Jayesh has 13 years of banking, research, operations and impact assessment experience in financial inclusion space. He has worked with the Grameen Foundation India, Women’s World Banking (WWB), ICICI Bank and Institute of Financial Management and Research. He has provided consulting and technical advisory support to 15 microfinance institutions across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and China.
He is currently working as consultant with Arc Finance (USAID supported and microfinance enabled off-grid clean energy programs), Opportunity International (Education Finance program) and Shivia (an UK based charity organization). His current assignments include strategic advisory to MFIs, staff training programs, energy literacy program for microfinance women clients and designing product diversification strategies. He has also worked on client level insights, social impact assessments, monitoring and evaluation assignments with Acumen India, World Vision India, EDA Rural systems, Good World Solutions and E-Health point etc.
Jayesh is also bootstrapping a social enterprise to develop solutions which will empower all rural communities to take control of their local development infrastructure needs in collaboration with a private sector partner that offers technical, financial and managerial collaboration in project development, ownership, management and operations. These solutions will enable all rural communities to adopt emerging distributed technologies that enable access to energy, health, sanitation and education in association with a private sector partner that can make the technologies relevant, adoptable and affordable. These solutions will enable all rural communities to articulate the local vision and aspirations.
Jayesh completed a rural management course at the Xavier Institute of Management in Bhubaneswar and is an agriculture graduate from Pantnagar University, India. He is native of central India and speaks Hindi and English.