Based in Mumbai, Amar heads Xander's credit platform in India. He brings with him over 15 years of investment banking experience and has worked on several marquee M&A and private equity transactions, IPOs and follow on equity offerings, as well as Project and Structured Finance transactions.

From 2007 to 2012, Amar headed the real estate vertical of Kotak Investment Banking which raised over US$1.5 BB of equity for leading real estate developers in their public or private equity offerings to international and domestic institutional investors. He also led corporate restructuring and advisory assignments for leading real estate and infrastructure groups. During his tenure at Kotak, the firm was conferred the "Best in Equity Financing" awards in the Euromoney Poll for Real Estate in 2010 and 2011.

Earlier, from 2004 to 2006, Amar was with Lazard India where he helped revive the firm's M&A franchise by generating and executing several transactions in the Telecom, Media and Technology sectors. Amar has also worked at IL&FS in the Corporate Lending, Project Finance Advisory and Infrastructure Debt Syndication team where he was responsible for the financial closure of one of India’s first BOT toll-road projects, and advised several power and telecom companies on project financing. He started his career with a stint at PwC in their Consulting practice in Mumbai.

Amar is an electrical engineer from VJTI, Mumbai and holds an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai where he specialized in Finance and Operations. 

As Intellecap's Chief Executive Officer, Anurag is responsible for ensuring execution of the Company's strategic business plan. He also manages some of the key Client and investor relationships and represents the management team on the Board of Directors.

In a career spanning more than a decade, Anurag set up and built the Company's Investment Banking Practice Area with a specific focus on assisting early and growth-stage multiple bottom-line enterprises to raise capital. He has worked with several socially oriented investors assisting them in identifying suitable impact investment opportunities and facilitating investment transactions. Anurag has the unique distinction of working with most of the leading microfinance institutions in India and has helped many of these institutions in their fund raising efforts.
 
Before joining Intellecap, Anurag worked at ICICI Bank in the Cash Management and Operations Department. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Commerce Degree from Madras University, Chennai (India), and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal (India).

Mr. Anup Kumar Agarwal, Senior Investment Officer in IFC, leads investments (both equity and debt) in the financial sector in South Asia. During the last six years in IFC, he has led investments across the financial services space in India, including bank, NBFCs, microfinance, housing finance, broking, PE/VC fund, etc. Prior to joining IFC, Anup worked as Group Head - Credit and Deputy General Manager in ICICI Bank (one of India's largest private sector banks) and as Assistant General Manager with ICRA Limited (a leading credit rating agency of India and an associate of Moody's Investors Service). Anup is a Chartered Accountant (Rank Holder), additionally qualified as a CFA, ICWA, and CS with over 17 years of experience in equity investing, lending, portfolio management, credit rating, and consulting. 

Mr. Agrawal joined the Advisors in May 2003 and was previously with the global research division at McKinsey & Company.  He received an MBA with a specialization in finance from Mumbai University and a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Garhwal University. 

Ashish is the MD & CEO of the BSE Ltd., Asia's first stock exchange. He serves on the Board of ICCL, CDSL, BSE Training Institute, BFSI Sector Skill Council and Marketplace Technologies Limited. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of IIIT D&M, Jabalpur and a few SEBI committees. He currently is the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Technology of FMC, member of several SEBI committees and has served on various other government and regulatory committees; CBDT and FMC, among others in the past. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Lend a Hand India - a NGO working in implementing vocational skill development programs for rural and urban youth by providing them practical training at high school level. He is a member of the Capital Markets Committee of FICCI, National Council on Corporate Governance & Regulatory Affairs of CII and Financial Sector Development Council of CII.

He has recently been a recipient of the Zee Business award for business transformation.

Ashish has over 22 years of experience in Financial Markets and technology. Ashish was part of the 5 member team that set up NSE and set up NSE's equities and derivatives segments and created the NSE Fifty (Nifty) index. He was the Group CIO of the Reliance group and was ranked amongst the top 50 CIOs in the world by several magazines and institutions. He also headed the Corporate Communications for Reliance group in between and was the CEO of Mumbai Indians.

Ashish holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay and PGDM from IIM Calcutta.

Mr. Ghosha 'Senior Ashoka Fellow with over 29 years of experience is on the Governing Board of Sa-dhan.He is the Vice President of Micro Finance Institution Network (MFIN), a self-regulatory body of NBFC MFIs. He is also one of the founding fathers of Association of Microfinance Institutions (AMFI) West Bengal. He has the distinction of being one of the Committee Members of the Core Team that Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has formed for its Partner MFIs.

Mr. Ghosh is a member of 'State Level Review & Coordination Committee on Credit Delivery Innovation' constituted by NABARD. He is also a distinguished member of ASSOCHAM two special committees on 'Financial Inclusion & Microfinance' and 'Banking & Finance'. The membership at Social Development and Community Affairs Sub-Committee constituted by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has also been conferred upon him. Mr. Ghosh is also the member of Microfinance India Group of Advisors. He has been elected as a member of the Managing Committee of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI).

He holds an M.Sc. in Statistics and has attended the HBS-ACCION Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance at Harvard Business School. 

Dilli Raj has 23 years of experience in corporate finance, treasury, policy advocacy and corporate tax planning. He has consummated joint venture deals with global giants. He has done his Masters in Business Administration from the Central University of Pondicherry.

He joined SKS in January 2008 and introduced mainstream financial products into microfinance. He has prepared SKS for its IPO by strengthening the financial system and by automating accounting and cash management processes. He played a lead role in managing SKS’ IPO in August 2010, which was oversubscribed 13.6 times.

Dilli Raj had a strategic role in SKS' turnaround and managing the AP MFI crisis by focusing on cash flow management, cost structure optimization and gaining the confidence of credit grantors. He lead managed SKS’ QIP issue in July 2012. Dilli Raj has led the policy advocacy efforts which have resulted in a more conducive environment for the MFIs and largely mitigated the regulatory risk. He is a member of the financial inclusion committee of FICCI. 

Mr. Hemant Contractor, 59 years, B.A (Economics) and an Associate of Chartered Institute of Bankers, London joined State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in 1974. He took over as the Managing Director & Group Executive (International Banking), State Bank of India in April 2011.

Prior to his present assignment, he had a brief stint as the Dy. Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer of State Bank of India, before which he was the Dy. Managing Director & Group Executive (Corporate Banking) for 3 years.

During his illustrious career spanning 38 years in State Bank of India, he held several other important positions viz:

Chief General Manager (Wholesale Banking), Mumbai
Chief General Manager, Chandigarh Circle
General Manager, Mid Corporate, Chennai
General Manager (Commercial Banking), Chennai
Dy. General Manager, Treasury, Mumbai
Asst. General Manager, IFB, Baroda
Manager (Syndication & Mktg.), Bahrain 

Mr. Kavi Arora currently the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Religare Finvest Limited manages the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) focused commercial lending business of Non Banking Financial Services Company.

Kavi has previously worked at GE Capital, Hong Kong as Director- Secured Assets & Cross-sell and was responsible for acquisition, revenue and delivering the overall profitability in the secured assets business. Additionally, he was also responsible for putting together an effective Customer Retention Strategy by designing the CRM and developing a retention project for existing customers of GE. Prior to GE, over the course of 5 years at ABN Amro Bank ( now RBS), he has worked in various roles like Head of Consumer Bank for South region covering the whole gamut of Banking and Financial services and also as National Sales and Distribution Head for Unsecured Assets covering Personal Loans and Credit Cards.
    
With nearly 20 years of diverse experience within the financial services, Kavi has been associated with reputed companies such as ABN Amro Bank, ATS Services, CitiFinancial, 20th Century Finance, Consortium Finance and GE Capital. Kavi is currently the Co-Chairman of Regional Council on MSMEs for CII in Northern Region and also a part of CII’s National Council on MSMEs.   
 
His has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Punjab University, a Diploma in Systems Management from NIIT and a Master’s Degree in Business Management from University Business School, Chandigarh.

Mahesh has a firm belief in the emerging market growth story and corporate India’s push to go global. He decided to to act on this belief by joining Actis which is recognised as a long-standing investor in India with an emerging market sector-based approach to investing both in minority and control deals.

Mahesh previously worked at 3i India, where he was a partner in the firm’s Growth Capital Group and the lead partner globally for the Healthcare sector, heading up and contributing to 3i investments in India and international markets. Before making the move to private equity in 2006, Mahesh was co-head of investment banking at Enam, one of the leading domestic investment banks in India. Mahesh holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai, and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Since joining Actis in 2010, Mahesh has plunged himself into the business: forging new contacts, and calling upon his existing network to help build value in Actis’s India-based portfolio.

Manish is the CEO of Mswipe and has 20 years of experience leading sales. Prior to Mswipe, he co-founded Milestone Merchandise, an Alcobev distribution company with FY012 sales of Rs 140 crores. Manish has a degree in Medicine from Mumbai University.

Shri Mukesh Gandhi is one of the  promoters and Director Finance of MAS Financial Services Limited,  Ahmedabad, an NBFC engaged in retail lending business predominantly in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.He has done his Masters in commerce and has been actively involved in strategic decisions of the companysince last 24 years.

He is Chairman of Gujarat Finance Company Association & Committee member of Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC).He was a professor at Nav Gujarat College and was visiting faculty member of ICFAI business school.

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.

Ms. Pratibha Jain is a Partner and Head of the New Delhi Office of Nishith Desai Associates, an Indian firm with a global outlook. Ms. Jain's also heads the Regulatory practice at Nishith Desai Associates. Her areas of practice include banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and structured finance.

She was till recently the Vice President and Counsel for Goldman Sachs in Mumbai, India. She has earlier worked with Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP in their New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong offices and with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher and Flom, LLP in their Hong Kong office.

Ms. Jain's educational qualifications are Bachelor of Economics (B.A.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degrees from the University of Delhi; a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a St. Catherine's College Bursary holder; and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the Harvard Law School, where she was a Samuel Morse Lane Fellow.

She is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in the USA and the Bar Council of Delhi in India. She has keen academic interests and was a Visiting Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research article on “Multiculturalism and its Impact on Women’s Rights in India” was published in the Berkeley Journal of International Law. 

Praveen Chakravarty is the ex-CEO of an investment bank, a 2012 Eisenhower Fellow, founding trustee of India's first data journalism initiative IndiaSpend and board member of Centre for Civil Society, India's highest ranked thinktank globally. He is a regular oped contributor on politics and policy for the Business Standard and Mint.

Rajeev Ahuja, Head of Strategy, Retail Banking, Financial Inclusion & Transaction Banking at RBL Bank, brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has been an integral part of the company’s transformation journey and is responsible for building the overall strategy of the Bank while overlooking the Retail Banking, Transaction Banking and Financial Inclusion businesses of the Bank. He is also responsible for the company’s capital raising, development of new businesses, partnerships and investor relations functions.

In the course of his tenure in the banking industry, he has held key positions in investment banking and financial markets in India, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Prior to joining RBL Bank, Rajeev was Managing Director-Investor Sales Business (South Asia) with Citigroup, India. At Citibank, he worked with India-centric institutional investors, both domestic and foreign, on derivatives, structured products, loans and bonds. During this time, Rajeev established Citi's Fixed Income Capital Markets business with a broad product platform across INR and G3 bonds/loans, structured debt and mezzanine capital.

Rajeev has also had a 7 year stint as a Director in the capital markets and investment banking divisions of Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank in Singapore and Hong Kong. Additionally, he has held an advisory role with a venture capital fund focused on early-stage India-centric IT opportunities.

Rajeev holds a Masters in Business Administration from IIM, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Delhi. He attended St. Xavier’s School in New Delhi.

Rajnish completed his P.G.D.M from IIM (Ahmedabad), after which he worked with American Express Bank in a variety of roles and locations (Mumbai, Singapore, London) for 17 years. He left the Bank as a Senior Director in 2006 and returned to Mumbai to work in the social sector and initially joined Aangan, an NGO which works with children in state run children homes.

In 2008, he co-founded (along with Madhusudhan Menon and Nachiket Shelgikar) Micro Housing Finance Coproration Limited ("MHFC") to provide housing finance to lower income households (mostly from the informal sector) in urban India. The promoters believe that one of the issues stalling the development of low income housing is the lack of finance available to lower income families (especially those without documentation to prove incomes) to buy such homes and hence set up MHFC to specifically address this gap. Over the last 5 years, operating in 5 major states, MHFC has sanctioned home loans aggregating about Rs 150 cr to about 3500 financially excluded families. The company has not had any NPAs till date.

Rajnish is also on the Justice Dhanuka court appointed committee to look into the infrastructure of Mumbai municipal schools, and the Boards of Aangan and Ummeed (an NGO which helps children with development disabilities).

A veteran in the financial services industry, Rujan Panjwani has over two and half decades of experience in the industry working across all asset classes. Rujan has been with Edelweiss group since 2000 and has played an important role in setting up several businesses for the Edelweiss Group including Asset Management and Credit. He helped set up the Group’s Treasury and Balance sheet unit and is a member of the Assets & Liabilities Committee (ALCO) that primarily oversees the implementation of an effective process for managing Edelweiss’s interest rate, liquidity and similar market risks relating to the balance sheet and associated activities, including the adoption of policies, risk limits and capital levels from time to time. He also set up Edelweiss’s Global Risk Group – the nodal point for all risk monitoring and management and is a member of the Global Risk Committee – the highest decision making body in Edelweiss on Risk-related issues. 

Amit joined Zephyr Peacock in 2010 and has been involved in several transactions in the Logistics, Financial Services, IT and Pharma industry. At Zephyr, Amit is actively involved in the investment process – sourcing, investment evaluation, transaction execution and post-investment monitoring. Amit currently monitors Zephyr's investments in NetAmbit, Trimax IT, 20Cube Logistics and Miles Software. Amit assists the Zephyr portfolio companies in business development, hiring and overall strategy.   

Amit has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Prior to his MBA, Amit worked as a software analyst at Strand Life Sciences and has also completed brief stints at Standard Chartered, CRISIL and NVidia. 

Rishi Gupta is part of the founding team of FINO and is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of FINO PayTech Limited. Rishi has more than 20 years of experience spanning across multiple industries like manufacturing, banking and international institutions. Prior to becoming the MD & CEO, Rishi was serving as the COO and CFO for FINO. He successfully managed to build the operational capabilities, Relationship management and Finance function at FINO.

Rishi's illustrious career began with Maruti Udyog Limited and then joined ICICI Bank where he had exposure to branch banking and corporate banking. Prior to joining FINO, he was working with the International Finance Corporation in New Delhi. He is also the founding member of Business Correspondent Federation of India (BCFI) and the Chairman of its Economic Affairs Committee.
In 2011, 2012 and 2013, Rishi has been awarded "CFO100 Roll of Honor" - an effort to recognize the top 100 senior finance professionals in India. Rishi was also awarded the IMA - “The Indian CFO award for excellence in finance in a startup ” in 2013.

Rishi is a certified Rank Holder Chartered Accountant and Cost & Works Accountant. He did his article training with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He is a Baccalaureate in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and had a rank in Delhi University.

Sachin Chopra is a Managing Director in the private equity team of Everstone Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Everstone in 2011, Sachin had over 10 years of investing experience in US and India. Sachin previously worked with Warburg Pincus in India and General-Atlantic in the US. He holds an Electrical Engineering Degree from Gujarat University, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 

Shrenik is a commerce graduate from Sydenham College, Mumbai and a Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Thereafter, Shrenik completed his post-graduation in business management from IIM Bangalore. He is also a Certified Investment Manager from the Securities and Investment Institute, UK.

He joined us from Enam Securities where he was Executive Director – Investment Banking. He also set up the first international office for Enam in the UK.

Shrenik has over 16 years of experience in the areas of financial audit, management consulting, as well as Investment banking and has worked for companies like Lodha & Co., Accenture and A.T. Kearney prior to joining Enam. He has worked on several advisory mandates and has advised several clients (including the Tata Group) in Investment Banking. 

Vasu is a Director and a co-founder of BillDesk, India's largest Electronic Payments Service Platform.

Established in early 2000, BillDesk delivers and manages a range of specialized electronic payments, remittance and gateway solutions for various verticals markets such as banking, telecom, insurance, utilities financial services and e-commerce businesses.  

Today, BillDesk is the Trusted Partner of India’s largest institutions, and it extensive processing network is today used by over 60 of India’s largest banks and many large organizations across diverse industry segments. The BillDesk platform processes a dominant share of the online transactions that are conducted through aggregator platforms, in India.

Vasu holds a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad.  Prior to founding BillDesk, Vasu worked with ITC Limited and Arthur Andersen.

Linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivasu

Sudip Bandyopadhyay is currently the Managing Director and CEO of Destimoney Securities, a full service financial organisation, promoted by New Silk Route – an Asia focused growth capital private equity firm with over $1.4 billion under management.  Sudip is also the non-executive Chairman of Wall Street Finance Ltd. and director in other listed and unlisted domestic companies.

Sudip is a qualified Chartered and a Cost Accountant. He has over 25 years of rich & diverse experience in various areas of financial services. He has worked with reputed organizations like Reliance (ADA Group), ITC, ICI and HLL.

Sudip was the Managing Director of Reliance Money and was also on the Board of several Reliance ADAG Group Companies since May 2005. He was instrumental in leading Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's foray, amongst others, into Equity & Commodity Broking, Financial Products Distribution, Commodity Exchanges, Gold Coin Retailing, Money Changing and Money Transfer. Under his leadership, Reliance Money had aggressively expanded its footprint in India and across the globe.  Sudip was also responsible for the acquisition of AMP Sanmar through which Reliance launched its Life Insurance business.

During Sudip's 16 years stint with ITC as head of Treasury and Strategic Investments, he managed investments in excess of $1.5 billion.  He was responsible for the acquisition of strategic stakes in EIH, VST and several other companies by ITC.

Sujan Sinha is a senior professional in the financial services industry, especially in the retail side of it, having spent more than 30 years in various banks and financial institutions, after joining SBI as a Probationary Officer in 1981. Prior to joining the Shriram Group as the Managing Director & C.E.O. of Shriram Housing Finance Limited in November 2010, he was one of the important members of the core retail team of Axis Bank (erstwhile UTI Bank), setting up and heading the retail lending business of the bank, including the retail mortgage business, for more than 7 years.

He had been involved with various other retail initiatives of the bank and had served as the bank's nominee on the boards of NBFCs in which Axis Bank had financial stake.  Shriram Housing Finance Limited, a subsidiary of the Shriram group's flagship company, Shriram City Union Finance Ltd., is the most recent addition to the group's stables and has just completed a full year's business. In this short span of time Shriram Housing has been able to set up more than 43 branches spread across 14 states of the country and with more than 200 employees on its rolls. 

Pankaj has over 25 years of experience in Corporate Finance, M&A and Capital Markets with large global and Indian companies. Previously, he worked as a Managing Director in the Private Equity business of Everstone Capital Advisors.

Previously, he was the Group CFO for Dentsu, a Japanese advertising major, where he was responsible for their business in India. He has held a variety of senior corporate finance roles with global companies such as Coca-Cola, ANZ Bank, Citibank and ICICI and has over 20 years exposure to M & A and capital markets.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and an MBA from the University of Delhi.

Vishal Gupta, is the Managing Director at Bessemer Venture Partners in Bangalore. Vishal joined BVP India in 2006 and focuses on investments in consumer internet, fin tech and health tech. Vishal is currently on the board of Bigbasket, Swiggy, LivSpace, Pharmeasy, Urbanclap, Hungama, MediAssist, NephroPlus, Perfios, Innoviti, Home First Finance, Applied Solar Technologies and Anunta Technologies. In the past he has served on the boards of Indian Energy Exchange (now public), Matrimony.com(now public), TaxiForSure (acq. Ola), Orient Green Power (now public). He has also served as a board observer of Shriram City Union Finance, Motilal Oswal and SnapDeal.com. He is involved with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park which promotes entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining BVP India, Vishal was a senior manager in the treasurer’s office at Reliance Group, Vishal helped the firm establish a private-equity fund that invested in such companies as Celebrity Fashions, Adlabs, and other firms in the healthcare and financial-services sectors. Previously, served as an executive assistant to the CEO a joint venture of HCL Tech and Deutsche Bank in India.

Vishal holds an M.B.A from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, is a chartered accountant and has a B.A. in commerce from GS College, where he was ranked one of the top 750 students in the country. He is also a member of Mensa and has been a nationally-ranked table tennis player.

Mr. V S Radhakrishnan currently serves as the CEO and Managing Director of Janalakshmi Financial Services. He is a veteran banker with an illustrious career in the banking sector. He was with HSBC for over 25 years where he held various senior positions before moving to ING Vysya Bank for 3 years. Mr. Radhakrishnan has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.