Mumbai | 17th December 2020: A financial services veteran, Mr. Hemant Kaul has invested an undisclosed amount in VANS Skilling and Advisory, founded by ex-senior advisor at OLA Dr. Srinivas Chunduru. 

Mr Hemant Kaul

Mr. Kaul was part of the initial start-up team of UTI Bank (Axis Bank), and was instrumental in setting up its retail banking function. He was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Bajaj Allianz General Insurance until 2012. He is presently on the board of OLA Financial Services.

Vans Skilling and Advisory, a platform for interim CXO services with eco system of products and B school network, has recently closed a pre series A round, attracting investors like Sujan Sinha, ex MD and CEO of Shriram Housing finance, Sandeep Divakaran former CEO of OLA Fleet technologies and many CXO’s from several leading companies and Partners from leading consulting companies as Investors.

Dr. Srinivas Chunduru

Hemant Kaul said, “Post Covid, we see a huge opportunity across organisations to be agile, cost focused and capabilities centric. With a unique model of a platform approach of Interim CXO coupled with a complete eco system of indigenously build products and B schools, VANS team is passionately driving the shift and are uniquely poised to cater to the entire value chain.”

Dr. Srinivas Chunduru, former senior advisor at OLA and founder said, “It is indeed an honour to have investors and advisors like Hemant Kaul, his vast experience in BFSI and Fintech segment will help us immensely in our offerings. We aim to leverage and scale our unique model, strong execution muscle, indigenously build methodologies to grow our platform.”