Apurva Joshi

A featured Entrepreneur in Rashmi Bansal's "Arise, Awake". She is a Qualified Independent Director from Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA). Currently on the boards of Listed companies and Riskpro Management Consulting Private Limited (handling the Due Diligence and Digital Forensic Practice of Riskpro). Riskpro acquired her company- Fraudexpress.

Apurva also writes for various media houses that includes indian express (loksatta), Sakal, Hindustan Times, Times Group. She was invited as a Columnist with Indian Express' Loksatta on the subject of Startups. The column was published biweekly.

Apurva is the Youngest Certified Forensic Accounting Professionals and Certified Fraud Examiner in the country. She is a

Certified Management Consultant from IIM Bangalore. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Expert, Certified Bank Forensic Accountant and Certified Vigilance & Investigation Expert. She also has completed a Certificate Course from TATA Institute of

Social Sciences (TISS) in Organization Development, Change and Leadership (ODCL) in Civil Society Organizations in India.

She is the First Woman Professional to join the EC-Council Global Advisory Board for C|HFI (Computer Hacking Forensic

Investigator) IMEA (India Middle East Africa) region.

Her Success story as a Woman Entrepreneur and her startup journey was covered in the book titled “Arise, Awake” written by famous management stories author Ms Rashmi Bansal. This book was later translated in Korean Language and was Amazon Best Seller for the years 2015 & 2016.

Another regional language book- 'यशस्वी नवउद्योजक' written by IT Veteran & Evangelist Dr Deepak Shikarpur, published by leading Marathi publication- Menaka and inaugurated by Padmavibhushan Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar has a chapter dedicated on Apurva’s journey as a director of Riskpro, presented as a case study for the young generation and in anticipation that the success story can be counted among Future Unicorns. This is Asia’s first book launched on Metaverse platform.

Indian-American Entrepreneur Mr. Mandar Kulkarni, who runs a very popular podcast show“Vishwasamwaad” in USA , narrates stories of Marathi Entreprenurs who dived into the unusual domains. Apurva was featured on this podcast during 2020; Mr. Mandar shortlisted 13 stories and published a book “Nivdak Vishwasamwaad” in July 2022 which features a chapter on Apurva’s life and work.

Apurva being the youngest fraud examiner in India is an expert and authority on Forensic Accounting, Anti-money Laundering, Fraud, Corporate Governance, Due Diligence, Compliance, Risk Management, Auditing, Private Investigations and Litigation Support.