BENGALURU · INDIA · EST. 2023

We built the firm
we wished existed.

POLI Consultancy was founded on a single conviction: that ambitious businesses deserve senior advisory attention — not junior teams hidden behind a partner name, and not reports that sit on shelves. We exist to make strategy usable and results measurable.

2023Year founded in Bengaluru
15+Years of senior advisory experience
50+Engagements delivered across India
₹500Cr+In client outcomes influenced

Built from inside the problem.

POLI Consultancy was founded in Bengaluru in 2023 by Sankar Poli, after 15+ years working across banking, information technology, real estate, manufacturing, audit firms, F&B and law firms. In every sector, the same frustration repeated: the advice was often sound, the execution rarely followed — and finance and technology were treated as two separate problems instead of one.

Most firms optimise for the deliverable. We optimise for the outcome. That distinction shapes everything: how we structure engagements, how we staff them, who shows up in the room and how we define done.

Our name reflects our founding conviction — that practical, integrated advisory (POLI, from the Sanskrit root for "complete" and "whole") is what growing businesses actually need. Not a finance firm that does not understand technology. Not a technology firm that cannot read a P&L. IT & Accounts in one place, run by one team that sees the whole picture.

We have stayed deliberately mid-size. Large enough to cover every function your business needs. Small enough that every client gets senior attention, not delegation.

Principles that shape every engagement.

These are not values we wrote for a website. They are the rules that have cost us mandates — and earned us the ones we kept.

Honesty before comfort

We tell clients what they need to hear, not what they want to. That means naming the real problem early — even when it is inconvenient — rather than letting a misdiagnosis compound through twelve weeks of expensive work.

Integration over specialisation

Siloed advice creates siloed outcomes. We connect technology, finance, operations and growth deliberately — because in any real business, a decision in one domain always has consequences in another.

Senior-led, always

The person who pitches the engagement is the person who does the work. There are no handoffs to analysts after the kick-off meeting. If you hired a senior advisor, a senior advisor shows up — at every milestone, every review, every difficult conversation.

Results over reports

A well-produced report that does not change behaviour is not a success. We define what "done" looks like in measurable terms before we start, and we do not consider an engagement complete until those outcomes are visible in the business.

Technology as the backbone

Every modern business problem has a technology dimension. We lead with IT thinking across every engagement — not as an add-on, but as the lens through which strategy, operations and compliance are all viewed and designed.

Partnership over transaction

We want clients to outgrow their dependency on us — not deepen it. We transfer knowledge, document everything and build the internal capability that makes results stick. Our best clients are the ones who need us less over time.

Meet the founder.

POLI Consultancy was started by one person with one conviction — that IT and Accounts belong in the same room, not in two different firms.

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Sankar Poli Founder

Sankar founded POLI Consultancy in 2023 after 15+ years of cross-industry experience — working inside banking, information technology, real estate, manufacturing, audit firms, food & beverage and law firms. Across every sector he kept seeing the same gap: finance teams that couldn't trust the numbers their systems produced, and technology teams that couldn't connect their work to the P&L. The two functions were almost always run by different people, in different rooms, speaking different languages.

POLI Consultancy was built to close that gap. Sankar's conviction is simple — IT & Accounts belong in one place, advised by one team that understands both. Years of operating across regulated industries (banking, audit, law) and high-volume operating industries (manufacturing, real estate, F&B) gave him a clear view of what actually works: integrated advice, senior delivery, and a refusal to hand the hard problems down the chain.

He leads every engagement personally where finance, technology and operations need to be connected — and stays involved end to end. No analyst handoffs after the kickoff.

15+ years cross-industry IT & Accounts integration Bengaluru, India
Banking & NBFCInformation technologyReal estateManufacturingAudit firmsF&BLaw firms

Senior advisors. No junior handoffs.

Every engagement is led and delivered by experienced practitioners — people who have run the functions they advise on. You will always speak to the person doing the work.

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Rajesh Kumar Managing Director

Rajesh joined POLI Consultancy after 20 years across Big Four advisory, corporate banking and operating roles in Indian industry. He has led technology-enabled transformation programmes for listed NBFCs, mid-market manufacturers, logistics firms and high-growth SaaS companies — and has seen first-hand what separates advice that works from advice that looks good on paper.

His core belief: that technology and finance are not separate disciplines. A business that does not understand its data cannot manage its costs. A business that cannot manage its costs cannot fund its technology. Rajesh leads every engagement where those two threads need to be connected.

CA (ICAI) MBA, IIM Bangalore 20+ years advisory
IT & finance strategyRegulatory advisoryGrowth programmesM&A readiness
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Priya Sharma Head of Compliance & Controls

Priya spent 15 years inside financial institutions before joining POLI — most recently as Chief Compliance Officer at a Bengaluru-based NBFC regulated by the RBI. She has built compliance functions from scratch, steered organisations through RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and GST regulatory cycles, and designed internal audit frameworks for businesses ranging from 50-person startups to 3,000-person listed entities.

Her approach: compliance is not a cost centre or a checkbox exercise. When it is designed well, it is a competitive advantage — because investors, partners and regulators reward organisations that can prove they are in control.

ACA (ICAI) CISA Certified 15+ years regulatory
RBI & SEBI complianceInternal auditTax & GSTControls design
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Arjun Venkat Head of Technology & Digital

Arjun leads all technology and IT advisory work at POLI. He brings 12 years of experience across enterprise software architecture, ERP selection and implementation, cloud platform migration, process automation and IT operating model design — with delivery experience across India, Singapore and the UAE.

Before POLI, Arjun scaled digital operations teams for a major Indian retail bank and led the technology function at a VC-backed fintech through a period of 4× growth. He specialises in translating business strategy into technology decisions — and in rescuing technology projects that have gone off track.

B.Tech, IIT Madras PMP Certified 12+ years IT advisory
IT architectureERP & cloudProcess automationDigital transformation
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Meera Rao Head of Operations & Growth

Meera leads operating model design, BPO transformation and go-to-market engagements at POLI. She previously held a regional operations leadership role at a multinational BPO across 600+ staff and led growth strategy at a VC-backed consumer brand through its expansion into seven Indian cities.

Her work sits at the intersection of operations and growth — she specialises in building the infrastructure that makes ambitious commercial targets achievable. If the strategy is right but the operating model cannot deliver it, Meera's job is to close that gap.

MBA, ISB Hyderabad 14+ years operations Pan-India delivery
Operating modelsBPO designMarket entryCommercial strategy

Headquartered in Bengaluru.
Working across India.

Our office is in Bengaluru — India's technology capital and the natural home for technology-led business advisory. We serve clients across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and other major cities, with travel-in and embedded delivery models available for intensive engagements.

Head officeBengaluru, Karnataka, India
HoursMonday – Saturday, 9 am – 7 pm IST

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