Raul Rebello, as the COO of Mahindra Finance, managed the rural markets when he joined the company last year. Prior to that, he was associated with Axis Bank as EVP and Head of Rural Lending and Financial Inclusion.
“Knowing that Mahindra Finance, in their two-and-a-half decades of existence, largely had the very same principles and objectives that I fashioned my career, which was impacting rural households and improving rural livelihoods, for me, there was no better alignment,” Raul tells Shradha Sharma, CEO and Co-founder, YourStory.
In his nearly two decades at Axis, he focused on impact-based commercial lending, starting with agricultural lending. He then eventually oversaw the entire rural and financial inclusion, handling about Rs 40,000 crore of assets under management, primarily directed towards rural and semi-urban customers.
Raul also agrees that a more extensive…
