About Us

Balachander Sekhar, Chief Executive Officer

Bala is an alumnus of IIT Mumbai and IIM Calcutta. He has over 22 Years of experience across various leadership and business roles in FMCG, Banking, and Insurance and has been successful in setting up new businesses from scratch in 2 different organizations.

Bala is passionate about technology & innovation and is known to catch market trends early. Before setting up RenewBuy, Bala has been the CMO of PNB MetLife, CEO of Reliance Retail Insurance and Head Bancassurance ABN AMRO.

Indraneel Chatterjee, Chief Operating Officer

Indraneel is an alumnus of Symbiosis, Pune. He has over 20 Years of experience in the Product, Pricing, Strategy and Sales domain.
He has previously worked as a Product & Strategy Head – MetLife, Business Head – Motor in Reliance Retail Insurance, Product Manager – American Express & Product Manager – ICICI Prudential Life Insurance.

Devesh Joshi, Chief Marketing Officer

Devesh has been a marketing professional for more than 18 years. He studied Mechanical Engineering and completed the Managerial Development Program from IIM (A). He has worked across categories in roles ranging from Business, Marketing & Communication Strategy. He has worked with leading companies like MetLife India, Aviva Life Insurance, JWT (Thompson Connect) and Publicis Group.

Sandeep Nanda, Chief Technology Officer

Sandeep is a technologist at heart with diverse experience in InsurTech, Data Comm. and Big Data Analytics. He is passionate about building technologies which can scale & deliver high performance and yet are nimble enough to support evolving businesses. His earlier stints were with companies like Infosys, Guavus Networks and Aricent group.

Sonali Athalye, Chief Financial Officer

Sonali is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and has more than 20 years of work experience in Finance, Compliance and Governance functions in the Insurance sector. Sonali has been involved in major business roles as Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Financial Officer during her association of 12 years in Pramerica life insurance. She has also worked with MetLife, TATA AIA and Deloitte.

Harman Preet Singh, Chief Business Officer

Harman is B.A (Hons) Pol Sc. grad. from Delhi University.
He is an insurance sales professional and holds more than 20 years of experience in Retail Sales. Previously he has served ICICI Lombard, as Zonal Sales Manager, General Manager-Sales in Thomas Cook, Sales Manager-Sales in Max New York Life Insurance and Territory Sales Leader-Retail Sales, American Express.

Sachin Bawa, Chief Distribution Officer

Sachin has about 21 years of experience in Insurance distribution, mainly in Life Insurance and Health verticals. This is at the centre of RenewBuy growth strategy, where after building a strong motor portfolio, the company has to massively increase the Health and Life business. While Sachin has a lot of experience running Agency in top rated companies like HDFC Life, where he spent 12 years, and Apollo Munich Health for 6 years, he also has well versed in running digital virtual channels, Bancassurance and distribution strategy.

Sulbha Rai, Chief People Officer

Sulbha is Bachelor in Electronics & Communication Engineering, postgraduate in Business Management. She has more than 13 years of experience in multiple roles within HR at Ernst & Young and has served organizations like Big4s, Consulting Firms, Start-ups, and SMEs in her career.

Sudesh Bainsla, Head of Engineering

Sudesh is a technologist with more than 17 years of experience in designing, building and managing systems in multiple technologies including python, java and dotnet.

His earlier stints were with companies like Globallogic and Infosys.