Infosys’ Jayesh Sanghrajka is joining our Board

Jayesh Sanghrajka, CFO of Infosys, is joining Cars24’s Board as an Independent Director.

This is a meaningful moment for me personally and for the company.

I first met Jayesh in 2004. I had just finished my CA, moved to Bengaluru from a small city and joined Infosys as an analyst. Everything felt too big. You look around for people you want to be like.

The Infosys finance team had a few. Jayesh was one of them. I was nowhere near Jayesh's orbit. But in organisations like that, you quickly figure out who people rely on when things actually matter. His name came up often. I knew it well before I ever had a reason to. 

Two decades later, he is joining the board of a company I helped build. Frankly, I am still wrapping my head around it. The timing could not be better either.

Cars24 is not a transaction business. We are building the rails for how people buy, sell, finance and own their cars across India, UAE and Australia. We are creating a category. To do that at scale, across multiple markets, heading toward public markets you need people in the room who have been through that before.

Jayesh is one of those few people who have. He has run finance, M&A and investor relations at Infosys, one of very few Indian companies listed in both the US and India. He has navigated public-market scrutiny across two regulatory regimes for over a decade.

On corporate governance, he is the gold standard. How to think about it. How to operate it. Having that standard sit inside our boardroom raises the bar for all of us, starting with me.

He is also not learning Cars24 from a deck. He has been member of our Audit Committee for four years and has chaired our meetings on multiple occasions. He has asked the hard questions. He has kept showing up.

That’s the only kind of board member worth having.

I came to Bengaluru at 23, trying to figure out what good looks like. Jayesh was one of the people I looked up to. I have spent the years since trying to build something worth his time.

I am glad he said yes.

Welcome to the board, Jayesh!!