Snehanshu Choudhary, CFA

Advisor , Corporate Finance

Snehanshu is an industry veteran with over 20 to 22 years of management experience in diverse financial services institutions like FAB, HSBC, ENBD in the Middle East and ICICI and SBI in India. During his long tenure with banks, he has managed relationships with a number of well-known corporate houses from India, UAE, USA, EU, South Korea etc. His experience includes running deals on raising debt for specific projects for several GREs and diversified business houses as well as construction finance for large projects in sectors such as power, oil & gas, petrochemicals, infrastructure. He has also worked with a large number of commodity trading houses, providing trade finance solutions for their cross-border trade in various commodities. Snehanshu also spent one and half years as head of finance with a mid-cap diversified business group, which provides him additional insights while advising corporates.

Snehanshu has completed an Executive Development program with INSEAD and holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C). He is also a CFA charter holder.

He is responsible for business development and deal execution in corporate finance advisory and trade finance advisory businesses at GIFL

Tusti Barua

Executive Director, Private Wealth Advisory

Tusti is a veteran, banking/wealth management professional, with an overall work experience of 24 to 26 years, 19 years of which was with Citibank (India and Dubai), spanning across roles of Leadership, Wealth Management and Investment Management to name a few.

She is an expert in advising private banking clients particularly from UK,UAE, Africa and Bangladesh. Her core expertise lies in managing family offices, providing them with key wealth advisory services in various jurisdictions like Switzerland, Singapore, Hong-Kong etc. Her strong relationship management skills coupled with strong team building abilities have been the corner stone in all her endeavours.

Tusti has a post graduate Master’s degree in Economics, specializing in Statistics and Econometrics.

Kailash Nuthalapati

Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance Advisory

Kailash has over 5 years of work experience in the Consulting/Project finance fields. Prior to joining GIFL, he has worked as part of the consulting team with BCG in India and corporate finance team with Alshaya retail in the UAE.

He has attained his Masters in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM C) with majors in Finance, holds an FRM designation and is in pursuit of the CFA designation, through which he has gained deep understanding of finance and accounting principles, project management and strategic planning. He also holds a Bachelors of Engineering from BITS-Pilani – India.

Kailash, in his role as a senior analyst, is responsible for deal execution within the M&A and Corporate finance advisory vertical at GIFL.

Nadezda Alekseeva

Company Secretary and Relationship Manager

Nadezda has over 8 years’ experience in the financial services industry with Sberbank Russia and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank where she was involved in arranging finance for corporate and individual clients. She joined the firm in 2016 as a Company’s Secretary/Office Manager and was responsible for designing and implementing office policies by establishing standards and procedures.

Nadezda is a graduate of Russian University of Cooperation where she was awarded diploma of specialisation in Finance and Credit.

In her most recent role within the private wealth advisory group, She is responsible for business development and maintaining client relationships.

Monika Modi

Financial Analyst, Corporate Finance Advisory

Monika has over 4 years of work experience in the fields of Accounting and Finance. Previously, she worked at Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority(SEWA) as an Internal Auditor and was a part of the management team for a department. Prior to SEWA, she worked as an External Auditor at Crowe MAK in the UAE.

She is a Chartered Accountant – ICAI and holds a bachelor’s degree in accounts and finance from Indra Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She has also cleared all levels of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program and is awaiting Charter.

At GIFL, Monika in her role as analyst, is responsible for deal execution within the Trade finance and Corporate advisory vertical.

Yash Gajaria

Financial Analyst, Private Wealth Advisory

Yash joined GIFL as a junior analyst and in his role, he is responsible for day to day operations for private wealth advisory and preparing investment decks, Information packs etc. He is also responsible for providing assistance to compliance team and ensuring the completion of KYC documents and on-boarding of clients.

Yash completed his under-graduation from Amity university where he was awarded bachelor’s degree specializing in finance and accounts. Currently he is pursuing Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.

Surendra Naidu Sandra

Head – Finance and Accounting

Surendra has over 28 years of experience in trading, contracting, real estate, utility and health care sectors in India and the U.A.E where he is resident for over 22 years. His last assignment was with Lifeline Hospital as Senior Finance Manager heading the finance and accounts functions.

He is a qualified Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Certified Management Accountant from The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and Institute of Management Accountants of America

Surendra is an outsourced Finance Officer and is responsible for Accounts maintenance, reports preparation and fulfils the financial reporting responsibilities to the management and the DFSA.