A team of leaders with a vision for excellence in governance and compliance.

Dr. Bharath Krishna Sankar

Chairman

Dr. Bharath is a postgraduate in Commerce, a national gold medalist (topper in both Inter and Final) in Chartered Accountancy and an Associate of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of India. His doctoral thesis is on “Determinants of entrepreneurship and its impact on MSME sector sustainability in Madurai district”.

Bharath is an exceptional coach and mentor, with passion for developing and nourishing the entrepreneurial spirit in youngsters. Bharath’s areas of specialization include human resource development, financial management and facilitation of change management through organizational development interventions. He penned a column ‘Smilingly yours’ in The Hindu –Metroplus, which was a series of management insights for young entrepreneurs and established businessmen alike.

He was the recipient of TiE Chennai’s “Entrepreneur of the year” award for 2015. He is the Past Chairman of the Madurai Zone of CII and the Vice Chairman of the ‘Celebrate Madurai’ Committee. He is the Board Chair of the Michigan Academy for Development of Entrepreneurs, USA, and is on the Governing Board of Thiagarajar School of Management.

Nagaraj Krishnan

Managing Director

Nagaraj Krishnan is the Managing Director of Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited. He graduated in Mathematics from The American College, Madurai in 1993. He went on to pursue a Master in Social Work (specializing in Human Resources) from the Madurai Institute of Social Sciences. Then he completed his master’s in Business Administration (specializing in Human Resources and Marketing) from Thiagarajar School of Management.

KV Ramanand

Director

KV is presently the Chief Executive Officer at XLSure India Private Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Xcelerate Pte Ltd, a Singapore headquartered Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) focused operating and investing platform.

Prior to this, KV was leading the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practice of Ernst & Young LLP in the South region of India.

Kunisetty Venkata Ramakrishna

Director

Ramki is an Advisor to Xcelerate and he is a Director on the Board of Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited, the Indian subsidiary of Xcelerate.

Ramki has 28+ years of experience with 26+ years of experience in Venture Capital /Private Equity – Kotak PE, Carlyle Group & ICICI Venture. He was most recently the CEO of Kotak Private Equity, the Private Equity arm of Kotak Mahindra Group, where he was responsible for managing various growth funds with AUM of over $700mn.

Ramki is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal and is a Post Graduate in Management from IIM, Bangalore.

Yogesh Bhura

Director

Yogesh has over 23 years of experience in corporate advisory, risk management, and financial advisory in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

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Yogesh Bhura​

Director

Yogesh has over 23 years of experience in corporate advisory, risk management, and financial advisory in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

During his career with EY, KPMG, and IGFT, KV was involved in several private equity/ structured debt funding transactions, and inbound & outbound M&A transactions across multi-culture, multi-regulatory environments. He also has significant capital market experience as he has handled several IPOs, Rights Issues, Open Offers and Buyback offers.

Besides serving on the Board of Aparajitha, Yogesh is also a Director on the Board of ethiXbase, an anti-bribery and anti-corruption third-party platform provider based in Singapore, an Advisor to EQT — the world’s leading private equity fund. Prior to starting his entrepreneurship journey, he worked in custodial operations and finance and wealth management. Yogesh is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Oracle Financial Consultant.

Kunisetty Venkata Ramakrishna​

Director

Ramki is an Advisor to Xcelerate and he is a Director on the Board of Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited, the Indian subsidiary of Xcelerate.

Ramki has 28+ years of experience with 26+ years of experience in Venture Capital /Private Equity – Kotak PE, Carlyle Group & ICICI Venture. He was most recently the CEO of Kotak Private Equity, the Private Equity arm of Kotak Mahindra Group, where he was responsible for managing various growth funds with AUM of over $700mn.

Ramki is a Computer Science and Engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal and is a Post Graduate in Management from IIM, Bangalore.

His investment experience spans across Life Sciences, Technology, Retailing and Services and has developed a strong network in these segments. He actively participates on the Boards of his portfolio companies and has helped them scale the businesses while managing growth.

Prior to joining the Kotak Mahindra group, Ramki had stints with Carlyle Asia Venture Partners (CAVP), the Carlyle Group’s technology-focused fund, and ICICI Venture, the PE and VC arm of the ICICI Group. Post his graduation, Ramki worked for two years at the Management Services Division of Tata Motors, the largest automobile company in India.

KV Ramanand

Director

KV is presently the Chief Executive Officer at XLSure India Private Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Xcelerate Pte Ltd, a Singapore headquartered Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) focused operating and investing platform.

Prior to this, KV was leading the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practice of Ernst & Young LLP in the South region of India.

KV joined Ernst & Young initially in June 2000 and was part of the Corporate Finance team till September 2009. In September 2009, KV joined KPMG as a Partner to set up and lead the Corporate Finance practice of KPMG in South India.

KV returned to Ernst & Young LLP in September 2016 as Partner M&A and Private Equity leading its southern practice.

KV started his career in 1996 with Ind Global Financial Trust Ltd (IGFT), a boutique Investment Bank and was with IGFT till June 2000. IGFT was subsequently acquired by Arthur Andersen.

During his career with EY, KPMG, and IGFT, KV was involved in several private equity/ structured debt funding transactions, and inbound & outbound M&A transactions across multi-culture, multi-regulatory environments. He also has significant capital market experience as he has handled several IPOs, Rights Issues, Open Offers and Buyback offers.

Nagaraj Krishnan

Managing Director

Nagaraj Krishnan is the Managing Director of Aparajitha Corporate Services Private Limited. He graduated in Mathematics from The American College, Madurai in 1993. He went on to pursue a Master in Social Work (specializing in Human Resources) from the Madurai Institute of Social Sciences. Then he completed his master’s in Business Administration (specializing in Human Resources and Marketing) from Thiagarajar School of Management.

Nagaraj has been instrumental in conceptualizing Aparajitha ’s business framework and leading it through. His expertise in labour & industrial laws along with a blend of logical process oriented approach and people focused leadership has positioned Aparajitha as the market leader in “Compliance Knowledge Process Outsourcing Services” in India. Nagaraj is recognized as thought leader for organizing corporate labour and industrial legal compliance as an organized industry in the country from the year 2000.

He was part of the CII – YI’s Indian delegation at the G20 Young Entrepreneurship Summit held at Niece – France (2011) and Mexico City – Mexico (2012). He was the Founder Chairman of Yi – CII, Madurai chapter. He is the Chairman of CII Madurai Chapter (2019-2020) and active in different forums in CII at the regional and national level, in various capacities.

Nagaraj has been awarded as ‘Entrepreneur of the Year – 2015’ by TieCon; and featured as ‘Social Entrepreneur – 2011’ in Outlook Magazine. Under his leadership, Aparajitha has been recognised as the Top 500 SME Companies in the year 2012, 2013 and Top 100 SME Companies in the year 2015. Aparajitha is one of the few companies from the South Tamil Nadu to attract private equity investment from the Singapore based global player Everstone Capital.

With the determined dream to digitalise compliance management across organizations around the Globe, and with a vision for a standardized e-compliance platform – ‘Compfie’ was born. It is a brain child of Nagaraj and is designed to have a unique and powerful combination of up-to-date compliance knowledge, with the ability to be deployed and used across geographies and industrial sectors, relevant to both large global organizations and small establishments.

In a very short span of time “Compfie” has been recognized and won many awards including the CII award for the Top 25 innovative product(2019-20), 10 Most reliable Risk and Compliance Tech Solution providers – 2019 and the 20 Most promising GRC solutions Providers in India – 2019.

Nagaraj is one of the Trustees in Aparajitha Foundations which is the CSR arm of Aparajitha Corporate Services, dedicated to the cause of transforming youth by imparting training for right attitude and greater awareness about their life. For a decade now the organisation has been making dedicated and effective efforts to build a stronger community through various programs.

Nagaraj is an avid sportsperson who passionately promotes Badminton and Golf.

The People Behind Our Success

“Exceeding customers ‘needs and requirements, we are committed to achieve customer delight,by offering highly knowledge driven services through well-defined processes, customization and professionalism.

We ensure continual improvement through total employee involvement and knowledge enhancement”