Ms. Suvalaxmi Chakraborty, has over 32 years of experience in the field of financial services and banking. She has rich exposure to various facets of banking, including Corporate Banking, Treasury Management, Asset Liability Management, Corporate Risk Management, Micro-Banking and Agri business. She has also featured in the Fortune India List of 50 most powerful women in business.

Ms. Chakraborty, currently, is the Founder, CEO & MD of FinReach Solutions Private Ltd., set up by a few investors with a view to facilitate credit access for MSMEs. At FinReach, she is responsible to set up the business, technology platform, operationalize the entity and run the day to day operations. She is a Non Executive Director of Espandere Advisors Pvt. Ltd., providing Business and Transaction Advisory services in Banking & Finance, Agriculture & Rural, Infrastructure and Manufacturing Sector. She has also worked as Advisor, Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd., a 100% step down subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd, Singapore.

Ms. Chakraborty held several positions at ICICI Ltd. and ICICI Bank between 1989 and 2006, including General Manager for Corporate Banking and Country Head of Rural, Micro-banking and Agri Business.

She launched and ran the commercial banking business of Barclays Bank in India from 2007 to 2010, after which she was Chief-Executive Office for the Indian operations of State Bank of Mauritius from 2010 to 2013.

Currently she serves as an Independent Director for SRL Diagnostics and nominee director in Kaleidofin Private Ltd. She has held the position of Independent/ Nominee Director in the past in Magma HDI General Insurance Company Ltd., Caspian Impact Investments Pvt Ltd., IIFL home Finance Ltd. and North East Small Finance Bank Ltd.

She is a Chartered Accountant and has a B. Com. (Hons) degree from Calcutta University and in 1999 completed the Financial Investment Technology Program of the Berkeley Program in Finance at HAAS School of Business at University of California, Berkeley, California. In 2002 she participated in the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Program at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California, and she has also participated in the 'Women on Corporate Boards' initiative initiated by FICCI Centre for Corporate Governance.