EQUIPPP - Key Persons


Alekhya Boora

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Investment Banker
Alekhya Boora is an investment banker turned entrepreneur. She worked with multinational corporations like Price Waterhouse Coopers and UBS Investment Bank. She handled multiple multimillion $ deals like strategic investments, LBOs, IPOs etc ranging from $ 30 million to $ 11 Billion during her investment banking stint in the USA. She has expertise in M&A advisory, Cross border transactions, portfolio optimization and growth strategy. Alekhya is interested and passionate about social impact and worked with Health Tech, and Clean Tech ventures and is an alumnus of IIT Madras

Amol Palkar - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer

Dr. M. Narendra Mairpady - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Independent Director

Hemant Gupta

Job Titles:
  • CEO EQUIPPP DESI
Hemant Gupta brings over 34 years of diverse experience in the BFSI sector, including a significant tenure at Citi Bank and 8 years in the social sector. He formerly led the BSE Social Stock Exchange segment and served as Managing Director of BSE's tech incubator, Zone Startups, where he managed multiple successful funds. He was also part of the founding team of the Social Stock Exchange initiative constituted by SEBI. Hemant holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Krithika Shankaran

Job Titles:
  • Non Executive Director
  • Young India Fellow
Krithika Shankaran is a Young India Fellow, an Educationist, Author, and a Social Scientist with expertise in Institution Building, undertaking projects that bring socioeconomic impact for the people anchoring on culture and identity. She is basically an engineer with research work at Harvard Medical School and MIT, Boston, USA. She has held several Leadership positions across domains. A Strategy Partner at Infinite Sum Modelling, an International Public Policy Firm that works with governments and international orgs like IMF, World bank, ADB and corporates such as Google. She is Managing Trustee of K-Qbe Foundation that is involved in Institutional Set-up(Self Sustainable Smart Society) in Tier 2,3,4 economies. Krithika has published several Research Papers in top International Journals including PubMed and has been acknowledged for her work. She was the Managing Director of Brahma Valley Group of Institutions (16 colleges and public schools). She worked as a Consultant with Dr.Rajeev Gowda, Member of Parliament in building the Research Cell of the Indian National Congress(INC). Krithika worked with Genpact Corporate HQ, in Global Operations, as an Assistant Manager and Analyst to the Senior Vice-President & Global Business Leader. In her previous assignments she worked with Albright Stonebridge Group, a firm under the leadership of Madeleine Albright, Former US Sec of State. She has represented India as a Delegate in Euro-BRICS Young Leaders Summit in St.Petersburg, Russia and Helsinki, Finland & COP23 Summit by the United Nations in Bonn, Germany. She has the distinction of being recommended by the Chief Minister of Pondicherry to the World Economic Forum to bring the Global Shapers of the WEF to Pondicherry. Krithika, as a Research Scholar, worked withHarvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in association with Brigham and Women's Hospital-Boston, USA. She has also recently Launched her Book in the Meerut International Literature Festival and won the Literary Lounge Iconic Author Award.

Madhuri Venkata Ramani Viswanadham

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director

Nithin Varma M

Job Titles:
  • Product Manager

Pooja Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Compliance Officer
  • Company Secretary With a Master
Pooja Sharma is a Company Secretary with a Master's degree in Commerce (M.Com) and a Bachelor's degree in Commerce (B.Com). She is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.

Rajnikanth Ivaturi

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director

Sai Kiran G L

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Sreenivasa Chary

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

V. Subramanian

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director

Vindhya Dronamraju

Job Titles:
  • Whole Time Director