Leadership
Vision That Shapes Novelworx
Our leadership brings decades of investment banking and global financial services experience, guiding Novelworx's strategy, governance, and long-term direction with the discipline of people who've built and scaled businesses.
Balaji Bhat
Founder, Strategic AdvisorBalaji Bhat has spent 25-plus years as one of India's most accomplished investment bankers, strategising and scaling businesses across dairy, transportation, manufacturing, and IT services. As Novelworx's founder and strategic advisor, he brings the dealmaker's instinct for where a business is headed, and the operator's patience to help it actually get there.
Rajnish Bahl
Director, Strategic AdvisorRajnish Bahl spent 30-plus years inside marquee global banks — Citibank, ANZ, and HSBC — including as MD & Head of Personal Financial Services at HSBC India, and Regional Head of Distribution across 18 countries for HSBC MENA. A Chartered Accountant and gold medalist, he now serves as Director at Singularity Ventures and co-founder of 1Silverbullet and lends Novelworx an institutional financial-services rigor most staffing-origin companies never get access to.
Operators Who Deliver Every Day
Our management team runs Novelworx day to day, bringing together expertise in people services, finance, audit, and governance to turn strategy into measurable results for every client.
Sundaresh Gopala
Managing Partner & Director Championing Human Capital, Powering Organizational SuccessTwenty-five years into people services and healthcare, Sundaresh Gopala has learned that talent problems and operational problems are usually the same problem wearing different clothes. He founded Orangei HR, now one of India's most respected search firms, and has led hospital projects with over a thousand beds — proof that his playbook for scale works well beyond any single industry. At Novelworx, he builds the partnerships, networks, and trust that let high-growth companies move fast without breaking things.
Ashwin Sundar
Managing Partner & Director Driving Scalable Growth & Operational ExcellenceAshwin Sundar is a Chartered Accountant and CPA who spent over a decade building Talent Maximus into one of India's leading MSP businesses — a track record that shows in how precisely he now runs Novelworx's growth, governance, and execution. He has advised more than 75 startups through fundraising and scale-up, so he has seen almost every version of the operational mess that slows a growing company down, and what fixes it.
Krishnakumar KK
General Partner Driving Governance, Compliance & Process ExcellenceKrishnakumar KK spent over a decade inside internal audit and governance functions at organisations including ICICI Bank and Pricol Castings, which is a polite way of saying he has seen what happens when compliance is treated as an afterthought. A Chartered Accountant and CISA, he leads Novelworx's governance, risk, and process discipline, building the controls and automation that keep client operations audit-ready by default, not by scramble.