Abhishek Kumar Head of Corporate Development and Mergers & Acquisitions at Snapdeal where he focusses on business growth strategy through M&A, investments, joint ventures and expansion into new business. Abhishek has close to 15 years of experience in consumer industries including media, technology and e-commerce and start-up space. Over the course of his illustrious career, he has successfully closed over 20 deals including investments, cross-border mergers, acquisitions & joint ventures.

Abhishek has led the largest acquisition deals in the internet space in India, investments in technology start-ups including in ad-tech, consumer internet, hardware, SaaS and e-commerce enablers for a Venture Capital Fund and currently implementing inorganic growth strategy via strategic investments and acquisitions.

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Alpesh heads the M&A and Investor Relations in India for Lupin. He has experience in handling cross border acquisitions especially in the USA, LATAM and Asia Pacific markets.

Alpesh joined Lupin in 2009 as Commercial and Finance Head for the business unit focusing on Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle-East and Latin America and has been handling the corporate M&A and Investor Relations since past two years. He started his career in 1998 with Haribhakti & Co in the audit practice and subsequently moved to financial services within the same group. He spent the first 5 & half years of his career in the financial advisory / investment banking services. Subsequently, he moved to industry with the M&A team in Wockhardt and then headed the corporate finance function at Thomas Cook (I) Ltd before moving on to his current job with Lupin.

Alpesh has worked on various engagements in the Corporate Finance field including M&A, treasury, capital market fund raising and has also been involved in operations of some of Lupin’s overseas subsidiaries.

Anil Khandelwal is the Group Chief Financial Officer of Cox & Kings Ltd. A chartered accountant by profession, he had his own practice before he joined the company in January 2008. He played a key role in consolidating the company’s International Operations and was involved in the successful listing of Cox & Kings in 2009 on the country’s stock exchanges. His deep understanding of the business and his ability to raise funds were ably demonstrated when the company raised funds through the GDR issue in 2010 and the QIP in 2014. Amongst his many achievements were handling of cross border acquisitions in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Europe.

In his free time, he loves watching movies and is a voracious reader as well.

Bhavna Thakur is Managing Director, Capital Markets and Exits for Everstone Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Everstone in 2015, Bhavna had over 17 years of corporate finance, investment banking, M&A, and capital markets experience. Previously, Bhavna worked with Citigroup, Morgan Stanley in Mumbai, and Paul Weiss, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and Davis Polk and Wardwell LLP in London and New York, respectively.

Bhavna holds a BA LLB (Honors) from National Law School of India, and a Masters in Law from Columbia University.

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Daniel is the Country Head India for FIVES, an engineering group who supplies process equipment for MNE, including some of India's leading industrial companies. He is a member of the executive committee since 2003.

Daniel joined FIVES in 1991 and has 20 years experience as managing director of a number of companies located in 12 countries and as head of business units. As part of his experience, he has worked in a number of cross border acquisitions.

Since 2014, Daniel is responsible for the corporate management of Indian companies and the business development of FIVES, including business acquisition of Indian companies.
Daniel holds an engineering degree from INSA Lyon and a MBA from EM Lyon - France

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.

Gaurav heads the M&A team in India and has extensive knowledge of Indian corporates, various industries and private equity funds. His forte is domestic and cross border transactions.

Gaurav joined Accuracy as a partner in 2015. He started his career in 1998 with Ernst & Young in the Middle East. Subsequently, he moved to Canada to work with Allianz Insurance and gained significant M&A experience in the North American market. During his stint overseas, he worked on various engagements in the Corporate Finance field, covering sectors such as Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Trading.

He later joined Ernst & Young in India before moving to BMR Advisors as one of the founding team members in Transaction Advisory Services. During the last 10 years, he has successfully led their M&A practice to be one of the leaders in the mid market segment.

Over the course of his career, Gaurav has advised companies on M&A, valuation in the context of transactions, Fundraising and Feasibility studies.

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. 

Imran is a General Partner at Gaja Capital (www.gajacapital.com). Gaja is India’s leading mid-market growth capital firm. Gaja’s aim is to help create India’s next generation of market leaders in sectors such as Education, Consumer, Financial Services and Healthcare.

Imran has 19 years of experience in Private Equity, Pharmaceuticals and Technology services. Prior to Gaja, Imran worked in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at Dr. Reddy’s and Wipro Technologies.

At Gaja, Imran leads investments in the Education and Consumer clusters. He has been closely involved with Gaja’s investments in Kangaroo Kids (Pre-K and K-12), SportzVillage (Sports management), EuroKids (Pre-K and K12), John Distilleries (AlcoBev), CL Educate (Supplemental Education), Indus World Schools (K12), Educomp (Education- diversified) and Millennium Schools (K12). Imran has post graduate degrees in software engineering from BITS-Pilani and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.

Mr. Kumar Shah leads the strategy and investment program at Micromax. He is responsible for actively sourcing and partnering with companies from major technology markets across the world that align with Micromax’s long-term strategy.

Prior to joining Micromax, Kumar worked with a global growth stage private equity firm and helped build out their South Asia fund and investment strategy. He also has additional experience working with an early stage VC firm, a technology consulting firm and bulge bracket investment bank.

Kumar has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai and a MBA from the Wharton School.

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A highly accomplished clinician with MHA and post graduation from IIM-B having over 16 years of leadership roles in Public, Trust and Corporate Sector Healthcare units.

Dr. Mudit Saxena graduated from SMS Medical College, Jaipur and he has pursued academics with Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. and Singapore Management University.
He started his career serving at primary health centres in rural Rajasthan. He later joined as the pioneering member of the first Private Medical College in that State.

He worked with Wockhardt Hospitals at key positions and later headed the Fortis Hospital at Cunningham Road, Bangalore. Dr. Saxena went on to serve the flagship hospital of Fortis - FMRI, Gurgaon as the Program Director.

He is currently associated with HCG Enterprises Ltd. as Chief Operating Officer (COO) managing the operations of the key hospitals in Karnataka, Rajasthan and MP. He has recently launched HCG Homecare Services and is involved in strategic initiatives for the Group.

Dr. Saxena has been the Chairperson and panelist for Healthcare Asia, Singapore in 2013 and 2014. He has been a keynote speaker and panelist at various National Healthcare forums. His deep and incisive knowledge of Indian Healthcare Industry is exceptional. He was felicitated at the Annual Smart Healthcare India Summit, 2015 for his Outstanding Contribution to Indian Healthcare Industry.

Rajiv joined Essar in September 2005, as Head of M&A. At Essar, he led the acquisition of Algoma Steel, Canada and Minnesota Steel, USA. Prior to joining Essar, Rajiv was an investment banker with Lazard, the international investment bank, for 12 years. At Lazard he was involved in advising leading global companies in the transportation/logistics, petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electricals and consumer goods sectors.

Rajiv started his working career in the financial services industry in 1984 and has a total work experience of 24 years. He is an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines and a Commerce & Law Graduate from Bombay University.

Ramkumar Krishnamachari, is the Chief Financial Officer of our Company.He has been associated with our Company since August 8, 2010. He is a member of the ICAI and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

He is also a certified as a Certified Public Accountant by the State Board of Accountancy, Delaware, U.S.A. He is also a CFA Charter Holder from the CFA Institute, U.S.A. He has approximately 22 years of experience in the field of finance and accounting. Prior to joining our Company he worked with Royal Sundaram General Insurance Allied Company Limited.

Sameer leads the EQUITACE Capital team which now brings the VC/PE engagement perspective for its USD 2.2bn worth Brand Capital portfolio companies to facilitate their growth to the next level and in turn enhance long term value for all stakeholders. EQUITACE manages the full life cycle of the VC fund management process from pre-investment, to nurturing and growing the portfolio and facilitating exits. At the same time EQUITACE integrates the Brand Capital outreach within the ecosystems of Angel/VC/PE funds and also the domestic and global strategic players.

Sameer brings with him over 17 years of rich Investment banking experience in developing and shaping corporate strategies, helping PE funds harvest their investments and grow their portfolios and working on facilitating entrepreneurs shape their dreams globally. Prior to joining Brand Capital, Sameer was a Vice President with SBI Capital Markets Limited where he led the M&A, Private equity team and amongst others was also responsible for developing, building and managing the M&A International network across 40 countries to facilitate growth for Indian corporates and also bring global strategic and financial investors to invest and grow in India. He has also served in the past organisations such as Haribhakti Corporate Finance and Mahindra & Mahindra limited. Sameer is an Production Engineer from Fr. Agnel, Mumbai University and has also completed his Master of Management Studies from Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai University.

Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is the Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of India Alternatives. Shivani has over 17 years of venture capital and private equity experience in the USA and in India at top venture capital and private equity funds including IDFC Private Equity, Lightyear Capital and GE Equity where she has been responsible for deal sourcing, execution and monitoring companies across various sectors. Shivani has helped shape strategy at various companies at both the startup stage and growth stage through board level involvement and been instrumental in generating superior returns for her investors. Shivani is an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts).

Ms. Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is the Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of India Alternatives Private Equity (“India Alt”). India Alt is a leading private equity fund focused on making mid-growth stage investments in India. Leveraging certain underlying themes such as women’s empowerment, India’s consumption story and developing healthcare, the primary focus remains to generate superior IRRs.

The Fund has made marquee investments till date, which include: Gokaldas Intimatewear - India’s fastest growing market leader in the women’s lingerie space which owns the brand “Enamor”; CIBIL - India’s dominant credit information bureau; Seclore - a rapidly growing software product company in the area of Information Rights Management; and Ideacount – an animation training company.

India Alternatives has attracted top talent in the industry and includes industry veterans such as Mrs. Ranjana Kumar (Ex CVCI; Ex Chairperson Indian Bank and NABARD); Kiran Nadkarni (a pioneer in the private equity space with over 25 years of experience, having started ICICI Ventures); Dr. Ajai Kumar (Founder, HCG Multi-specialty Hospital with over 30 years of experience in Radiation & Oncology) and Ms. Veronica John (Ex ADB and CDC; listed as one of Asia’s most influential women in Finance).

Prior to founding India Alternatives, Shivani was a key member of the senior management at IDFC Private Equity where she was responsible for deal sourcing, execution and monitoring in fast growing companies in India. Shivani has made investments and managed portfolio companies in various sectors including infrastructure, real estate (managed the Chalet Hotels of the Raheja’s), domestic consumption, healthcare (first PE investor in HealthCare Global), telecom (invested in Hutchison Essar and Vodafone Essar) and water solutions (invested in Doshion Water Solutions). Her investments have yielded IRRs for investors of between 23% - 171%.

Before IDFC Private Equity, Shivani spent 14 years in the US where she completed her education at two Ivy League institutions and worked at top notch global venture capital and private equity funds. Immediately prior to IDFC Private Equity, Shivani worked with Lightyear Capital, a private equity fund based in New York, where she was responsible for evaluating both growth equity and venture investment opportunities in sectors including education and financial services. Before Lightyear Capital, Shivani worked at the private equity arm of General Electric and the Investment Banking division at Credit Suisse First Boston, New York.

Shivani has been an active member on the boards of all her portfolio companies where she has been instrumental in guiding management teams and shaping strategy. Shivani has been on the Board of HealthCare Global (South Asia’s largest cancer care provider), and currently sits on the Boards of Gokaldas Intimatewear (India’s leading women’s innerwear company that owns the brand “Enamor”), Seclore Technology (rapidly growing software product company) and Ideacount Education (an animation training company).

Shivani is a frequent speaker at multiple domestic and international conferences on private equity including the Indian Venture Capital Association, AVCJ, and SuperReturn in Europe.

Shreeram Iyer is the Chairman & Group CEO of Prisma Global Limited. He currently also serves as strategic IT Advisor on the board of NRW Invest (Government of Germany). Iyer is vastly experienced in IT Sales Operations and Business Development for Projects, Products and Process Outsourcing Services. Over the course of his career, Shreeram Iyer has been associated in senior management and board in organisations like Patni. In addition to this he has also worked with Temple Technologies and Motorola in senior leadership roles, looking into global operations, financial and business planning, strategy and client relationship.

Iyer holds Mechanical Engineering degree from the prestigious Veermata Jeejabai Technological Institute and his interests include Astronomy, Pure Science and Information Technology.

Sumit started the Accuracy India office in 2012 and spend 3 years before he relocated to France. He currently works closely with India for all in bound and out bound cross border situations. He is connected to a large number of corporates across industries in Europe and UK.

Sumit started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopersin 1993 and worked in their Paris and Lodon offices within the Transaction Services department. He subsequently worked with the Kering Group, Paris (formerly PPR) as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions Amongst others, he played a pivotal role in the successful Puma takeover bid in 2007.

Sumit worked in India from 2008 starting with Mazars as Head of Corporate Finance in India, focusing on the promotion of Indo-European transactions. In 2011, he joined Accuracy.

Sumit has extensive experience in M&A both domestic and cross border advisory services, diligence,  valuations and dispute support work.

T. N. Giridhar is a Managing Director and CEO of Lincoln International’s India office. In this capacity, Giridhar is responsible for the overall strategy and business development of Lincoln India. He is also involved in extending the firm’s network in its key neighboring countries. Giridhar has over 20 years experience in the financial services business in Mumbai, Hong Kong and London. He has worked with public listed and private companies; worked on capital raising through public listings, Private Equity transactions, bond placements, M&A transactions in India, Europe and cross-border with financial and strategic buyers.

Prior to joining Lincoln International in 2011, T.N. Giridhar worked with ICICI Securities, India’s leading Investment bank as head of Advisory and head of Financial Institutions group. Before moving to ICICI, Giridhar worked as Director - India Business at Arkios Ltd, a UK based mid-market specialist. Prior to joining Arkios he worked as Associate Director at Communications Equity Associates, a US headquartered firm and prior to that as Vice President at Kotak Securities - Goldman Sachs. T.N. Giridhar holds an MBA degree from Sri Sathya Sai University and a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Andhra University.

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Vijay Madhav Paradkar is Vice President for Mergers and Acquisitions at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd where he is responsible for all M & A, JV, Disinvestments, and PE investment of the company. He has 32 years of experience in the areas of Institutional & Corporate Finance, Fund Management, PE Investment, Investment Banking and M&A. Vijay has handled famous transactions like Kinetic Motors asset disinvestment, acquisition of Reva Electric Car co., restructuring of Renault JV and many cross border transactions in countries such as Australia, Italy, UK, Spain, Japan etc.

Vijay is also part of visiting faculties at renowned management institutes such as BSE Training Institute, JBIMS, MET & Welingkar Institute. A Mechanical Engineer by profession, Vijay also holds a Masters in Management Studies.

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Vikram has been with IVFA since March 2000 and was actively involved in setting up the Firm. He is based in Mumbai and is currently responsible for investments in diverse industries including consumer, retail, financial services and industrials, amongst others. Vikram is also involved in fund raising and investor relations activities.

Vikram is a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM. He has earlier worked for Andersen in their financial consulting and corporate finance practice, where as an Engagement Manager, he was responsible for telecom clients.

Vikas is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Certified Public Accountant from State Board of Accountancy, Colorado, U.S.A. He is also a certified Business Valuer from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He started his career in Audit and Assurance services and has worked in India, USA and UAE offices of Grant Thornton. Prior to joining PropTiger.com in 2011 he was part of the leadership team at iTrust.in, an online financial services company. He has played key role in the recent acquisitions made by the Company in the last one year.

In his free time, he loves spending time with friends and family.

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Vinay is a commerce graduate from the Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi and a Chartered Accountant. He is presently associated with HT Media as Chief Financial Strategist since October 2008, looking after M & A, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations. He has also worked with EXL, Max India and ANZ Grindlays in finance, tax, investment banking, treasury management and venture capital. He has more than 25 years of experience spanning full investment cycle – from acquisition, building to spinning/ selling off businesses.

Vineetha is one of the founding partners of Samvad Partners. She has extensive experience in advising on private equity investments, cross- border and domestic M&A, project and corporate ?nance and setting up of investment funds. She regularly advises corporates on corporate governance issues, domestic and cross border anti-corruption statutes and ethics. She is ranked in Chambers Partners Asia Paci?c and Global 2015.

Vineetha holds a B.A. LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She completed the infrastructure in a Market Economy Program at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. She began her career at ICICI Bank Limited, Mumbai, in 1998. Since 2002 till 2012 she has been with AZB & Partners.

Vishal Laheri has over 14 years of experience in Strategy, M&A and transactions advisory across Financial Services, Technology Media & Telecom and Infrastructure & Power sectors. He has worked on some of the largest and most complex transactions in India and has developed vital relationships with several renowned promoters, foreign and India institutions, funds and C-Level executives.

Between 2005-2015, Vishal worked with the promoter team (reporting directly to the Group Managing Directors) of Reliance Group (India’s leading business conglomerate), across all the businesses of the Group, specifically working on M&A, taxation and accounting matters. He also assisted the promoter team in their representations with several industry forums including FICCI, CII, IMC, India US CEO forum, etc.

Over the past 4 years, Vishal was responsible for the M&A & Strategy function, reporting to the Group CEO at Reliance Capital Limited (RCAP), the holding company of Reliance Group’s financial businesses. In this role, amongst several other transactions, he was instrumental in the Group’s key partnerships with Nippon Life Insurance (Japan) for the life insurance and asset management businesses, and with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust and Bank (Japan) for the proposed banking license and strategic partnership. During this period, Vishal has closed transactions aggregating to ~USD 1.5 bn. He continues to advise RCAP on its ongoing transactions.

Prior to joining Reliance Group, Vishal was part of the Transaction Advisory Services at Ambit RSM (now part of PwC India) for about 4 years, and worked on a wide range of sector-agnostic M&A and restructuring transactions, for leading Indian as well as MNC clients.

Vishal is a Fellow of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of India and a Company Secretary by qualification, and has graduated from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai, with state government open merit scholarship.

With over 16 Years of experience in Technology Industry Vivek Sehgal holds expertise in Cloud Computing, Mobility & Collaboration Solutions driving Business growth for Enterprises across all segment. His career has spanned association with organizations like Microsoft, VMware, CA Technologies, Citrix & now Intralinks ranging across roles in multiple Lines of Business including Sales, Technology Consulting & Business Development for Cutting Edge Technologies. In his current role, he Heads the Sales for M&A Business segment at Intralinks India.

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