with institutions like Indo-German Tool Room, Tata Motors, Eicher Tractors, Flipkart and with Charoan Pokhphand Company.

He was managing his own Audit Firm for about 8 years where he was a consultant for various clientele in Finance, Accounts, Audit and Taxation areas. His expertise being mainly in Risk based Internal Audits, Fraud Investigation and Special Audits. He moved to Chaitanya from M/S Hindusthan National Glass and Industries Ltd where he served as a Senior Manager of Internal Audit.

He has worked in FMCG companies like Pepsi, Parle and Asian Paints before moving to banking and financial services. He served as Branch Manager in ICICI Bank and as AVP Branch Head in HDFC Bank. Prior to joining Chaitanya, he was with IFMR rural channels and services as deputy CEO. He currently serves as a President of Operations for the South Business Unit.

He was instrumental in starting SKS’s operations in Central Maharashtra and later scaling up to Bihar and Jharkhand. Later he moved to ‘Deworm the World’ Initiative as a program manager for Bihar. He worked in tandem with Government of Bihar in conducting two of the ‘World’sLargest School based Deworming Program’. He joined Chaitanya as President of Operations North Business Unit and has been instrumental in the expansion story of Chaitnaya.

He came to Chaitanya with over 15 years of experience in community development programmes, SHG based Microfinance, Vocational Training and Enterprise Development Programs. He was also involved in various participatory research and impact evaluation studies in the rural areas. He currently serves as the Head of Collections at Chaitanya and was instrumental in handling the post demonetisation crisis.

Starting his career as a computer faculty and high school teacher, he moved to Azeem Premji Foundation, where he trained Government teachers and students about Computer Aided Learning, focusing mainly in the rural areas of the country. He has been one of the early employees of Chaitanya and has been instrumental in designing and developing training programs for employees.

He has worked with both NGOs and Microfinance institutions before joining Chaitanya as a Regional Manager. He led the way for Chaitanya in setting up our operations in Kalburgi and is currently the Divisional Manger there.

He has worked with various Government and NGOs at various capacities focusing on Public Health, HIV-AIDS and Child Protection. He has been instrumental in HR management, Community Organisation and Technical Support for around 15 Self Help Groups of Female Sex Workers in Badami Taluk of Bagalkot. He currently serves as Divisional Manager at Chaitanya.

He comes to Chaitanya with nearly 14 years of experience in the Microfinance Industry and Social Welfare. He has worked for NGOs like Swasti where he has worked for the betterment of women groups by facilitating in building community institutions. He currently serves as a Divisional Manager at Shivamogga.

He started his career at DHAN Foundation handling the federation of Women Self Help Groups. He worked at Vidya Poshak NGO before moving to Grameen Koota where he served as Regional Training Manager for North Karnataka. Before joining to Chaitanya, he was working with HDFC Bank as a cluster head of Microfinance at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.

He has also worked as a Training Co-ordinator for SHGs creating awareness about Entrepreneurship. He joined Chaitanya as a branch manager in 2010 and currently serves as Divisional Manager at Champaran, Bihar.

His expertise mainly lie in project planning, evaluation, deployment, project estimation, scheduling, implementation, a provision of technical assistance and capacity building to government, non-government organization and community based organizations on gender issues, children, livelihood, youth development, sexual health, HIV prevention, fostering partnership with government, social marketing and advocacy networks. Prior to joining Chaitanya, Nitin has worked in public health sector of HIV prevention with reputed organization such NACO, HLFPPT, Avert Society and Population Services International wherein he has contributed significantly in reducing vulnerability of among High Risk Groups and in prevention of new HIV infection. His role at Chaitanya involves strategic planning, partnership development, and overseeing the many programs while also risk management and mitigation.

He is a graduate from Institute of Rural Management, Anand and also has a B.E in Information Science from VTU Belgaum. He has completed ASEAN Leadership Program. A carnatic classical singer, Nagachetan came to Chaitanya from Vistaar Financial Services where he served as Deputy VP and Product Head.

He has handled large volumes of Credit, Products, Sales, Collections, Operations and Customer Service while working with HDFC Bank, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, Vistaar Financial Service Pvt Ltd and Bajaj Auto Finance Ltd. He comes with a wealth of knowledge in the secured and unsecured loans sector and currently Heads the Credit department at Chaitanya.

He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Mahatma Phule Agriculture University, Rahuri and holds an MBA in Agri-Business from Symbiosis Institute of International Business, Pune. A travel enthusiast, Nitin comes to Chaitanya after working closely with prestigious institutions like YES Bank and NABARD.

He comes to Chaitanya after gaining five years of experience in IT and Finance sectors with Hasman Software Solutions and Vistaar Financial Services. He has a dual specialization in Systems and Marketing and is currently serving as a Product Manager at Chaitanya.

Prior to joining Chaitanya, Nagaraj had varied experiences both social work and corporate institutions with a keen understanding of rural businesses and rural community handling. He has worked as a community organiser for SNEHA-NGO, and Azeem Premji Foundation on program impact evaluation projects in schooling. From his time as a Branch Manager to being Divisional Manager, Nagaraj has merged his keen sense of rural communities and sharp commercial sense to provide outstanding results.

His expertise lies in leading teams, managing diverse range of loan products, along with cross selling products by promoting organisation’s business and his keen understanding of rural markets. He is currently the Divisional Manager at Solapur.