Lalit Shah, MD & Founder

Lalit Shah With his wide-ranging business acumen, he will be giving the necessary traction to the  company’s business and provide a direction to its growth objectives in the long run. His forte is his exposure to big ticket customer account  acquisition and management, executive leadership, and strategy development and implementation. He has scaled various roles and senior  level positions in his previous work experience and has emerged as a seasoned veteran in devising successful policies and governance, in  line with the organizational goals.

Rajesh Dubey-Director & CEO
Chartered Accountant & Cost Accountant with three decades experience in Credit & Risk Management. Instrumental in ideation, setting up the only rating agency for SMEs and leading the company in its first 3 years of operations. Also involved in the setting up and operationalization of CGFTMSE, a credit guarantee organization for facilitating access to collateral-free credit to the micro and small sector. Developed rating models for assessing credit risks in lending to SMEs for banks in the SAARC and South East Asian Region. Also, developed early warning signal tool based on transaction behavior in the checking account of small and mid-sized businesses. Presently involved in developing an SME Rating Model for a prominent Joint-sector Bank in Vietnam

Sandeep Chhowala- CFO
Sandeep is a Chartered Accountant and a Finance Professional with over one and a half decade of rich & diverse experience in strengthening companies across various industries including NBFCs & Real Estate. Prior to joining Fintree Finance, he has worked with companies like Capri Global Capital Limited, The Phoenix Mills Limited , Ogilvy and Mather Private Limited and Everest  Developers. His work deliverables include his expertise in fund raising, structuring financial deals as per organization’s needs, corporate treasury management, Investor Relationship. He is also hand-on in managing other sub-functions like Planning & Budgeting, Accounting, Taxation, Auditing, Compliance management, Financial and operational Controls etc.

Vinod Singh Vice President - IT
An astute and dynamic professional with over 15 years of rich experience in IT Application, support, Business requirement gathering, Business continuity planning, project management, New Technology Implementation and Team management. Diversified experience at Project planning, IT budget, Business Function Analysis, Gathering requirement Specifications,  change management, UAT and end user training for core solution implementation. Credited with Implementation, User training and Support of Core Lending solution (Finnone ) end to end  at Fedbank Financial Service Ltd for LAP ,Gold Loan ,Personal Loan .Involved in Implementation of core banking solutions of Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Federal Bank, UCO Bank, Centurion Bank of Punjab and Kotak Mahindra Bank in Migration ,UAT & Data center Support at L2 level. Senior and prominent member in the IT team (Infrastructure & Application) for implementation of IT related Initiatives at Organizational Level at Fedbank Financial services.

Raakesh Malhotra National Business Head-Sales

Raakesh is a dynamic, result driven professional with 24+ years of diverse and enriching experience in Banking, Telecom and Hospitality. He has proven expertise in Business Planning, New Business Development, Sales Leadership, Credit Risk, Cross Selling, Retail Banking, Customer Relationship Management, Establishing Scalable Processes and Restructuring Systems, Loan administration, Liabilities Acquisition, Leading and Mentoring large cross functional team with an aim to drive organisational performance. He worked in Hotel industry for 4 years and then moved to upcoming Telecom Industry in 1999. Subsequently he plunged into banking , starting with HDFC Bank. Raakesh was one of the initial hires purely into CASA Acquisition as Area Sales Manager. After a 2 year stint with HDFC Bank, he joined Kotak Mahindra Bank and rose through ranks becoming Vice President within 4 years.  He has Loan Distribution experience ranging from ticket size of Fifty thousand to Fifty Crore.

Nasir Sayed- CBO
A senior Banking Professional with over 25+yrs of diverse experience in General Management, Business strategy and Risk Management with various country level business leadership roles across Consumer lending, SME lending, Mortgage loan( home/LAP), Personal/ Secured Business loans across leading Foreign Banks and Financial Institution such as Standard Chartered Bank, Development Credit Bank, Union National Bank ( UAE), Kinara Capital have built large lending businesses across Secured and unsecured lending, was part of the founding team at Ambit Finvest ( formerly known as Volition Credit & holdings- SME focused NBFC with large focus on affordable and prime secured lending)  as Founding Member & Executive Vice President. Played important part with a new Peer to peer lending start- up as Co-Founder and Chief Business officer.