Today, in India, we are witnessing an upsurge in fraud in several industry sectors and segments. Investors, lenders and citizens are increasingly becoming victims of scams and fraudsters. The need of the hour is to combat fraud through information, intelligence and insight.
Fraudopedia’s mission is to combat fraud, mitigate fraud risks, build repository of fraud schemes and scenarios with special emphasis on cultural attributes of fraud in India, enhance awareness and knowledge through pioneering research, innovative tools and improve corporate governance in India.
Fraudopedia aims to equip young professionals in accounting, law and management and stakeholders like Independent Directors, Executive Directors and Company Secretaries with tools to prevent, detect and combat fraud in India.
Fraduopedia’s Corporate Governance Score will enable stakeholders to evaluate an entity’s corporate governance practices. The Corporate Governance Score will assess:
Meet Our Team
Vidya Rajarao, Founder
- Expertise in forensic accounting and fraud investigations in India, USA and Europe on International Companies.
- First Indian on the Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), world’s largest anti-fraud organization.
- Served as Vice Chair, Board of Regents.
- Nominated as Member of Technical Advisory Committee of the National Financial Reporting Authority in India.
- Only Indian expert witness to appear continuously in the International Who’s Who of Arbitration Expert Witnesses since 2014
- Chair Audit Committee and Independent Director on boards of private companies in India.
- Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
- Certified Fraud Examiner from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in USA
- Mukesh is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India,
Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a qualified lawyer. - Mukesh brings in strong Finance, Accounts, Compliance, Taxation and legal expertise.
- Mukesh has more than three decades of experience across Government, private and MNC (GCC)
sectors such as KSIIDC, PwC, and Synopsys Inc.. - Nominated as Member of Technical Advisory Committee of the National Financial Reporting Authority in India.
- Mukesh has a proven track record of incubating and launching several startups in the field of
health care and consumer products.
Mukesh BA
Kavitha Patil
- Consumer Insight, Strategy and Behavioral Expert – Multi-dimensional, bilingual leader with 23 years of extensive experience in processing consumer data into meaningful and actionable insights
- Kavitha comes with creditable history as thought leader for advancing strategic direction of the business through innovation and organizational leadership ; critical to continuous growth of business in an evolving global market. Successfully Led teams in emerging markets across regions for different categories, brands, and organizations; creating a market entry understanding via Culture and Consumer approaches
- Kavitha has incubated many qualitative product development initiatives that are methodological constructs leveraging technology to make research more agile
- Proficiently worked across different emerging markets from South-East & South Asia, MENA, South America, parts of Europe and ANZ by understanding consumer behavior, cultural & social trends across diverse categories such as auto, alcoholic beverages, BFSI, Fashion & Lifestyle, Consumer Goods
- Kavitha has worked across organisations like ORG- MARG ( ACNielsen), Market Probe, Kantar, Brandscapes Worldwide. Kavitha has held executive board positions across organisations