About Huvabuva

We practice unity in Thought - Word - Deed

Overview

We are a collaborative team of global practitioners in multiple domains who have all operated as Clients ourselves for several decades, making the moves, leading businesses, tried and failed and then succeeded. We therefore bring “Client Empathy” as a key virtue as we partner with you

Our focus domains broadly can be grouped into the following:

  • Financial Services – Consulting & Delivery
  • Business Process – Optimization & Delivery
  • Employee and Customer Experience – Design & Delivery
  • Marketing Services – Strategy & Delivery
  • Innovation – Startups Incubation & Delivery

We work with globally experienced industry practitioners in the above domains and engage with them regularly in-order to bring the best global expertise to our clients, depending on the context and the topic we are working on

PURPOSE

Deliver value to our Clients by upholding our core Values of

Client Centricity

Business Ethics

Respect For Ecosystem

across a spectrum of business needs i.e.

People – Customers – Services – Innovation

Our Values

Client Centricity

  • We take End-to-End ownership of every task we commit to with our Clients and therefore encourage long term partnerships
  • We are Flexible in order to meet our Clients’ objectives, within the guardrails of our Values
  • We are innovative to deliver Disruptive and Transformational solutions
  • We are single minded about Client Value Creation
  • We bring a sense of Urgency

Business Ethics

  • We focus on the “Why” and the “How” ahead of the “What” in everything we do
  • We follow the laws and regulations in Letter and Spirit
  • We hold mutual Trust and Transparency as fundamental to the relationship with our Clients
  • We foster a Persevere-Improve-Excel culture
  • We are upfront on what we can and cannot deliver and Courageous to tell our Clients any uncomfortable truths before the start of any engagement

Respect For the Ecosystem

  • We always begin an engagement by first understanding our Clients Values charter to ensure we align our work
  • We are sensitive to the impact on People, Environment, and Social Balance at large
  • We are extremely particular about the Legacy that we leave behind on every engagement and therefore don’t make decisions for short-term gains
  • We always love to Enrich our Clients and their peoples lives through our engagements, be it through sharing knowledge, skills and more
  • We support in nurturing Diverse talent, thinking, and capabilities

People & Leadership

Sai Narain CDK

Founder & Chief Experience Officer

Sai Narain CDK
  • Banker, Strategist, Speaker, Panelist, Social Entrepreneur
  • 30 years of Consumer Banking experience
  • Engineering and Business School
  • Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe
  • Franchise Leadership, Strategy, Product Management, Distribution, Customer Experience
  • Strong Global networks in top Consumer markets, especially GI corridors
  • Designed and led Cx strategies and models in partnership with Disney
  • Design and Execution of Social benefit projects (Rural BPO, Project PRANA)

After spending 30 years in the Consumer Banking Domain across three large International Banks, and working in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, I have had the opportunity to witness the spectrum of challenges and solutions in Consumer Banking as an avid on-the-ground practitioner in all areas of Consumer Banking ranging from Operations, Risk Management, Product Management, Data Sciences, Marketing, Customer Experience, Sales & Distribution, Business Management, Strategy and more. And there has never been a moment when I have not felt the lack of independence to deliver a change that I was so convinced about but still couldn’t make. I embarked on huVabuva precisely to help organizations and individuals unearth hidden value and realize their potential even more.

Our focus is not limited to Banking but straddles across the Retail industry. And the value here spans across Financial and Non-Financial value. Our objective is for our Clients to tangibly see that value being realized. If they don’t, we would give their money back as we don’t deserve to receive any value when our Clients haven’t. While our Principles and Values are sacrosanct to us, our operating model is very flexible and is meant to suit our Clients. While we would love to work with all Clients, it is important that our “Values” are in sync to enable the outcomes we desire, in the method we desire. This would be our principal ask of our Clients always. And lastly, we work with a select set of carefully chosen Partners from across the world, who are SME’s and practitioners in their domain and most importantly align with our mindset of placing Values over value. Many thanks for your patient reading and hope to be blessed with an opportunity to grow with you.

Client Portfolio

Banking & Financial Services

Fintech

Global Partner Team

Malik Sarwar

Founder and CEO – K2 Leaders, NYC

Malik has operated at the leading edge of the global wealth management industry for over 30 years across the US, Asia, and MENA.

Malik is a noted writer, speaker/panelist and frequent chair at industry conferences on: Moral leadership, WM best practices, incl. digital innovations and exceptional client experience; mega-trends like women’s empowerment, gen. wealth transfer; primary advisors and team leader’s excellence and financial advisory platforms/products innovation.

In 2017, out of his passion for leadership, Malik established K2 Leaders, his own consultancy firm. He also serves as an External Advisor to Bain and Co.

Bicky Carlra

President, WEVALUE

Bicky with an industry experience of over 35 years is a veteran in strategic consulting for clients globally and started in the Travel Industry and later evolved into multidimensional domains with an emphasis on Tech businesses, spanning industries across continents. His strategic intent is in leveraging cutting-edge technology to drive tangible outcomes through Innovation and Strategic Partnerships.

Bicky incubates multiple startups with the reputation not for the size, but for the depth of transformational value he brings to each business, Primary focus being creating wealth for each business, transcending regional borders and industry silos. An impressive 90% of the companies within the portfolio have outperformed expectations, bearing testimony to the potency of collaboration, innovation, and strategic acumen.

As I look towards the future, embarking on a novel frontier, unveiling an initiative poised to revolutionise Carbon Credits through a unique Carbon Fund. This will be a testament to our enduring commitment to innovation with long lasting global impact for the next generation.

Sanjeeb Chaudhuri

Chairman/CEO/Global Advisor

Sanjeeb is an industry expert with over 40 years in FMCG, Banking, Insurance, Wealth Management, Payments/ Fintech/NextGen Financial Services and Big Data Evangelist/ Technology and Digital Transformation Consultant/ Education. He is a Board member and Advisor to global organizations in the UK, Europe, the US, Middle East and Asia.

Sanjeeb was CEO of Retail and Commercial Banking for Citigroup in EMEA. He was one of the key seniors working with UK/US regulators navigating the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. He has helped launch and develop new consumer, commercial and Fintech businesses across Asia and EMEA. He was Global Head of Citigroup’s Citigold program. Sanjeeb has been Regional Business Head for South Asia and Group Head of Brand and Global Chief Marketing Officer at Standard Chartered Bank. He was a pioneer in setting up the cards payment systems and network across Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He is a Global Advisor to global technology companies and Venture Capital Funds.

Sanjeeb is currently Chairman of IDFC First Bank, one of India’s fastest growing banks powered by cutting edge technology.

Peter Njau

CEO and Founder – Point Capital (K) Ltd

Peter is the lead consultant at Point Capital (K), a business consulting company he founded in 2018, that Specializes in Strategy Development, Organizational Transformation and Performance Management.

Peter has an International banking career with Standard Chartered Bank spanning over 17 years, where , among other roles, he held the position of Head of Sales & Performance Management for All Africa, Middle East, and Pakistan businesses. This role mandate was Prioritization and management oversight of Investments delivery in the MEPA region working with Group Offices based in Singapore, Impacting 20 countries with Operating Profit of over USD 1Bn.

Peter has held other senior roles internationally in the bank including head of product development and strategy at the Retail Banking division of Standard Chartered Bank in Tanzania. As the Head of Business Intelligence at Standard Chartered Bank Kenya, Peter developed Performance Management Structures that included Balanced Scorecards and Variable compensation mechanisms.

Jonathan Nabrotzky

Founder & CEO, Global Leader Group

Jonathan has over 25 years of experience as a global senior leader in the Sales, Coaching, Retail and Banking sectors. He worked for 15 years at HSBC, living in seven countries: the USA, UK, Hong Kong, India, Qatar, Lebanon and Israel. His last role at HSBC was as Global Head of the Branch Network, responsible for 3,400 branches worldwide servicing 37 million customers and with 21 billion dollars in revenue. Immediately prior, as Global Head of Wealth Sales & Distribution he oversaw customer satisfaction targets of 94% and balances of 620 billion.

He was also tasked to build a culture of coaching moving beyond programming to organizational ethos. His work has the unique distinctive of combining tailor-made strategy with the ability to embed that strategy as part of the company DNA.

As a sought-after coach, Jonathan has trained thousands of leaders in over 18 countries, focusing on Leadership, Coaching, Sales Management, and Sales Skills. He is a skillful public speaker and facilitator of learning programs and team building experiences.

Kunal JhunJhunwala

Founder & MD, Airpay

Kunal has over 22 years of experience in identifying & implementing innovative technology solutions that optimize business processes while adding new revenue streams to improve profitability.

He has the proven ability to identify business opportunity based on emerging digital technology and drive tangible business outcomes from that opportunity.

Kunal is a born Entrepreneur having founded E-Phoria Technologies – a digital solutions provider – at the young age of 14 years to help SMEs identify technology needs; plan & define project milestones; implement & execute milestones.

Has delivered Business transformation enabling technology experience with a Fortune 500 Healthcare Company – part of the IT team than enabled the reengineering of several key business processes.

Amarpreet Singh

Founder & CEO, UpCapita

Amarpreet Singh is a seasoned Fintech founder with over 17 years of extensive experience in implementing transformative solutions and radically changing conventional norms across the financial services industry. His journey has been marked by innovation and a relentless pursuit of excellence.

As the founder of UpCapita, a pioneering startup based in the Dubai International Financial Centre, he has been instrumental in driving digital innovation within the UAE’s vibrant financial landscape. His strategic foresight has led to the successful launch of UpCapita’s multi-platform technology, setting new benchmarks in the industry.

During his substantial tenure at Standard Chartered Bank, Amarpreet was the Head of Distribution Strategy for Retail Banking in the UAE, where he played an influential role in navigating the company through essential milestones and overcoming formidable challenges. As a leader in digital transformation, he initiated and led projects that have fundamentally altered the industry’s landscape, optimizing operational efficiency and substantially improving customer experience.

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