
Divakar Vijayasarathy
Founder and CEO

Divakar Vijayasarathy
- Founder and CEO
Divakar Vijayasarathy, the firm's founder and CEO, is a chartered accountant with a keen interest in international taxation, history and psychology. He firmly believes that thought, knowledge & wisdom are the ultimate assets worth acquiring. He is responsible for Strategy and growth initiatives at DVS globally.
A passionate orator and professor on the subject of international and domestic taxation laws, he has presented more than 300 seminars and authored more than 15 books most of which have been national publications. He has served on numerous study groups and was part of the expert panel on international tax at ICAI. A noted expert on the subject he contributes regularly to national and international publications including being a Forbes Advisor.

Sharat Dhall
Strategic Advisory Board Director

Sharat Dhall
- Board Of Director
Sharat has over 20 years of experience running businesses in the Internet & FMCG spaces and is comfortable in both large and small organizations. He has successfully handled teams as large as a thousand people and has worked in small 10-member startup situations. Sharat is entrepreneurial, market-oriented, with a strong bias for action, and enjoys the challenge of starting and scaling a business. He actively works with startups, helping them solve live business problems while learning from their completely new vision of the way the world ought to work. At Yatra.com, Sharat had P&L responsibility for all the direct-to-consumer businesses, including flights, hotels, holidays, bus, rail, and cabs. He also leads Yatra.com's marketing function, partnerships, and ancillary revenue-generating initiatives. Sharat is a key media spokesperson for the company. He is also an Advisory Board Member at CreditEnable India. CreditEnable is a data aggregation and analytics company working with lenders and SMEs across emerging markets. Sharat helps lenders build high-quality SME loan portfolios and provides a suite of tools that significantly reduce the turn-around-time (TAT) and the cost involved in sourcing relevant creditworthy clients. CreditEnable also helps SMEs understand their business, benchmark their performance, and source the right financing at the right price. Prior to joining Yatra, Sharat was the Managing Director of TripAdvisor India, where he launched the India business and grew it into a top 3 travel website in India within 2 years of launch. Before that, he was the Managing Director of Expedia India and was responsible for launching the Expedia brand in India. Earlier in his career, Sharat spent close to a decade with Hindustan Unilever in sales & marketing. He set up the globally acclaimed rural initiative, Project Shakti, before making a foray into the internet space to head the eCommerce business at Indiatimes. Sharat is an avid sports enthusiast and particularly enjoys running and playing golf.

Kavitha Divakar
COO

Kavitha Divakar
- COO
Kavitha, a lawyer from ILS Pune, started her career with Indirect Tax and M&A practice. With a keen eye for detail and passion for growth, she gradually evolved to move on to handling strategic responsibilities at DVS before becoming the COO in 2021. All the relevant foundation functions including Finance, HR and Change Management report into her.
A sports-person since childhood and a doting mother, she seamlessly handles her responsibilities with ease and is responsible for developing a diverse and inclusive workforce at DVS and a strong foundation for expansion. Kavitha is known for her clarity of thought, hands-on execution and immersive team building abilities.

Chella Krishna
Strategic Advisory Board Director

Chella Krishna
- Board of Director
Chella Krishna.G( Krishna) Krishna is a practicing chartered accountant and a partner with SRSV and Associates, a CA firm in Chennai , Chartered accountants. Krishna is a noted advisor to several of Chennai’s large business families and has specialized for over 21 years in handing their personal structuring , investment and tax matters -both domestic and overseas. Krishna has experience performing investment supervision, capital allocation and arbitration for some large families in India Krishna also has experience with succession planning and a working knowledge of US taxes. In 2019, Krishna was elected to the board of Goolestan investments P Ltd and MRR Thirteen Ltd as a non-executive director. MRR is one of New york’s fastest growing real estate groups and controls hotels, land in Manhattan and Opportunity zones in the US He was also elected to the Board of Script stories P Ltd which owns EPIC TV which is in the infotainment vertical and the recently launched music channel on DD Free dish- Showbox. Krishna chairs the board of Mashal sports P Ltd, the company which runs the Kabaddi sports league and is on the board of Deeya, a fashion brand in Paris. Krishna also serves as Board director and Chairman of the Audit committee of Manali Petrochemicals Ltd and Elnet Technologies Ltd. Krishna holds the CA degree and an MBA from the Indian school of business, Hyderabad.

Guru Kalyan
Strategic Advisory Board Director

Guru Kalyan
- Independent Director and Strategic Advisor
A graduate from the Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani, India, he has a master’s degree in international economics and Management and an MBA; both from SDA Bocconi, in Milan Italy. He has strong international business and management consulting experience in Europe & in India. He runs a boutique firm that specializes in technology transfers, equity based joint ventures and M&A transactions. The firm delivers these services to mid-sized, family-owned Italian firms seeking to enter the Indian Market in the automotive Industry. He honed his, multi decadal, international business management and management consulting skills in firms like The UB Group, Necchi Compressori, The Boston Consulting Group and Value Partners. He resides in Chennai, India with his wife & daughter.

Subramanian K V (Prakash)
Strategic Advisory Board Director

Subramanian K V (Prakash)
- Board of Director
Subramanian K V (Prakash) is the CEO and Country Head of Large global hedge fund based in the US. He currently operates from India and is establishing the Fund's Capital presence in India. Prakash boasts 30+ years of diverse banking experience spanning Investment Banking, Treasury, Senior Management, and Governance. He has a notable track record in various markets across Asean, the Middle East, and India. In 1992, Prakash pioneered the first Middle East-based Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) in India for TAIB Bank, Bahrain. During 1996–2011, he held the position of MD & Regional Head Capital Markets for South Asia, overseeing significant capital market transactions in the region. From 2011 to 2017, he served as MD & Head Financial Markets at Standard Chartered Bank, Indonesia, leading sovereign and corporate bond issuances and contributing to ASEAN financial market governance. Between 2017 and 2022, Prakash held the roles of MD & Head – Strategy, Process, Subsidiaries & Governance, and was a Member of the SCB India Country Management Group. His extensive involvement with international financial centers includes his contribution to the development of the Gift City project and his advisory roles within the International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA). He played a pivotal role in establishing the first foreign bank branch in IFSC and served on its Regulatory Committee. Prakash was also a Co-Chair of the India UK Financial Partnership Group (IUKFP). Prakash holds a Master’s Degree in Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.