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
Ravi Valia
Chief Risk Officer
- Ravi Valia brings with him over 22 years of in-depth experience in Risk, Underwriting, and Operations across Banks and NBFCs. He has successfully led and managed risk strategies for diverse retail products, including Business Loans, Rural Loans, Home Loans, Gold Loans, and Agri Loans.
- Ravi holds graduation degree from Mumbai University and is an alumnus of Narsee Monji Institute of Management Studies.
- In his career, Ravi has held leadership roles at organizations such as IDFC First Bank, Bajaj Finance and Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd., after building a strong foundation at Standard Chartered Bank, ICICI Bank, and HDFC Bank.
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.