Amit Bhatiani

Prior to founding CX Partners, Amit was a partner at Duma Capital since April 2006, a fund started by principals from Soros Fund Management and Duquesne Capital with ~US$400mn in capital. He managed the Global Equity portfolio including a significant allocation of capital to investments to India. Prior to Duma, Amit co-managed the distressed and event-driven portfolio at Clinton Group, which averaged US$600mn in allocated capital and approximately US$1.0bn in market value. Amit also co-founded 2 technology companies with funding from some of the well known investors in the world, including Ram Shriram, The Washington Post, Visa International and Fox Paine among others. Amit started his career at JP Morgan in fixed income technology and quantitative analysis.

 

Amit is a MBA (highest honors) from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

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Amit Patni

Amit Patni is a promoter shareholder of Patni Computers and former Director of PCS Technology Ltd. The Patni group was a pioneer in Indian ITES. The promoter family stake in Patni Computers was divested in May 2011 in a sale to iGate Corporation at value of $1.5 billion. Amit has a MBA from Babson College, Boston, USA and 22 years’ of extensive experience in technology, software and projects. He has extensive experience in the computer hardware and components market in India and overseas. In his various roles, Amit has independently ensured implementation of Greenfield projects and launched new business operations.

Currently Amit Patni is Director of RAAY Global Investments (Family Office), Co-founder & Chairman at Nirvana Venture Advisors (40 Million USD Digital & Internet Venture Fund), Co-founder and Partner in Elysium Investment Advisors (Hedge Fund), Co-Founder and Partner in The Hive-India (A Big Data incubator) and Director in Waterfield Advisors Private Limited ( A Boutique Advisory Services firm) .

Anand Chandani

Anand Chandani leads ResponsAbility Investments’ activities in South and Southeast Asia, and is based in their local office in Mumbai. He is responsible for setting up the strategy, the organization and the team for responsAbility’s activities in this region. He focuses on investments in sectors such as agriculture, energy, education, and healthcare.

 

Anand brings over 15 years operational and financial experience in fields such as product management, business development, and project finance prior to responsAbility. He has acted as CEO of Otto Hofstetter India Pvt. Ltd., a worldwide leader in the manufacture of injection molds, and as director of Soplar India Pvt. Ltd., a leading blow-molding-machine manufacturer. Earlier in the US, he held leadership positions for over 7 years in mobile technology. He has served on the board of Head Start Educational Trust and on the investment committee at AlphaMundi Group, a social impact fund.

 

Anand has earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Anand Narayan

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.

Anand Sunderji

Anand Sunderji began working with Paul Capital in early 2011 as a Regional Representative for sourcing secondary transactions in India. Mr Sunderji is also a Partner at Perpetual Value Partners, an emerging market focused private equity advisory firm. He has over seven years of private equity experience in Asia and was formerly the co-head of the India fund of funds at Guggenheim in Mumbai. Prior to this he was the co-lead of the Asian private equity fund of funds at Adveq in Zurich and also held the role of the Head of Investors at the World Economic Forum in Geneva and New York. He started his career at INVESCO in London as an European equity portfolio manager. Mr Sunderji holds a bachelors degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technology from the University of Bradford.

Ananta Barua

Mr. Barua has been with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since 1992 till date. He is currently holding charge of the Investment Management Department - Division of Funds 1, 2 & 3, Debt Markets, Alternative Investment Funds (AIF), Portfolio Management Schemes (PMS), Investment Advisory Services, Mutual Funds, Foreign Institutional Investors and Custodians (FIIC), Collective Investment Schemes (CIS), Parliamentary Affairs and Regional Offices.

 

Mr. Barua has been associated with various responsibilities including the development of policy, framing of regulations on securities market. He is also associated with developing the regulatory framework governing the capital market in India (SEBI-1992-2011) and Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA), Kingdom of Bahrain (BMA/CBB-2004-2006).

 

Prior to joining SEBI in 1992, Mr. Barua worked with the Industrial Finance Corporation of India from 1990. He was also the advisor at the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA)/ Central Bank of Bahrain between 2004 & 2006.

 

Mr. Barua holds Bachelor's degree in Commerce and a Bachelors degree in Law (LLB) both from the University of Delhi. He has also acquired a Diploma in Management from Delhi.

Anup Bagchi

Mr. Anup Bagchi is the Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Securities Ltd.

During his tenure of 20 years with ICICI Group he has held many key positions in the field of Retail Banking, Corporate Banking and Treasury.  He is a Director in ICICI Securities Inc.  He is a Co-chairman of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) Capital Markets Committee.  Mr. Bagchi is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore.

ICICI Securities Limited (I-Sec) is India’s one of the leading investment banking firm and is the first service in India to provide complete end-to-end integration, for seamless electronic trading on the stock exchanges through its brand ICICIdirect.com. Apart from being a leader across the spectrum of investment banking, it offers every aspect of business from domestic and international capital markets advisory, Private Equity syndication, Restructuring and infrastructure advisory.

Mr. Bagchi was honoured with `The Asian Banker Promising Young Banker Award’. Mr. Anup Bagchi has recently been honoured with `Industry Newsmaker Award’ by Zee Business for his tremendous and unmatched contribution in the field of Finance.

Anuj Puri

Anuj is Chairman & Country Head of Jones Lang LaSalle. He is responsible for the overall direction, strategy and growth of the largest premier real estate services company in India – Jones Lang LaSalle. He is among the most respected leaders in Indian real estate industry, and an acknowledged expert on India’s real estate opportunities both within India and across the globe.

 

In his present capacity, Anuj oversees a team of over 6300+ employees across 11 cities in India. He enjoys strong relationships with private investors as well as local & global corporates, and interacts regularly with key clients to uncover opportunities in the rapidly emerging Indian real estate market.

 

Anuj has successfully merged two of the largest property consultancy firms in the real estate services sector – Jones Lang LaSalle and erstwhile Trammel Crow Meghraj to create Jones Lang LaSalle, India. He is also a key member of the Asia Pacific leadership group of Jones Lang LaSalle.

 

With over 23 years of experience in multi-disciplinary advisory and transactions ranging from real estate to social development projects, he has expertise in undertaking demand assessment studies and transactional services including marketing strategies based on technical real estate market analysis. Anuj has successfully handled marketing of projects in Office, Retail, Hospitality & Residential. Anuj’s vast expertise repertoire also encompasses feasibility studies, program requirement derivation and fund and investor sourcing.

Arjun Bawa

Arjun Bawa is a Vice President of PineBridge Investments and joined the firm in 2006 at its headquarters in New York. Mr. Bawa has been actively involved in investing in Asia for many years and relocated to the firm’s office in Singapore in 2012. He is responsible for sourcing and performing due diligence on Asian private equity fund managers, making investment recommendations, monitoring of private equity fund investments, product development and marketing. He is also actively involved in all fund investment decisions on a global basis. Mr. Bawa also manages Private Equity Portfolio VI, a sixth generation global fund of funds program, which is currently being raised with a target of $500 million. Prior to joining PineBridge Investments, he worked at Allianz in Munich and New York as well as with Deutsche Bank in Singapore and across South-East Asia.

Ashley Menezes

Mr. Menezes joined the Advisors in March 2000 and oversees the target company diligence, regulatory/industry relationships and the middle office for finance, administrative and client relations.  He was previously with KPMG, in its information technology and U.S. GAAP practices.  Mr. Menezes was involved in the ADR issues and NYSE/NASDAQ listings of several leading Indian companies.  He is a rank-holding Chartered Accountant and received a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Mumbai University.

Bharati Jacob

Ms. Bharati Jacob is a Founder-Partner of Seedfund, an early stage fund that invests in innovative Indian start-ups. She has extensive experience in venture investing, marketing and financial services. Ms. Jacob co-founded Seedfund in 2006 and invested in 35 companies thus far. The diverse investments include Redbus (on-line bus ticketing), Edusports (sports in schools), Jeeves (post sales service for appliances), Axisrooms (organizing hotel inventory) among others. Seedfund’s exit from Redbus – a company which she identified as an early investment and served on the board - to a strategic investor, was among the top three venture capital deals of the last decade for return on capital invested. Prior to Seedfund, Ms. Jacob was a partner at Infinity Ventures, a pioneer in Indian early stage investing whose exits include Indiagames and India Bulls (listing in India). She has also worked at Lazard India and Northwest Airlines in Minneapolis. Her early experience prior to business school was in consumer market research in India. Ms. Bharati Jacob has Masters degrees from The Wharton School of University Pennsylvania and XLRI Jamshedpur and is an alumni of the Shriram College of Commerce, University of Delhi.

Christophe Beelaerts

A well rounded experienced executive in the securities servicing market, Christophe brings a rich experience of 20 years, having overseen various senior operating roles with large industry players in Europe. In his last European role, Christophe was the Head of Operations for Mutual Fund and Private Equity at the Luxembourg delivery centre for BNP Paribas Securities Services.

For the last three years, Christophe has been involved in the development of the Indian market, working as CFO and head of business development for Sundaram BNP Paribas Fund Services Limited. This JV of BNP Paribas focuses on providing fund accounting and investor servicing solutions for different classes of asset managers including AIF.

He is of the strong conviction that though PE Investments are in a nascent stage in India, there is a great potential in future considering the large investments that are required to meet the aspiration needs of the country.

He is a graduate from Solvay Business School as Commercial Engineer – VUB/ULB - Finance & Marketing and has followed Professional Trainings in Service Excellence Programs at Insead through BNP Paribas Securities Services.

Gopal Srinivasan

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.

@GopalSri

Hetal Gandhi

Hetal Gandhi Managing Director, Tano India Advisors Pvt Ltd. Mr. Gandhi is the former CEO for the financial services business of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL & FS), a well-known Financial Institution in India focusing on infrastructure financing and financial services.

Hetal has 16 years of experience in the entire spectrum of financial services business spanning private equity, investment banking and asset financing. Hetal recruited and managed the private equity team for IL&FS, and has led number of deals and exits. Prior to this, Hetal was engaged in Management Consulting for 3 years with AF Ferguson & Co.

Hetal is a certified member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. 

Indranil Pan

Indranil Pan is Chief Economist of Kotak Mahindra Bank. He has been with the Kotak Mahindra group for over 12 years.

 

Indranil has varied work experience spanning over 17 years in financial journalism and research. Prior to joining Kotak, Indranil was with the Advisory wing of Credit Rating and Information Services of India Ltd (CRISIL).

 

Indranil is a post-graduate in Economics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is regularly invited to participate in discussions at various economy related forums as a panel member. His views on economic issues and the financial markets are often carried by print publications, wire media and TV channels.

Jaganath Swamy

Jaganath Swamy joined HarbourVest in 2013 to focus on primary investments in India and Southeast Asia.

Jaganath joined HarbourVest from Northgate Capital in Delhi, where he was a principal with overall responsibility for developing and growing Indian fund investments and was co-lead for Southeast Asia investments.  Previously, Jaganath was a Founding Director of Ananta Capital, co-founding a specialized acquisition vehicle in the specialty and advanced materials space in India and led fundraising, negotiating with potential acquisition targets, and developing post-investment strategy.  His prior experience also includes McKinsey and Company in Mumbai and Singapore, and Evalueserve Inc., in India.

He received a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi in 2001 and an MBA (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.  He speaks Hindi, Telugu, and Oriya.

Kanchan Jain

Most recently, Kanchan was with Religare Finvest Limited (RFL), as the Chief Risk Officer and responsible for risk across all businesses for its INR 14000 cr balance sheet. RFL operates out of 25 cities in India, across mid-market commercial lending, corporate and capital market lending and structured lending. Prior to her current stint in India, she spent several years in multiple geographies across Europe and Asia, working in the structured credit & finance businesses, her last assignment being Managing Director at HSBC in London. At HSBC, she led Structuring for the Client Solutions Group and worked across several asset classes ranging from residential & commercial real estate, corporate and other asset backed transactions. Overall, Kanchan has nearly 20 years of experience across financial markets in India, Asia and Europe across diverse functions of deal origination, structuring, credit, portfolio and risk management and fund raising.

 

Kanchan Jain is an Electronics Engineer and has done her MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Kanwaljit Singh

Kanwal Singh is a co-founder of Helion and has over 23 years of experience in the areas of venture investing, marketing and business development across multiple sectors in India. In addition to his role at Helion, he serves on the boards of NGPay, Hurix, Amba Research, HummingBird, YLG Salons, Qwikcilver, Mast Kalandar, Yepme, Attano and LifeCell.

 

Prior to Helion, Kanwal spent four years as a director and co-head of The Carlyle Group's India venture operations. Before this, he worked as Head of Marketing for Intel South Asia. He joined Intel from Hindustan Unilever Ltd. where he spent over 10 years in various functions including sales, marketing and product innovation.

 

Kanwal has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University and an MBA in marketing and finance from the Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi.

Kumar Ketkar

A journalist who knows the pulse of the social, political and economic fabric of Maharashtra and a scholar of the same on the global front. Kumar Ketkar is active in journalism for last 40 years. He had started his journalistic career with Economics Times. He has worked with The Observer, Maharashtra Times, Loksatta as a editor. Kumar Ketkar has also got the prestigious Padmashri award for his journalistic work.

Manish Kejriwal

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.

@RealManishK

Meera Sanyal

Former CEO & Chairperson of RBS India, Meera is a Senior Executive who is a Non- executive Board director of Financial services firms, NGO’s and Educational Institutions. She was invited by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to join her International Council on Women’s Business Leadership (ICWBL), is a member of the Global Board Ready Women’s group (GBRW) and of the National Executive Committees of FICCI and CII. She is also a Board member of Pradan,  AIESEC India, Jaihind College and LiberalsIndia for Good Governance – the Indian Liberal Group. Meera has been a banker for over 29 years, with a wide array of experience ranging from Investment Banking to Operations & IT. She has a keen interest in Public Policy &Governance, Financial Inclusion and Women’s Empowerment and a deep understanding of the economic, social and political situation in India. She has recently stepped down as CEO of RBS India to devote herself to social, economic and political causes that she is deeply passionate about.

Nikhil Khattau

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.

Nupur Garg

Nupur is the regional lead for IFC’s private equity & venture funds business in South Asia. Based in New Delhi, she has been covering IFC’s private equity fund activities in South Asia since 2011, including originating, negotiating and closing private equity and venture fund investments on behalf of IFC, and supervising the portfolio, including serving on investee fund advisory committees. Nupur joined IFC in mid-2007 as the Regional Risk Officer for South Asia, responsible for designing and integrating risk management frameworks within investment operations across IFC’s industry sectors.

Nupur has deep experience in the South Asia region, including structuring and implementing complex business transactions and partnerships in a variety of settings. Prior to joining IFC, Nupur was the Regional Chief Financial Officer covering South Asia for Wolters Kluwer, one of the world’s largest publishers of material for the scientific and technical sector. There, she was part of a 3 person team leading integration of 6 acquisitions and setting up independent business operations in the region. Previously, she has worked in finance and consulting roles at Discovery Networks and PwC.

Nupur holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management, has executive education from Harvard Business School and is a Chartered Accountant.

Padmanabh Sinha

Padmanabh (Paddy) Sinha is the Managing Partner for the flagship private equity fund of the Tata group - Tata Opportunities Fund. Prior to joining Tata Capital as a founding partner of the Tata Opportunities Fund, Mr. Sinha was the Managing Director for India at Temasek Holdings. He was part of Temasek's founding India team in 2004 and during his tenure at Temasek also led global special projects for Temasek. He has worked with ICICI Venture previously as well as an entrepreneur where he was the President of an e-learning company funded by ChrysCapital, Star TV and International Finance Corporation, which he eventually sold to a listed Indian corporation. He has served on several corporate boards, including select Tata companies.

The Tata Opportunities Fund is a USD 600 million third party private equity fund which invests in select Tata group entities as well as other independent Indian businesses. The Fund's investees benefit both from its capital as well as from access to the Tata group's global reach and wide ranging long established industry presence. The fund is sector and stage agnostic and invests in both minority and control deals.

Parth Gandhi

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.

Pavan A. Gupte

Mr. Gupte is currently an Independent Advisor to a select group of International Institutions and Family Offices. He was previously the Chief Strategy Officer and a member of Management Committee of CVCI Private Equity, investing in businesses across Global Emerging Markets. In 2010, he helped merge Gartmore Private Equity with Hermes Private Equity to be a founding member of Hermes GPE, a $8b AUM Global Private Equity specialist in London, where he became the Head of Asia. During 2003-2010, he was a founding member of Gartmore Private Equity, a $3b AUM division of Gartmore Investment Management, where he led coverage of European and the Emerging Markets for Fund investing and Co-investing as Dy. Managing Director. From 2000 till 2002, Mr. Gupte was in London as a Principal and a founding member of Adams Street Partners, a global private equity business, where he co-led the Asian Fund investment team. Prior to his involvement in private equity, he worked at KBC Bank NV’s Indian business, where he led the building of the corporate credit business and at ICICI Ltd., focusing on lending to greenfield and brownfield projects in Western India.

Pavan has earned a B.Com. degree and an M.B.A. degree, both from Mumbai University and has completed the Executive Course on Private Equity from Harvard Business School. He has been a regular speaker, particularly on subjects such as Private Equity in Emerging Markets, Asset Allocation and Indian Private Equity at various Global Private Equity events since 2004. During 2003 till 2011, he has been an Advisory Board member of numerous private equity funds investing in Europe, China, India, Australia and across Asia.

Pavninder Singh

Mr. Singh joined Bain Capital in 2001. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Mr. Singh was the co-CEO of Medrishi.com, a healthcare services site. Prior to that, he was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting where he consulted in the e-commerce, retail, and energy industries.

Mr. Singh received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He received a BA from Harvard College.

Pramod Ahuja

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.

Praveen Chakravarty

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.

Raghubir Menon

Mr. Raghubir Menon is a Corporate, Funds and PE Partner at Amarchand Mangaldas, New Delhi. He is an expert on matters pertaining to private equity, new fund raises, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. His wide experience includes mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and reorganizations. He represents investment and commercial banks, private equity funds, multilateral agencies and strategic corporate clients on a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions.

 

Raghubir Menon has advised many Private Equity and Venture Capital funds across the full range of their operations and activities and has extensive experience in matters pertaining to fund formation, onshore & offshore structuring, registration with regulatory authorities in India, and transaction management from the term sheet until closing, including working closely with regulators like the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Foreign Investment Promotion Board of India (FIPB) and the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and structuring incentives and sharing of the ‘carry’ for fund managers.

 

Prior to Amarchand Mangaldas, he has worked with White & Case LLP, in London and Singapore, for five years. Raghubir has a Bachelors in Law, BA, LLB (Hons), from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He enrolled at the Bar Council of Delhi in 2001 and is a qualified Solicitor (England & Wales).

Rahul Bhasin

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.

Rajeev Agrawal

Rajeev Agrawal is the Partner at Ambit Pragma Ventures Pvt. Ltd. He is responsible for finance and corporate governance at the firm and focuses on healthcare and wellness. His domain experience includes healthcare, logistics, and education and has 13 years of experience across private equity and sales and marketing. 

Ravjeev was a Founding Partner and Fund Manager at India Value Fund Advisors for seven years. Before that, Rajeev used to head the Telecom business in West India for 3Com, a global IT major. He was also the Regional Sales Head for Wipro, India's largest IT company. He had a short stint as a research engineer with BEL, India's largest  defence electronics company. 

Rajeev holds a Masters in Management Studies majoring in Marketing from University of Mumbai and B.Tech (Hons) with a Gold Medal in Electronics and Telecommunications from H.P. University.
 

Rajesh Ramaiah

Rajesh is a Director and CFO of Premji Invest. Premji Invest is a investment office of Mr Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro. Apart from the role of being the CFO for the entire fund, Rajesh is an operating partner for the Private Equity Investments and also manages the fixed income portfolio of the fund. Rajesh represents Premji Invest in the board and committees of its portfolio companies.

Rajesh spent 13 years from 1995 until 2008 in Wipro, a leading IT company in India and carried out various roles with in the finance function. In his last assignment between 2006 and 2008, Rajesh was the treasurer and head of investor relations for Wipro Limited managing over USD 5 bn currency exposures and 2 Bn of investments and borrowing.  This was his most challenging stint with IT facing slowdown as a sector and rupee appreciating significantly.

Post his stint at Wipro, Rajesh joined Reva Electric Car Company Pvt Limited as CFO in Apr 2008. Reva, is a leading electric car manufacturer funded by DFJ and Global Environment fund. Rajesh was instrumental in identifying a strategic partner ( M&M) for Reva and providing exit to the investors.

Rajesh is a complete finance professional with excellent academic qualifications. He has done his CPA from US and is an ACMA from CIMA, London. This was after completing his ICWA, ACS & CA in India.

Ramesh Venkat

Ramesh is the Chief Executive Officer of the Advisory Team. He has a total experience of 27 years.

 

Ramesh was earlier part of the senior management of the Reliance Group since its formation with primary responsibility for finance, treasury and M & A across the various group companies, and active involvement across a range of other strategic and operational initiatives in the group. Prior to this, he was Group CFO and a member of the Executive Committee of Vedanta Resources plc, a FTSE 100 company. Ramesh started his career with Unilever in India, and thereafter also worked in corporate and investment banking for several years.

 

Ramesh has a PhD degree from the University of Mumbai in Management Studies, and is also a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Company Secretary having secured all India merit positions in all.

Roopa Purushothaman

Roopa Purushothaman is a Managing Director and Head of Research for Everstone Capital Advisors.

 

Prior to joining Everstone in 2006, Roopa had over six years of experience having worked as a Vice President and Global Economist at Goldman Sachs, where she published papers on topics including long term growth, global trade and migration in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Roopa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Ethics, Politics and Economics and in International Studies from Yale University and a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

Rubi Arya

Rubi has over 18 years of professional experience in Business Strategy, Real Estate and General Management. At Milestone, she is responsible for designing Milestone’s overall corporate strategy, vision and future initiatives for business expansion, as well as the company’s representative at Global as well as Indian investor forums.

Under her leadership, Milestone has showcased its full cycle capability of fund raise, deployment, nurturing and profitable divestments and has invested as well as returned over Rs. 2800 crores  to the investors by way of timely exits and investment income across all funds.

Rubi leads and mentors the top management and continues to drive the company’s active management philosophy and devotes her time to putting together the team’s combined knowledge and experience towards securing profitable deals, right from investment to divesting. Prior to joining Milestone, Rubi was Global Head – HR at Kingfisher Airlines and has also held various senior positions at companies like Asian Paints & Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Engg. graduate from BITS (MESRA), MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and Executive Programme at Harvard Business School. Holds Certificate of Excellence from “The Directors’ Club”,  a unique accredited certification program by Hunt Partners and Board Evaluations Ltd. (UK) aimed at elevating effective governance on the board of directors at Indian as well as global organisations.

@RubiArya30

Satrajit Bhattacharya

Satrajit comes with an experience of 20 years with his core competence being equity investments. Satrajit is working as a Joint General Manager - Treasury at HDFC Ltd.

 

Satrajit is primarily responsible for managing the equity portfolio for HDFC. This is about a USD 750 million portfolio which is split between private as well as public markets. He is responsible for the selection, structuring and monitoring of equity and equity-linked investments by HDFC. He has had the exposure to managing the lifecycle of an equity investment from start-up phase to exit and has led HDFC’s successful exits from a number of investments.

Sandeep Singhal

Sandeep Singhal has 11 years of venture capital and private equity investing experience in India. He has led investments/served on the board of several public and private companies that include Dr. Lal Pathlabs, JustDial, eClerx, Infoedge, Stovekraft, Shaadi, Prakash Snacks, Nazara Technologies, GVK Bio Sciences, AppLabs and Carzonrent.

 

Sandeep was also a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sequoia Capital India. Earlier, he worked at BCG where he advised several mid-market Indian companies on their product and marketing strategies. Prior to BCG, Sandeep worked with Hindustan Lever Limited where he was instrumental in eleven product launches targeting Indian consumer segments that have contributed significantly to the company's business.

 

Sandeep has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, an MS in molecular simulation from the University of Illinois, and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Sanjay Jha

Sanjay Jha is the Executive Director of the world-famous Dale Carnegie Training operations in India, which has a global experience of having worked with over 400 of the Top Fortune 500 companies. In India, Dale Carnegie has worked with over 1200 corporate firms, multinational companies, public sector, government and NGOs and trained more than 160,000 Dale Carnegie graduates in the last nine years.

 

He has founded one of the world’s leading internet portals called CricketNext.Com which is now part of the Network 18 media Group.

 

Prior to starting Dale Carnegie , Sanjay was instrumental in setting up the private sector mutual fund industry in India , having worked as a Senior Vice President with ITC Threadneedle Asset Management ( part of BAT plc, UK) and as a Vice President , Alliance Capital ( New York, USA). His career in banking included stints with both Bank of America and ANZ Grindlays Bank where he worked in NRI marketing and operation services, product-technology training, retail banking and branch management. He started his career in sales with Bharat Petroleum.

 

Sanjay also co-launched a political blog called HamaraCongress.com during elections 2009 and plans to escalate it into a full-fledged portal with multiple new features in the future. He is a columnist and a blogger. Jha is also been the National Spokesperson  of the Indian National Congress party.

 

Jha completed his MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and his Master’s in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, University of Pune. He graduated with distinction in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune.

 

Sanjay has also written a cricket anthology titled 11 - Triumphs, Trials and Turbulence in Indian cricket, two cricket quiz books and published his first collection of poems.  Jha has recently authored a book called The Superstar Syndrome (The Making Of A Champion), co-authored with Dr. Myra White, who is a Professor at the Harvard Medical School. This book is launched in August 2013.

Sanjay Kukreja

Mr. Sanjay Kukreja is a Managing Director at ChrysCapital and is part of the core team at ChrysCapital that helped the firm scale from a startup to India’s leading private equity firm with over $2.5 billion under management in fourteen years. He joined ChrysCapital in April 2000 and currently leads the firms Business services and Manufacturing verticals. He has been on the board of several companies such as KPIT Technologies, Liquid Hub, Shriram Transport Finance Company Ltd, Titagarh Wagons Limited etc. He has led several high profile investments of the firm such as HCL, Infosys and Cyient and has also worked extensively on managing exits for ChrysCapital, where ChrysCapital has been an industry leader. He holds an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University and has also attended Executive Leadership Course for top management from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Sanjay Nath

Sanjay is a Co-founder & Managing Partner at Blume Ventures (www.blumeventures.com). Blume has emerged as one of India's leading early-stage funds, having invested in over 50 startups since its inception in late 2010.

Blume's portfolio includes Taxiforsure (acquired by Olacabs), Zipdial (acquired by Twitter), Qubecell (acquired by Boku), Grey Orange Pte Lte, Mettl, Webengage, Hotelogix, Exotel, Rolocule Games, and Carbon Clean Solutions, amongst others. Many of Blume’s portfolio companies have secured follow-on financing from top tier global VCs including Tiger Global, Accel, Matrix, Bessemer, Cisco Ventures, to name a few.

Prior to Blume, Sanjay was also an active angel investor through Mumbai Angels. His angel investments include Inmobi, Appsdaily (formerly Onward Mobility), Little Eye Labs (acquired by Facebook), Tonbo Imaging and Svasti amongst others.

Sanjay’s experience spans the US and India, and ranges from management consulting (PwC and IBM Global Services), product marketing and operations (Sun Microsystems) and angel investing (thru Mumbai Angels). Most recently, prior to founding Blume, he co founded Loxodrome, a legal outsourcing company with dual-shore operations in San Francisco and Pune, India. Early in his career, Sanjay supported the growth of Kanbay (Nasdaq IPO in ’04), then acquired by Cap Gemini for $1.25BL in ‘06.

Sanjay has earned an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management and also holds an undergraduate major in Information Systems from BITS, Pilani.

@sanjaynath

Saurabh Mukherjea

Saurabh has over 11 years of experience in Capital Markets and Equities. He joined Ambit in 2010 from Execution Noble. Saurabh co-founded Clear Capital, a British equity research firm, in 2003. After helping sell Clear Capital to Execution Noble, Saurabh set up and led Execution Noble’s Indian Equities business. Saurabh has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Shachindra Nath

Shachindra Nath (Group Chief Executive Officer) Religare Enterprises Ltd., carries the overall responsibility for leading all pivotal operations and businesses of the group. He has been associated with Religare since the year 2000 and has been instrumental in building various businesses under the Religare umbrella from scratch. His strategic agility coupled with a hands on approach has been a key to Religare’s growth and success over the years. With a career span of more than 20 years, Shachindra is a highly accomplished professional backed by an exemplary academic record.

He is a University rank holder for his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He also went on to pursue a Post Graduate diploma in Intellectual Property Rights from the Amity Law College, Delhi.

Prior to joining Religare; Shachindra has worked in the manufacturing and financial services sector in various capacities.

Shankar Narayanan

Shankar Narayanan is a Managing Director with the Asia Growth Capital team of global PE fund responsible for advising growth capital investments in India. He is based in Mumbai.
 
Mr. Narayanan has been in private equity since 1993 with the unique distinction of having run some of the investee companies as a CEO. He has on-the-ground work experience across the country which allows him to have a very practical perspective of growth prospects and challenges across industries.
 
Since joining the global PE fund in 2004, Mr. Narayanan has led and advised Carlyle on key investments such as Claris Lifesciences, Elitecore Technologies, Repco Home Finance, Tirumala Milk Products, Visen Industries, Value and Budget Housing Corporation, Edelweiss Financial Services, South Indian Bank, Infotech Enterprises; etc. He has also successfully delivered exits from Tirumala Milk Products, Cyberoam Technologies and Repco Home Finance (IPO). He was also actively involved in managing the fund’s investments and exits in Newgen Knowledge Works, Financial Software & Systems, Learning Mate Solutions, QuEST and Sharekhan.
 
Prior to joining the global PE fund, Mr. Narayanan spent six years at Hathway Investments in Mumbai and during that time served as Managing Director and CEO. He was also with Deutsche Bank Capital Partners, based in Hong Kong, as a Director covering South Asia and India. He was involved in a number of prominent private equity investments in India, including Johnson Tiles, Exide Industries, Hathway Cable, Asianet Satellite Communications, Pushpa Polymers, Tata Infomedia and AFL Limited and served on the Board of Directors of all these Companies.
 
Prior to Hathway Investments, Mr. Shankar Narayanan worked at Citibank in Mumbai. He received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from XLRI Jamshedpur where he was a Gold Medalist standing first in the graduating class in the area of Finance & Accounting and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Mr. Narayanan is currently on the Boards of Elitecore Technologies, Infotech Enterprises and Newgen Knowledge Works. Previously he served on the Boards of key portfolios such as Repco Home Finance, Claris Lifesciences, Value and Budget Housing Corporation, Visen Industries, Financial Software & Systems, Tirumala Milk Products, Cyberoam Technologies, Learning Mate Solutions, Allsec Technologies, QuEST, Newgen Knowledge Works & Sharekhan.

Sunil Rohokale

Sunil Rohokale spearheads the ASK Group initiatives along with the subsidiary companies. He is regarded as someone with strong credentials in setting up new businesses and building strong professional teams that deliver results.

Belonging to a rare breed of professionals with experience in assets, liabilities and investments, he worked with ICICI Home Finance as the Managing Director and CEO prior to joining the ASK Group. At ICICI Bank, he was a member of the core team that started the mortgage business in 1999. Under his leadership, the bank achieved a leadership position in the business.

Sunil Sanghai

Sunil Sanghai  heads Global Banking for HSBC, India.  

 

Prior to joining HSBC, he was a Managing Director and Co-Head Investment Banking India at Goldman Sachs.
Sunil, started his investment banking career 1992 and has rich experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, advisory and domestic and global capital markets. He has been involved in many significant and large capital markets and M&A transactions in India.

 

At HSBC, he is responsible for Corporate & Investment Banking, Capital Markets and Project Finance.
He chairs the Committee on Capital Markets of FICCI.

 

He is closely associated with a few philanthropic organizations working towards   growth of children.

Tushar Poddar

Tushar is chief India economist for Goldman Sachs in Mumbai and is a senior member of the Asia Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research team. He has written thematic pieces on a wide range of topics, including India's growth potential, urbanization, infrastructure, demographics, and developing the corporate bond market in India. Tushar joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 and was named managing director in 2011.

 

Prior to joining the firm, Tushar was an economist at the International Monetary Fund for five years in the Middle-East, African, and Fiscal Affairs departments. He has published papers on international trade, monetary and fiscal policy.

 

Tushar is a member of a policy group on capital flows for infrastructure financing led by the Reserve Bank of India. Tushar earned a PhD and MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

V. Hari Krishna

Hari joined Kotak Realty Fund in May 2005 as a co-founder of the real estate investment fund management business at Kotak. As a part of the founding team, Hari has gained experience in the full lifecycle of investments and exits across four different funds.

 

Hari has nearly 17 years of overall experience in Indian real estate in investment management and corporate finance including his prior stints with CB Richard Ellis and Jones Lang LaSalle. Hari has completed his Masters in Finance from Delhi University.

Vamesh Chovatia

Vamesh Chovatia joined the NEA team in June 2011 as Managing Director of New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd. (NEA India) based in Mumbai.  Vamesh brings with him a total of over 22 years of experience in Private Equity Investing, Private Equity Advisory and Investment Banking.

Prior to joining NEA, he was Director- Private Equity at Kotak Investment Advisors Limited since 2005. He was responsible for originating transactions and investing in several companies like Home Solutions Retail, BVG India, NSE, MCX, Diamond Power Infrastructure  etc. While at Kotak  he also managed investments in life sciences and pharmaceuticals services sector investing in businesses as diverse as drug discovery, contract research, clinical research, biopharmaceuticals etc. and helped build a portfolio of companies like VLife Sciences, Siro Clinpharm, Indus Biotech, Rubicon Research, Bharat Serums & Vaccines. During his stint with Kotak, Vamesh has experienced a full life cycle of successful fund raising, investing and exiting businesses.

Vineet Chadha

Vineet successfully raised and manages investments relating to the Tata Capital Innovations Fund. Vineet’s experience is across private equity, investment banking and manufacturing. He is a nominee Director on Boards of portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Tata Capital he was with Old Lane Private Equity responsible for investments in Indian Infrastructure sector and earlier with Ernst & Young and SBI Capital Markets in their Investment Banking businesses.

Vineet received a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela and Masters Degree in Finance from Delhi University. He is also a CFA Charter holder.

Vishal Nevatia

Vishal has been at the helm of IVFA as Managing Partner since its inception in 1999.   He plays a crucial role in building the team and defining the strategies that have taken the Firm to its present levels and has been directly involved both in identifying and acquiring new businesses, as well as in supporting portfolio companies.

 

A Commerce graduate and qualified Chartered Accountant, Vishal earlier worked with Andersen for 11 years rising to the position of Director of the Corporate Finance practice.

Vishal Tulsyan

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).

Viswanathan Parameswar

Viswanathan Parameswar (Param) is the Head of the Adveq Asia program and is responsible for all investment activities in the region including primary fund investments, secondaries and direct co-investments. Adveq is a leading asset manager investing in private equity and real asset funds globally with more than USD 5 billion in assets under management. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Adveq Secondaries platform, investing in secondary transactions worldwide. Param leverages his international experience having been actively involved in Adveq’s investment activities across the US, Europe and Asia, particularly in emerging markets.

Param holds an MBA from the HEC School of Management in France and attended the Advanced Management and Leadership Programme at Oxford University, UK.