About Us
The team at VANS designs, drives and co-owns the desired business outcome through its sharp rigor in execution, structured PMO approach, change management and systems thinking.
On The Board

Sujan Sinha
Board of Director
Sujan Sinha
Sujan has a strong experience of more than three decades in senior leadership roles across the banking and financial institutions segment and is a veteran retail banker,.
In these years, he worked with various banks and NBFCs such as State Bank of India, Axis Bank (including heading their consumer lending division) and serving as a Managing Director of Shriram Housing Finance Ltd till 2018. Earlier Sujan has also served as a nominee Director of Bussan Auto Finance, a JV between Mitsui, Yamaha and Axis Bank and was a part of the initial team for setting up of the credit bureau Experian in India. Post his superannuation he joined as a Promoter-Director of Stragility Consulting Pvt. Ltd., and also serves on the boards of other listed and unlisted companies.
He is on the advisory board of a specialised BFSI business school based out of Delhi and is also an advisor to an AI-centric IT firm headquartered in Kolkata.

Visty Banaji
Board of Director
Visty Banaji
Visty is a business focussed HR leader with more than four decades of experience in HR across sectors as diverse as Consumer products, Engineering, Automobiles, Chemicals, Services and Agricultural inputs. He has served in various leadership roles with Telco (Now Tata Motors), ALSTOM and Godrej Industries and Associated Companies.
Visty is founder and CEO of Banner Global Consulting (BGC), a boutique strategic HR consulting firm that has provided consulting service to several top-ranking corporates in India.
Visty is a recipient of the National HRD Network’s (NHRDN) Pathfinders Award 2006 for Seasoned HR Professionals.
He has been a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committees on Human Resources and Industrial Relations for several years now. He is also an Executive Committee member of the Employers’ Federation of India (EFI).
The Founders

Dr. Srinivas Chunduru
Founder & Director – VANS Group
Dr. Srinivas Chunduru
Dr. Srinivas Chunduru (Srini) is a Business leader with over two decades of experience across diverse functions such as P&L Management, Business Development, Corporate Strategy, M&A, Investor Relations and Strategic Human Resources. He is on the board of several new age internet and fin-tech companies including a Unicorn.
Srini formerly spent about two decades at the Piramal Group leading range of roles from M&A to Business Transformation to Group CHRO and Executive Director responsible for P&L at Piramal Housing Finance.
Srini has been conferred with several awards including Global CLO of the year (Leap-vault and TISS), Distinguished Alumni of Goa Institute of Management and Doctorate in Excellence by UCT Delaware – a renowned university in the USA.
Srini specializes in the areas of M&A, Large scale Business Transformation, HR strategy and Corporate Strategy . He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad and Goa Institute of Management

Meenu Bhatia
Co-Founder & Director
Meenu Bhatia
Meenu is a HR Leader with 16+ years of experience into HR Transformations, Strategic HR & OD, Cultural Transformations and Performance Management.
She has worked across multiple geographies supporting businesses out of India, USA, and South East Asia in her multiple roles with Piramal Group, Godrej Industries and an Australian multinational – Brambles.
Her core passion areas include transforming key HR and cultural processes, designing leadership journey and facilitating behavioral process integration with business. Meenu has worked with large business groups and has led projects with organizations helping them transform their HR function and bring it in line with their business priorities.
Meenu is a Certified Executive Coach having earned her ACC from International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is Neuro Linguistic Programming Practioner. She also practices Design Thinking and Innovation in her work with various organisations.
The Advisors

Shantanu Sen Sharma
Advisor
Shantanu Sen Sharma
Shantanu is a business leader with 27+ years in Front line sales leadership, Key Account Management, Value Selling and Customer Experience Management having worked with companies such as Tech Mahindra, Bahwan Cybertek LLC and HCL Infosystems Ltd in the areas of sales transformation, business turnaround and P&L Management.
He is also an experienced Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and Mentor with a demonstrated history of working in the ‘Knowledge, Skill and Attitude Building’ space.
Shantanu is also certified in Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching and is a certified Harrison debriefer and Coach with more than 250 hours of coaching experience with him. Shantanu is an Alumnus of prestigious Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur and Leeds University Business School, UK.

Rahul Choudhry
Advisor
Rahul Choudhry
Rahul is the Managing Partner and Founder of Successroute and an Advisor at VANS. Rahul has a rich experience in the investment banking and financial consulting domains spanning over 20 years.
Prior to starting Successroute, Rahul was associated with Deloitte India as a Director in its Financial Advisory practice and had set up the “special situation” practice in India. Rahul has extensive experience in the distress and special situation space. He has earlier worked in the boutique Investment Bank, Rothschild and with the rating agency, Crisil.
Rahul has lead the team that was involved in successful completion of transactions in excess of Rs. 25,000 crores in the distress space. His clients include Bank of Baroda, Bank of Maharashtra Dena Bank, United Bank of India, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Bajaj Finance, TJSB Sahakari Bank, Kalyan Janata Sahakari Bank, DNSB Bank, NAMCO, Edelweiss ARC, IIBI, GI Group and Aadhar Housing to name a few.
Rahul also has significant experience in the infrastructure sector and has worked with governments, private investors and development agencies on a varied range of transactions. Some of his clients in this space include The World Bank, Tata Power, Government of Nigeria, XL Brockbank UK, Government of Karnataka, Government of Andhra Pradesh among others.

Nitika Agarwal
Advisor
Nitika Agarwal
Nitika is a partner in Successroute and an Advisor at VANS. She has over 18 years of investment banking and international corporate experience. She was previously VP at Edelweiss Capital where she specialized in the technology and outsourcing practice, authoring sector research and many significant private equity and high profile M&A transactions.
She was also a partner at Galileo- AA a multinational investment bank focused on cross-border M&A .
She has experience of having worked in developing and developed nations, and had worked on various cross border deals for clients in USA, UK, Netherlands, Philippines, Italy, Finland, Germany and South East Asia.
Some of Nitika’s key clients include Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank, United Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Kemmpi oy, MedLabz, Select Jobs, United Media Works (UMW), Xylsus Technologies Ltd. Integrated Personnel Services, Nascor Technologies Ltd., GI International, Geometric Software etc.

Rakesh Sarin
Chairman - Advisory Board
Rakesh Sarin
Rakesh is a global business leader and has been CEO and Director on board of multi-billion dollar Corporations spanning across the continents. The recent positions he has held are – Global President Energy Solution and Executive VP on the Wartsila Corporation Board of Management, Helsinki, followed by CEO International Business and Member of Executive Group, Suzlon Energy, India. At start of his carrier, he has had impactful stints with Indian Oil Corporation and Caltex.
He is currently on the Board of Companies as Independent Director and engaged in consulting with Corporates & International Funds, is an Angel Investor as well as he is bootstrapping two start-ups.
Rakesh is a distinguished alumni of IIT BHU & Oxford University. He is passionate for the cause of cleaner – greener environment and creating strategic platforms for business growth.

Dr. Srinivasan. R Iyengar
Advisory Board
Dr. Srinivasan. R Iyengar
Dr. Srinivasan.R. Iyengar is currently an Director & Professor in the area of Strategic Management and Marketing at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), department of Management Studies, Mumbai University.
He holds in PhD degree in Management from Mumbai University and guided 8 PhD candidates. His areas of interests include Strategic Management, International Marketing, Retail Shoppers behaviour. He has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and academics. He has also authored eleven text books in the area of Management, Strategy and Retail.

Blaise Costabir
Advisory Board
Blaise Costabir
Blaise Costabir is a Managing Director of GMI Zarhak Moulders Pvt. Ltd. He is a business leader with 27+ years of experience in scaling businesses, providing strategic muscle to the organizations and championing ethics, governance and transparency amongst SMEs in India.
He has been involved with various industry bodies in Goa such as GCCI and Goa State Industries Association. He was former Chairman of the CII Goa, former Chairman of Verna Industries Association and Former Director of Goa Industrial Development Corporation.
Blaise is an alumnus of the Asian Institute of Management – Makati, Metro Manila.

Dr. Ajit Parulekar
Advisory Board
Dr. Ajit Parulekar
Dr. Ajit Parulekar is a Director at the prestigious Goa Institute of Management. He brings in expertise in areas such as Consumer Behavior, Brand Management, Data Analysis, Business Development and Marketing Strategy. He is a strong professional with an ITP focused on Teaching Methods from Manchester Business School and studied health economics at the London School of Economics.
Dr. Ajit sits on the board of Mineral Foundation of Goa, the Advisory board of VM Salgaocar Hospital, Chairs the Board of a Business Incubator, and is on the Executive Council of Goa University.