Ms. Desai holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Bombay and an LLB from the University of Delhi. She brings over 35 years of distinguished service with the State Bank Group, where she built deep expertise in credit, retail banking, and international finance. As the Managing Director of SBI's broking subsidiary, she led its transformation and strategic growth for four years.
Mr. Sattaiah holds an MBA from Osmania University and has been associated with the BASIX Group for over 29 years. He led various business initiatives in micro-credit, micro-insurance, financial inclusion, skill building and human resource development at BASIX. Currently serving as the Group CEO & MD of the BASIX Social Enterprise Group, he brings extensive experience in inclusive finance and livelihood promotion.
Mr. Kulkarni has over 40 years of experience across the public, private, and non-profit sectors. His areas of specialisation include banking, entrepreneurship, microfinance, NGO incubation, education, livelihoods, research, and consulting. He holds a post-graduate degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, completed a Management Education Programme at IIM Ahmedabad, and also holds a postgraduate diploma in Gandhian Studies.
With more than four decades of experience in microenterprise development and consulting, Mr. Prasad has played a pivotal role in fostering entrepreneurship and small business support systems. He formerly served as the Chief Consultant and Advisor at APITCO Limited, a Technical Consultancy Organisation (TCO), contributing significantly to industrial and technical support to MSMEs through Cluster development, Microenterprise development and propagation of Innovative Rural technologies.