Abhishek has 11 years of experience in private equity. He has played a key role in investing and portfolio management of 15 companies and has also managed a few exits. Previously was Principal at India Equity Partners (IEP), a USD 350 mn India focused private equity fund. Served on the boards of IKYA Human Capital, ILFS Education, Sagar Ratna Restaurants, RG Stone and Axiss Dental. Also played a significant role in investments in Manappuram Finance and ColdEx. Prior to IEP, he was with the SUN Group, an emerging markets private equity fund with USD 2 bn in AUM. Abhishek serves as a member of the economic affairs sub-committee of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). Holds Management degree from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Amit Dabas is a Vice President responsible for India and South East Asia PE manager research, secondaries and co-investments for HQ Capital, a leading global independent alternative investment manager with $11.4 billion AUM in private equity and real estate (3Q 2016). Previously, he was a Director with Creador; a Director with Guggenheim Partners; and held operating roles with Ericsson and Tata Consultancy Services. He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Dr. Hingorani is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of IIML, and is responsible for managing IIML's funds. She has 22 years of experience in the financial services industry, including teaching finance and academic research, and 12 years of experience in private equity fund management. Over the course of this period, she has been instrumental in IL&FS's foray into the private equity business and has made investments in private equity transactions with an aggregate capitalization value in excess of $8.2 billion. Prior to joining IL&FS in 1994, Dr. Hingorani was with the University of Pittsburgh (United States), where she was involved in academic research and teaching subjects in corporate finance and financial markets. She has published a number of articles in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business and Finance and the Journal of the Economics of Business.

Dr. Hingorani is a member of the India CEO Forum, which is affiliated with the IMA (International Market Assessment Group). Dr Hingorani is also a member of United Nations Environment Programme, Finance Initiative, CII National Committee on Infrastructure Finance and is on the Advisory Council of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA).

Dr. Hingorani received her Bachelors degree in Economics from Bombay University (India). She received a Masters in Business Administration and PhD. in Corporate Finance from the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh (United States).

Anita Marangoly George has been Managing Director of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), South Asia since April 2016. Ms. George has a solid track record in managing global investment portfolios in infrastructure, specifically in the energy, oil and gas, mining, water, transportation and logistics sectors. CDPQ has invested in creating a platform for stranded power assets in partnership with Tata Power and ICICI Ventures; a significant minority stake in Azure Global Power Limited
- one of India's largest PV Solar companies; Edelweiss Financial Services in the structured credit and stressed assets sectors; and TVS Logistics, an Indian Multinational providing logistics services worldwide. CDPQ has investments of over $2 billion in India.

Amit Anand is the Founder and Managing Partner of Singapore based Jungle Ventures, a entrepreneur backed venture firm that funds and helps start-ups scale across Asia Pacific. Prior to starting Jungle, Amit has spent over 12 years in Asia Pacific working for start-ups and corporations across various roles in Product, Marketing and Sales & Business Development. A Kauffman Fellow(Class 18), Amit is extremely passionate about Asian innovators and inventors. He is also presided as Vice Chair on the Board of Business Angels Network South East Asia (BANSEA) for the last 3 years

Anand has been at Creador since its founding in 2011. Prior to that he was a partner at Veda, a boutique investment bank where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, sponsor coverage of private equity firms and raising structured debt for a number of mid- market corporates. Anand also spent 12 years doing investment banking at IL&FS. In the earlier part of his career,he held various operational roles at Zuari Agrochemicals and at Eicher Motors. He holds an MBA from IIM, Bangalore, and graduated with honours in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur.

Arvind Kodikal joined the Emerging Markets investment team at Triodos Investment Management in March 2013 as an Investment Officer for Asia (South and South East Asia) and became a Senior Investment Officer in January 2016. Currently, Arvind is Senior Investment Officer – Private Equity – with a focus on direct and fund investments in global emerging markets within financial inclusion and fintech space. He also sits on the board of Intellegrow (A SME venture debt finance company) in India. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the Bangalore University, Arvind worked for Goldman Sachs Asset Management in India for three years. He also holds a Master of Financial Management from the Rotterdam School of Management of Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Anuj Ranjan is a Managing Partner and Regional Head of Middle East and South Asia, responsible for overseeing all of Brookfield’s investment initiatives and operations. Mr. Ranjan joined Brookfield in 2006 and has held various positions within the company and its affiliates, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and real estate advisory. He relocated from Toronto to Mumbai in 2009, where he helped build Brookfield’s India business, and then in Dubai to further expand Brookfield’s presence in the region. Mr. Ranjan has been involved in over $20 billion of transactions globally. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Bala joined New Enterprise Associates India Pvt. Ltd. (NEA India) in 2008 as Senior Managing Director based out of its Mumbai office. Since that time NEA India’s assets under management have grown from ~$100mn to over ~$350mn. Under Bala’s leadership NEA has invested in several companies like Air Works, FSS, InTarvo, Intellisys, Naaptol, Nova, Trishe and Vishwa. Her private equity experience has seen the full cycle from nurturing young companies to executing multiple exits including IPO’s, buy-backs, strategic sales, and capital market divestments. She is also an Independent Director Board Member of Future Retail and Info Edge who are listed on National Stock Exchange and Leaders in their sectors.

Prior to joining NEA, Bala was with ICICI Venture (a leading Indian venture capital private equity investor), where she used her operational experience to identify opportunities for investment and played a strategic role in shaping the future of the investee companies. Whilst at ICICI Venture, she was a Director on the boards of several companies including Aaj Tak, Shoppers Stop, Nagarjuna Construction, Air Deccan, TechProcess Solutions etc. Prior to ICICI Venture, Bala worked across functions like sales, distribution and brand management with leading multinational companies such as Bestfoods, Cadburys, and ICI.

Bala is passionate about social development and inclusion. To this end, she is on the Advisor Board of few transformational enterprises like TRRAIN and iVolunteer.

Bala Naidu is the Managing Partner of Argha Capital LLP. He was earlier a partner at Baring Private Equity Asia and prior to that a Managing Director at the Asian Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs, Singapore. He has c. 20 yrs of experience in Asia and has succesfully invested across asset classes including buyouts, growth equity, distressed debt, hybrid financing, debt, public equities and hedging strategies.

Based in New Delhi, Bill Spindle is the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to this assignment, he was the Journal's senior reporting covering global energy issues and before that the Middle East bureau chief. He has also overseen coverage of Africa and Central Asia, served as the assistant foreign editor and worked as a correspondent covering the financial industry in Japan.

Bryan Stewart is a director at Liberty Global Partners and has been with the firm since 2006. Bryan directs private equity research at Liberty Global Partners, as well as having responsibility for the firm's institutional investor coverage in Asia.

Prior to joining Liberty Global, Bryan began his work in private equity with the Global Horizon Fund, an emerging markets PE fund of funds. Earlier, Bryan worked in international development in Eastern Europe and South Asia with the Peace Corps and Winrock International. Bryan earned a BA from Grinnell College, and a MALD from The Fletcher School with a focus on International Business.

Until recently taking over as the CEO of the Aditya Birla Private Equity, Mr. D Muthukumaran was in Group Corporate Finance at the Aditya Birla Group for 12 years, prior to which he was in an international investment bank for a year and in a Big 4 Accounting firm for 8 years.

Muthukumaran has specialized in business strategy, portfolio management, identifying value creating opportunities, fund raising in debt and equity capital markets, structured finance, leverage buy-outs, private equity, regulatory and tax structuring and the full cycle of acquisitions. At the Group Corporate Finance at the Aditya Birla Group, Muthukumaran was driving Mergers and acquisitions and long term capital raising across the businesses, Group investors relations and Chairman MIS.

Aditya Birla Group has successfully executed over two dozen and evaluated many more acquisitions, divestitures and other corporate finance transactions in most of which Muthukumaran has played a key role. Aditya Birla Group is driven by the long term value creating strategy, presence across value chain, market leadership, cost competitiveness, innovation and free cash generation.

Both in the Investment Bank and in the Big 4 firm, he worked in the full cycle of M &A – Ideation, execution, due diligence, negotiations, financing and deal structuring. Muthukumaran holds degree as Chartered Accountant, Cost & Works Accountant and Bacherlors of Commerce from University of Madras.

Dhanpal Jhaveri is Managing Partner - Private Equity at Everstone, an India and Southeast Asia focused Private Equity and Real Estate investor with approximately $2 billion of assets under management. Dhanpal’s expertise lies in hand-on leadership supported by over 23 years of experience in Investments, Strategy, M&A and Investment Banking.

Previously, Dhanpal has held senior leadership positions with Future Capital Holdings and Vedanta Resources, Head of Investment Banking at ICICI Securities, and as a Partner at KPMG.

Dhanpal holds a degree in Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from Babson College, Graduate School of Business, United States.

Dhiraj Poddar is the Country Head, India at TA Associates Advisory Pvt Ltd. He focuses on investments in growth companies in India and other emerging markets. Poddar has advised on TA’s $40 million investment in Tega Industries Ltd and a minority stake in e-payment processing services provider BillDesk (part of IndiaIdeas.com). He also sits on the board of both companies.

Previously he worked with Standard Chartered PE, where he served as a director responsible for origination and evaluation of investment opportunities, leading investments, managing portfolio companies and handling exits. Before this, Poddar worked with Progeon, the ITES arm of Infosys, as part of the team that set up the KPO division. He has also served a stint with ICICI Securities as a assistant vice president.

Poddar holds a degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Fakhri Ahmadov is CEO and Managing Director of Ahmadoff & Company and Founder of Private Wealth Insitute. In his role, he advises wealthy individuals and families on capital transformation, multi-generational structuring, strategic industry selection and philanthropy across Europe, Middle East and Africa and Central Asia. Previously, he has been risk advisor for several banks and a family business. Mr. Ahmadov is contributor to the Agenda of the World Economic Forum. His private wealth related researches are featured in Forbes frequently. He is a Certified International Wealth Manager (CIWM) and full member of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEP). Fakhri holds bachelor degree in economics from ASAU.

Gaurav is Senior Private Sector Development Adviser with the UK Department for International Development (DFID). A seasoned adviser, Gaurav has about 20 years of experience across investment funds, responsible PE/VC investments, corporate development and policy reform working across domestic and international markets.

DFID invests capital directly through development capital investment programmes in India as an anchor fund of funds investor in setting-up and supporting several PE funds and via CDC, the UK’s Development Finance Institution that has a long history of investing in and supporting Indian PE fund managers. Gaurav represents DFID on the Investment Committee/ Investor Advisory Committee.

Gaurav has substantial policy advocacy experience on economic development interventions such as business climate reform, making markets work in the low income states and ensuring value for money, in partnership with the Indian Government on its reform agenda.

Gaurav holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD, France and Wharton, USA and a B.Eng (Hons) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Girish has over two decades of consulting experience and is a Tax Partner with the Indian practice of KPMG. Having built the M&A tax business of KPMG in India followed by the Global  International Corporate Tax practice he currently leads the tax practice of KPMG in India.

His experience includes advising on many of the largest M&A deals and restructuring transactions in India on a year-to-year basis.  Furthermore,  he helps many large multinationals with a presence in India in navigating through the ever-evolving tax and regulatory framework in India.

He has advised various companies across sectors such as manufacturing, infrastructure, telecom, IT, energy and natural resources, financial services, auto, pharmaceutical, FMCG, etc. Girish is a regular speaker/panelist at various Tax, International Taxation, M&A  conferences and seminars. He also regularly contributes articles in several newspapers and business magazines.

Gopal is the Founder Chairman & MD of TVS Capital Funds Limited, with the vision of supporting and nurturing India’s mid-cap businesses into world-class companies. It manages assets of over Rs 1,100 Cr, and which makes it amongst the largest domestically raised funds in India. He has been a strong advocate of participation of domestic capital pools in private equity and venture capital funds, and actively supports initiatives for that cause as a Vice Chairman of IVCA (Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association).

Gopal was the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee for Private Equity & Venture Capital for the fiscal year 2010-2011. He is also the Director in TVS & Sons Ltd, the holding company, and a member of the Board of several Group Companies.An entrepreneur at heart, Gopal is also actively involved in the promotion of entrepreneurship as an angel investor. He is a founding member of The Chennai Angels, and is closely associated TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) where he provides guidance to the budding entrepreneurs on incubating businesses. Gopal earned a B.Com from Loyola College, Chennai and an MBA from University of Michigan, US.

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Harsh Shah is the Chief Financial Officer of Sterlite Power. He holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Nirma Institute of Technology, Gujarat University. He has approximately 10 years of experience in private equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure financing, regulatory and macroeconomic policy issues with a focus on the infrastructure sector. Prior to joining Sterlite, Harsh has worked with Larsen & Toubro Limited, L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Limited and Procter & Gamble International Operations Pte. Limited.

Shri. Hemant G. Contractor is the first Chairman to head the statutory Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) after notification of PFRDA Act in 2014. He joined PFRDA on 7th October 2014.

Prior to joining PFRDA he was a career banker, joining State Bank of India (SBI) as Probationary Officer in 1974. During his illustrious career spanning 40 years in SBI, he served in several important positions including Group Executive of International Banking, Group Executive of Corporate Banking, and Chief Financial Officer and rising to be the Managing Director of State Bank of India.

He has also served on the Board of several organisations such as State Bank of India, National Security Depository Limited (NSDL), Nuclear Power Corporation of India. He is a qualified Chartered Banker (ACIB) from Chartered Institute of Bankers, London.

Heramb is the founder and Managing Partner of SeaLink Capital Partners (SCP), a private equity fund focused on high potential, mid - sized companies in select industries. He is passionate about collaborating and partnering with entrepreneurs to accelerate their growth with global best practices.

Prior to founding SCP, Heramb was the head of KKR’s Indian private equity business from 2010 to 2014 and led the investments in Magma Fincorp, TVS Logistics, Alliance Tires and Gland Pharma. Prior to KKR, Heramb was with Goldman, Sachs & Co. over a period of 10 years where he focused on evaluating investment opportunities for the firm’s global private equity and mezzanine debt funds across various industries. Most recently, he was a founding member of Goldman Sachs’ India office and served as Managing Director and Co-Head of private equity investing in India. Heramb’s prior experience also includes being part of the senior management team at Centennial Communications Corp. (a NASDAQ listed telecommunications services provider that was subsequently acquired by AT&T).

Heramb has served on several committees including as a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Venture Capital & Private Equity, the CII Sub - Committee on Issues Pertaining to Foreign Investment in India (part of the National Committee on Regulatory Affairs) and on a special taskforce focused on healthcare financing as part of the US - India Health Initiative.

Heramb earned an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS). He was awarded an Aspen Institute Fellowship (India Leadership Initiative) in 2008.

Jayanta has over 25 years of industry experience with the last 15 years in the private equity business in India. He has in-depth experience of full cycle investing and fund raising in private equity. Prior to joining the private equity industry Jayanta was an entrepreneur. He has also been an investment banker and has worked in the industrial sector.

Previously, Jayanta was President – Private Equity at ICICI Venture. Prior to that, he was the India head of private equity at Lehman Brothers. Jayanta has led investments across sectors and is on the boards of multiple portfolio companies.

Jayanta has a post graduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Jadavpur University.

John went into venture after an operating career with fast growing Silicon Valley companies.  He’s known Kanwal for decades and they co-invested in early stage companies for nearly 10 years prior to founding Inventus with Samir.

John started his career leading channel marketing for IBM, Microsoft, and Intel product lines.  He then went into product marketing and business management at Sun and Silicon Graphics during the growth years of the workstation industry.

John was recruited into venture in 1997, and has since worked with dozens of founding teams resulting in 8 liquidity events including two IPOs to date.  John started in venture with Scale Venture Partners where he was one of the founders raising their first two funds totaling $600 million.

John co-founded Inventus with Kanwal & Samir in 2005 as they saw the emergence of the lean startup model and the globalization of the technology startup ecosystem. At Inventus John’s been a Board Director at Vivu (ACQ: Polycom), Dhingana (ACQ: rd.io), Spotzot (ACQ: Valassis), and Sokrati. He is currently Board Director for Activity Hero, CreditSesame, Resilinc, and SysCloud.  John is particularly interested in new digital marketplaces and services-led technology businesses, but particularly looks forward to working with great technology entrepreneurs regardless of the software or services sector.

A San Francisco native, John earned a BA from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. He’s also been a Charter Member of TiE mentoring ambitious entrepreneurs.

Jonny Wright was appointed Managing Director International of Dow Jones in January 2016. He previously served as Managing Director APAC and Publisher of Financial News and WSJ Pro. Mr. Wright is responsible for defining and implementing growth strategies for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones outside the US.

Previously, Mr. Wright was Circulation Director in Europe for The Wall Street Journal, a role he held from January 2013. Mr. Wright first joined Dow Jones in 2010 as Advertising Sales Director for Dow Jones’ Financial News.

Before joining the Dow Jones, Mr. Wright was Publisher and Group Sales Director at Euromoney Institutional Investor based in New York. In 1999 Mr. Wright graduated from the University of Wales – Bangor. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife and two children.

Kanwal was the first Indo-American Founder & CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ, co-founded and built TiE into the largest global network of Indian entrepreneurs, and co-founded Inventus where he applies his full energy and time building Inventus into a leading early stage venture franchise.

Kanwal came to the United States from India for graduate studies, advanced through the engineering ranks in a number of technology companies, and then co-founded Excelan in Silicon Valley to commercialize ethernet and TCP/IP – standards which became the basis of the Internet. He took Excelan public in 1987, becoming the first Indo-American Founder & CEO to list a venture-backed company on the NASDAQ.
Excelan later merged with Novell, where Kanwal served as EVP, CTO and a Board Director for five years, established Novell’s operations in India, grew the company into the second largest software vendor in the world and returned 100X to his venture investors. Later, Kanwal was CEO of Ensim and also CEO of Cybermedia, both companies in which he was initially a lead venture investor and board member. Kanwal negotiated Cybermedia’s successful acquisition by Network Associates.

Over the 14 years prior to co-founding Inventus, Kanwal was a full-time venture-angel, investing his own capital in more than 50 startups, leading the initial financings for 23 of them and playing an active role on their Boards. These prior venture investments resulted in 21 exits including 6 IPOs to date. Also active in Indian public policy related to venture, Kanwal advised India government policy makers in reforming venture regulations.
This encouraged fund formation in India, and Kanwal was the founding limited partner behind Infinity Capital-India a successful early-stage India venture fund. He also successfully advised the Indian Prime Minister and his government on their aggressive deregulation of telecom, leading to the explosive growth of mobile telephony in India, and laying the foundation for the country’s impressive IT expansion. At Inventus, Kanwal’s been a Board Director at Sierra Atlantic (ACQ: Hitachi), Assured Risk, Espresso Logic, GenWi, and observer at Poshmark.

Kanwal is a well-known figure in the global Indian community and a widely recognized authority on entrepreneurship. He co-founded The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) to promote Indian entrepreneurship and was TiE President through the late 90′s presiding over its growth into a global organization with over 10,000 members who have been behind Silicon Valley and India start-ups. Kanwal is currently a trustee on the global board of TiE. With Inventus, Kanwal works closely with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and India, as he has since 1995, to apply his full time and energy helping them accomplish great result.

Kanwal earned a BSEE from IIT-Bombay and a MSEE and Honorary Doctorates in both Business and Engineering from Michigan Tech. Kanwal is a board member on the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund (IITBHF), and also founded the Kanwal Rekhi Schools of Information Technology at both IIT-Bombay and Michigan Tech.

Kay-Mok joined Gobi in 2010 as Partner (ASEAN).  Gobi's ASEAN fund is a joint venture with MAVCAP, the largest VC-focused fund of fund in Southeast Asia. Prior to Gobi, he worked at the Media Development Authority of Singapore, a limited partner to several media and tech funds. He has also lived in Silicon Valley for over 10 years, where he co-founded Private Express Inc.  He started his career with the Infocomm Development Authority, and has a Computer Science degree from UC-Berkeley, and an MBA from San Jose State University.

Krishnava Dutt is the Managing Partner of Argus Partners, a leading law firm in India with offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Chennai. Krishnava’s vast experience encompasses the entire repertoire of corporate practice including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, banking and finance, projects and project finance.

Krishnava has closely worked with several investors, private equity funds, banks, financial institutions and business houses. He has also worked closely with Governments (Central and State). He is highly recommended for his expertise by international publications and forums. Krishnava also serves on the Boards and committees of several listed companies as an independent director including as chairman of the audit committee of companies.

Krishnava started his legal career in the Calcutta High Court where he practiced civil law. After a short stint at the High Court, he joined ICICI Bank in Mumbai where he gained several years of experience in handling transactions in the stressed assets space and international banking sector. He joined Amarchand Mangaldas in 2005 and became the partner in charge of the eastern operations of the firm in the year 2007. He retired from Amarchand Mangaldas as a partner in June of 2009.

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Kopin Tan is Editor of Barron’s Asia, a financial news website launched in 2014 that provides sophisticated advice in English about Asia and international investments. Barron’s Asia is the first overseas expansion for Barron’s, which was founded in 1921 and published by Dow Jones, which also publishes the Wall Street Journal.

Before this, Kopin was Senior Editor and an established columnist based in New York. He wrote the front-of-the-book “Streetwise” column, offering a forward-looking take on the financial markets, illuminating market trends and identifying investment themes and ideas. He also writes many cover stories and feature articles for the magazine. He has also written other widely-read columns including “The Trader,” about the U.S. stock market, and “Striking Price,” about the options markets.

Prior to joining Barron’s, Kopin was a special writer at Dow Jones Newswires. His column, “Options Report,” ran daily in the Wall Street Journal. He has also covered mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. Kopin was previously a litigation attorney.

In 2011, Kopin was awarded the prestigious East-West Center Fellowship to China and Hong Kong. In 2006, he was part of a team that won an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in the breaking news category. In 2002, he won the Harrison Roth Memorial Award for best options coverage.

Kopin received a Master’s of Art (journalism) from New York University. He also has a law degree from the National University of Singapore, and was called to the Singapore bar as an advocate and solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court.

M.K. Sinha (“MK”) is an investment professional with over 24 years of experience. He is currently the Managing Partner & CEO, IDFC Alternatives Limited (“IDFC Alternatives”), one of the largest multi-asset class fund managers in India with ~USD 3.1 billion under management. Earlier, he was the President & CEO of IDFC Project Equity (2007- 2012).  In this role, he was responsible for setting up and managing the Infrastructure Asset Class. In his earlier role at IDFC (2005-2007), he was the Executive Director, Project Finance & Business Development.

Prior to joining IDFC, MK worked with the General Electric Company in the Structured Finance Group for over 10 years in various locations - Stamford (USA), London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Before that, MK worked with Bank of America and SBI Capital Markets in the Corporate Finance and Investment Banking areas respectively.

MK holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Prior to co-founding Kedaara Capital Advisors, Manish served as a Senior Managing Director of Temasek Holdings, where he founded their India office in early 2004 and headed all of their investments and other activities in India. He also held multiple responsibilities in Temasek Singapore. He was a core member of its senior leadership team and a key member of Temasek Holding’s Senior Management Committee (SMC), and it’s Senior Investment & Divestment Committee (SIDC). Prior to joining Temasek, he was a Partner at McKinsey and Company. and had been a part of their New York, Cleveland and Mumbai offices. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs and at the World Bank. He is an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and was named a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum in 2005. In 2007, he was profiled as one of the “25 hottest young executives in India” by Business Today. Manish is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

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Mathew Cyriac is the Co-Head of Private Equity in India.

Since joining Blackstone in 2006, Mr. Cyriac has been involved in Blackstone’s investments in Allcargo Global Logistics, CMS Infosystems, FINO, FTIL, Gateway Rail, Gokaldas Exports, International Tractors, MCX, MTAR Technologies and Nuziveedu Seeds. Mr. Cyriac currently serves on the boards of CMS Info Systems, FINO, Gateway Rail, Gokaldas Exports, International Tractors and MTAR.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Cyriac served as Head of Corporate Development & Strategy of iGATE Corporation (NASDAQ:IGTE) and Chief Financial Officer of Quintant Services, where he led all the financing and other strategic transactions of Quintant and its eventual sale to iGATE.

Prior to joining Quintant, Mr. Cyriac was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Cyriac also worked in the Private Equity Group at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and the Investment Banking Division of Bank of America and in the Engineering Division of Tata Motors.

Mr. Cyriac received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he graduated at the top of his class.

Michael is a Senior Vice President of Portfolio Advisors, based in Hong Kong, and serves as a voting member of one or more of the firm's Investment Committees. Michael joined Portfolio Advisors in 2013 and primarily supports Portfolio Advisors' Asia Pacific activities. Previously, he was a Vice President in the UOB Investment Management Divsion's alternative investment fund-of-funds advisory business where he had worked with Portfolio Advisors since 2006 through a joint venture, Asia Select Management, Ltd.

Mukul Gulati is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Zephyr Peacock Management India Pvt Ltd.

Mukul has 18 years of experience in the investment business including private equity, investment research and general management. Mukul is responsible for overall leadership of the Zephyr Peacock investment team. He is engaged in deal sourcing and evaluation and serves on the Boards of several investee companies of Zephyr Peacock.

Previously, Mukul worked at Multex, where he was involved in setting up and managing the firm’s quantitative equity research business.

Mukul is a Charter member of the Bangalore chapter of TiE Global. He also serves as an advisor to TechnoServe India. TechnoServe is a global organization that supports entrepreneurship in developing economies.

Mukul received an MBA with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, where he was a Dean’s Scholar at the Department of Economics.

Munish is a Senior Partner with Barings Private Equity Partners India since May 2007. He heads the investment practice in Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) and also serves as an Operating Partner. He has over 28 years of global experience in establishing and building businesses in the BFSI industry, having worked with Citigroup for 16 years as  Managing Director across major markets (London, Europe, Singapore, Middle East, Africa, India).  His roles ranged from global transaction services, risk management to asset-based finance, culminating as the Regional Head of SME and Retail mass markets  for Asia Pacific.  After his tenure at Citigroup in 2005, he joined a start-up bank in India called Yes Bank where as integral part of the management team and President of Business Banking, he was instrumental in building the mid-market business which aided the bank IPO. At present he serves as the Chairman of Infrasoft Tech Limited, as a director on the board of RMZ Corp and Proactive Data Systems. He also serves as a member of the audit committee and remuneration and compensation committee of various portfolio companies. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association of India (IVCA).

Munish holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce with Honors from the Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.

Neeraj Bharadwaj is a Managing Director advising on large growth capital and buyout opportunities across sectors in India.  He is based in Mumbai.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Bharadwaj was a Managing Director with Accel Partners’ growth investing operation in India. Preceding that he was with Apax Partners for nearly 10 years - initially as a Partner in the U.S. and subsequently as Managing Director/Country Head for Apax in India, where he led the India operations. Investments he has been involved with include Apollo Hospitals (BSE: AHEL), Jamdat (NASDAQ: JMDT), Widerthan (NASDAQ: WTHN), NXP and others.  Previously, Mr. Bharadwaj was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Co.

Mr. Bharadwaj was selected as Board Member of the Indian School of Business (ISB), a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Chairperson of the India Regional Agenda Council of the WEF (2009-2011), Founding Curator of WEF’s Global Shaper Community, Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and Board Member of Olympic Gold Quest (OGQ).

Mr. Bharadwaj holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School, and graduated summa cum laude with a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Nikhil Khattau is an experienced banker, entrepreneur and venture investor who has built and invested in companies in India since 1995.  Nikhil also has an additional 10 years of international work experience. Nikhil focuses on the agriculture, financial services, retail, consumer services and media sectors in India.

He sits on the boards of Securens Systems (monitoring and surveillance), Matrimony.com (world’s largest marriage portal), Joguru, Inc. (trip planning platform named “Triphobo”), Marico Ltd. (packaged consumer goods, listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange) and Kaya Enterprises (listed, specialty skin care).

Nikhil was the founding CEO of SUN F&C Asset Management, one of the first private sector mutual fund companies in India. Under his leadership, the firm successfully acquired two other mutual funds, and built one of the top-ranked India funds. Nikhil successfully sold the business to the Principal Financial Group, USA in 2004.

Nikhil’s prior experience includes working for Ernst & Young’s Audit and Corporate Finance practices in New York and London from 1986-1995, where he successfully advised a number of mid-market companies on their acquisition and divestment strategies. He also helped set up the firm’s investment banking advisory operations in Russia.

Nikhil received his Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai and is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Niren is a Managing Director at Norwest (NVP) India and has been leading NVP India for over 10 years. Niren brings more than 20 years of Investing, entrepreneurial, financial and operating experience from leading global financial institutions to consumer and technology companies.

Niren focuses on both Private equity and late stage Venture investments with special interest in sectors such as Financial Services, Internet, Consumer and Technology. Niren has overseen more than 30 investments at NVP India and has directly facilitated 14 such investments. Investments include Cholamandalam Finance, Pepperfry, IndusInd Bank, ING Vysya, Jain Irrigation, RBL Bank, Quikr.com, Swiggy.com, RevX, Shriram City Union, Yes Bank, Five Star and Kotak Bank. Niren also has a strong exit record having overseen more than 15 exits, of which he has directly facilitated significant exits for 9 of his companies

Prior to joining NVP India, Niren was the Senior Director of Strategy and Ventures at eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) in California, where he helped drive the worldwide strategy across eBay’s Global Marketplaces. Prior to eBay, Niren was part of the original team at Baazee.com, Inc., the leading Indian eCommerce player in the mid-2000s (which was eventually acquired by eBay). Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Niren was an investment banker with KPMG focusing on the Financial Services and Technology spaces and before that, a Registered Equity Dealer on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Niren is a rank holder Chartered Accountant and a Gold medallist Masters in Commerce from University of Mumbai.

Pramod has 21 years of experience in financial services (private equity, public equity and investment banking) in India and the UK, of which 12 years are in Indian PE.

Pramod joined Tata Capital in April 2008. Pramod is a Founding Partner of TCGF, which successfully raised US$240 million from international as well as Indian investors. Pramod has been actively involved in sourcing, evaluating, negotiating and consummating investments across financial services, technology, consumer, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing sectors. Pramod is also actively involved in portfolio management and serves on the boards of Standard Greases and Nearex.

Mr. Purker has over 28 years of experience in financial markets. He has a deep and varied experience in Indian capital markets, across both equity (including listed as well as unlisted equities) and debt capital products.

He joined ICICI Venture in August 2009 and has been a member of the leadership team at ICICI Venture since then. He has served on the Board of Directors of ICICI Venture since 2010 initially as an Executive Director and since December 2015, as the Managing Director and CEO of the company. In this capacity, he chairs the Investment Committees of various funds managed by the Company. He co-heads the Private Equity practice of ICICI Venture and chairs the Investment Committees of all the PE funds managed or advised by the company. He has played a key role in the strong exits performance of ICICI Venture’s PE practice over the past 7 years as well as the creation of the high quality portfolio of PE investments made by the company during this period.

Prior to joining ICICI Venture, he worked at Nomura India and Lehman Brothers India as the Managing Director & Head – Global Finance for India in the Investment Banking Division. Prior to that he spent over 5 years with ICICI Bank, where his last role was Senior General Manager and Head – Global Principal Investment & Trading Group. He has previously also worked with institutions such as Citibank, Peregrine and BNP. Mr. Purker has a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad where he was also a rank holder.

Parth Gandhi is Senior Partner and Managing Director at AION India Investment Advisors Private Limited. Prior to that Mr. Gandhi was President of Private Equity at ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited. Mr. Gandhi was a key member of the team at ICICI Venture
responsible for establishing the strategic partnership with Apollo and in developing AION’s strategy. Mr. Gandhi brings over a decade of investing experience in India.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Gandhi has invested in multiple Indian companies and has served on the board of directors of an array of listed and unlisted companies based in India, USA and Europe. His investments have been in listed and unlisted companies in the form of equity, mezzanine and senior debt.

In addition to his investment activities, Mr. Gandhi is a charter member of TiE Global (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and an active member of The Explorers Club and ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India). In previous jobs Mr. Gandhi was a Managing Director at Navigator Capital Advisors Limited and prior to that was a Consultant with Ernst and Young.

Mr. Gandhi has an MBA from Michigan State University and a BE from University of Mumbai.

Promeet Ghosh joined Temasek in 2012 and is currently Managing Director, India, at Temasek Holdings Advisors India Pvt. Ltd.

Prior to Temasek, Promeet spent 20 years as an investment banker. He was involved as a partner in setting up an entrepreneurial venture to provide M&A and advisory services to mid-sized corporates in India. Promeet was also a Managing Director at DSP Merrill Lynch Limited, the Investment Banking arm of Bank of America in India. During his 18-year stint with DSP Merrill Lynch, he held several senior positions including Head, General Industries Group and Head, Corporate Finance Group. Since 2008, he has also been responsible for senior relationships with large conglomerates.

Promeet holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a Bachelor of Engineering from Regional Engineering College Trichy, India.

Rahul Bhasin is the Founder and Managing Partner of Baring India, and a Senior Partner and Global Board Member of Baring Private Equity Partners (BPEP) International. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, and has been an Advisory Board member of the ING Group in India. He has crafted the strategy and execution processes for the investments by the Predecessor Funds since his joining in 1997.

Mr. Bhasin served as the Chairman of Mphasis Limited (now a Hewlett-Packard subsidiary) and oversaw its transformation from a 120-man, US$ 6 million revenue, loss-making company into a 43,000 employee, US$ 1.2 billion revenue, US$ 200 million net profit-making enterprise. In addition, for most of the past two decades, he has served as Chairman or member of the boards of RMZ Corp, JRG Securities (now renamed as Inditrade Capital), Secova, PharmArc, and Auro Mira Energy, among many others. He has also served as the Chair of the Audit and Investment Committee of HOEC, one of the largest independent Oil & Gas players in India. As a senior member of the Baring India team, he has spoken at various conferences in India and overseas, and is a member of the ‘CEO Forum’ at The Economist corporate network, and a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). His views are regularly sought by the media in India. He presently serves on the boards of Sphaera Pharma, Auro Mira Energy, and RMZ Corp.

Prior to Baring India, Mr. Bhasin joined Citibank in London as a member of the Global and Emerging Market Asset Allocation Committee of the Global Asset Management Group, where he was responsible for asset allocation on a sector and regional basis for all global portfolios. He has actively invested in and managed funds across various asset classes including derivatives in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia, and India. He oversaw and drove business start-ups across multiple geographies in different asset management business. Prior to moving to London, He was the youngest Independent Treasurer to date at Citibank, managing the treasury for Northern India. He has been a public spokesperson on matters of economic policy and administrative efficiency and efficacy, and has given guest lectures at several educational institutions including Wharton, Harvard, and his own alma mater, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Mr. Bhasin has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Asia’s premier business school.

Rahul Khanna is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Trifecta Capital, India’s first Venture Debt fund. He was previously, Managing Director at Canaan Partners, a global venture capital fund with $4 billion under management. Rahul has twenty years of investing and operating experience in Technology, Media and Telecoms.

Having returned to India from Silicon Valley in 2005, Rahul has played a key role in the development of the venture capital ecosystem in India and has been an active investor in several high growth companies like Billdesk, LoyltyRewardz, Equitas and Naaptol.

Rahul also supports the startup ecosystem by advising early stage companies and making angel investments. Rahul has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Renuka has spent over two and half decades in the Indian financial sector across private equity, investment banking and structured finance. As one of the early private equity investors in India, she played a pivotal role in shaping the market both in terms of leading pioneering investments such as buy-outs as well as opening new pockets of capital for investment in Indian private equity. In her last role as the MD & CEO of ICICI Venture for close to a decade, she has contributed in many ways to the evolution of that firm to one of the largest private equity funds in India.

Renuka brings on board her deep experience of raising, investing and returning third party capital across several economic cycles. She looks to build Multiples as a platform to channelise long-term capital to create valuable enterprises and successful entrepreneurs. She draws motivation from the fact that supporting entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses has the potential to generate employment, to create ripple effects in the Indian economy and to facilitate the greater process of nation building.

Renuka, a mother of two, enjoys singing Indian classical music. She is a connoisseur of paintings and likes to spend time at her farm watching a fresh harvest. Renuka holds a Bachelor of Engineering from VJTI, University of Mumbai and an MBA from the University of Mumbai. She has also completed the AMP from the Harvard Business School.

Mr. Rishi Kohli is the Managing Director & CEO at ProAlpha Systematic Capital Advisors, the Indian subsidiary of Monsoon Capital USA and is the Chief Investment Officer for all the quantitative investment and hedging products at Monsoon. Rishi has been among the earliest players in the Indian derivatives market since its inception in 2001 and was a pioneer in options strategies and managed futures strategy research in his broking days. At Monsoon, from 2007, he ran the earliest buy-side quantitative Indian hedge fund. He has been a speaker at many global conferences like Quant Invest in Paris (which is the largest global conference for quantitative funds and investors), Hedge Funds Asia in Hong Kong, Quant Invest Asia in Singapore and and presented his Funds at the largest global conference in the managed futures space held by Managed Funds Association in Miami, US. Rishi did his Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1999, and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Lucknow, in 2001.

Ritesh is a partner at Stellaris Venture Partners, where he invests in technology companies in Healthcare, Travel and Financial Services. He has a strong interest in companies solving uniquely Indian problems, and those that apply new technology to their industry for the first time.

Ritesh has spent the last decade in the venture capital industry and participated in the entire VC lifecycle. Prior to Stellaris, he was a Partner at Helion, where he invested in online services and healthcare companies like Taxiforsure, Lifecell and Trulymadly. Before he moved to venture capital in 2007, he spent 8 years in tech operating roles in India and abroad.

He has a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from INSEAD, and serves as Adjunct Faculty at IIM Bangalore.

Prior to co founding Iron Pillar in January 2016, Sameer was an investment banker for 15 years, all with Citigroup. Iron Pillar is a venture capital fund focused on filling the gap for "mid stage" technology investments in India. It backs proven and visionary technology companies in the consumer and enterprise space post Series A. It actively partners with entrepreneurs and early stage investors to help companies by leveraging extensive experience in India, the US, China and SE Asia. The 6 person Iron Pillar team has 17 years of average experience and complementary skill sets in venture investing, M&A, operations and technology.

Sameer’s investment banking experience spans a wide spectrum of transactions across M&A, Equity / Debt Capital Markets and Private Equity Advisory. He was a Managing Director at Citi since 2010 and helped build market-leading franchises in M&A in India and Technology in India and globally. For the last 2 years, Sameer was responsible for leading Citi’s investment banking coverage for Private Equity and Industrials/Conglomerate clients throughout Southeast Asia. Prior to relocating to Singapore in January 2014, Sameer was Head of Mergers & Acquisitions for Citi in India, based in Mumbai. In that role, Sameer provided M&A leadership for Citi’s banking franchise in India. He was involved in the origination and execution of advisory transactions across all sectors, with a focus on large, cross-border deals including several Technology deals. Sameer led many landmark transactions in his 5.5 years in Mumbai, during which Citi was a consistent leader in the Indian M&A market.

Previously, Sameer spent 6 years in Technology investment banking in New York. He visited India regularly and worked on several market-shaping M&A deals, IPOs and Leveraged Buyouts in the US-India corridor. Sameer was also selected to spend a year working with the Co-Heads and COO of Citi Global Investment Banking on management and strategic initiatives. Sameer joined Salomon Smith Barney in New York in 2001.  His prior experience from 1996 to 1999 was in strategy consulting at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, based in Washington, DC. Sameer has a MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Middlebury College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude).

He has more than 25 years of industry experience across banking, investment management & the financial services sector. He has held varied responsibilities, which include heading equity research, managing equity portfolios, heading the equities business, managing alternative assets and leading the PMS business.

He joined Reliance Capital Asset Management Company in June 2010, and since then, he has been instrumental in setting up Alternative Investment business from scratch. He leads a team of investment experts under various asset classes i.e. Equities, Debt, Alternate Assets and listed/unlisted investments.

He is one of the few investment professionals who have experience across both the listed and unlisted equity space. This gives him a unique perspective of any investment. He has been involved with the real estate industry since 2005-06 and has been the guiding force behind the launch of the first ever Real Estate offering via the PMS route in India.

He has been actively involved in the conceptualization, fund raising activities and fund management of Alternative Investment offerings.

Mr. Saugata Bhattacharya is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Axis Bank. He was previously with Unilever in India and with Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC). He has studied at the Delhi School of Economics and Oxford University.

He was a member of the RBI’s Group on of Monetary Policy (2010) and the Finance Ministry Group on Estimating Foreign Savings (2011). He was part of the Core Group supporting the Percy Mistry Committee on Making Mumbai an International Financial Centre in 2007.

He is a member of the CII National Growth and Investment Council and a Special Invitee to the CII Western Region Council. He is a columnist for the Financial Express, and a regular contributor to other newspapers.

Satya is the Chief Executive Officer of the W&IM division of Barclays in India. He joined Barclays W&IM in 2007

Satya started his career in project and corporate finance in India and had worked in numerous functions including finance, sales, marketing, product development and technology and investment analysis in the past 24 years. Prior to joining Barclays, he was the Head of Private Banking in the South East Asia region for ICICI Bank in Singapore.

Satya holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Rajasthan in India and is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accounts of India. He is an alumnus of HBS and has attended AMP.

Satya is a charter member of TiE and various other angel networks and an active angel investor having helped more than 20 start-ups across industries both in India and overseas including social impact investing. He is involved with various community initiatives and NGOs including the Rotary Club of Mumbai.

Shashank Singh is a Partner and Head of the India office of Apax Partners, the global Private Equity fund. He joined Apax in London in 2004, before moving to India in 2007 to start Apax’s office there. His deals at Apax include Cholamandalam Investment and Finance, GlobalLogic, IGATE Corp, Apollo Hospitals, TDC, Bezeq and Synetrix.

Prior to joining Apax Partners, Shashank spent four years as a strategy consultant with Monitor Company in their London office, leading client engagements in the telecommunications and high technology sectors.

Shashank serves on the boards of iGATE Corporation Inc. (Nasdaq: IGTE) and GlobalLogic. In addition, he is an Independent Non-executive Director on the Board of Greatship India Limited, the offshore oilfield services company, Dasra, India's leading not-for-profit capacity builder, and is a Trustee of the Apax Foundation.

Shashank has an MBA from Harvard Business School, from which he graduated as a Baker Scholar, a first class Masters in economics from Cambridge University and a BA (Honours) with distinction in economics from St. Stephen’s College (Delhi University).

Shashwat has a Bachelor of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is a partner with the Management Consulting function of KPMG and has over 21 years of experience in Business Consulting with a focus on Financial Services sector. In his role, he works primarily with clients on their business strategy formulation and specializes in working with mid-sized organizations on their future roadmaps.

He regularly participates at industry forums including CII, AIP, ASSOCHAM, FICCI and has authored a number of thought leadership reports.

Siddharth is a Partner in the Funds and Corporate Practice Group in Mumbai. Prior to joining Khaitan & Co, he was a Partner at Nishith Desai Associates. He has vast experience in the funds space having over the years advised large number of clients on matters related to fund formation involving structuring & organisation of domestic and offshore funds across asset classes, corporate and regulatory advice in relation to operations of the funds, foreign investment and exchange control laws. In addition to fund formation, he also has substantial experience in corporate transactional space including fund investments (including PE investments in real estate sector), public and private acquisitions, corporate restructuring and capital markets (involving public and private offerings).

In his areas of expertise, some of the clients that Siddharth has been involved in advising include:
Fund Formation:Represented the following clients in respect of their onshore and offshore fund formations and other related regulatory advice: ICICI Ventures, IL&FS Investment Managers, Indiareit Investment Advisors, Ascent Capital (formerly UTI Ventures), Kotak Realty Funds, BTS India Private Equity Fund, Sandstone Capital, Soros Fund Management, Zephyr-Peacock, Global Investment House (Kuwait), Aditya Birla Private Equity and Real Estate Funds, JM Financial Investment Managers, Sequoia, NEA, Nirvana, Blueridge Capital, Milestone Capital, Arthaveda (formerly DHFL Venture Fund Limited), SEAF Agri Business Fund,Omnivore Capital, Aditya Birla Private Equity and Real Estate Funds, etc.

Fund Investments: Represented many private equity, venture capital, real estate funds, debt / mezzanine funds on their investments such as General Atlantic Partners, Farallon Capital, Temasek, Sequoia, Blueridge Capital, Nirvana Ventures, ComVentures, Indiareit, Kotak Realty Funds, Milestone, PHL Finance, Godrej Properties Limited (for creation of their offshore funding platform), Aditya Birla PE Fund, etc.

Simon Hopkins is a successful entrepreneur who has been a senior figure in the international investment management industry for more than two decades. He was an early advocate of hedge fund investing for institutional investors, and has been a prolific capital raiser for single manager funds, funds of funds and listed closed-end funds. He is passionate about emerging markets arena, having launched numerous closed end fund structures, and more recently a number of UCITS funds.

Mr. Hopkins started his career at S.G. Warburg, and UBS, subsequently holding senior roles at HSBC James Capel and Nomura International, in 1996 he created one of the industry's first dedicated research and investment consulting businesses in 1996 to provide truly objective analysis for investors. At its peak Global Fund Analysis (GFA) had over 27,000 registered users around the globe. Concurrently, he played a pioneering role in seeding many of the incipient European hedge funds through the Fortune Group, an award-winning alternatives investment advisory, and fund of hedge funds business. 

In 2011, Mr. Hopkins founded Milltrust International, an award-winning investment platform focusing on investment management in Emerging Markets, and specialist real asset solutions, driven by the changing demographics of the developing world. In addition to the group companies, he serves as an investment advisor to the British Innovation Fund, a U.K. University Venture Fund. He also serves as director of East India Investments Pte Ltd, SwallowcourtLimited, a healthcare business, Xoomtrip, a GCC-based online travel agent, Novare Fund Manager, an African asset management firm, Asian Film Fund, CITIC Securities One Belt One Road (CSOBOR), and Roslin Technologies (University of Edinburgh).  He sits on the International Council of the National University of Singapore Hospital Systems.

 He graduated with honours from the University of Bristol's Faculty of Law in1986 and speaks fluent French. He travels extensively but resides permanently with his family in Singapore.

Sudhir is Founder & Chairman of IDG Ventures India Advisors. He specialises in identifying disruptive high growth technology firms with a strong leadership team, and helps them grow rapidly with an eye for outsized financial returns.

Since 1998 Sudhir and his team have advised on investments into 40 firms across Digital Consumer, Enterprise Software and Engineering / Medical Device Sectors. Key investments include FlipKart (India’s leading eCommerce player), Mindtree Consulting (a global IT services play), Myntra (Fashion & Sports e-Commerce), Manthan (a global Analytics product play), and Yatra (a leading Online Travel Company). Other marquee names in the IDG portfolio include Firstcry, Vserve, Lenskart and Zivame.
In 2001, Sudhir was recognized by Red Herring as one of the leading venture capitalists in the country. He has been named among the Top Ten IT Professionals by Dataquest and by Bloomberg UTV as ‘Visionary Venture Capitalist of the year in 2011’. He was also recently featured in Subroto Bagchi’s recent book ‘’Zen Garden - Conversations with Pathmakers’’, in 2014.

With over 30 years’ experience Sudhir has served at various leadership positions at HCL, Wipro and Infotech Enterprises as well as Country Head of Walden International, one of the first Venture Investors in India. Sudhir holds a B.Tech in Engineering and an MBA Degree from FMS, Delhi. His interests include wild life photography.

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Suresh Goyal is Macquarie’s India Country Lead and is also the head of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) in India. MIRA through its managed Funds is one of the largest investors in Indian Infrastructure.Suresh has led investments across Real Assets in India, including airports, toll roads, power generation and telecommunications. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Macquarie State Bank of India infrastructure joint venture.

Prior to joining Macquarie in 2010, he held senior management positions at leading infrastructure construction and financial institutions including Leighton International, Lazard and HSBC. His experience spans throughout India, Australia, South East Asia and the Middle East.

Sujan Hajra joined the Anand Rathi Group in 2006 and is currently the Executive Director, Chief Economist of the Group. He also heads the research team of Institutional Equity. He previously worked with the Reserve Bank of India for 16 years. The last post he held at the Reserve Bank was Director, Department of Economic Analysis & Policy.

The Institutional Investor poll rates Sujan as one of the top economists in India and within the top 20 in Asia (excluding Japan). Before joining the Reserve Bank of India, Sujan was a Research Fellow of the University Grant Commission (UGC) and was declared National Scholar twice.

Sujan has been a part of various official Committees and Groups and represented India and the Reserve Bank of India at various national and international forums including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations Commission on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He led the Indian delegates at the inaugural conference of Young Economists with the Nobel Prize Winners in Economics.

Sujan is the author of a book (Re-emerging India: A Global Perspective) and over 20 technical articles on economics and finance in referred national and international journals. He is an M. Phil in International Trade & Development and M.A. in Economics, from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Sudhir is a founding partner with Multiples Alternate Asset Management Private Limited, a leading Indian mid-market private equity fund. He has over two decades of experience in financial services of which the last ten years has been in private equity. He has a strong investment track record and has lead investments across a wide range of sectors including financial services, health care and infrastructure services. Prior to private equity he has experience across investment banking, lending and structured finance.

Mr.Vikram Gupta is the Founder & Managing Partner of IvyCap Ventures Advisors Private Limited. He has about 20 years of experience in Venture Capital, Business Consulting, M&A, Strategy and Technology in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Education, Consumer and other industries. He has also held leadership positions across various well-known companies in India and Abroad. Mr.Vikram Gupta set up India’s First Healthcare and Life Sciences Venture Capital Fund and invested across the sector. Mr.Gupta also managed Clinical Genomics practice for IBM’s Healthcare and Life Sciences vertical in the US.  He has also been an entrepreneur himself in the areas of technology and healthcare.

IvyCap Ventures is a Venture Capital Fund that manages over USD 150 mn across two funds and invests in startup’s in Technology, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Education and other areas. The Fund has already made substantial investments in the Indian Startup ecosystem including in Leixir, RML, Aujas, Vinculum, Sokrati, Taskbob, FT Cash, Fieldez, Clovia, Eshakti, Bluestone, Purplle & GrabonRent.

Mr.Vikram Gupta  has completed his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi and has an MBA degrees in Strategy and Finance from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

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Vishal Bali brings with him 24 years of experience in building and leading global healthcare delivery organizations through organic and M&A driven strategic growth initiatives across Asia Pacific. His experience of managing a billion dollar integrated healthcare delivery organisation comprising Hospitals, Diagnostics, Primary Care and Daycare Speciality in diversified geographies of India, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, SriLanka and Dubai has given him the exceptional opportunity to transform healthcare businesses in both developing and developed countries.

Vishal is currently Asia Head - Healthcare , TPG Growth which is amongst the leading private equity firms globally. He is also Co -founder & Chairman of Medwell Ventures, India.

Prior to his current assignment Vishal was the Group CEO for Fortis Healthcare Limited which is the leading provider of healthcare services in India with a network of 68 hospitals and had earlier built Asia's leading integrated healthcare delivery system with presence across 12 countries and a human capital base of more than 20000 people. His earlier roles also include CEO for Fortis Healthcare International in Singapore and CEO for Fortis Hospitals in India. His past assignment also includes spearheading the growth and transformation of Wockhardt Hospitals from a single hospital to one of India’s largest speciality hospital chains as its CEO & Managing Director. Vishal has successfully led post merger integration and divestments of multiple healthcare delivery assets in different countries. His expertise in integrating healthcare strategy with operations and management has set industry benchmarks. Vishal completed his Bachelors in Science and Post graduation in Business from Bombay University and completed an advance program in hospital management from Harvard Medical, Boston. He sits on the board of leading healthcare organisations and has been an invited member of the Strategic Initiatives group of Joint Commission International, US and a past member of the Global Agenda Healthcare Council of the World Economic Forum. His keen interest in education and globalisation of healthcare takes him to leading Healthcare Education Institutes and Business Schools globally which include case studies at the Harvard Business School. He is an active member of various Industry bodies and globally recognized industry public speaker. Vishal Co-Chairs Healthcare Services for Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.

Mr. Vishal Tulsyan founded MOPE in 2006 with MOFSL being the sponsor. At MOPE, Vishal looks to build a platform to channelize long-term capital to create valuable enterprises and successful entrepreneurs.

He plays a crucial role in building the team and defining the strategies that have taken MOPE to its present levels and has been directly involved both in identifying businesses, as well as in supporting portfolio companies.

Vishal has spent two decades in the Indian financial sector across private equity, investment banking and structured finance. He brings on board his deep experience of raising, investing and returning third party capital across several economic cycles.

Prior to founding MOPE, Vishal was with Rabobank during its formative years in India, helping build its corporate finance and investment banking franchise. He was responsible for the origination and execution of structured finance, project finance, acquisition finance, private equity and M&A transactions. During his Rabobank tenure, he executed ~50 transactions aggregating more than Rs 900 bn & helped build the life sciences practice in India into a key business driver.

Vishal holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the prestigious St. Xaviers' College, Kolkata and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (all-India # 21 rank).

Vivek is a Partner in the Private Equity Group and works with the Deal Advisory Team. He belongs to a rare group of professionals that have experience in investing, consulting, and hands on operational track record of running and scaling up of a services business in India. He has over a decade of experience in leading Business Operations of a PE portfolio company, Real Estate Private Equity and Structured Finance products backed by Real Estate and Infrastructure Assets. Prior to that, Vivek worked with Andersen and EY for over 8 years in Transaction Advisory Services TeamsVivek leads the PE portfolio company coverage program for KPMG and advises select clients on post deal solutions including strategy, fund raise etc. Prior to joining KPMG, Vivek was Co-CEO & CFO of a PE portfolio company for over 6 years and under his stewardship, the company’s business grew significantly and successfully closed more than multiple rounds of equity and debt raise. His earlier experience includes:
  - Real Estate Private Equity with Lehman Brothers in Mumbai. Vivek was a senior Investment Professional in the team and identified and evaluated several investment opportunities in commercial and residential real estate space. Post Lehman’s bankruptcy in Sept 2008, he focused on asset management of the Funds $300mln strong India RE portfolio
  - Real Estate Structured Finance with Lehman Brothers in London, where in Vivek was involved in the structuring and syndication of CMBS bond issues and underwriting of acquisition finance to PE investors
  - Structured Finance for Infrastructure Assets at Bank of America in London. Vivek focused on underwriting, structuring and evaluating Whole Business Securitization transactions backed by Infrastructure assets like Airports, Toll Roads, Ports, Wind Farms and a Power Generation and Distribution business
  - Transaction Advisory Services with Andersen / EY:  Vivek focused on the Oil & Gas and Telecom sectors and worked on several marquee transactions in the capacity of a due diligence specialist