Brands
Akhil Maheshwari takes charge as CFO at Aditya Birla Wellness
MUMBAI: Aditya Birla Wellness has strengthened its leadership bench with the appointment of Akhil Maheshwari as its new chief financial officer. A chartered accountant, CMA and MBA, Maheshwari brings with him a rich blend of corporate finance, strategic planning and boardroom experience, sharpened across some of India’s most respected organisations. His career has been closely intertwined with the Tata ecosystem, where he most recently served as chief financial officer at Nova Integrated Systems, a Tata enterprise, while also holding senior finance and MD Office roles at Tata Advanced Systems Limited.
Earlier in his career, Maheshwari worked with CRISIL in corporate finance and spent nearly four years at Tata Consultancy Services, where he combined domain expertise with a strong analytical lens. He began his professional journey with articleship at R L Birla & Co., laying a solid foundation in financial reporting and compliance.
Beyond the corporate corridors, Maheshwari is also the founder of CAR Commerce Artists and Rejuvenators Study Empire, reflecting his long-standing commitment to mentoring and knowledge building in the finance space.
At Aditya Birla Wellness, he is expected to steer financial strategy, sharpen forecasting and support growth initiatives as the brand continues to scale its presence in India’s fast-evolving wellness market. With a resume that balances rigour with range, Maheshwari’s appointment signals a clear focus on disciplined growth and strategic clarity.
Brands
YES Bank appoints S Anantharaman as chief risk officer
Former Jio Financial Services group chief risk officer takes charge of enterprise-wide risk at the embattled private lender
MUMBAI: YES Bank is not taking chances with risk anymore. The private lender has appointed S Anantharaman as its chief risk officer, a hire that signals the bank’s continued effort to rebuild credibility and tighten the controls that once famously slipped.
Anantharaman arrives from Jio Financial Services, where he served as group chief risk officer and built a risk management architecture spanning lending, payments, insurance broking and asset management from the ground up. Before that, he held the chief risk officer role at Bank of Baroda and senior leadership positions at HDFC Bank and L&T Finance Holdings. Three decades in banking and financial services, in other words, with scars and qualifications to match. He is a chartered accountant and a CFA charterholder.
At YES Bank, his brief is considerable. Anantharaman will oversee the bank’s entire enterprise-wide risk framework, covering credit policy, market risk, operational risk, information security, data governance, analytics, model governance and data privacy. It is, in short, every lever that matters when a bank is trying to prove it has grown up.
YES Bank’s turbulent past needs little rehearsing. What it needs now is exactly what Anantharaman has spent thirty years building: the kind of risk culture that stops problems before they become headlines. The appointment suggests the bank knows it.
