Until June 2024, Alok Misra was an Operating Partner with General Atlantic. He served as Chief Operating Officer of General Atlantic’s India office, providing strategic support and financial expertise to the firm’s investment teams and portfolio Companies with a focus on the India & Asia-Pacific region. This included serving on the boards of companies in India, Indonesia, Singapore and Australia.
Before joining General Atlantic in 2013, Alok served as Group Chief Financial Officer at WNS Group, where he helped lead the Company through significant expansion and transformation. Prior to that, he was Group Chief Financial Officer of MphasiS BFL Group until February 2008 and served in a number of accounting and finance roles at other firms including a decade at ITC Limited from 1990 – 2000 with his last role being Commercial Manager, Bangalore Factory II. Prior to ITC he did his articles with Price Waterhouse & Co, Calcutta from 1987 to 1990.
Alok Chandra Misra is a Chartered Accountant by training. He is a Non-Executive Director / Independent Director of both Publicly Listed as also Private Companies in India. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta University.
Alok currently serves as a non-executive director on the board of KFin Technologies Limited (listed) where he is also a member of the Audit and CSR committees, as a Non-executive Director on the board of Cygnus Medicare Private Limited and as an independent director on the board of Environment Defense India Foundation – a not for profit organisation affiliated with the global Environment Defence Fund.