Aakash names Alka Garg as CFO

Aakash Instructional Companies Restricted (AESL) has appointed Alka Garg as its chief monetary officer with impact from February 2026.

Her appointment follows the departure of Vipan Joshi, who stepped down from the function after 9 years on the check preparation firm.

At AESL, she’s going to head the finance perform and oversee monetary technique, operational effectivity and governance. She may also assist the corporate in assembly its deliberate progress goals.

Garg brings greater than twenty years of strategic and operational expertise throughout listed corporations and begin ups. Her background covers each manufacturing and companies, working in enterprise to shopper and enterprise to enterprise enterprise environments, with expertise throughout a number of geographies.

Earlier than becoming a member of Aakash, she served because the chief monetary officer of Yum Restaurant India for over two years. She has additionally held senior management roles at Siemens, GreyOrange and Bharti Airtel.

Along with Garg’s appointment, AESL has named Kanika Kumar Nijhawan as senior vice chairman of selling. She brings greater than 17 years of expertise throughout the media, retail and sports activities sectors, with experience in model improvement, strategic advertising and marketing, digital and efficiency advertising and marketing, and omnichannel engagement.

Earlier than becoming a member of AESL, she spent a decade at Adidas India, the place she served as director of name advertising and marketing. She has additionally labored with HT Media and Sony Leisure.

“With Alka’s excellent monetary acumen and Kanika’s model improvement abilities, I’m assured they are going to each be key brokers in progressing our organisation whereas on the identical time enhancing our dedication to offering high-quality training to all college students in India,” mentioned Chandra Sekhar Garisa Reddy, Managing Director & CEO of AESL.

The appointments of Garg and Nijhawan comply with a sequence of management adjustments at AESL, together with the departure of former CFO Joshi and former MD and CEO Deepak Mehrotra. 

Mehrotra was succeeded by Garisa, who joined AESL in August final 12 months. He beforehand served as managing director at Claypond Capital, the household funding workplace of Ranjan Pai, the most important shareholder within the check preparation firm.

AESL is attempting to maneuver past the challenges linked to BYJU’S, whereas managing its personal points, together with management transitions and efforts to lift recent funding.

The corporate operates a pan India community of greater than 415 centres and at the moment has over 400,000 college students enrolled.