Leadership
We believe in the power of diverse teams and the importance of succession.
Message from the CEO
“Our firm joining the CLA Global network is a natural alignment of our core purpose, which is exemplifying talent and amplifying value. Our choice reflects the role that India and our talented professionals will play in building and shaping the professional services industry globally and helping to build a new and agile global network. We are looking forward to working with likeminded professionals and entrepreneurs across the globe to service our clients.” Kartik believes that any consulting team that must add real value should focus on implementation effectiveness and the advice must be contextual to the business, its needs, and its current state in terms of technology, culture and people and one size that fits all cannot work in a Consulting domain. Kartik believes that Covid 19 is the course changing turning point in the human history with big learnings.
Kartik Radia, CEO of CLA Global Indus Value Consulting
Our Leadership Team
Kartik Radia
CEO and Managing Partner – CLA Global Indus Value Consulting
Kartik is a CEO and Managing Partner of CLA Global Indus Value Consulting. Kartik has more than 25 years of work experience of which nearly 10 years has been as a Partner and of which 4 Years has been as a CEO. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, Associate Company Secretary, Associate Chartered Management Accountant, Certified Public Accountant (USA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (USA), Certified Internal Auditor (USA). Kartik has been a Line Partner for Risk Advisory Practice and Forensic and Dispute Advisory Practice.
Chandra Sekhar Bhartia
Senior Partner – GRRCS and CFO Advisory Services
Chandra Sekhar is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with over 23 years of composite experience in providing professional services in the areas of internal audits & internal control framework, enterprise risk management, fraud investigations, CFO & business advisory, accountancy outsourcing, compliance management and corporate secretarial services.
Jinal Jatakia
Senior Partner – Forensic Investigations and Dispute Advisory Services (FIDAS)
Jinal is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with 17+ years of overall experience. Previously, he has worked with PwC, Deloitte, BDO, Mazars, Dow Chemical Corporation and Galaxy Surfactants Limited. He specializes in Arbitration, Disputes and Forensic Investigations for Indian and Global Clients and has spearheaded high profile marquee engagements. He has handled matters at LCIA, SIAC US Bankruptcy Court New York, Delaware, Delhi seated arbitrations. He has worked across various sectors including Chemical, Real Estate, Textile, Oil & Gas, Metals & Mining, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering Procurement and Construction, Aviation, Information Technology, Retail & Consumer etc.
Pratim Kabiraj
Senior Partner – Transformation, Automation and Outsourcing (TAO)
Pratim is a seasoned Finance & Accounts (‘F&A’) professional with 2 decades’+ diverse and varied experience in the areas of Transformation, Business Process Re-engineering, Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory, Office of CFO Advisory, Robotic Process Automation, Controls and Compliance review and Statutory audit domains.
Suvayu Ray
Senior Partner – Digital and Government and Public Sector Advisory
Suvayu is leading the transformational journeys of different government entities through adoption of Government 3.0. He is focussed on guiding government clients to provide smart governance through digital interventions and enabling participative governance in key sectors.
R Srivathsa Ramanathan
Partner – Cyber Security, Privacy and Data Protection (CSPDP)
Srivathsa is Partner in Cyber Security, Privacy and Data Protection (CSPDP) with 40 years of overall experience. He has worked with many blue-chip companies like PwC, Deloitte, IBM, HP & HCL in multiple industry verticals in multiple solution areas and now specializes in cyber security. Innovative leader with ability to Think Big and articulate the Vison & the Mission of the organization to successfully engage the team to deliver on the Vision.
Bijal S Doshi
Partner – Corporate Finance and Deals (CFD)
Bijal is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of experience in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking (CFIB), as well as Investment and Business Structuring. During his extensive professional journey, he has successfully established the Indian corporate finance business for a UK-based boutique CFIB company, pioneered new growth strategies, and fostered strong ties with clients, Global and Indian Private Equity funds, Venture funds, Special Situation Funds, NBFCs and Global banks, handled over 100 deals worth over $2.0 billion, spanning India, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Rohit Bhageria
Partner – GRRCS and CFO Advisory Services
Rohit is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with over 23 years of composite experience in providing professional services in the areas of Internal Audit, Process Diagnostics, Project Monitoring, Regulatory & Secretarial Compliances including SoX & IFC, Accounts and Finance Outsourcing as well as CFO Advisory. He has earlier worked with BDO, E&Y, Tata Steel, ArcelorMittal, Tata Motors and Britannia Industries.
Murli Wadhwani
Partner – Technology Services
Murli is seasoned IT Professional and successfully managed large and complex Supply Chain projects for global clients like 3M, ABB, Dell, Daimler Chrysler, Nouryon, NTT Data, Agilent, Honeywell etc. He has experience of working with global teams and projects in USA, Europe, Brazil, Philippines, China and APAC regions. He has done various customer facing roles including –Technical and Functional Lead, Program Lead, Program Manager, Pre-Sales and Account Manager while working with Dell, EY, Mazars, Infosys, Oracle, Manhattan Associates and Krypt
Raja Mukherjea
Partner – Transformation, Automation and Outsourcing (TAO)
Raja is a Fellow Cost Accountant and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration holder with two decades of experience in end-to- end design and implementation of finance transformation strategy for Fortune 100 organizations. He has worked for Fortune 50 organizations and led large global teams to engage, nurture and maximize value both for his team and clients.
Dr. Suman Ranjan Sensarma
Partner – Government and Public Sector Advisory (GPSA)
Dr. Suman has over 20 years of consulting experiences on a wide range of areas pertain to urban management & development sector with exposure to the policies and practices of government & bilateral, multilateral (DFID, WB, ADB, GIZ, UNDP, JICA, AfDB) organizations. He has worked with KPMG, SREI Infrastructure Finance limited , The Louis Berger Group, Inc., ICF-GHK, IPE Global, RMSI, UNDP etc.
Puneet Agarwal
Partner – Government and Public Sector Advisory (GPSA)
Puneet is a business leader with 21 years of experience in public Sector advisory business with diverse role, Business Solution Implementation, driving multimillion dollar projects for global clients, executing broad-based delivery & transformation strategies; targeting leadership assignments with an organizations of high repute. Puneet has worked with companies like Grant Thronton, ICICI Infotech, Reliance Infocom, Dabur India Ltd. He has extensive experience in Government Advisory including e-Governance, Information Technology (IT) , Smart Cities, Safe Cities, IT infrastructure, Data analytics, Decision support systems, Public Procurement & Livelihoods.
Dr. Nimish Chodankar
Partner – Forensic Investigations and Dispute Advisory Services (FIDAS)
Nimish is a Partner in Forensic with CLA Indus Value Consulting with more than 10 years of experience with demonstrated expertise in Forensic Engagement wherein nature include Forensic Investigation, Corruption Investigation, Expert Witness and Damage Quantification, Forensic Audits, Asset Tracing. Nimish has extensive experience of serving large Clients across various industries. His prior experience involve working with larger accounting firm BDO and Mazars.
Palash Kothari
Partner – Forensic Investigations and Dispute Advisory Services (FIDAS)
Palash is a Partner in Forensics with CLA Indus Value Consulting with more than 10 years of work experience. He has expertise in Investigation, Digital Forensic, Forensic Audit, IBC Support service and Fraud Risk Assessment assignments. He has worked on assignments across industry verticals like Power, Banking, FMCG and Chemicals. His prior experience involve working Desai Haribhakti & Co., Ernst & Young and BDO.