Built by People Who Lived the Problem
A founding team that built AI systems for Indian financial services and brings decades of enterprise leadership. A team with deep roots in financial services, infrastructure, and compliance. We did not find this problem in a market research report. We found it at 11pm, staring at an 800-row Excel sheet that should not exist.
Co-Founders
The Founding Team
Vivek Dhandapani
Co-Founder
AI Product Development and Sales
12+ years delivering ML and AI projects across BFSI. Alumnus of IIT Madras, doctoral researcher at IIM Shillong studying AI transparency in Indian financial institutions, and Associate Professor of Practice in AI at NISM (SEBI). Industry experience spans AI architecture, financial data systems, and strategic consulting including Bain & Company.
At Vakya, Vivek leads AI product development and sales — building the document intelligence pipeline and driving commercial relationships with CA firms.
Gautam Chainani
Co-Founder
Former CHRO, JSW Group
35+ years of corporate leadership experience across India and globally, most recently as CHRO at JSW Group. Serves on the boards of several companies.
Brings perspective on enterprise scale, institutional trust, and long-term business building to Vakya's growth strategy and organisational design.
Team
The People Building It
Sachin Pawaskar
Head — Computer Networks, IT Infrastructure and AI Acceleration
Cloud Infrastructure, Systems and AI Inferencing
10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, computer networks, and AI inferencing systems. Background spans AWS architecture, network security, and building the compute infrastructure that large-scale ML workloads require.
At Vakya, Sachin owns the infrastructure layer — ensuring the document processing pipeline runs reliably, securely, and at the performance levels that financial document automation demands.
Devanshi Jindal
Head — Business Solutions
Business Understanding and Financial Services
Experience across startups, financial advisory, and legal and compliance domains, with additional grounding from NISM. Background in understanding how financial services businesses operate, where workflows break down, and what CA firms actually need from automation.
At Vakya, Devanshi leads business solutions — working closely with CA firms to map their workflows, identify pain points, and ensure the product solves real problems from day one.
Advisors
Guided by Deep Domain Expertise
Academic rigour in accounting and compliance, grounding Vakya in Indian financial reporting standards.
Vishakha Bansal
Advisor
Assistant Professor, Accounting and Finance — IIM Shillong
Research spans accounting standards, financial compliance, and AI disclosure — areas directly at the intersection of Vakya's product domain.
Brings academic rigour and research depth to Vakya's compliance engine and financial reporting standards — ensuring outputs align with Indian accounting frameworks.
Our Roots
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Want to Work With This Team?
We are currently onboarding pilot CA firms in Mumbai. If you manage 50+ client companies and want to see Vakya working on your financial documents — let us talk.
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