Saravana Loganathan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led fundraising campaigns raising over $1 million.
  • Developed innovative financial products for rural markets.
  • Achieved high internship placement rates for students.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Education professional with strong product management and fundraising expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentFinancial ServicesFundraisingProgram ManagementPartnership DevelopmentProduct ManagementCustomer AcquisitionGeospatial AnalysisMarket StrategyInvestor RelationsCorporate StrategyInvestment BankingSales StrategyProject ManagementLeadershipTeam LeadershipData AnalysisEngineeringResearch

Other Skills

financial intelligenceoperational intelligencegrowth enablementprogram scalingproduct suite expansionstudent supportproduct strategynetwork scalingfinancing solutionsproduct scalingmarket fit achievementproduct launchstrategic investmentwealth managementbusiness restructuring

About

Capital markets and product professional with experience across investment banking, fintech, and technology. At Nomura, I worked across Asia and Europe on ESG structuring and M&A-led growth for the markets business, while also helping build out new business lines in wealth management and private capital. At Jai Kisan, I led product development and capital markets efforts—driving equity and debt raises, leading the consumer business line, structuring financing solutions, and building/scaling enterprise distribution. Currently at Loop AI, I’m building financial intelligence products for the global F&B industry.

Experience

7 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Loop ai

Sr. General Manager

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building 3PD growth enablement, financial and operational intelligence solution for the US and Global F&B market.
financial intelligenceoperational intelligencegrowth enablementProduct DevelopmentFinancial Services

The afara initiative

Chief of Staff

Aug 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

  • Responsibilities spanning across fundraising, scaling programs and revenue and expanding product suite to deepen impact across the Nigerian, pan-African and Global diaspora student base.
  • Launched the Pathway Career Accelerators as Afara's first revenue-generating intervention, supporting students with over 75% internship placements and 95% job transition rate, leading to a 9x income uplift for participants
  • Led new initiatives including Nigeria’s first scholarship-backed global exchange program in partnership with UNC and Morehead Cain, and a public sector leadership track
  • Co-led Afara’s first external fundraising campaign, raising $1m+ from HNIs and philanthropic foundations supporting program expansion and long-term sustainability
fundraisingprogram scalingproduct suite expansionFundraisingProgram Management

Jai kisan

3 roles

Associate Vice President - Product & Strategy

Promoted

Apr 2022Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Led the product team to build the largest network of digital financial services distribution for India's next ~1BN consumers
  • Scaled Jai Kisan’s BNPL product line and our retailer network product (Bharat Khata) to 120K+ rural individual customers with over 10K+ retailers and $30m+ annualized disbursements
  • Developed and implemented bets focused on organic growth of both merchant and borrower network through a suite of product touch points. Acquired a farmer-focused utility product to diversify acquisition channels, reducing CAC and developing value-added services
  • Developed a first-of-its-kind rural-focused geospatial mapping/ routing tool to personalize discovery of merchants by customers
product strategynetwork scalingfinancing solutionsProduct ManagementFinancial Services

Product Lead

Aug 2021Mar 2022 · 7 mos

  • On secondment from the CEO's office, worked as a product lead focusing on building out Jai Kisan's BNPL product line
  • Launched rural India’s 1st Offline Buy Now, Pay later solution to enable distribution of sachetized financial services for less digitally confident users in Bharat leveraging hyperlocal market dynamics between local retailers and farmers (high trust barrier)
  • Achieved product-market fit for the solution and drove growth of monthly credit transactions with a skew towards organic demand of 90%. Expanded to 50 districts across 6 states while building for hyperlocal variations
  • Built Jai Kisan’s product team and set up infrastructure around analytics, marketing, etc. and led product strategy
product strategymarket fit achievementProduct ManagementMarket Strategy

CEO's Office

Jun 2020Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Worked closely with the founders as their chief of staff across functions and strategic initiatives
  • Closed Jai Kisan’s Series A fundraise of $30m and Pre-Series A fundraise of $3.9m from domestic and global investors. Led debt raising efforts by closing the 1st venture debt and wholesale debt raise from marquee lenders
  • Executed product strategy for Bharat Khata – A digital ledger solution for rural MSMEs to manage transactions and inventory
  • Led the pivot out of SaaS to financial services distribution building out the product strategy, GTM and growth levers
fundraisingproduct strategyFundraisingProduct Management

Nomura

2 roles

Analyst, Corporate Strategy - Global Wholesale Banking

Jun 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr · Mumbai, London and Singapore

  • Corporate Strategy team for Nomura’s International businesses across Global markets, Investment banking, Wealth and Alternatives
  • Worked on strategic investments for Nomura’s Inorganic expansion in key focus areas including ESG structuring, India structured debt, Cross-border transaction banking and digital FX
  • Restructured the Asia Wealth Management business leading to an integrated Wholesale division impacting structuring capabilities and sales synergies for the Asia business
  • Worked on strategic initiatives launched on Nomura’s Investor Day across Wholesale KPI benchmarking and goal setting, Merchant banking and Alternatives and Firm-wide digitization leading to our medium-term goal of 8-10% ROE
  • Other Key Projects: India NBFC Growth Plan, Asia Retail Growth Plan, EM/FX Restructuring, India Wealth Management
strategic investmentwealth managementCorporate StrategyInvestment Banking

Summer Analyst, Corporate Strategy - Global Wholesale Banking

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Offered a Returning Job Offer (PPO) for exceptional performance at the firm
  • Collaborated with Oliver Wyman UK to benchmark and restructure Wholesale compensation plans (PE/Rev benchmarking)
  • Analysed and presented growth initiatives for Nomura’s FX retail/ structured product offerings and for the growth of Nomura Live - Wholesale FX e-trading platform. Synergies with cross-border M&A were implemented as part of Nomura CFS (DC FX)
data analysiscollaborationData AnalysisCorporate Strategy

Shaastra, iit madras

Head of New Initiatives (Evolve) & Core Team Member

Apr 2018Mar 2019 · 11 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Led a 4 tier team of 65 members to organize 4 flagship initiatives (Evolve) - Relaunch, Sports Tech Summit, Law Tech Summit and the Spotlight Lecture Series. Managed a budget of INR 1,500,000 and part of the Core Team. Conceptualized and launched the Relaunch Initiative - A platform for Women in Technology who have taken a break from their careers to upskill, get mentored and return to the workforce. Partnered with Goldman Sachs, Paypal, Barclays and Lean In (Sheryl Sandberg).
event managementteam leadershipProject ManagementLeadership

Chennai metro rail limited

Summer Intern

May 2017Jun 2017 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

  • Worked with the Engineering division of Chennai Metro Rail Ltd. on improving construction management
  • Designed a temporary foot bridge at Chennai Central to ease traffic flow during construction. Implemented on site for 1 year (At Chennai central train station)
  • Increased efficiency of station construction timelines by 30% by analysing workstreams across 5 major metro sites in the Phase 2 buildout of the Chennai Metro network
construction managementdesignEngineeringProject Management

Tzu chi university

Research Project

Dec 2015Jan 2016 · 1 mo · Hualien County, Taiwan

  • Analysed gene expression data from micro array image processing of 600 RNAs in 6 different experimental set-ups
  • Created and automated a method to detect erroneous data points retrieved from image processing implemented across the lab
data analysisautomationResearchData Analysis

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Civil Engineering

Jan 2015Jan 2019

CFA Institute

Level 1 cleared

Université d'Angers

Summer School — Big Data and Bioinformatics

Jun 2016Jul 2016

Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School

High School

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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