Our Team
Raghavendra N
Raghavendra is a Chartered Accountant and a Law Graduate from Bangalore University, with over 20 years of professional experience in Big 4 consulting and practice – as part of RSM & Co., PwC and Deloitte.
Raghavendra has rich experience of dealing with Advisory, Compliance and Litigation matters for multinational and domestic companies across a wide breadth of sectors in tax and regulatory matters.
Raghavendra has been associated with many multi-national corporations having operations in U.S., EU Countries and APAC region in advising on various tax issues.
Raghavendra has advised clients on critical and complex tax matters covering Tax & Transfer Pricing, Planning and Diagnostic Reviews, Mergers and Acquisition, International and Cross Border Taxation, Exchange Control Regulations, Business Valuations, etc.
Raghavendra has dealt with various industries / sectors including IT / ITES, Manufacturing, Education, Auto, Trading and E-Commerce, SME’s, etc.
Raghavendra has contributed to articles published in Business Standard, Taxmann, Taxsutra and KSCAA Publication.
Email – raghavendra.n@axysadvisors.com
Aswathraj N
Aswathraj is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a law graduate. He has consulting experience in Transfer Pricing for over a period of 18 years, including in Big 4 consulting firm.
Aswathraj has been actively involved in transfer pricing advisory, planning, compliance and audit defense for various multinational and domestic companies.
Aswathraj has advised companies engaged in various industries such as Manufacturing, Distribution, Information technology and Information Technology Enabled Services sectors and so on.
Aswathraj has experience in handling complex transfer pricing litigation issues, including safe harbour proceedings, before various tax and appellate authorities.
Aswathraj is also involved in advising clients on Advance Pricing Agreements and assisting in APA discussions.
Email – aswathraj.n@axysadvisors.com
Chandrashekar Y S
Chandrashekar holds a Bachelor Degree in Commerce from Bangalore University, with over 16 years of professional experience.
Chandrashekar has been associated with Coffee Day Global Limited for over 5+ years, as a Senior Manager in the Finance and Accounts Department.
Prior to joining Coffee Day Global, Chandrashekar was associated with a firm of Chartered Accountants as a Manager for over 3+ years.
Chandrashekar has rich experience in dealing with Statutory Audits, Tax Audits, Book-keeping and Finalisation, Regulatory and Statutory Compliances.
Chandrashekar has been associated with multinational companies in advising and handling Financial and Accounting Function, Internal Audit and MIS Reporting, Tax – Corporate and Statutory Compliances.
Chandrashekar has dealt with various industries / sectors like Consumer, Manufacturing, Trading and SME’s.
Email – chandrashekar@axysadvisors.com
Manjunatha R A
Manjunath is a Chartered Accountant and a Commerce Graduate from Bangalore University, with over 11 years of professional experience, including in Big 4 consulting – as part of E&Y and Deloitte.
Manjunath was part of the Audit and Assurance Practice in Big 4 and has managed several Statutory Audits, Tax Audits and Internal Audits of private, public and listed entities, during his association with E&Y and Deloitte.
Manjunath has rich experience in dealing with Audits, Limited Reviews, IND AS Convergence, Corporate Law matters and has been associated in advising multinational companies on Book-keeping, Regulatory and Statutory Compliances, Financial Controls, etc.
Manjunath has dealt with various industries / sectors like Real Estate, IT / ITeS, Consumer, Manufacturing, Trading and SME’s.
Email – manjunatha.ra@axysadvisors.com
Siva Kumar R
Siva is a Chartered Accountant with over 19 years of successful and enriching association with renowned MNC organizations.
Siva is a trusted advisor on setting up Finance / Accounting Shared Services, Finance Centre of Excellence, Transition / Migration of processes, Transformation & Outsourcing Advisory.
Siva specialises in Design, develop, implement and review internal controls across core functional areas – P2P / O2C / R2R / FP&A / Tax.
Siva excels in assisting clients in process optimization using advanced technologies like RPA, implementation of GL reconciliation tools among others.
Siva has vast experience in Strategic Planning, Financial Operations, Policy Compliances and Reporting under USGAAP, IFRS & IGAAP, ERP migration & implementation of upgrades to Financial Accounting System.
Siva has assisted clients to ensure overall Balance Sheet health management, local statutory compliances and cashflow planning.
Siva has experience in driving analytics / insights using advanced tools for data warehousing / visualization like Business Objects / Snowflake / Tableau / Power BI to support strategic decision making, financial planning and analysis.
Email – sivakumar@axysadvisors.com
Gauri Kumari
Gauri holds a Bachelor Degree in Commerce (B.Com) from Delhi University, fellow membership of Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA) and Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) from Information System Audit and Control Association, USA.
She has more than 10 years of experience in the various areas such as Internal Financial Control, Sox Audit, Statutory Audit and Indirect Taxes which includes her stint of about three years with PricewaterhouseCoopers dealing in system audits. She has handled matters of clients from diverse industries and has conducted many statutory audits, system audit and sox audits including sox compliance review.
She has served various fortune 500 companies in the area of various types of audits and indirect taxes.
She is rendering comprehensive professional services in the areas of System Audit including sox audit, Indirect Taxes and Other Regulatory Compliances.
US Desk – Somu Shekar
Somu is a Commerce Graduate, with over 15 years of professional experience in top consulting companies as part of Manpower Group, V2soft Inc and been founder of Minstage Global – Professional Consulting firm serving USA, Canada, UK and Indian clients.
Somu is a strategic revenue growth driver, synergist and visionary leader with proven success in International Business, Sales, Consulting, Recruitment, Outsourcing – Tax, Advisory, Accounts & Finance, Business Operations, etc.,
Somu is an inspirational leader capitalizing on global experience, management skills, strategic mindset and a vision to lead the business in an increasing technological future with focus on competitiveness agenda to attract investment, develop talent, and spur the commercialization of new ideas.
Somu has served as an advisory board member for startups, non-profit organisation and dealt with various industries like IT / ITeS, Audit & Accounting, Real Estate, Consumer, Manufacturing, Trading and SME’s.
Email – somu.shekar@axysadvisors.com
Senior Counsel – K R Vasudevan
Mr. Vasudevan, a former IRS Officer turned Tax Advocate, is a tax professional with an experience of more than three decades. He is a Ph.D, LL.B, MBA (Finance), ICWA and a Grad. in science and Engg.
He has holistic exposure of taxation, in government, industry and presently in consultancy and practice.
He is credited with having significant wins in complex tax disputes, especially transfer pricing disputes.
Presently he is representing companies, including MNCs, on their tax disputes in higher judicial fora like Tax Tribunals and High Courts pan India.
He was an officer of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS), having worked at senior position, with expertise in transfer pricing and international taxation.
He has also worked in the Industry, handling the entire gamut of tax function for leading Companies. He has contributed to articles published in Taxsutra and other publication.
He is senior advisor to Big Four Firms and Director / Advisor for many companies. He also contributes regularly in magazines and websites on contemporary issues of taxation and general interest.