ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Alankar Joshi
Founder, AIforCFO.com · Affiliate Faculty, Singapore Management University CFO Programme
Affiliate Faculty SMU CFO Programme
MBA IESE Business School
CFA Programme All 3 Levels Completed
25+ Years in Finance Leadership
Serial Entrepreneur
Alankar Joshi is a finance leader, serial entrepreneur, and practitioner-educator who has spent 25 years at the intersection of finance, strategy, and technology. He is the Founder of AIforCFO.com and the creator of AI for CFOs: Strategic & Operational Mastery a practitioner-led program designed to help CFOs, Finance Directors, and FP&A leaders implement AI with confidence in their day-to-day work.
Alankar currently serves as Affiliate Faculty at the Singapore Management University (SMU) CFO Programme, where he teaches FP&A and Long-Term Financial Planning to aspiring and sitting CFOs. As an executive educator, he has also taught and coached C-level executives in executive education programmes at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU), and the Asian Institute of Management.
His career spans consulting, corporate finance, investing, and entrepreneurship. He has served as CFO of growth-stage companies, co-founded a Singapore-based HR technology startup, and founded Palimala Ventures Pte. Ltd. the entity behind AIforCFO.com. He holds an MBA from IESE Business School and has completed all three levels of the CFA Programme.
Beyond the classroom, Alankar is a regular voice on AI in finance for the 10,000+ finance leaders who follow his work on LinkedIn sharing practical frameworks, tool reviews, and use-case walkthroughs drawn directly from his own experience building and deploying AI tools across the CFO office.
The AIforCFO platform including the flagship course, 47+ AI toolkits, and the Claude Prompts for CFOs book is the direct product of that journey: hundreds of hours of testing AI tools against real finance workflows, distilled into a practical, zero-code curriculum that busy executives can apply immediately. Every tool, prompt, and framework in the platform has been built, tested, and refined by Alankar personally, and is grounded in the same practitioner standards he applies in his own work.
WHY I BUILT THIS
"I built this platform because I could not find AI education built for a CFO's actual workload. Most courses were either too abstract to act on, or too technical to be useful. I wanted something that a sitting CFO could open on a Monday morning and use by Friday without a developer, without a data science degree, and without wading through theory that never touches a balance sheet."
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— Alankar Joshi, Founder, AIforCFO.com
EDITORIAL STANDARDS & AI DISCLOSURE
How This Content Is Made
All content on AIforCFO.com including blog posts, course materials, toolkit documentation, and product copy is authored by Alankar Joshi based on direct practitioner experience in finance leadership, executive education, and AI tool deployment.
AI tools, including Claude and ChatGPT, are used solely as research and drafting assistants to improve efficiency and coverage. Every factual claim, statistic, framework, and recommendation published on this platform is personally reviewed, verified, and approved by Alankar before publication. No content is published without his direct sign-off.
Where external sources are cited including research from McKinsey, Gartner, Deloitte, MIT CISR, and other institutions the original source is linked directly. Readers are encouraged to access primary sources independently.
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