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Finarkein appoints former Perfios senior director Prasad Shetty to scale delivery & customer success
PUNE: Finarkein has drafted in Prasad Shetty, formerly senior director at Perfios, to tighten delivery and customer success as the fintech steps on the accelerator in India’s fast-evolving financial data market.
Based in Pune, Shetty takes charge as senior director, head of delivery and customer success, with a mandate that goes straight to the core: flawless execution, platform scale and trust at enterprise level. The appointment strengthens Finarkein’s leadership bench as it pushes to build what it calls the rails of India’s next-generation financial data infrastructure.
Shetty brings more than 22 years across BFSI, fintech and digital transformation, with senior stints at Perfios, Lentra, IBM, Tata Capital and Bandhan Life. His track record spans large-scale enterprise delivery, digital product innovation and technology-led transformation, experience Finarkein is betting on as banks and lenders demand reliability as much as speed.
“At the scale at which Finarkein operates today, execution excellence and customer trust are non-negotiable,” said Nikhil Kurhe, co-founder and chief executive. He pointed to Shetty’s mix of domain depth, delivery rigour and customer-first instinct as critical as clients move away from fragmented data workflows towards enterprise-grade platforms.
Shetty said Finarkein was building foundational infrastructure for India’s credit and financial ecosystem, adding that his focus would be on delivery excellence and customer success that helps institutions trust and use data at scale.
The hire comes as Finarkein deepens its role in open finance, data intelligence and AI infrastructure, serving more than 100 BFSI firms across frameworks such as account aggregator, OCEN, and ONDC-FS. The ambition is clear: faster innovation, better decisions and secure scale.
As India’s financial data layer hardens into infrastructure, Finarkein is signalling that speed alone is not enough. Delivery, trust and execution now set the pace.
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Tessolve lands a semiconductor veteran to drive its next big push
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, who started his career at ISRO and has spent 35 years building chips and companies, joins the Bengaluru-based firm as president and chief operating officer
BENGALURU: Tessolve has never been shy about its ambitions. The Bengaluru-based engineering services firm already counts 18 of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies among its clients, employs more than 3,500 engineers across 12 countries, and last year pocketed a $150m investment from TPG. Now it has hired the executive it believes can turn those assets into something bigger. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, a 35-year semiconductor veteran who once built satellite payloads for ISRO and has since scaled engineering organisations across three continents, joins as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
THE MAN AND THE MANDATE
The appointment is, by any measure, a serious hire. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu comes to Tessolve after senior leadership stints at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro, where he managed large profit-and-loss portfolios and oversaw cross-regional teams. Over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in bringing more than 1,000 new products to market across the high-tech, energy and manufacturing verticals. Before the private sector claimed him, he began his working life as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, contributing to research and development in charge-coupled device technology and satellite payloads, a foundation that shaped everything that followed.
In his new role, he will lead Tessolve’s global growth strategy: expanding its engineering capabilities, deepening customer relationships and accelerating innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing domains. The brief is broad, but the context is specific. Tessolve operates in the $550 billion global semiconductor market, and its recent moves, the acquisition of Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies and the TPG funding round, have sharpened both its reach and its expectations.
Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and chief executive of Tessolve, is characteristically direct about why Ravi Kumar Chirugudu was the choice:
“As we scale our global semiconductor and system engineering capabilities, Ravi’s appointment marks an important step forward. As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle, from design, packaging, validation and systems integration. Ravi’s deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforcing our market leadership.”
THE NEW ARRIVAL SPEAKS
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, for his part, frames the move in terms of timing and culture, two factors that veteran executives tend to weigh as heavily as title or compensation:
“I am happy to join Tessolve at a time when the industry is rapidly evolving towards more complex, AI-driven systems. What stands out to me is its strong people-first culture and its commitment to bringing value to its customers. The strength of its global team, combined with its deep expertise in semiconductor innovation and next-generation product engineering, creates a solid foundation to build differentiated, scalable solutions. I look forward to working closely with the team to drive strategic growth and strengthen its role in shaping the global semiconductor ecosystem.”
The reference to AI-driven systems is not incidental. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural reshaping, driven by the insatiable compute demands of artificial intelligence. For engineering services firms like Tessolve, which offers end-to-end capabilities from silicon design to packaged parts and invests in high-performance computing, high-speed interfaces, photonics and 5G, the moment is both an opportunity and a test. The company says it is well positioned to capture the next wave of industry growth. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu is now the person who has to prove it.
He came in from outer space, literally, and spent three decades learning how the semiconductor industry works from the inside out. Now Tessolve is betting that accumulated knowledge can help it cross the next frontier. In the $550 billion global chip market, the gap between ambition and execution is measured in engineering hours and leadership quality. Tessolve has just gone shopping for both.
