After completing his B.S. from the Carnegie Mellon
University, Mr. Shelgikar worked with Deutsche Bank in M&A for a year in
London. He left the Bank in August 2008, and returned to Mumbai to work as a
social entrepreneur. Since then, he has been involved in setting up 'Micro
Housing Finance Corporation (MHFC)' - a housing finance company targeted at
lower income households mostly from the informal sector in urban India. The
company has received the necessary regulatory clearance from the National
Housing Bank (NHB) and has started disbursing housing loans since June 2009. |