Our People

Our People

Vivek has over 40 years of leadership experience in various government departments and in private business enterprise. As the Information Technology & Bio-technology Secretary, Govt. of Karnataka, he was instrumental in building world-class IT & Biotech institutes and events in Karnataka. He promoted public-private partnership in Governance. He has done extensive work in marketing Bangalore at the International level. During his tenure as IT Secretary, every week Bangalore has seen one new 100% foreign equity firm setting their office.

He has worked as Division Chief of the Securities & Exchange Board of India, a regulator of Capital markets. He has also headed the Advisory Services in CRISIL – a rating agency now taken over by S&P, where he developed the first risk assessment model for Indian mutual funds. Vivek was the Director as well as Chairman of the Technology Committee on the Board of the Bombay Stock Exchange, the oldest exchange in India.

Vivek is keenly interested in academia and is the visiting faculty for the MBA program in India’s premier management and science institutes - Indian Institute of Management and Indian Institute of Science. Vivek has taught MBA and executive MBA programs in Boston University, USA and is an expert in derivatives and risk management in commercial banks, investment banks and corporates. He has published in Financial Analysts Journal of the CFA Institute, Economic & Political Weekly as well as prominent finance newspapers.

Vivek is a gold medalist in Bachelor of Engineering from Karnataka University and is a graduate of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.

Sangeeta Kulkarni is the Co-Founder & CEO of Brickwork. Sangeeta’s areas of expertise include business strategy, customer experience, talent management and operational excellence. With laser-sharp focus on continuous improvement, she has always been a futuristic thinker and made timely investments in technology and competency development that has had a transformational impact on the business.

Sangeeta strong leadership and intuitive management style has made Brickwork, a professional, innovative and client-centric organization, with global acceptance as a premier provider of Business Support services. She has made continuous improvement integral to the company’s culture, thus ensuring that industry benchmarks are used to improve quality, processes and metrics.

She is passionate about contributing to society through CSR activities. As President of “Brickwork Foundation” she has initiated the whole school transformation project for rural schools for underprivileged children.

Prior to Brickwork, Sangeeta worked in corporate training, business development and HR roles with Accenture, HSBC Data Centre and Brilliant School of Management. Sangeeta holds a master’s degree in Human Resource Education and is an alumnus of Boston University and North-western University, USA.

Ritaban Basu is an avid risk management professional with more than two decades of experience spanning across risk management, credit, banking, credit ratings and consulting solutions working with leading financial institutions like ICICI Bank, ABN AMRO, CRISIL and Brickwork Ratings.

With prior experience of setting up processes, turning around businesses and developing new markets across geographies, Ritaban is currently focusing on driving growth for B2K Analytics.

Ritaban has a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and is a MBA in Finance.