Team

The Team

Neeraj Kumar Srivastava
Founder and CEO

Neeraj is a seasoned and proven CXO Leader with three decades of experience of which more than 15 years have been in the Middle East and Africa region. He has held regional CEO positions in some of the top global technology corporations. He specializes in setting up companies from grounds-up, running them, and scaling them up. His endeavors are supported in no small measure by his significant executive connects in the region. He is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Technology and has gone through various management/leadership programs including the one conducted by Ross School of Management, University of Michigan, USA.

Neeraj has been instrumental in 4IRme getting appointed as business advisor to three Tata Group companies for their operations in the Middle East and Africa.

Our Advisors

Anurag Bhatnagar
Senior Advisor

Anurag is a Chartered Accountant (CA) with 33 years of BFSI & Tech experience working with market leaders in financial services - AFF, IL&FS, HDFC, Citigroup, Max New York Life Insurance - in core roles in starting and scaling new ventures, distribution, treasury & asset management, product management and turn around of SBU in banking.

Deepak Kumar Lal
Senior Advisor

Deepak is a seasoned corporate banker with over three decades of experience in the West India, South India, Oman, and UAE markets. Prior to joining the banking profession, he worked as a production engineer in an offshore natural sour gas production facility. The list of financial institutions where he has worked in his distinguished career includes HSBC, EmiratesNBD, (erstwhile) First Gulf Bank, Mashreq Bank, and First Abu Dhabi Bank.

He has considerable expertise in the areas of structured trade finance, corporate credit evaluation, stressed assets management, term lending, M&A, and relationship management.

He is an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and XLRI alumnus with professional qualifications in Petroleum Engineering and Finance.

Rajesh Gupta
Senior Advisor

Senior leader in Banking and Financial Services industry with over 25 years of Banking experience in international markets in MNC & large regional banks at various country, Regional and Head-office roles.

With deep-domain expertise across all client segments and products across Retail, SME/Small Business and Corporate & Investment Banking, Rajesh have successfully built and managed large businesses with P&L responsibility and successfully delivered several large & cross-functional enterprise-wide projects.

Over the course of his career, he has had a truly international working experience in Asia, Middle-east & Africa, Europe and North America.

Building on his deep-domain expertise in Banking & Financial Services and wide-ranging international experience, he provides Advisory & Consulting services to clients to help achieve their business goals and also mentors several start-up’s and FinTechs.

Rajesh is a Chartered Accountant (CA), Management Accountant (CMA), Company Secretary (CS) and Certified Anti-Money Specialist (CAMS). He is also an INSEAD alumnus and an active member of INSEAD alumni network.

Praveen Bhatnagar
Senior Advisor

Energetic, creative, highly ambitious, and self-motivated C-suit executive leader, Chartered Accountant and Certified Public Accountant Professional, process improvement expertise with a track record of initiatives and results, strong ethics, and values. Proven ability to build and deploy successful organizational changes with multiple initiatives, deliver rapid results via broad and deep analysis. Strongly focused on solutions, that creates investor profitability in the face of difficult investment decisions.