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About NeX by ProLead

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NeX is the process design and technology practice of ProLead Business Consulting, a professional services firm founded in 2012 with operations in India, Singapore and the United States. It is led by founder Prashanth Vellanki, with Suchendra Kumar leading delivery, Riyan Khan and Venkatraman VK leading sales and client services and ProLead's partners actively involved, and is built on ProLead's process advisory work with growing companies from pre-Series A to IPO.

Last reviewed by the NeX team: 29 September 2026

Why we built NeX

ProLead has worked with 500+ clients since 2012, including 40+ Indian subsidiaries of global companies. Through that time we have advised many growing companies, from pre-Series A startups to businesses preparing for an IPO, on their processes: reviewing them, designing them and implementing them. We have implemented and reviewed control and risk frameworks such as COSO and enterprise risk management (ERM), and seen what holds up as a company scales and what quietly stops working.

We learnt a lot from those engagements, and the clearest lesson was this: businesses buy software to fix problems that are really process problems. NeX is built on those learnings. It fixes the process first, then builds it into the system, with one team accountable for both.

Who leads NeX

Prashanth Vellanki

Founder and Principal Consultant, ProLead · Leads NeX

FCA · CIA · CFE · DISA · CertIFRS

Over 16 years in assurance, internal audit, market entry and corporate advisory. Prashanth has set up governance and process frameworks for multiple companies and serves as an independent director on listed and private company boards. He speaks regularly at events on startups, entrepreneurship, governance and process advisory.

While he is a credentialled finance and business leader, his passion lies at the intersection of finance and technology, which is what NeX is built around. He reviews every NeX engagement.

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Your NeX team

Suchendra Kumar

Senior Manager · Delivery lead

9 years · Certified across Zoho, QuickBooks and Xero

Runs every NeX engagement day to day, from Discover through go-live and hypercare: the plan, the consultant team, configuration quality and sign-offs. Suchendra holds multiple certifications across Zoho, QuickBooks and Xero and has wide experience across finance and business tools.

Riyan Khan

Senior Manager · Sales and client services lead

9 years · MBA

Scoping, proposals and client relationships, making sure what was agreed is what gets delivered.

Venkatraman VK

Manager · Sales and client services lead

6 years · Accounting background

Your first conversation with NeX: understanding the problem, scoping the engagement and staying your point of contact after go-live.

Backed by ProLead’s partners

ProLead’s partners are actively involved in NeX. Each brings a specialism that shapes how we design processes and controls, and they work on NeX engagements alongside the delivery team. Full profiles are on prolead.services.

Iqbal Singh GroverFounder, Principal Consultant · FCA, CPA (USA), DISA, CertGSTUS GAAP and cross-border accounting for subsidiaries
Prem Kumar YFounder, Principal Consultant · FCA, DISA, CertGSTFP&A and technology-enabled finance operations
Ajay Kumar NarraFounder, Principal Consultant · FCA, DISATax, compliance and SME finance
Nishant PeriwalPartner, Principal Consultant · FCADirect tax and regulatory advisory
Keshav MaaheswariPartner, Principal Consultant · FCA, DISAStatutory and internal audit, process advisory
Prasanth S SPartner, Principal Consultant · FCA, DISAAudit, management consulting and process optimisation
Sooraj SPartner, Principal Consultant · ACA, CIAInternal audit and multinational company audits
Alex ChoongAssociate Partner, Singapore · ACCA, CA (Singapore)Singapore client services

ProLead in brief

  • Founded: 2012.
  • Markets: India, Singapore (hybrid office) and the USA (virtual office).
  • Offices: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Cochin and Amritsar, with associates in Mumbai and Delhi.
  • Technology partnerships: Zoho Authorized Partner, QuickBooks ProAdvisor Platinum, Xero Authorised Partner.
  • Credentials across leadership: FCA, CPA (USA), ACCA, CIA, CFE, DISA, CertIFRS and Chartered Accountant (Singapore).

Explore ProLead

Want to know more about ProLead and all five of our service verticals? Visit prolead.services.

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