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Chaitanya Dabholkar — Chief Investment Officer · Asiana Alternative Investment Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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About
26 years of diverse finance experience, including as CFO / Finance head and Chief Investment Officer.
- Currently working as Chief Investment Officer in Asiana Fund as part of Dani Family Office (co promoters of Asian Paints) in Mumbai, handling the venture fund (both startup and listed investments), plus family office related financial controlling for various sports and charitable organizations.
- Previously, over 2 decades of experience in Asian Paints, one of the worlds leading coatings companies, handling accounting, costing, tax, banking etc. at factory, corporate HQ, CFO of Kitchens subsidiary and Bath business, and Head of Finance of Asian Paints International (overseeing finance for 15 countries) based out of Singapore.
- Also tried a 1.5 year stint as an entrepreneur in 2011-12 developing an ERP for small enterprises.
- A deep interest in process improvements and programming & process automation (SQL and databases, C#, Web, Excel etc.).
Experience
Chief Investment OfficerCurrent
Asiana Alternative Investment Fund · Mumbai
Dec 2021 – Present
Working at Dani Family Office (co promoters of Asian Paints), handling Asiana venture fund ( including both startup and listed investments), evaluation/investing/support to the investee companies, and in addition, handling financial controlling for several sports and charitable organizations and other Family office companies.
Head Finance - International Business Unit
Asian Paints · Singapore
Apr 2018 – Dec 2021
Finance Head at Asian Paints International, Singapore. (AP International is the holding company for all international operations of Asian Paints, the 9th largest coatings company in the world). ■ Working with International division’s CEO and 2 Regional Heads to achieve group business objectives. ■ Board level interactions for the Global operations holding company in Singapore. ■ Oversight of finance & IT operations across all 11 countries (ranging between Fiji & Indonesia in the east, to South Asia, Middle East and Africa in the west), ■ Mentoring the CFO’s of these units and working with the Country heads & CFO’s in meeting unit financial objectives - profitability, cost control, tax, legal, working capital management, treasury etc. ■ Responsible for Group level banking relationships with international banks. ■ Part of cross country/cross functional projects- ○ implementing SAP and SAP Analytics / Business Warehouse across 10 countries within 15 months working with the India IT team; ○ starting the Bath business in Nepal & Bangladesh along with Unit and central Marketing; ○ developing/implementing a cross-device CRM system for frontline teams for handling secondary sales, from leads till post-sales, with Unit Marketing teams and India IT team; ○ divestment of subsidiaries; incorporating a new subsidiary.
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