Managing Director & CFO ,Helion Advisors Pvt Ltd
Nats has over 24 years of work experience in Finance and accounting, taxation, planning, sales and marketing, HR, Information systems and Quality. He is currently the Managing Director and CFO for Helion Ventures. Helion started in June 2006, has 3 funds adding up to US $600M. Helion invests in early and growth companies focusing on technology and consumer services. Helion has made 58 investments in the last 8 years. At Helion, he is responsible for deal diligence, structuring and closing of investments, helping portfolio investee companies in corporate governance, finances and business plan, in addition to managing regular finance and accounts and investors relations at Fund level.
Before joining Helion, he was Global CFO and Head of support services at Tavant Technologies Inc, a US $60M software services company. During his stint at Tavant he led key initiatives of strengthening and implementing several internal process related to Finance, HR, IS and championing organization improvement programs Prior to Tavant, he worked 10+ years in Wipro group of Companies in the areas of strategic business planning, financial services accounting, marketing, HR, information services, finance and resources management, treasury and taxation. WeP was awarded the Best IT Usage award by NASSCOM in the ICT category in Sept 2003, an initiative led by him as CIO. Nats got his initial grooming at SRF Limited for 3 years at Ranchi and Delhi, after he passed out in 1989.
He is in the boards of several companies. Nats is an Associate Member of the ICWA and ICSI and a Certified Black Belt in Six Sigma by Motorola University.He is on the Board of Bethany Educational Institutions Bangalore, Jain College for Women at Chennai and at SCIT, part of Symbiosis International University. He is the Secretary and a Governing Body member of Tie Bangalore. He is in the advisory board of Youth for Seva, an NGO focusing on education on less privileged children.
