At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top India based CFO’ operating in the Analytics space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Srinivas Koora
CFO and Co-Founder of Xelpmoc
Srinivas Koora is the CFO and Co-Founder at Xelpmoc.
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About Xelpmoc: Xelpmoc is a technology, analytics and design company, focused on solving problems for n5hmi.

Vishwanath Pai
Chief Financial Officer of Netcore Cloud
Vishwanath Pai joined netCORE as CFO in 2012. A qualified Chartered Accountant, Vish is a seasoned finance professional with more than 25 years of experience in financial planning & reporting, management reporting, strategic planning, budgeting, taxation, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Vish started his career with A F Fergusons & Co. (now part of Deloitte Haskins & Sells). He then moved on as Finance Controller of a mid-sized engineering company where he was instrumental in realigning the financial and management reporting systems in line with the company’s explosive growth. Later, he joined a media company where he was primarily responsible in getting the company listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. He developed a good understanding of capital markets regulatory norms (SEBI, ROC, Stock Exchange authorities), along with wide experience in dealing with investor communities. His responsibilities expanded to encompass Investor Relations & Legal functions. Vish has a proven ability to appraise green-field or existing projects, evaluate acquisition or divestment opportunities, both financially and strategically. Vish likes to interact with people – professionally and socially. He likes listening to classical jazz music and is a huge aficionado of R D Burman’s compositions.
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About Netcore Cloud: Netcore helps B2C brands create amazing digital experiences with a range of products that help in acquisition, engagement, and retention.
John Ludwig
Chief Financial Officer of Jobvite
John joined Jobvite as its Chief Financial Officer in June 2020 and is responsible for leading the company’s finance and accounting function. Prior to joining the company, he had several roles in growth-oriented companies in the technology and distribution industries with a particular focus on growth through mergers and acquisitions. John received his bachelor’s degree from Ball State University with a double major in Accounting and Corporate Finance.
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About Jobvite: Jobvite provides end-to-end talent acquisition software and services that increase recruiting quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.

Rohit Kamat
Chief Financial Officer of Persistent Systems
As a Chief Financial Officer of the Company, Rohit Kamat is responsible for the treasury, financial reporting, taxation and internal controls at Persistent Systems. Rohit has been with Persistent since 2001 and has held various senior positions in the Finance and Internal Audit departments. With over 30 years of experience in the areas of corporate finance, international and domestic taxation and management accounting, Rohit has worked with leading Indian and multinational IT companies including Tata Unisys Ltd., L & T Infotech Ltd. and Syntel Software.Rohit is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as well as of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He holds a B.Com. (Hons) from the University of Mumbai and is a qualified Cost and Works Accountant.
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About Persistent Systems, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.

Rahul Agarwal
Chief Financial Officer of Near
Rahul has worked across various facets of the finance function from accounting, audit and advisory roles to FP&A, business and strategic finance, M&As, equity / debt financing, financial restructuring, investment banking and eventually managing the entire function end to end for large geographies Prior to Near, Rahul was heading finance for InMobi’s North America operations. He was instrumental in managing all things finance in the region including treasury, investor relations, fund raising activities and process improvements for the group. At InMobi, he was also heading finance for its Asia Pacific operations spread across 5 regions, 15 business locations and 10 legal entities where he helped set up and manage finance, secretarial and statutory compliances alongside building scalable process improvement models for InMobi. Rahul was a core member of the team that worked on $200 Million funding by Softbank to InMobi back in 2011.
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About Near: Near, the world’s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products, is the global leader in Data Intelligence.
Alton Viegas
Chief Financial Officer & Director of Appnomic
Alton founded and promoted the company to focus on providing practical & relevant IT Infrastructure Management solutions & services. Alton also founded Vitage Systems in 1993 which is a leading systems integration company operating in India. He has more than 25 yrs experience in the IT industry. Prior to setting up Vitage Systems, Alton was responsible for Mainframe sales for PSI-Bull in South India and for a brief period was managing software sales in US, Africa & Middle East for a leading software company. An Electrical Engineering graduate from Bangalore University, Alton has been instrumental in building the organization’s capacity to deliver IT services globally. In addition to being a member on the board Alton, is operationally responsible for Compliance, Risk Management, Finance, and Facilities & Admin functions.
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About Appnomic, HEAL Software: Appnomic is the pioneer in Self Healing Enterprise solutions and Autonomous IT Operations .

Prashant Bhatt
CFO of Informate Mobile
Prashant leads the Finance & Accounts functions at Cross-Tab and its subsidiary companies, including Informate. He is a Chartered Accountant with 15+ years of work experience. Prior to Cross-Tab, Prashant was CFO at Fractal Analytics. He has also worked in senior positions with companies like Garware-Wall Ropes, Arvind Brands, Goldmohur Foods & Feeds, and Godrej Agrovet.
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About Informate Mobile: The mobile user represents the single largest consumer base in the world today.

Shailendra Gupta
Group Chief Financial Officer of Acuity Knowledge Partners
Shailendra Gupta is the chief financial officer of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services. He has 18 years of finance experience having led teams across a broad spectrum of functional areas like Financial Control, Planning & Analysis, Treasury, Tax, Pricing & Commercial. Mr. Gupta has 10+ years experience in Financial Services Industry including experience in a Global Investment Bank and Asset Management Companies. I have worked on Corporate mergers & acquisitions, demergers, business integration, standardization & financial systems implementation. I have extensive experience of working with multi-cultural teams, both in an inhouse and outsourced settings. I have build and established finance teams from scratch for multi-national organizations, and have led global teams. I have also set-up new STP/SEZ centres for MNCs in India. Specialties Setting-up Finance Teams from Scratch, Investment Banking Finance, Product Control, Hedge Fund Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Accounting & Reporting (US GAAP/IFRS/IGAAP), Treasury, Commercial, Business Restructuring/Integration, Team leadership in complex/matrix Organisations, Conflict Management, Mentoring & Coaching
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About Acuity Knowledge Partners: Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.
Devin Burns
CFO of Zylo
Devin Burns is the VP of finance at Zylo. He previously served as the vice president of finance and operations at Mersive.
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About Zylo: Discover, optimize and govern your SaaS portfolio while elevating the employee experience.
Vasudevan R.
Co-Founder & CFO of Acrobee India Private Limited
Vasudevan R is the co-founder and CFO of Acrobee India.
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About Acrobee India Private Limited: Analytics , AI & Machine Learning

Benoy Joseph
Chief Financial Officer of Riafy Technologies
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About Riafy Technologies: Riafy uses Relational Intelligence on Big Data to predict the future.

Devesh Bahl
CFO of Kognetics
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About Kognetics: Kognetics is a machine intelligence platform for professionals to discover market opportunities to facilitate strategic decision making.