Our Leadership – Avanti Finance

Rahul Gupta

Chief Executive Officer

Rahul has deep domain expertise in consumer finance in emerging & mature markets across Asia. His positions include President & CEO of GE Money in Singapore & Hong Kong. In his most recent assignment he was MD-Business Development for the complete portfolio of GE businesses in the ASEAN region.

Lalitesh Katragadda

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Lalitesh is a pioneer in crowdsourcing and building population scale platforms for the underserved. His Startup was Google’s first acquisition. He co-founded Google's first international engineering center and retired from Google as Head of India products. His creation Google Mapmaker was used by users to create Google maps in 187 countries which previously had no maps before. Lalitesh has spoken at TED and the Whitehouse.

Manish Thakkar

Chief Operating Officer

Manish has over 22 years of experience in financial services, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, deal negotiation and transaction structuring. He turned entrepreneur after 17 years in Investment Banking including Nomura.

Sunil Kumar Tadepalli

Chief of Partnerships

Sunil has over 22 years of experience, across industries, in Organization Effectiveness, Strategy and Executive Coaching. He has worked in diverse cultural contexts & led global teams. Sunil has worked with C suite clients and has prior consulting experience in Financial Services. His previous role was with Accenture in Strategy.

Alexander John

Chief Risk Officer

Alex leads Avanti's Enterprise Risk framework and is responsible for managing credit risk, operational risk, underwriting, collections and overall portfolio management. He has 23 years of experience in senior roles at Citibank, RBS and Janabank across diverse banking businesses. His experience includes leading and building Businesses, Risk Management & Analytics, Underwriting, Collections, and Business Strategy. His last role was at Jana Bank, where he was leading the Small Business segment for the bank.