Our Leadership Team
NeoGrowth's leadership team brings together diversity of talent and a wealth of experience.
Our Leadership Team
NeoGrowth's leadership team brings together diversity of talent and a wealth of experience.
Arun Kumar Nayyar
Managing Director & CEO
- A Chartered Accountant having a well diversified experience of around 22+ years in the financial services domain.
- Successful track record of building businesses from scratch,scaling up established businesses and managing stressed portfolios .
- Led businesses across Micro Enterprise Lending, SME Lending and Consumer Finance
- Deep understanding of key business drivers, risk and product Management, Route to Market and digital lending.
- Experience includes a large retail financing NBFC (Edelweiss), Citibank & CRISIL (A S&P Global Company).
Deepak Goswami
Chief Financial Officer
- A CA, CFA & MBA having well diversified experience of around 23 years in leading strategic planning, finance, treasury, investor relations, compliance and project implementation
- Worked as CFO for Samaaru India & Samaaru Finance. Prior to Samaaru, he has worked as CFO with Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited
- He also had a long stint in GE Capital - SBI Cards as SVP Finance and with Mahindra Comviva & TATA Power.
Manmeet Singh
Chief Business Officer
Amol Deherkar
Chief Product Officer
Vikas Dhankhar
Chief Technology Officer
- 19+ years of experience across Technology Delivery Management, Strategic planning, Architecture Simplification, Front-to-Back Solution Design, and Product Ownership
- Has previously worked with Credit Suisse, Bank of America, and Tech Mahindra across India and Singapore.
- Postgraduate in Business Analytics from BITS Pilani and Computer Science Engineer from MDU Rohtak.
Yogesh Nakhwa
EVP - Operations , Customer Service and Business Excellence
- Yogesh has over 26 years of diversified experience in Operations Delivery, Projects, Customer Experience and Business Excellence and has worked with manufacturing , consulting , digital payments and lending organizations.
- He is an Engineer by Qualification and has completed his MBA in Marketing from Welingkar Institute , Mumbai.
- Prior to joining NeoGrowth , Yogesh has worked with Sodexo SVC India, Atos Worldline and Godrej & Boyce Ltd. delivering key projects in digitalizing the customer journey and deploying critical operational and project deliverables for these organization.
Gauri Shah
SVP - Risk & Credit Policy
- 19+ years of experience in Credit Underwriting, Process Migration and Simplification, Portfolio Monitoring, and Credit Policy across a vast range of products in secured and unsecured lending with leading NBFCs and Banks.
- Master’s in Business Administration (Finance) from Institute of Business Management & Research, Pune and Government Diploma in Co-operation and Accountancy (G.D.C&A) and Executive Programme in Fintech, Banking & Applied Risk Management from IIM Lucknow..
- Previously worked with SMFG India Credit Co. Ltd., Barclays Finance, HSBC, and CitiFinancial Consumer Finance Ltd.
Vasudha Chaudhry
SVP – Credit
- 20+ years of experience in Underwriting, Portfolio Monitoring and Risk Management across a vast range of Retail Asset products in Secured and Unsecured with leading Banks and NBFCs.
- Previously worked with Edelweiss Group, Barclays Bank, ABN Amro and CitiFinancial
- Post Graduate Diploma in Finance & Marketing from National Institute of Management, Kolkata and Bachelors in Commerce from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi.
Vikas Kumar Kortalwar
SVP- Human Resources
- Vikas has 19+ years of rich industry experience having worked in sectors like Financial Services, Media, FMCG/ Manufacturing, and Information Technology.
- He holds a master’s degree - PGD-PMIR from XLRI Jamshedpur and a bachelor’s degree in chemical Engineering.
- Previously he was in an entrepreneurial stint as Co-Founder at HRforU, after serving as a Head HR at TVF (a Digi Tech entertainment Startup) and at SBFC. He has also worked in leadership positions at HDFC AMC, Pidilite Industries Ltd etc.
Kapil Bhalchandra Talati
SVP - Internal Audit and Controls
- Kapil has over 20 years of experience in Internal Audit and related areas such as Risk Assurance while working in the NBFC and Banking space. He is a qualified CA and has completed his B. Com from the Mumbai University.
- He was with Edelweiss Group for over 6 years before joining us. Significant achievements of Kapil in the role included the implementation of the Internal Audit Policy and the development of a Risk assessment framework at the Group level.
- Prior to this, he was with DBOI Global Services (part of Deutsche Bank Group) for 9 years. As an AVP & Deputy Team Head. He has spent his formative years at ABN Amro Bank and ING Vysya Bank.
Sanjay Rawat
Chief Compliance Officer
- Sanjay has 16 years of experience in Compliance domain within Banking and Non-Banking Finance space. He is qualified CA and completed his B. Com (Hons.) from Delhi University.
- He was with L&T Finance for over 1 year handling RBI Inspection, Compliance Testing, Advisory for retail asset products including regulatory advice on Fair Practices Code, Outsourcing, KYC, Digital Lending & other matters before joining us.
- Prior to this, he was with DBS Bank for more than 7 years. His role involved, apart from all the relevant Compliance functions, advisory responsibilities for retail banking and handling projects pertaining to Credit Card & Mobile Banking App launch, Automation of Compliance activities, Integration of systems/returns pursuant to amalgamation of DBS Bank & LVB Bank.
- He has spent his formative years with RBL bank and ICICI Bank.