Our Executive Leadership Team
At Hotfoot, we are proud to stay flat. Our leadership team drives our company, fuels our strategy, and leads our people.
As a first-generation entrepreneur, with a vision to transform the way people avail loans led him to start Hotfoot. He had 15 years of experience before he started the entrepreneurial journey. His rich and varied experience in Banking and Information Technology, comes through this association with Citibank and Barclays.
Vivek’s extensive experience and network has been gained from handling key roles in areas such as Banking Sales, Credit Evaluation, Score Based Decisioning, Digitization & Automation. At Hotfoot he is responsible for ideating the platform that enhances the borrowing experience which addresses financial inclusion, new to credit, lending based on surrogates and additional data.
Vivek has an unwavering passion for customer service, he believes that one of the biggest features and a significant competitive edge for a company comes from giving personalized attention to the customers and he strives to achieve that with his core team and employees.
Rajesh has 20+ years of experience who is passionate about technology and its applications. Starting his technology journey in building products and platforms, he was instrumental in institutionalizing technology adoption across teams.
Rajesh is a first-generation entrepreneur with four patents in product, platforms, and cloud under his belt. Rajesh is TOGAF Certified, he is also a certified AWS Architect and has spent nearly a decade in understanding and architecting for the cloud and has spoken in public forums on the architecture of the cloud.
Krishnan has 20+ years of professional experience in software design and development with intimated familiarity in product development, talent/people management and strategy. He is recognized as expert in Architecture assessments and Re-architecting path for Digital modernization with experience in mobility, IoT and public clouds.
He is passionate about delivering solutions that are innovative, process-oriented, and fit for purpose, and constantly seeks to partner with other best-in-class software teams.
Krishnan joined Hotfoot in 2019 after serving lead roles in technology and project management for global clients in Communication, Energy & Base metal commodities.
Mr. Arpit Kumar Sharma is a Banking Technology expert with over 15 years of rich experience. In his career, he focused on technological advancement and implementing IT as a key enabler in the banking sector. His valuable contribution to the IT Sector was duly acknowledged and he was awarded with the Best IT Head award in 2016 by Banking frontiers .
He began his career with Nelito System Limited ( TCS Subsidiary) and held various leadership positions throughout his career, including his last stint as Vice President (IT) - AU Small Finance Bank , Deputy Vice President (IT) Bandhan Bank , Head IT Shivalik Small Finance Bank formerly known as Shivalik Mercantile Cooperative Bank Ltd.
He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer engineering.
Dr. VVASriram is an accomplished business leader with more than 20 years of experience in Organisation Productivity Improvement through various HRD, HRM , Leadership Coaching and Training initiatives. He received his Ph.D in “Ancient Wisdom and Modern Management Principles” after more than 13 years of research on ancient literatures and modern management concepts.
He has done extensive research and contributed significantly to employee engagement initiatives and performance improvement measures through various training and coaching program designed and implemented by him and his team. His articles have appeared in leading newspapers, magazines and journals.He is the author of best seller “ Oru Siragu Podhum” published by Vikatan Publications .
Winner of many state, national and international awards in HRD and HRM. Given seminars on soft skills in various national and international level events. A well noted speaker in media on the topic HRD and Personality Development .
A gold medallist in MBA and completed 7 degrees and more than 15 diploma and certificate courses to his credit.
His favourite lines …
“Many things in life will come your way, main thing will stay away. Focus on main thing, many things will go away”.
Harshal comes with 17+ years of experience in the BFSI. He has worked with L&T Financial Services for more than a Decade and Adani Capital as part of the core team to setup the Retail finance Business.
He has been a key contributor across multiple roles and profiles such as Product, Operations, Business, Collection, Strategy, PMO, HR, and Finance. With this rich expertise and knowledge, he is seen as a ‘Go to Guy’ for Solutioning.
As the Head of Delivery and Production Support, Raja Reddy comes with 17+ years of hard-core experience in Implementation and System Support, his core area of interest includes Implementation of LOS, LMS, TCS BaNCS (For Capital Markets), and Customer Mobile App. He has experience in the Capital Markets, Asset Management, and Financial Services Domain.
Raja has been a part of organizations such as Adani Capital, Axis Securities, Thomson Reuters, AllianceBernstein and BSE IT to name a few. His Techno-Functional experience not only equips him in understanding client’s needs and requirements but also fulfilling them with the best available solution and support. He is good at implementing integrations with any third-party systems seamlessly.
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