Leadership Team

Amit Bhatia
CEO, Aspire
Amit Bhatia (www.amitb.in), an award-winning social entrepreneur, is the Founder of Aspire Impact, an ESG, Sustainability and Impact measurement initiative for corporations, investors and non-profits. He is also Founder of Aspire Circle, India’s pre-eminent fellowship for social leadership. Formerly, as inaugural CEO of The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) from 2017-2020, Amit helped build the 32-country multilateral, catalysing impact investment and entrepreneurship. Prior to GSG, Amit was Founding CEO of India’s Impact Investors Council (2014-2017) where he built “Brand India” and grew inbound annual impact investments from USD400mn to USD1.1bn. Amit was also Founding CEO of WNS Knowledge Services (2003-2007) and Country Manager of FreeMarkets (1999-2003). Most prominently, he was Founder of McKinsey Knowledge Centre (1996-1999). An alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (1989) and Delhi School of Economics (1991), Amit, resident of Delhi NCR, quit a successful corporate career in 2007 to serve the social impact sector.

Rohit Bhatia
Aspire Human Capital Management
Rohit Bhatia is a Chartered Accountant with 14 years in consumer industries & 10 years in social and education companies working at Yum! Brands–PepsiCo, Audits with SBB-E&Y; at Macmillan Education to restructure and deliver on profitability. Rohit spent 6 years with 2 start-ups- GIRC and Aspire.

Ashu Gulati, CFO
Aspire
Ashu Gulati has an experience of over 30 years in the field of Accounts, Finance, Legal, Funding, Budgeting & Planning, Admin and HR. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer at Aspire. Earlier, he has worked in sectors like Manufacturing, IT, Education, Import/Export & FMCG. His diverse portfolios have included designing processes and policies, systems development, MIS Reports, Statutory; Internal Audits and Payroll; liaison with Banks and Statutory Departments like Income Tax, Company Law, NCLT, RBI & GST. Ashu completed his B.Com. (Hons.) from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, CA (Inter) from ICAI and is an MBA in finance.

Bandana Subba
Bandana is a Finance professional and project specialist with extensive experience in business planning and analysis, business forecast and budgets, and project management in start-up and mid-size organizations across industries. Over 25 years of experience across diverse functions – restaurant operations, publishing and investor relation. Core competence includes analytics, development of financial/business enabling tools, financial modelling, startups, project planning, feasibility exercise and implementation, and capital/resource management.