Brahmanand Hegde

Brahmanand is the Executive Vice Chairman of Vistaar Finance. He is one of the Promoters of Vistaar.

He was a Director – Microfinance in Fullerton India, as a core member of the team which conceptualized, developed and started the Microfinance Business from mid 2007.

Prior to that Brahmanand worked in ICICI Group between 1992 and 2007, in the Rural and Microbanking Group with a range of responsibilities covering Strategy to Execution. During this phase, he worked very closely with the microfinance sector, lending to over 80 MFIs in the country with an aggregate exposure of over Rs.3,000 Cr. In his initial years in ICICI he worked for Project Financing in the Agri Business Division, responsible for implementing a special project, namely Agriculture Commercialisation & Enterprise (ACE) programme for USAID.

Brahmanand is a Post-Graduate with M.Sc from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and qualified CAIIB from Indian Institute of Bankers, Mumbai.