Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

We're thrilled to announce that Intellex has acquired Expert by Big Village, effective March 22, 2024. This strategic move enhances our capabilities and strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional solutions to our customers.

Stay tuned for more updates on how this acquisition will benefit our clients and experts.

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Expert Details

Digital Technology, Private Equity/Venture Capital Investing, Fintech, and Asset Management

ID: 739384 United Kingdom

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Expert is a fintech (B2B) founder with 13+ years of experience in Digital transformation across various financial services, including corporate and investment banking, retail banking, treasury/trading, insurance, asset management, secured lending, wealth management, risk and regulatory compliance. She has 5+ years of experience as a software developer, 5+ years as a cross-functional leader, and 3+ years as an investor (Featured in Active 250+ women angels in Europe by Sifted (Backed by Financial Times) 2023)

Expert is driven by insatiable curiosity to acquire Finance & technology domain expertise. She's pursued a Masters in Finance from London Business school, and cleared Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level 1 & 2 exams, in order to expand her horizons in Fintech products and solutions.

She is proficient in product development, software integrations (APIs), cybersecurity, predictive analytics leveraging ML (AI), RPA (process automation) and enterprise software implementations with extensive experience in regulation and developing data-driven strategies. Skilled in guiding companies through data strategies including data management, governance, compliance, digital transformation and modernization, with a track record of leadership, winning new business, managing teams, and growing a business. Previously, she served as the Managing Partner at Rudratic Technologies, and led a high-growth startup through a merger exit with a global leader.

Special interests: Digital strategy, Corporate strategy, Product development, Due diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions, Valuations, Private equity, Venture capital financing, Investing, Value creation; Cybersecurity, FinTech, RegTech, Automation, Machine learning, Emerging markets investments, Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, ESG, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), Tokenomics, Investment Management, Digital Assets, Decentralized Applications (DApps), Solidity, Decentralised Finance, Smart Contracts, Digital ID

She is permitted to work in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and India.

▪ Software languages/tools known: Solidity, Data engineering, SQL, Python, PowerBI
▪ Worked across Larger firms (Mcap $1B+) and smaller firms (seed, early stage to growth)
▪ Extensive experience working in the DevOps, Agile, Kanban process chains

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2021 Degree: MS Subject: Finance Institution: London Business School, UK
Year: 2009 Degree: BS Subject: Technology Institution: National Institute of Technology, Maharashtra, India

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2022 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Private Equity - Investments team: LargeCap Buyout Strategy Department:
Responsibilities:
▪ Working on digital strategy implementations for the investment team through solutioning/architecting integration of various fund functions to Deal CRM/Data Lake; Automating investment team workflows through AI, data analytics & efficient reporting
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2021 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: Board Advisor Department:
Responsibilities:
▪ Awarded UK WealthTech Firm of the Year: Provide strategic guidance for ESG, risk, asset performance modules across 24+ asset classes
▪ Assist digital transformations for wealth managers, HNWs, and family offices to address succession planning, enhance investment decisionmaking through innovative technology and efficient data usage
▪ Worked on Global Sales, Fundraising, Strategic partnerships & Investor Outreach for pre-Series-A (valued at ~$20m)
▪ Guided team in RFP submissions to asset/Wealth management firms with AUM > $1.4Tn
▪ Detailed experience in sales cycle analysis, building sales funnel, GTM strategy and business development partnerships
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2022 to 2022 Employer: CBPE Capital Title: Private equity - International strategy/Investment thesis: Mid-Market Buyout Strategy Department:
Responsibilities:
▪ Worked on CBPE Capital’s portfolio management team, in building international expansion strategy for their technology portfolio company
▪ Built ‘Route to Market’ strategies for geographies including Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Oceania
▪ Built M&A strategy scouting for potential acquisition targets in the research regions
▪ Built strategic partnerships playbook through Ecommerce partners, System Integrators and Resellers
▪ Presented the strategy to the board including HG Capital
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2021 to 2021 Employer: Averroes Capital Title: Private Equity - Investments team: Mid-Market Buyout Strategy Department:
Responsibilities:
▪ Worked on building fund’s deal originations, deal process automations/optimizations
▪ Assisted the firm in their fund structuring in Jersey jurisdiction including Sharia compliant entities
▪ Assisted GCC countries securities marketing through regulatory license setup
▪ Conducted UK midmarket analysis of deal dynamics, market, and industry research to identify the most attractive industries/investments
▪ Conducted competitive Analysis for existing competitors, due diligence on other PE funds and companies that we could work with and/or invest in
▪ Conducted research and submitted analysis on Limited Partners' sector preferences and segmentation analysis, Value creation thesis.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2015 to 2020 Employer: Rudratic Technologies Title: Founder CEO/Managing Partner Department:
Responsibilities:
Fin-tech firm helping banks in open banking revolution, safeguarding firms against cyber security threats; enabling efficient businesses by providing AI, Augmented reality, IoT, robotic solutions and services.

▪ Built India’s niche enterprise software products in Cybersecurity, Prediction analytics, Robotic process automation to solve Data risk by insider threats and cyberattacks for financial services
▪ Bootstrapped with an investment capital of $1200 in 2016 and grew the company organically to a valuation of about $10m in 4 years without external financing. Products to Services revenue split – 40:60
▪ Deployed software products to financial institutions in 14 countries leveraging next-gen technologies such as AI/ML, Multi-Cloud integrations, Intelligent Enterprise Planning
▪ Led teams across Finance, IT Dev and Operations for customer accounts at 14 Asian & African countries
▪ Successfully executed product spinoffs exit with Trustnow technologies, USA, bought by a joint venture of Haraa Labs and Vistas Global group, QATAR
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2010 to 2015 Employer: Wipro Technologies Title: Project Engineer Department:
Responsibilities:
▪ Led Digital Transformation projects in Africa with a team of 8 engineers
▪ Leveraged extensive analysis to measure performance, scope and team allocation on a weekly basis and presented key metrics, performance improvements to management in business review meets
▪ Led initiatives to build automations saving 140 monthly business hours, direct cost savings of 6.5% and productivity improvements of 20%
▪ Identified business development opportunities and aided firm’s business expansion initiatives in their key accounts

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
▪ Associate member - CFA institute, FRM, PRMIA, UKBAA, Angel networks in India, Africa, Europe, USA
▪ Lifetime member & Former Co-Chair for Private Equity/Venture Capital Club, London business school, UK since 2020
▪ Lifetime member & Former Executive member for Entrepreneurship club, London business school, UK since 2020
▪ Former Ambassador for Masters in Finance programme at London Business School, UK (2020-2021)
▪ Sponsor 2 rural girls' education in India through Plan India, NGO initiative since 2017
▪ Active sponsor and volunteer at Home of Hope, South Africa to rehabilitate abused women in Africa since 2015
▪ Active contributor to Green Peace international for Sustainable living since 2011
Licenses / Certifications
2019: CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Level 3 candidate
Awards / Recognition
▪ Featured in Active 250+ women angels in Europe by Sifted (Backed by Financial Times)
▪ Conferred the Suryadatta “National Award in Global Entrepreneurship excellence” by His Excellency, Governor of Maharashtra, India – Hon’ble Bhagat Singh Koshyari
▪ ‘A Game maker award’, Best team award for executing Nedbank Group’s (Africa) open banking strategy-'Africa's first API Marketplace'
▪ Standard Bank, South Africa: Beyond Excellence award (2 years); Best Innovator award (1 year); Outstanding Contribution award (2 years)

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
English Fluent
Hindi Basic
Tamil Native

Fields of Expertise

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