Amish Mehta is the Managing Director and CEO of CRISIL.
He leads efforts to deliver value through best-in-class analytics, solutions, and opinions to companies, investors, financial institutions, policy makers and governments, both in India and worldwide.
Amish joined CRISIL in October 2014 as President and Chief Financial Officer, and in 2017, was named Chief Operating Officer. As the COO, he led CRISIL’s acquisitions and change agenda, while creating a growth path for the businesses he managed.
Prior to joining CRISIL, Amish was the Chief Financial Officer of Indus Towers. He has rich experience of over two decades in telecommunications, oil and gas, FMCG and business advisory services, and has held leadership roles in diverse organisations, including BP/Castrol India, E&Y and ExxonMobil India.
He is a member of FICCI’s Capital Markets Committee, CII National Committee on Financial Markets, and SEBI Primary Markets Advisory Committee (PMAC).
He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce.
Ashish Vora leads the Market Intelligence and Analytics (MI&A) unit which consists of Customised Research and Advisory, Industry Research, SME, Funds and Fixed Income, and Business Intelligence and Risk Solutions verticals.
Ashish was one of the co-founders of Pragmatix Services Pvt Ltd, a FinTech company that CRISIL acquired in 2018.
He has more than 30 years of experience including leadership roles in leading financial institutions. He is an MBA from the University of New Mexico, class of 1992.
Prior to setting up Pragmatix in 2011, Ashish was EVP and Business Head at Kotak Bank where he set up the Transaction Banking vertical. Before joining Kotak, Ashish gained extensive experience at Citibank across multiple roles in Global Transaction Services and as the Director and Unit Head of Global Relationship Banking.
Gurpreet Chhatwal is Chief Operating Officer of CRISIL Limited.
As the Chief Operating Officer, Gurpreet has oversight of the Global Research & Risk Solutions business and the Global Capability Centre. In his earlier role as Managing Director of Crisil Ratings Ltd. he steered the growth of CRISIL Ratings and spearheaded innovation and raised the standards of the credit rating industry in India. Gurpreet joined CRISIL in 1999 and has also set up and managed large teams in India (the Mid-Corporate Group, or MCG ratings) and globally (the Risk & Analytics practice).
Duncan leads the CRISIL Global Benchmarking Analytics business, and is based at London.
With extensive leadership experience at large financial institutions, his past role was at Citibank where he led the strategy, digital channels and capital management teams for the commercial banking business. As a member of the Commercial Bank Executive Committee, he was responsible for driving an ambitious growth strategy to double the business. He played a critical role in driving digitalisation for Citi’s commercial and corporate banking businesses.
He has also worked with Barclays in Internal strategy & M&A, and at Rothschild.
Subodh Rai is the Managing Director of CRISIL Ratings Limited and leads the Ratings business. He is responsible for deepening client relationships, strengthening CRISIL Ratings brand in the domestic market and analytical execution.
Previously, Subodh Rai was President - Risk and Compliance for CRISIL Limited. In this role, Subodh led the risk management, information security, compliance and internal audit functions, focusing on mitigating risks and strengthening resilience, in the context of an evolving economic, technology, and regulatory environment.
Prior to this, Subodh was Chief Ratings Officer at CRISIL Ratings and headed the analytical function. He chaired the Rating Committee and was responsible for its functioning. Subodh also led the franchise initiatives for CRISIL Ratings and authored several incisive opinion pieces.
Subodh has more than 25 years of experience in the financial sector and has held various leadership positions in the Ratings division. He has also served as Director on the Board of many companies including TRIS Ratings, Thailand.
Before joining CRISIL, he worked with Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd and Garware Wall Ropes Ltd.
Subodh holds a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an engineering degree from the College of Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand.
Krishnan Sitaraman is Senior Director & Chief Ratings Officer at CRISIL Ratings Limited (CRISIL Ratings). In this role, he heads the analytical function at CRISIL Ratings on a pan India basis. He also chairs the Rating Committee and is responsible for its functioning.
Krishnan has been with CRISIL for close to 23 years. Prior to his current role, Krishnan was Senior Director & Deputy Chief Ratings Officer at CRISIL Ratings. In that role, he oversaw credit rating assignments for financial sector entities and structured finance instruments across sectors.
Earlier, Krishnan was Senior Director, Compliance for CRISIL Limited, and was responsible for implementation of SEBI regulations, internal policies, and interfacing with regulators. Prior to compliance, he held various roles across the ratings and research businesses.
Priti heads the Capability Centre which is a consolidation of capabilities and is aimed at scaling and enhancing productivity across resident capabilities. She works closely with business leaders in Global Benchmarking Analytics (GBA), Global Research and Risk Solutions (GR&RS), and Market Intelligence and Analytics (MI&A) to identify and fulfil new growth opportunities, showcase the combined strength of standardised capabilities and expertise to clients, and drive talent mobility and employee value proposition across capability centres.
Priti joined CRISIL in Ratings in the year 2000 and has donned multiple roles across Ratings, GR&RS and GAC, including as the head of GAC and Corporate Strategy.
Priti is an Economics Honors graduate and completed her MBA degree as a gold medalist from International Management Institute.
Dinesh Venkatasubramanian is a seasoned financial services professional with over 31 years of experience across the BFSI sector, having held senior roles in three major multinational banks and having founded two successful startups. His expertise spans product development, business management, analytics, and risk management. With a decade of entrepreneurial experience in Technology and Analytics, Dinesh scaled and exited one startup while building strategic partnerships throughout his career.
Previously, he spent 17 years with Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank and most recently led Strategy & Planning, Transformation, Data & Analytics at DBS Bank India. Dinesh is a Chartered Accountant by profession. He is known for his deep industry knowledge and impactful leadership.
Mr. Sanjay Chakravarti is President – Risk & Compliance of CRISIL Limited.
Mr. Chakravarti is a Chartered Accountant with over 31 years of experience in financial management, strategy, taxation, treasury and accounting. He was born and brought up in Kolkata. After graduating from St Xaviers College, Kolkata, he completed his Chartered Accountancy.
Previously, Mr. Chakravarti was the CFO of Shoppers Stop Ltd, where he spent 12 years. In addition to his role and responsibilities as CFO of Shoppers Stop Ltd, he was also heading the Legal, Investor Relations, Internal Governance & Risk Control functions of the company.
Zak Murad is the Chief Technology and Information Officer of CRISIL Limited.
Zak drives the company's global technology roadmap, product development, technology infrastructure, and alliances. He leads the implementation of micro-services, cloud, and digitally-led technology models in addition to focusing on digitalisation of content and enhancing CRISIL’s automation journey by harnessing machine learning and natural language processing.
Before joining CRISIL, Zak was the Global Head of IT Infrastructure and Operations at S&P Global Ratings, where he led efforts to work towards common capabilities for product development across the Market Intelligence, Ratings, and Platts divisions of S&P Global.
He has previously worked with BNYMellon where he led data platforms, distributed compute/cloud, and information life cycle management services. In a career spanning over 30 years, he has also managed several large technology projects at well-known financial institutions such as Barclays, Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers.
Zak is a thought leader and has been on the chair and panel of several prestigious technology events across the globe. He holds a degree from Rutgers University.
Maya Vengurlekar leads the CRISIL Foundation. In her role as Chief Operating Officer, Maya oversees CRISIL's CSR initiatives pertaining to financial inclusion, women's empowerment, and environment conservation.
She joined CRISIL in 2002, gained domain expertise in Ratings, culminating in her role as Head – Business Development at CRISIL Ratings. Maya then took on a role as Senior Director – Marketing and Investor Outreach, where she steered initiatives to establish CRISIL's thought leadership with market participants, investors, regulatory bodies and policy-making institutions, and to develop India’s corporate bond market.
Maya has a Degree in Commerce from Mumbai University and an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune.
Sharmila is an innovative, client-centric global marketing leader with a proven track record of delivering high-impact marketing strategies that enable growth, strengthen brands, and elevate the experience.
Prior to joining CRISIL, she was at Fractal Analytics for a decade, where she was instrumental in developing brand story and experience, influencer program, and demand generation tactics that delivered results.
She is a seasoned marketing leader in the B2B segment and has worked extensively in the marketing of advisory and technology services and products.
Preeti Balwani is a seasoned commercial attorney with over 19 years of experience both in house and in private practice. In her most recent roles, she has served as the General Counsel and Executive Director for Coca-Cola Bottling (Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages) and Kraft Heinz in India.
Preeti is a graduate from Indian Law Society’s (ILS) Law College, Pune University (BSL.LLB) and also holds a Masters’ Degree in Maritime Law (LLM) from the University of Southampton.
Prior to moving in-house Ms. Balwani served as an external counsel for Indian companies providing them legal advice on M&A, for over a decade.
Preeti has been recognised by Legal 500 as part of their GC Power List (India, 2022 & 2018), Indian National Bar Association as the GC of the Year (2019), Forbes India Legal Power List (2020) & Business World Legal as one of the Top 100 GCs of India (2021 and 2020) and Most Influential Women in the Legal Ecosystem (2023). She routinely speaks at forums on gender diversity and inclusion, women leaders and women on the board, brand protection and legal operations.
Pooja has over two decades of global experience in HR in the financial and ITeS sectors.
Business-focused, strategic and results-driven, she has worked across facets of HR involving organisational transformation, creation of inclusive culture and building best-in-class teams.
Her past role was at WNS, where she led HR for the banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare, research and analytics, technology, business transformation group and corporate functions.
Prior to that, she spent 14 years in Standard Chartered, where she worked as an HR Business Leader overseeing, among other things, talent acquisition, performance and talent management.
She is an MBA, a member of CIPD (MCIPD), and a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.
She is actively involved in social work related to the education of underprivileged children.
