Vilasini Subramaniam

Vilasini is a Chartered Accountant and a Finance Professional with over two decades of experience spanning affordable housing finance companies, micro-finance institutions, banks, and fintech-enabled lending ecosystems. She carries experience in credit & risk management, balance sheet growth, product innovation, and strategic partnerships, with a sustained focus on serving low- and middle-income, financially underserved households.

In her last stint she worked as the founding management committee member at a digitally driven affordable housing finance company - HomeFirst and carries a proven ability to build scalable housing finance businesses from early-stage to over USD 1 Bn. Prior experiences includes Micro Housing Finance Corporation (currently operates as Svatantra MHFC), Janalakshmi Financial Services (now operates as Jana Small Finance Bank) and Citibank N.A.

Outside of work, she is the Founder & Host of a podcast called the V-Women Project that focusses on showcasing stories of women achievers across the spectrum. Vilasini enjoys classical music and art-forms and curates a annual chamber concert series to promote young upcoming talent. In her downtime she likes to read, exercise and travel preferably to the mountains.

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