Senior Management
Dr. Shikha Bagai
Shikha leads India business of Vistra and is responsible for overseeing Vistra’s business growth across service offerings and clients in India.
She has completed CAIA Level 1 Examination.
Shikha is a Qualified Chartered Accountant from India, has cleared CPA from Denver, Colorado (USA) and is MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, a top management institute in India, where she is also currently pursuing an Executive doctoral degree. She brings two decades of experience and expertise in the financial services industry, at national and global levels. Shikha is a people and customer-centric leader with a strong track record of building high performance teams.
Prior to joining Vistra, Shikha was a part of the founding Leadership team as Chief Financial Officer of Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co Limited, a part of Aditya Birla Capital. In this role, she played a key role in making this business the fastest growing health insurance company of the country.
Previously, Shikha spent over a decade in the capital markets space as a part of the founding leadership team and CFO of IL&FS Securities Services. Her assignments spanned across different verticals of professional clearing services, securities lending, custody and fund services, with the clearing business gaining its way to becoming one of the largest players on Indian Stock Exchanges.
Shikha joined Vistra group as Country Managing Director, India with effect from February 1, 2021. Shikha is also a trained Indian classical dancer and practices the art form of Bharatnatyam.
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Neeraj Aggarwal
Neeraj is a qualified CFP, LLB and MBA with over 14 years of work experience in the area of Fiduciary services, Wealth Management and Branch Banking. His areas of expertise include Capital Market, Funds, Estate and Succession planning advisory services & Employee Welfare Services. He is leading business development for various Corporate Trust, Private Clients and Capital Market products.
Nityananda Shanbhag
Nityananda is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 14 years of post-qualification experience in the areas of Accounts, Corporate Finance, Operations, Financial Due diligence, Audit and Taxation. His areas of expertise include Financial control, Accounting and Taxation, Reporting, MIS, Audits, Receivables and collections as well as Automation, Infrastructure and Administration.
Dipti Jain
Dipti is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and holds Bachelor's degree of Commerce and Law from the University of Mumbai, India. She has over 15 years of post-qualification experience with an expertise in Corporate Secretarial, Legal & Compliance, Corporate Governance, Incorporation of Overseas Companies, FEMA & Insurance compliances, Development of corporate & operational policies and Merger & Acquisitions.
Jonika Jain
Jonika heads the People function for India, Mauritius, Seychelles, and South Africa. In her current role she is supporting the strategic people priorities of the region.
Jonika is a qualified HR professional with over 18 years of progressive and avid experience in the People function. Jonika is a passionate people leader who has worked closely with the business in enabling and supporting people agenda. Jonika has played leadership roles with leading organizations in the BFSI space encompassing assignments in strategic people management, talent management, leadership assessment, talent acquisition, diversity & inclusion initiatives, and culture change initiatives.
Jonika has been instrumental in bringing transformation at workplace through innovative people initiatives and close business partnering for organizational success. Jonika brings critical experience in aligning talent during mergers and acquisitions, organizational restructuring and setting up of HR processes from the scratch.
Jonika’s distinctive competencies include working backwards from business to design and deliver people programs and practices that have tangible impact, driving and facilitating change in multiple business contexts, organization design and restructuring to support business objectives, strengthening organizational capability, and developing leaders and building customer focused, high-performance HR Teams.
Jatin Chonani
Jatin is an Associate of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and holds Bachelor of Law degree from University of Mumbai. He has also done Post Graduation Diploma in Financial Management (PGDFM). Jatin has over 12 years of experience in Compliance, Legal, Risk and Secretarial functions.
Sameer Sheth
Sameer is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with 20 + years of wide professional experience in Financial Services sector, Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) Industry, Assurance and Business Advisory Services, Audit, Corporate Management, Finance, General Management, Training, People Management, Business Development, Client Relationship Management, Operations, etc. Sameer has played senior leadership roles with global consulting multinationals and PE Funds focusing on accounting and compliance, fund administration, financial control, corporate governance, etc.
He has served on multiple boards including those of VC and PE funds and Indian subsidiaries of MNC companies. He has led and built large high performing teams in shared service delivery centers, provided consulting solutions, done audits of Financial Services clients like Mutual Funds, Private Equity & Hedge Funds, Investment Managers, etc. in India and US.
Sameer is Head of operations with Vistra ITCL India and is incharge of Fund Accounting for Private Equity and Hedge Funds, IFSC service delivery, Multi Family Offices and other Trustee related operations.
Previously, he was a CFO, COO and Director of a Private Equity Fund and the Investment Manager entity. He has worked with other MNCs like Ernst & Young and PwC in India and US.
Rajat Srivastav
Rajat heads the legal function and holds the position of General Counsel for Vistra India and Mauritius.
Rajat is a graduate of law from Symbiosis Law School, Pune and has over 14 years of experience in legal field, imbibing the values and cultures of Indian as well as multi-national companies spanning from BFSI, Power and FinTech/Payment Service sector. Having gained experience as lender, borrower and trustee, Rajat brings a wholesome commercial perspective in capital market and alternate investment transactions and in a default / stress management scenario.