Mr. Rakesh Dubey is a Management Graduate. He has more than 20 years of experience in the Microfinance domain and has an expertise of setting up MFIs- domestic as well as internationally.
Prior to joining the SVCL team, Mr. Dubey has co-founded SONATA Finance Pvt. Limited and CASHPOR, the leading Micro Finance Institutions which are serving more than 2 million households in the Hindi heartland .

Anand Rao is the cofounder and managing director of Chaitanya Microfinance. He has been with Chaitanya for the past 5 years. He has 2 years of experience in the corporate sector and 6 years of experience in the development sector. In the corporate sector, he has worked at Bosch India and Pepsico. In the development sector, he has worked at World Resources Institute, Washington DC and in India at Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development Fund.

Meenal Patole is the promoter and CEO of Agora Microfinance India Limited an MFI that is engaged in urban space, currently in Mumbai, with strong focus on customer oriented business processes and impact. Meenal graduated from the University of Mumbai with Politics and Public Administration majors, holds a post graduate degree (MA in Political Science and International Relations) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and MPhil in Planning and Development from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Shel has nearly two decades of experience in microfinance and livelihood promotion and research. She also has also written and co-authored publications.

Mr. Devesh Sachdev is the cofounder & CEO of Fusion Microfinance Pvt. Ltd. Transparency, Governance and commitment to create value for all stakeholders keeping clients at the centre are key values of Fusion. He is a XLRI Post Graduate with 16 years of experience in the Service Industry prior to starting this venture. Amongst the diverse experiences, his expertise lies in building business, managing large teams in a cost efficient manner, strategy, key relationship management and handling all dimensions of the business. Devesh has served various Boards since 2008.

Mr. Dibyajyoti Pattanaik is the Director of Bhubaneswar headquartered Annapurna Microfinance. Mr. Pattanaik has over 12 years of experience in microfinance, micro-enterprise development and development sector consulting. He has worked with Public and Development Sector institutions in various roles before joining Peoples’ Forum as Program Head & CFO in 2007. He played a crucial role in the transformation of mission Annapurna to Annapurna Micro Finance Private Limited, which now operating as an NBFC-MFI across 10 states of India. He holds a Post Graduate in Management from Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad with specialisation in micro finance and micro enterprise management; he also holds a management certificate in microfinance from Boulder Institute of Management, USA.

Mr Mohammad Nooruddin Amin, Managing Director of Adhikar Micro finance Pvt Ltd. working in the field of financial Inclusion in the Eastern Part of India, Odisha being the focus state. He is one of the early votaries of Micro finance movement. He innovated the concept of Money remittance for the migrant workers and also initiated the cooperative movement in the state of odisha. Mr Amin is experimenting the Micro finance for about two decades in extremely difficult conditions including left wing extremist affected districts of odisha and Chhatisgarh. He was a human rights activists studied Law from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, studied Human Rights in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, later on trained in Garmin Bank and subsequently in Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. He got the Ashoka Fellowship from Ashoka Trust, USA in 1996.

Mr. Udaya Kumar joined Grameen Koota as Chief Executive Officer in September 2010. He is a veteran in the financial services field with over 25 years of experience in the banking sector. He has previously worked with Corporation Bank for 10 years, ICICI Bank for over 12 years and Barclays Bank Plc. for three years.

Mr. Kumar has been exposed to Operations, Credit Management, Product development, Technology and Business Development in banking. His exposure to Rural, Agri and Micro Banking during his association with ICICI Bank made him set his personal goal to work in the Social Sector. Prior to joining Grameen Koota, he was spearheading the commercial, payment and branch operations at Barclays Bank Plc, India. In the course of his career,Mr. Kumar has successfully imbibed technical, qualitative and managerial skills and been part of a team implementing process initiatives like Centralizing Operations, Process re-engineering, Six Sigma Quality Initiatives, Five-S principles for workplace management and implementation of ISO Standard in banking operations.
Mr. Udaya Kumar holds a Master's degree in commerce, CAIIB from the Indian Institute of Bankers and is also a graduate in Bank operations and technology from BAI, USA.

Mr. Rajat Kathuria is Director and Chief Executive at the national think tank Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. He worked with Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) during its first eight years (1998-2006). He has worked with the World Bank, Washington DC as a Consultant and carried out project assignments for a number of organizations, including ILO, UNCTAD, Lirne Asia, Ernst and Young, Consultancy Development Centre (CDC) and Standing Committee for Public Enterprises (SCOPE). He has an undergraduate degree in Economics from St. Stephens College, a Master’s from Delhi School of Economics and a PhD degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mr. Vinay Baijal retired as Chief General Manager (CGM) from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after working there for 35 years. He worked as CGM, Department of Banking Operations and Development, Central Office RBI for four years, dealing with regulatory framework for foreign banks in India, with emphasis on International banking and Anti-Money Laundering. As CGM, Foreign Exchange Department, Central Office, RBI he dealt with policy framing and implementation of exchange control in India. Mr Baijal was the founding CEO of Banking Codes and Standards Board of India (BCSBI). Mr Baijal also worked as a member of the SEBI “Committee on Mis-selling of Mutual Funds” in 2011-12. He is associated as a senior consultant with KPMG.

Mr. Navin Kumar Maini is the Deputy Managing Director of SIDBI. He has more than three and a half decades of experience in the commercial and development banking in various facets of financing MSMEs & Large Corporate, Micro Credit and Core Business functions. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE), Mumbai. An alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi, Mr. Maini holds a Degree in Law from Delhi University. He is also a Postgraduate in Management from MDI and IIFT, besides being a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance.

Belonging to the 1987 batch of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Ms. Vishwanathan comes with extensive experience across a range of departments of the Government of India including Defense and Prasar Bharti. In the development sector she has served at very senior levels in well-known international NGOs such as Oxfam and VSO. She steered these entities through critical change management processes as they transitioned from international liaison offices to ‘full fledged Indian entities’. Ratna Vishwanathan is a Director on the Board of Mudra, Member of the RBI’s Financial Inclusion Advisory Committee and Chairperson of the South Asian Microfinance Network.

Achla has been working with MFIN since April 2014 and is responsible for looking after the state and regional chapters and the new category of Associateship of MFIN. She earlier worked with Sa-Dhan, the Association of Community Development Finance Institutions for thirteen years and contributed extensively for the widening and deepening of financial inclusion in urban and rural India across models and approaches, facilitated dialogue between different stakeholders-people, policy makers,service providers for better understanding and appreciation of diverse models. Achla is a qualified Company Secretary and has also done her law from CCS University.

Sugandh’s work at MFIN includes research and data analytics, industry development initiatives and member services among other things. Before joining MFIN in 2011, she has worked with SEWA, ITC and ACTED across a range of development themes. Sugandh holds an engineering degree from MNNIT, Allahabad and post graduate in Social policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Vaishali Mishra is a communication and marketing specialist with 13 years of experience having worked both in the development and corporate sectors. She has worked in various capacities ranging from project management to communication and marketing strategist in various international organisations such as the Commonwealth Secretariat, the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Deutsche Welthungerhilfe. She has completed her Masters’ in International Journalism from the City University, London, United Kingdom and her graduation from University of Delhi in Mass Communication and Media. At MFIN she heads the Communications and Marketing vertical.

Amit Mathur is a financial inclusion professional with more than 6 years of work experience. In MFIN he is working as AVP – Development and Information Hub. He has worked with BASIX & ICICI Lombard GIC Ltd. on group health insurance (Micro Insurance product) in past. His most recent association was with the World Bank Group in the sphere of Digital Financial services. Amit has a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from IRMA, Anand.

Devika has over six years of professional experience in the microfinance and insurance sector having worked with SKS Microfinance, ICICI Lombard and most recently with M-CRIL. Devika has Post Graduate and Diploma in Rural Management (PGDRM) from IRMA...

Ms. Sheetal Prasad has joined MFIN as Manager, Self Regulation and Compliance with effect from April 01, 2016. Prior to this she was handling commercialisation of ICAR Technologies and Capacity building of various stakeholders with Agrinnovate India Limited, which is a company under Ministry of Agriculture, Govt of India. She has 3 years of rich experience with ICICI Bank ltd both in SME (asset side working capital funding of credit and non credit facilities) and Retail Branch banking (As Deputy Branch manager handling entire branch operations) divisions. Before Joining ICICI Bank, She was associated with BASIX in Bhartiya Samruddhi Finance Limited (BSFL), a NBFC dealing with microfinance and livelihood sustainability in Credit and Risk management team and has also handled microfinance operations in the field level as Unit Manager.

Sankalp Tripathi has joined as Manager - Grievance Redressal, as part of SRO team at MFIN. Sankalp comes with three years of experience. Prior to MFIN, Sankalp was working with GIZ on rural insurance and agriculture value chain development projects. He has worked briefly with Yes Bank and Ananya Finance on internship assignments related to financial literacy, process mapping and loan product development. Sankalp has a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from IRMA, Anand and a Master’s degree from TISS, Mumbai.

Jay Tripathi, serves as the Manager, Regulation and Surveillance for MFIN India. He has more than six years of experience from a diverse background in consultancy, CSR, NGO’s and Media. He has worked with, Mancer consulting services, Katha, Swayam Siddha and Daily News and analysis in the past. He holds a masters degree in International development from the University of Manchester. He has also studied journalism from Asian College of Journalism and Business Administration from Symbiosis

Jatinder Handoo is financial inclusion professional with over 7 years of experience in retail banking, microfinance, public policy research and agency banking space within and outside of India. In past, he has worked at companies like SBI,HDFC Bank Ltd, MIX Inc and FINO PayTech Ltd. Jatinder has a Master’s in Public policy from India and has attended program in Public Policy Improvement offered by EPoD at Harvard University and Summer School Programme for Leadership in Development at Sanford School of Public Policy (Duke University Durham,N.C) and IIM Udaipur. Jatinder loves travelling, meeting people, reading non-fiction and blogging. At MFIN he works in the area of Advocacy and Development.

Mrinal is involved with advocacy, COC Compliance, public relations, members and external stakeholders engagement and regional level policy interventions with regulatory authorities and state apparatus. Mrinal has worked as an advocate at the Indore Bench of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh while also working with organizations having social and public centric activities. His area of engagement was youth and farmers.

Habib Shaik is a finance expert with about 12 years of experience. Prior to MFIN, Habib was associated with Sa-Dhan (The Association of Community Development Finance Institutions) as a “Senior Executive-State coordinator”, responsible for the member services of Noth-East and Eastern region (viz. Assam, Manipur, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh) of the country. An MBA graduate from Bangalore University, he has also worked for 6 years in the retail finance industry.Habib has also been recognised as a “Smart Assessor” by the “Smart Campaign.”

Suyog Pradhan is a Regional Manager- West Zone. Prior to MFIN, Suyog spent two years working at Microfinance Opportunities, International NGO working in the space of Financial Education and Capability Development of Low income households globally after his three years stint at Financial Inclusion Network & Operations Ltd. (FINO), the largest business correspondent organization in India, helping them to build the capacity of the field officers, general staff, mid-management & end consumers through the design and development of innovative tools for training. Suyog has been responsible for designing Financial Literacy curriculum as well as delivering a range of Financial Capacity Development solutions. In the past he has worked with organizations like CMS Info Systems Pvt. Ltd & Hero Mind Mine setting up training verticals for the frontline staff to Senior Management level. Suyog holds a Bachelors of Commerce & Masters in Management in Human Resources & Training from Mumbai University

PM Kamalesh has over 12 years of rich experience .
Prior to MFIN, Kamalesh was associated with Sa-Dhan (The Association of Community Development Finance Institutions) as  Regional Manager responsible for the member services of South region(Viz Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka) of the country, He also completed online course of Social Enterprise and Microfinance Experts from University of libre de Bruxelles.
He has pursued his MBA Finance from National Institute of Business Management, BA in Economics from Annamalai University and software engineering from Computer Maintenance Corporation.

Sharad holds a MBA degree in Finance and is also a law graduate. He brings with him about 15 years of rich experience in financial management, grants management, statutory compliances and accounting practices. He also has experience of handling HR and Administration functions in various International NGOs. Over the past 15 years Sharad has worked with eminent INGOs such as Oxfam, HIV / AIDS Alliance, and Nippon Foundation before joining MFIN. Sharad will be managing the portfolios of Finance, HR and Admin in MFIN.