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 Marketing 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.

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.
Saed Abbu Khan
CFO of Richinnovations Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Saed Abbu Khan is the CFO at Richinnovations Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
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About Richinnovations Technologies Pvt. Ltd.: For the last five years, we are serving clients across the globe in various arena through our IT and branding 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.

Ashish Bahukhandi
Founder, CEO & CFO of AppsDiscover Technologies
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About AppsDiscover Technologies: Apps Discover Technologies offers online mobile advertising solution for advertisers and publishers.
Soumen Ray
Chief Financial Officer of Bajaj
Soumen Ray is the Chief Financial Officer of Bajaj. He is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience.
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About Bajaj: Bajaj manufactures and sells scooters, motorcycles, three-wheeler vehicles, and spare parts in India.

Alex Desmarais
Co-Founder and CFO of RecurRex
https://in.linkedin.com/in/alex-desmarais-17040664/en
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About RecurRex: RecurRex is a subscription eCommerce SaaS for Indian businesses. It automates recurring billing and provides marketing and delivery tools.
Kewal Krishan
Chief Financial Officer of Translumina Therapeutics
Kewal Krishan is a Chief Financial Officer at Translumina Therapeutics company.
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About Translumina Therapeutics: Translumina Therapeutics is a manufacturing and marketing organization.
Azhagesan Sivaraman
CFO of Prakaz Technologies
Azhagesan Sivaraman is the Chief Financial Officer of Prakaz Technologies.
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About Prakaz Technologies: Prakaz Technologies is a website designing and development company providing services to enterprises across the world and marketing needs.

Bill Gorge
Chief Financial Officer of Lucerno Dynamics
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About Lucerno Dynamics: Lucerno Dynamics creates medical technology that helps scan human tissue and organs during medical tests.
Manoj Kumar Nirala
CFO of Curvearro
Manoj Kumar Nirala is the Chief Financial Officer at Curvearro. He is also the Co-Founder, CFO and Managing Director at Softifive.
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About Curvearro, Softifive: Curvearro is Leading, Award Winning Digital Marketing Agency,
Chinmay Vashi
Co-Founder & CFO of Digitalite Solutions
Co-Founder and CFO (Cheif Financing Officer) at Digitalite Solutions Co.
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About Digitalite Solutions: We are a bunch of young peeps trying to disrupt the age-old marketing systems with new-age systems!
Akrati Gupta
Co-Founder – CFO – COO of Curly Binaries Lab LLP
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About Curly Binaries Lab LLP: Curly Binaries Lab LLP, is a binary startup which focuses on Digital Market, SEO, Hosting, Mobile App,Desktop,Web Development & IT training
Jeeri Reddy
CFO of BusinessBee Digital
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About BusinessBee Digital: We’re Business Bee and our passion is to create great solutions for interesting people.

Shubham Gupta
Co-founder & CFO of iExpose
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About iExpose: We are a bootstrapped company in the process of turning ideas into brands.
Dharam Masuria
CFO of Storearmy
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About : Storearmy is an optimized and scalable platform which help organizations to design and launch their E-Store in less than 5 minutes.