Chandrashekhar Challa serves as the Group Finance Director at Khansaheb Group.
With an extensive background in finance and strategic operations, Chandrashekhar is a seasoned specialist and thought leader, providing leadership across business, economic, legal, commercial, and financial domains.
At Khansaheb Group, Chandrashekhar’s role encompasses enterprise risk management, strategy development, systems and process optimization, legal and commercial compliance, and driving operational efficiency across all business units. He is adept at raising and managing short-term and long-term finance and treasury management. Additionally, Chandrashekhar oversees the Group IT function, developing and implementing a corporate IT strategy that includes digital transformation, strategic technology initiatives, business application implementation, enterprise IT infrastructure and operations management, and data security and compliance.
Chandrashekhar’s key strengths include leveraging his senior leadership experience in large organizations, start-ups, and MSMEs to drive cross-functional growth and profitability. He excels in benchmarking and implementing international best practices, systems, and processes to ensure compliance and enhance efficiency. His expertise in managing critical enterprise risks in rapidly changing geopolitical environments ensures competitive advantage and long-term survival.
Chandrashekhar holds several prestigious qualifications, including CPA (US), CMA (US, UK, India), MBA from XLRI (India), and CGMA (UK). Outside of his professional life, he is a nature and wildlife enthusiast, with personal interests in ESG, astronomy, investing and equity research, chess, and reading.
