Abhijit Ray, Co-Founder & Director
A founding team member of Unitus Capital, Abhijit transitioned from the Capital Markets team at Unitus, which he joined in early 2006. At Unitus, he worked with MFIs on debt and equity arranging transactions, along with providing financial advisory services. Prior to joining Unitus, Abhijit brought 13 years of diverse experience encompassing development finance, commercial banking and microfinance – most recently, he was AGM with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) where he oversaw SIDBI’s microfinance portfolio in the state of Andhra Pradesh, and also acted as the business development manager for SME projects. Abhijit has appraised more than 50 MFIs in India for debt funding and has assessed capacity building needs of more than 35 MFIs, spearheading most of the assessments. Abhijit started his career with the State Bank of India (SBI), where he worked in diverse areas, in six different locations within India. He has attended the School of Applied Microfinance Programme (Mombasa, Kenya) and the Strategic Leadership Programme in Microfinance at the Harvard Business School. Abhijit holds a Bachelors degree in economics from Kolkata University and is a Certified Associate (CAIIB) of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
