Venkata Sreerama Ravi Kumar Tadimalla
Management Consultant Working In The Domains Of Financial Serivces And Agri-business
Hyderabad
Summary
A seasoned financial services and development sector consultant having over 18 years of experience across financial services, agribusiness and digital financial services. Experience of working in over 6 countries across across Asia and Africa and working on projects supported by global philanthropic organizations, multilateral organizations, commercial banks, national and sub-national governments and microfinance institutions
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Partner
MicroSave Consulting, India
01.2020 - Current
- Led a team of over 35 professionals in supporting over 30 farmer producer enterprises across the state of Bihar transforming them into sustainable business entities through capacity building, market linkages and credit facilitation. Facilitated credit over USD 2 million dollars in a span of 3 years, aggregate revenues of producer enterprises increased by 400% and impacted over 100,000 farmer households
- Led team in over 25 + projects supported by global philanthropic agencies and multilateral organizations like Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, JP Morgan Chase foundation, World Bank , UNCDF and impact investors like Gawa Capital etc.
- Played a key role in developing the agriculture and agri-business domain within MSC India
Senior Manager
MicroSave Consulting
01.2013 - 12.2019
- Led over 50+ projects across domains of financial services, agriculture finance, digitization of government payments, policy and regulatory analysis for financial and government regulatory stakeholders
- Led a team to set up Bina Artha Ventura, microfinance and MSME finance institution. Played instrumental role in product development, technology architecture design and developing operational policies and implementation support. Over past decade, Bina Artha has developed into one of the largest microfinance institution in Indonesia
- Led projects supporting financial services regulators of Indonesia: Bank Indonesia ( central bank of Indonesia) and The Financial Services Authority of Indonesia in formulating policies on branch-less banking and digital financial services
- Working closely with Ministry of Social Welfare, Government of Indonesia and The National Planning agency of Indonesia (BAPPENAS) was instrumental in providing policy support on transforming and digitising the government social assistance payments across Indonesia
- Led teams to support major commercial banks like Bank Mandiri, Bank Rakyat Indonesia and Bank BTPN in conceptualizing, implementing and refining agent banking services
- Supported over 15+ microfinance institutions in the areas of product development, business process re-engineering, technology enhancement and digitization
Manager
MicroSave Consulting
09.2008 - 12.2012
- Worked with over 25+ microfinance and MSME financing institutions in providing technical assistance on consumer research, product design, development and refinement across India, Sri Lanka, Phillipines and Indonesia
- Supported financial institutions including, banks, non-bank finance companies on a range of financial services product development including agriculture finance, housing finance, JLG group loans, MSME business loans, working capital loans, education loans etc.
- Led a team to study the retail and small savings behavior of low and middle income consumers in Sri Lanka for the International Finance Corporation
Program Officer
Samaj Pragati Sahyog
04.2006 - 09.2008
- Led a team of over 20 + to support a community based financial inclusion program
- Worked with over 500 self help groups of women in one of the most under developed regions of the country
- Facilitated financial inclusion of over 5000 women from the bottom of the pyramid population
- Designed livelihood projects on agriculture and allied sectors like dairy and goat management, providing technical support in bringing in efficiencies and enhancing incomes.
- Helped set up 10 + farmer collectives to facilitate aggregation of commodities and better market linkages for small holder farming households
Education
MBA - Finance And Development Studies
Institute of Rural Management, Anand
Anand, Gujrat, India 04.2001 -
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
Kuruskshetra, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Strategic management
Consumer behavior studies and financial product development
Microfinance, agriculture finance and MSMSE finance designa nd implementation
Digitization and technology platforms implementation
Policy analysis and review
Timeline
Associate Partner
MicroSave Consulting, India
01.2020 - Current
Senior Manager
MicroSave Consulting
01.2013 - 12.2019
Manager
MicroSave Consulting
09.2008 - 12.2012
Program Officer
Samaj Pragati Sahyog
04.2006 - 09.2008
MBA - Finance And Development Studies
Institute of Rural Management, Anand
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra
04.2001 -