Discussion Pointers !
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Financing solutions available for MSME wrt Budget 2022
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Finding the right financing matching the financial requirement
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Best practices for credit risk assessment
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How can MSMEs do a viable credit profiling and enhance credit worthiness
Speaker Profile: Dr. H.P. Kumar
Former CMD, NSIC & Director, External Affairs, Power2SME
Dr. H.P. Kumar is Director External Affairs at Power2SME and he is spearheading the organization’s objective of building alliance network in the industry. Dr. Kumar will design innovative programmes and framework to enhance Power2SME’s value proposition for SMEs, Suppliers and financial institutions. With rich experience in leading successful and profitable campaigns to benefit SMEs, Dr. Kumar comes with deep knowledge of SME market. Dr. Kumar has extensive experience in dealing with promotion, development and financing of MSMEs, exports and other small & large projects. Prior to joining Power2SME. He was the Chairman-cum-Managing Director of NSIC (National Small Industries Corporation), a govt. of India enterprise engaged in development and financing of SMEs in India. Under his leadership, NSIC was able to achieve a turnover of 17400 crores and became a dividend paying entity with an excellent MOU rating continuously for 7 years, a spectacular shift, from a loss making CPSU prior to his successful tenure. Before NSIC, he was working with the Union Bank of India and Government of Botswana. He has tremendous experience in dealing with a large number of countries, for promoting international trade relations, cross seas investments, transfer of technologies and handling joint ventures etc. Dr. H. P. Kumar is a qualified Banker from the Indian Institute of Bankers, a professional cost and management accountant (CMA) and holds Ph.D in Rural Industrialisation.
Speaker Profile: Ms. Manasi Kulkarni
Associate Director, CRISIL Limited
Manasi Kulkarni, Associate Director, SME Solutions has 12 years of extensive experience in SME division. In her current role, she is leading a team of analysts who are primarily responsible for delivering various standardised and customized offerings like SME Gradings, Due Diligence, Supply Chain Evaluations, Assessments of Micro-Finance Institutes, Financial Health Assessments, etc. She is actively involved in engaging with institutional clientele and various government agencies. She is also responsible for franchise agenda of the division where team has published opinion pieces and acted as knowledge partner in various forums and events.