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Gautam Ivatury currently serves as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director of Melar Acquisition Corp. I (MACI), a SPAC, having held these roles since the company's incorporation. He is based in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. In addition to his SPAC leadership, Ivatury is a co-founder and managing partner of ALMA Sustainable Finance, a debt investment firm active in global inclusive finance and carbon finance sectors, a position he has held since May 2020. Since October 2016, he has also served as a senior advisor and investment committee member for Encourage Capital, a New York-based private equity firm that invests in specialty finance lenders in India and other impact sectors, including serving as an independent investment committee member for the Encourage Solar Finance fund. Through ALMA Sustainable Finance, he has been involved in notable transactions including a partnership with Credix to tokenize credit facilities, such as a $5.5 million facility for Divibank, scaling toward over $15 million USDC in tokenized assets.
Ivatury's career spans founding and executive roles across multiple pioneering financial inclusion ventures. He held founding or CXO roles at SKS Microfinance (India's first microfinance institution to IPO), Jipange Kusave (Kenya's first mobile-based credit provider, launched in early 2010), Happy Loans (India's digital micro-lender, where he served as Founder and Head), and the firm that incubated M-KOPA, Africa's pay-as-you-go solar financier. Earlier, from 2003 to 2008, he was a member of the management team at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a multi-donor trust fund hosted by the World Bank, where he established and managed the CGAP Technology Program—co-funded with a $24 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the foundation's largest grants in financial inclusion—and was responsible for CGAP's work in South Asia. He also chaired the GSM Association's Mobile Money for the Unbanked Fund, consulted to Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft and Visa, and developed digital finance projects in nine countries. Prior to CGAP, he held roles at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse), and founded a company to connect U.S. universities with foreign students via the Internet. He was also a founder of Signal Point Partners, an investment and advisory firm promoting mobile phone-enabled services in emerging markets, and served on the Board of the Society for International Development (Washington).
Ivatury holds a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in international affairs (international economics and international studies) from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. His writings on the impact, business design, and regulation of technology-driven financial inclusion have been published by the World Bank, CGAP, MIT Press, Springer Verlag, and industry media including The Banker and Revue Banque. His published research includes CGAP Focus Notes on foreign investment in microfinance, branchless banking, use of agents in branchless banking for the poor, and the sustainability of self-help groups in India. At Melar Acquisition Corp. I, he works alongside Chief Operating Officer and Director Eric Lifshitz, Chief Financial Officer Edward Lifshitz, and board members including Tara Kenney and Daniel Rosen.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001919234 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 53 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 33 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.