About Athang Business Consulting

Athang Business Consulting is a Business Consultancy desk, headquartered out of Mumbai. Our core focus is to strategize and execute "what works" for our clients across the business cycle. Our endeavour is to assist them achieve better than ordinary business outcomes and solutions to their most important issues. Our offerings cater right from setting up to scaling of business, capital requirement to training and resourcing. In a short span, the Company has some of the reputed names on it's client list

Athang Alliance Network

Athang Business Consulting has built partnerships with leading entities to better serve our clients. The Alliance Network enables Athang to deliver positive network effect, by offering access to focussed capabilities which are complementary to ours.

Our Board

Nilesh G.Hunswadkar

Founder

Nilesh G. Hunswadkar is the Founder of Athang, a multi-business company, which has business presence in Management Consulting, Private Equity and the Arts.

He has over 19 years of experience in the Financial Services sector across Merchant Banking, Investment Advisory and Institutional Asset Management. He has worked with reputed companies like Lloyds, HDFC Bank and Franklin Templeton, where he spent about 13 years.

His experience entails dealing with treasuries and investment teams of large Institutional investors like Corporates, Banks, Financial Institutions, Sovereign funds, Pension funds and Family offices, thereby developing a deep understanding of their investment charters and behaviour.

He has a comprehensive exposure to managing Central Banking relationships in the SAARC region, in the context of foreign exchange reserve management, a specialised area within Asset Management. He has spent considerable time in advocacy of 'role of External Managers' in Reserve Management and Pension Funds.

He has extensive experience in the Indian Retirement Benefits industry and has been tracking, participating in it's evolution since 2005. This included interaction with various stake holders, mainly the government and regulators on the policy aspects. He has experience in bidding for almost all large Asset Management mandates in the country.

He is an active participant in the growing venture and private capital industry. Given the experience, he is conversant at both levels - Policy and Business dynamics.

Nilesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from University of Mumbai and a PGDBM in Finance. His interests are 'Indian Thought', Classical Music and Theatre.

Raghu Iyer

Director

Raghu Iyer is a well known Chartered Accountant (CA) with wide experience in financial and accounting areas. He is a rank holder CA and runs a successful practice which apart from routine functions, include some of the niche areas in finance. Some of the key areas are - Corporate Strategy, Financial Valuation, Management & Operatinal Audit, IFRS advisory services - Training and implementation. He is associated as Adjunct Faculty with India's top business schools like S P Jain Institute of Management & Research (Mumbai, Singapore and Dubai) and Great Lakes Institute of Management (Chennai). He is also associated with The Bombay Stock Exchange and Dun & Bradstreet Financial Education Solutions. Some of his key clients include the following: Aban Offshore, Aditya Birla Group, Bank of America, Citibank, HDFC, Lafarge Cements, ICICI, Murugappa group et al.