Team
Mani Padmanabhan
Co-Founder & Director
Mani Padmanabhan is a finance and people leader (CA, CMA, and CFE) and a virtual CFO / Advisor/trainer / Financial advisor and author
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Vaneja Mani
Co-Founder & Director
Vaneja is a professional trainer (double Grad, POSH certified, LOA, drama based facilitator) and Freelance counselor, Guide and Mentor for students, teachers and working professionals.
Network
SLR Corporate Services Pvt Ltd
An end to end corporate solutions delivery company having mission to deliver to the needs of businesses in the areas of Process Outsourcing (Accounting, Payroll etc.,), Risk Advisory Services, Tax Advisory Services, Placement Services, Training & Development and Management Consulting
ASC Group
Consulting group with services in diverse areas such as Tax, Advisory, Assurance, and Consulting. ASC believes in delivering economically viable services to industries operating in diverse fields with innovative ideas. Founded as a small CA firm, ASC has now many legal entities and service verticals operating from our 5 offices (Delhi, Noida, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Singapore) and 50 associates throughout India. Our core strength is exhibited in our diverse team of experts, which is now 200+; carefully chosen experts.
S Ramaswamy
Founder of Medha Advisors – a business advisory firm providing consulting services. S Ramaswamy is a former General Counsel with over 30 years of experience with reputed companies like Honda, JCB, Escorts to name a few. He is also chairman GC section of Indian National Bar Association (INBA). He is a prolific speaker both at a national and international level.
Varadarajan Natrajan
Founder of Drona Business Services, an organization that supports its clients with innovative solutions on fundraising in both the equity and the debt space and ensures end to end fulfillment of the funding mandate. Varadarajan is an MBA and also completed the Advanced Management Program from IIM Bangalore. He has an overall experience of close to 27 years in the financial services space. Of this, he has spent 14 years in the lending space with direct exposure to Retail asset finance, Corporate finance, infrastructure asset, and SME finance. He has spent the remaining 13 years in investment banking, advisory roles handling equity offers (IPO / Rights / Offer for sale), takeover offers, raising equity, debt, and advisory services
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Varadarajan Natrajan
Founder of Drona Business Services, an organization that supports its clients with innovative solutions on fundraising in both the equity and the debt space and ensures end to end fulfillment of the funding mandate. Varadarajan is an MBA and also completed the Advanced Management Program from IIM Bangalore. He has an overall experience of close to 27 years in the financial services space. Of this, he has spent 14 years in the lending space with direct exposure to Retail asset finance, Corporate finance, infrastructure asset, and SME finance. He has spent the remaining 13 years in investment banking, advisory roles handling equity offers (IPO / Rights / Offer for sale), takeover offers, raising equity, debt, and advisory services
Senior Advisors
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Jaspal Bajwa - Coach and Consultant driving transformational Leadership & Organizational Vitality across the globe
Jaspal is the founder of ‘Sunya Circle Authentic Leadership Associates’. In addition to a ‘PCC” from the International Coaching Federation (ICF), he is an associate of global thought-leaders like Dr. Marshall Goldsmith & Dr. Fons Trompenaars (for Cultural Intelligence). He is certified by the Center for Coaching Mastery (New Jersey, USA) and by GEI Partners (USA) / EiWorld (UK) for ‘Team EI’. In addition, he has an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad - a Top 5 Business School in Asia. Having lived in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America - Jaspal is now based in Toronto, Canada
As a CXO profit-center head for global business organizations like Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Marico, Bausch and Lomb and Nestle, he has mentored leaders around the globe for over three decades. Having worked in the trenches, he knows what it takes.
Harsh Chopra - Founder at Partners 4 Growth
Harsh advises leading family businesses on Next Generation Induction, Succession, resolution of family conflicts, strategies for multi-generational success and professionalization of family businesses. Harsh has conducted knowledge sessions for more than 1000 CEOs in partnership with leading banks across 10 cities . His articles and interviews have been published in Economic Times, Hindustan Times, Mint, Business Standard and CNBC.
His flagship program – Family unity for Business Growth – has been conducted across 10 cities.
Prior to this Harsh was MD of Bausch & Lomb India, Luxottica India ( Ray-Ban ) & Intertek . Started his career with Hindustan Unilever where he worked in senior management roles for 15 years. Harsh is a gold medalist Chemical Engineer from BHU IIT and lives in Gurgaon.
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Raman Nanda
Raman is a professional who has experienced real diversity in his life. That includes living in eight cities, speaking and understanding multiple Indian languages and one foreign language, and with an experience of working in MNC, Tata group, Murugappa group, and with start-ups.
The roles he has worked in include CFO, CHRO, CMO , CEO and finally as Country Head and President. A large part of this experience in the last 20 years has been with the Automotive and the Engineering industry.
After moving on from a corporate job, Raman created his enterprise STEP Transformations, and he enjoys doing Leadership and Business coaching, consulting and finally working with start-ups and incubators.