Ms Padmini Khare Kaicker is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, a Certified Public Accountant (USA) and a Diploma holder in Business Finance from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India. She is the Managing Partner of B.K. Khare & Co., one of the leading Indian accounting firms, serving the profession for almost five decades. She joined the accountancy profession in 1990 after completing her B. Sc. in Mathematics. She has over 25 years of experience serving large and midsized clients in several sectors in areas of audit, taxation, corporate finance, risk management and corporate governance. She has been involved in Corporate Advisory, M&A and restructuring initiatives and has also been serving on the Boards as Independent Director of several reputed Companies, including being Chairperson of Audit Committee.