Our Team

Swapnil Dixit

Swapnil is Vice President, Product at Avanti. He is an engineer from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from UC Berkeley. Swapnil is a passionate educationist and design thinker. He spends his free time introducing the concepts of design thinking to students and making oscar worthy home videos with his children.

Sushil Thaker

Sushil is Vice President, Finance at Avanti. He is an ACA, ACS and Bcom. He manages to work out daily; by running behind his curious nimble footed toddler. In his free time he enjoys Ornithology and working on his life time pet project: his balcony garden.

Chitra Marian

Chitra is Executive Assistant to CEO and Avanti's Office Manager. An MBA in Marketing, Chitra ensures that Avanti's admin runs smoothly. Outside of work, Chitra's all time love is baking.  But her long time interest is to explore Hydroponic farming and it will not be a surprise if the Avanti team meets her as a farmer one day.

Gaurang Tiwari

Gaurang is a part of the Partnerships and Field Operations team at Avanti. He specializes in Rural Management from Xavier Institute of Social Sciences, Ranchi. His passions include travelling and cooking.

Karthik Pai

Karthik is the Finance Guy in the Avanti Team. He holds a BCom and is a Chartered Accountant who is passionate about travel and food.

Manu Prashanth

Nalini Chinta

Nalini works with the Operations team at Avanti. She has completed her  MBA and B.com.   A woman of many talents, most notably, dancing and acting. She has recently developed a liking for boxing a few heads off in her free time. 

Nilansha Tiwari

Nilansha is a development professional who works with the partnerships and operations team. She leads the branding, communications and financial literacy initiatives of Avanti. She has a Masters in Development Economics from IDS, University of Sussex. She has a passion for travelling, politics and public policy.

Sainath S

Sainath is a part of the Partnerships and Operations team which he prefers to call the Problems and Solutions team as his role is to help customise the platform on ground to ensure financial inclusion of unserved customers. An MBA in Financial Management, he is a sports and happiness enthusiast.

Sashi Pandey

Sashi is  part of the Partnerships and Operations team and is responsible for scale and impact by curating partners, use cases and products. 

Urvashi Bahirsheth

Urvashi is Avanti's Company Secretary. She has completed her Bcom, L.L.B and C.S. She is a food explorer with a zest for life and loves reading books authored by Sudha Murthy.