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This list showcases the top India based CFO’ operating in the Artificial Intelligence 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.

Anil Patwardhan
CFO of KPIT Technologies
Anil is the CFO for KPIT. He is responsible for Financial performance,Reporting and Goverance.Anil, a qualified Chartered Accountant by profession, has contributed towards improving the fiscal discipline within KPIT by establishing the global budgetary process, improving control environment, initiating tax planning measures, and driving effective treasury & forex management. As a Member of the Executive Board, Anil collaborates with the business leaders at KPIT to drive business strategy & planning, mergers & acquisitions, legal & secretarial aspects and large strategic deals. Under his leadership, KPIT has earned the coveted Golden Peacock Award given by the Institute of Directors, UK; and the Corporate Governance award conferred by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, which KPIT won four years in a row.
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About KPIT Cummins, KPIT Technologies: KPIT is a global technology company with software solutions helping mobility leapfrog towards autonomous, clean, smart and connected future.

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 .
Rakesh Chhabra
CFO & Advisor of Tinychef
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About : Tinychef is a voice-recognition culinary platform that allows users to create meals tailored to their taste, needs, and aspirations.
Ajay Soni
CFO of Smarten Spaces
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About Smarten Spaces: Smarten Spaces is building management system using state-of-the-art AI and IoT platform.
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