Xcelyst Partners

Trusted Partners for Your Long-Term Success

Experience the power of our Leadership team, Circle of Experts, Operating Partners and Advisory Board.

CXO-level Global Experience

Our seasoned Managing Principals bring decades of CXO-level global experience across diverse industries and functions. We have hands-on experience scaling large global teams/organizations hands-on both as entrepreneurs and CXOs.

Our wealth of knowledge ensures strategic insights and effective decision-making.

Functional Depth

Our Circle of Experts are recognized specialists from diverse fields who provide functional depth, informed insights, advice, and strategic guidance.

Their collective expertise enhances decision-making, innovation and problem-solving capabilities, benefiting your organization and projects through diverse perspectives and comprehensive knowledge.

Operational Expertise

Our Operating Partners come with a comprehensive understanding of local finance, legal, tax, and HR nuances, providing comprehensive administrative support tailored to your specific context.

Strategic Guidance

Our Advisory Board comes with decades of in-market experience navigating complex but connected environments, and an ever evolving business landscape. 

Meet your team

Meet your team of experienced professionals who provide hands-on operational knowledge to support your success

Leadership Team

ANUNAY GUPTA, PhD

Anunay brings global experience with an entrepreneurial bent of mind. In his last role as Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co, he was a member of the India Leadership Council & had responsibility for all India-based Credit and Fraud risk functions for the Retail Bank. Prior, he co-founded Marketelligent - an analytics consulting business that was subsequently acquired by Brillio.
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Ritesh Agarwal

Ritesh is a seasoned leader with 20+ years’ experience. Prior to Xcelyst, he was with CRISIL (a S&P Global Company) as UK Head, Global Head of Derivatives, and Sales Director. He was instrumental in setting up their Risk & Analytics practice of 600+ analysts across 6 countries.
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Ashutosh Gupta

Ashutosh has extensive experience building large global teams. He was co-CEO at Evalueserve, a Research and Analytics firm with over 4,000 employees, where he led the Company’s expansion in China, Chile, Romania, and the US. Prior to Evalueserve, Ashutosh worked as Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in New York and London.
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Circle of Experts

Recognized functional specialists from diverse fields for informed insights, advice, and strategic guidance

Marketing & Media

Roy Cherian

Roy is a seasoned executive and successful entrepreneur who was the co-founder of Marketelligent, a data analytics company. He has worked extensively in consumer marketing with Nestle India, and in advertising and media industry with FCB Ulka. He is passionate about driving business decisions based on deep understanding of the consumer.
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Sandeep Devagiri

Sandeep is an experienced analytics and statistics professional with a strong focus on CRM, risk management, and marketing analytics. As Co-Founder of Bright Side Loans LLC and Chief Data Scientist at Fintech Franchise Network, he has built AI and machine learning solutions for various domains, including consumer banking and e-commerce. Sandeep excels in setting up analytical teams and promoting data-driven decision-making within organizations.
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Data Sciences

Product Engineering

Shridhar Dhaiphule

Shridhar is an accomplished technopreneur with a strong background in creating innovative products using Big Data and Analytics. He has held key leadership roles, including Director of Engineering at Bidgely Inc. and Senior Director of Engineering at Bubble Insurance, where he streamlined engineering processes and built robust product teams.
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Kunnal Sharma

Kunnal is a career start-up professional with 22+ years of experience in creating global digital businesses. He has bootstrapped three growing ventures in diverse industries & in the past has led TimesofMoney, a cross border payments remittance platform, to a successful exit. Kunnal believes entrepreneurship is not a goal but a way of life.
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Digital

Jayatu Sen Chaudhury

Jayatu is a passionate data scientist and a trusted partner to C-Suite leaders entrusted with critical decision making. He has worked extensively in Risk Management at American Express, and has designed and implemented ML-AI based risk and fraud management solutions at scale. He is also a fitness freak and an avid long-distance runner.
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Credit Risk

Shweta Patel

Shweta is a domain expert in Fraud & Financial Crime Risk across the complete gamut of banking products. Her extensive experience spans North America, Australia and India regions. She has saved over $100MM in losses across employers such as AMEX, JPMorgan Chase, ANZ and Morgan Stanley. She is the founder of Phishbowl, a pioneering tech product that protects citizens from scams and fraud.
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Fraud Risk

Deepak Bhatter

Deepak is a seasoned risk professional with over 20 years of global experience. Deepak has driven strategic risk transformation programs - developing cutting-edge operating models, governance structures and risk frameworks for global banks and GCCs in India. He is an expert of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) programs and Hire-Train-Transfer (HTT) talent solutions.
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Enterprise Risk

Equity Research

Manish Beria

Manish is a seasoned sell side Equity analyst with more than 20 years of experience covering the Building Materials, Telecom and Airport sectors. He was instrumental in creating the Building Material & Infrastructure team at Société Générale which was TOP 10 ranked in the Institutional Investors survey in a row for the period FY16-FY24.
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Operating Partners

Comprehensive understanding of local finance, legal, tax, and HR nuances for on-the-ground administrative support to your team and business

Nand Gangwani

Nand has been CFO and COO of public and privately held companies for over 30 years and has led transformation of financial and operational processes across leading companies across industries. He also took Napster public on Nasdaq.
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Radhakrishnan S

Radha is a seasoned professional with experience in the Big 4 and a track record across multiple areas in taxation, finance, legal and Technology. He is also actively engaged in advisory capacity with Not-for-Profits & Startups. In a prior role, he served as CIO at Nestle South Asia.
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Namita Akhauri

Namita is a seasoned Human Resources professional with experience across industries. She has worked with Accenture Consulting, Morpheus Human Consulting, Recruitment SMART and Vodafone Idea Limited. At Accenture, she was instrumental in setting up the offshore 200+ Financial Services team.
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Tarun Lala

Tarun is a serial entrepreneur. While at EMC, he built his first venture: YesMastr – a delivery services consumer app. He is also the Founder of Levo Labz - a company that builds Software across the IT stack for startups and SMEs.
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Advisory Board

Decades of in-market experience navigating complex but connected environments, and an ever evolving business landscape

Rajive Chadha

Rajive is a seasoned business leader with over 30 years of global experience in financial services. He has held multiple C-Suite roles, including most recently as the Chief Operating Officer of OneMain Financial, a leading consumer lending company in the US. Previously, Rajive has worked at Citigroup, Discover Financial Services and Regions Bank in senior executive roles across the world. Currently, he is a Senior Advisor with McKinsey, Nyca Partners (a leading venture capital firm) and Sigmoid (a global data solutions enterprise).
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Russell Schaub

Russell has been building and running private and public companies for over 30 years with multiple successful exits in real estate, mortgage finance and servicing, consumer credit, and information management services. Most recently he was President of Great Ajax Corp – a NYSE traded REIT and CEO of Gregory Funding LLC – a mortgage servicer.
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Eric Goldberg

Eric is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Technology industries. He has held senior sales and account management roles at some of the industry's leading organizations, including Accenture, KPMG and Cognizant. Eric’s expertise lies in managing the sales process, client relationships and program implementations. His clients have benefited by leveraging a globally dispersed workforce.
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