Simi Thapar

Chief Country Officer
India

As an industry veteran, Simi joined CSI at the end of 2020 as chief country officer of the newly formed subsidiary in India. With more than two decades of experience in the equipment leasing industry, she has specialized in asset financing, project and commercial loans, advisory services, and structured and digital lending solutions. She has been a speaker and panelist at various industry forums in India, USA, Hongkong, Singapore, Dubai and London for talks on asset financing, leasing solutions, women leadership and women in BFSI.

Before joining CSI, she was the business head of equipment finance and leasing solutions at Tata Capital Financial Services Limited in Mumbai, India. Simi was responsible for establishing the Leasing business at Tata Capital, integrating business verticals, managing its P&L for eight years, and building a sustainable business that yielded strong ROE. Simi earned a master’s degree from the University of Mumbai, diploma from ICFAI, and a master’s degree ‘Executive Master in Change’ from INSEAD Singapore in 2021.

Viraf Bodhanwala

Senior Vice President of Strategy & Operations

Viraf is a Chartered Accountant & Cost Accountant with over 24 years of experience as a Finance Professional and has vast experience in Treasury, Corporate Finance, Leasing, Debt Syndication, Warehousing, Risk Management, Budgeting & MIS. Prior to joining CSI he was in his own entrepreneurship for a brief period of 1.5 yrs and he has worked in OPC Asset Solutions Private Limited as Director – Treasury, Finance & Operations and was responsible for Treasury, Business Finance, Legal and Operations functions. Viraf has also worked as a CFO in TVS Infrastructure Ltd and at Senior Level positions in other companies like Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Novartis India & Jet Airways and was responsible for Finance, Commercial, Legal & Secretarial, Accounting, Projects & all other functions.