TECH INNOVATIONS - Key Persons

Hitik P Jain

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Manager - Investments and Investor Relations

K. Sasikumar

Job Titles:
  • General Manager
  • Member of the Core Team
K. Sasikumar has been associated with Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Ltd., since its inception and has been instrumental in creating a sustainable and profitable venture at scale. He holds his masters in Economics & Commerce from the University of Calicut.

Mahesh Ramachandran - CEO, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Investor
  • Managing Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Founder of Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Limited
Mahesh Ramachandran is a Serial Entrepreneur and Investor, who has successfully founded and exited multiple multi-million-dollar entrepreneurial ventures. Mahesh is the founder of Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Limited, which is a Fintech company that operates in more than 30,000 locations across 20+ states in India. It handles over $1.7B worth of transactions annually, servicing over 5M rural customers with a network of about 4500 agents. Mahesh is a distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School and chairs the TiE Chennai FinTech Special Interest Group. He is also a General Partner of SEBI registered AIF (Alternative Investment Fund) and is a Leadership Council member of FinBlue, a FinTech Centre of Excellence set up by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India at STPI, Chennai. Mahesh is also a visiting faculty of Indian School of Business, National Police Academy, and Bennett University, where he teaches digital transformation and digital marketing. He brings with him several decades of rich & varied experience in the field of Entrepreneurship, Investing, FinTech, Rural Marketing, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Mentoring & Governance. Mahesh Ramachandran has formerly held leadership roles in Cognizant Technology Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services and Ford Motor Company in the UK. He holds an MBA from University of Westminster, Sloan Masters in Leadership & Strategy (Distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School) from University of London.

Mr. S.V. Krishnamurthy

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Co - President ( Advisor ) of Keiretsu Forum One of the Largest Angel Funding Group in the World, Chennai & Singapore Chapters

P. Ranganathan - CFO

Job Titles:
  • CFO
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Core Team
Ranganathan heads compliance and secretarial practice at Tech Innovations. He brings with him over three-and-a-half decades of rich and varied experience, both in India and Nigeria, having led companies as their head of finance and operations. He was the head of finance of a leading group of industries in Nigeria for about six years. Prior to that, he was in-charge of operations of a leading trading company in Nigeria, for about two decades. Further to this, he has also handled the IPO of a Delhi-based manufacturing company, as its Company Secretary. He has, previously, worked with Shipping Corporation of India, Tata Share Registry and a Mumbai based Industrial Valve Manufacturer, handling different roles in Accounts. Ranganathan is a commerce graduate from the University of Madras, a qualified cost & management accountant (ACMA / AICWA) and company secretary (ACS).

P. Swaminathan - COO

Job Titles:
  • COO
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Core Team

P.N. Vijay

Job Titles:
  • Advisor
  • Investment Banker
Mr.Vijay is an Investment Banker with 48 years of experience in investment banking, lending, corporate governance banking and public affairs. During this period he has worked on countless fund raising, M&A and corporate restructuring transactions both in India and Overseas. He has also been on several boards and board committees and with regulators on corporate governance. Mr. Vijay started his career with State Bank and then moved on to ANZ Grindlays and then on to Citibank where he was the country head (Merchant Banking) India. He then started his own company PN Vijay Financial Services P Ltd. PNVF provides investment banking and wealth management services. These include helping clients raise equity/debt, M&A and also portfolio management. He does TV shows on investments in business channels and contributes columns to newspapers and periodicals. Mr. Vijay has also been active in Public Affairs for the last 30+ years sharing his views on the Political Economy. During this period he was actively associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party as Convenor of its National Economic Cell and later as a National Spokesperson.

Prof. Trichy Krishnan

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Dr. Trichy Krishnan is a PhD-Marketing from The University of Texas at Dallas, USA (1994), M.A. International Management Studies (1992) from The University of Texas at Dallas, USA and B.E. Honours - Mechanical Engineering (1982) from The Madras University, India. His teaching interests include Marketing Channel Strategies, Retailing Strategies, Healthcare Marketing, Pricing, Marketing Strategies, Marketing Decision Models and Analytics (including Applied Multivariate Models such as Factor Analysis, MDS, MANOVA, CONJOINT and MDA). Dr. Krishnan's current roles include - Professor at Great Lakes Institute of Management and Member of Editorial Review Board for ROMS (Review of Marketing Science). He is a constant reviewer for the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Management Science, Marketing Science, Journal of Business, International Journal of Research in Marketing, IEEE and International Journal of Forecasting. He was also engaged in consultation assignments in the oil & gas drilling rig industry from 1998 to 2006.