Our speakers
Ameera Shah, Promoter and Executive Chairperson, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd.
Ameesh Masurekar, Founder & Director, AIOCD AWACS
Ameesh Masurekar is Director – AIOCD AWACS – which is into Pharma Market Research & IT Infrastructure in Pharma Channel. He started his career as a Medical Rep with Eli Lilly and was into Brand Management in Nicholas Piramal. In his 2 decade-plus career, data always excites him and the enormous opportunities to use data keeps driving him!
Ameet Desai, CEO, Adani Advisory
Ameet H. Desai is the Chief Executive Officer of Adani Advisory LLP which is the family office of the $ 5 billion Adani Group. He has over 25 years of experience developing infrastructure projects including ports, Special Economic Zones, logistics, power and city gas distribution. Previously he has worked as the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Adani Power Ltd. and Mundra Port & SEZ Ltd. He was also responsible for successfully raising almost $ 1 billion capital through the IPO route and $ 1.2 billion through private equity and QIP route. He has also mobilized debt of over $ 8.5 billion.
Prior to Adani Group, he was Vice President (Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Planning) at Indian pharmaceutical major Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. and worked at Core Healthcare before that.
He is a Management Graduate and also lectures at Business Schools as a guest lecturer.
Amer Warsi, Director - Channels, Ecosystem and SMB. Hewlett Packard Enterprise India
Amish Mehta, Partner-Valuation, Modeling & Economics, EY
- Amish is a Partner with the Valuation, Modeling & Economics team.
- He joined EY in 2000 and is currently based in the Mumbai, India office
- From 2000 to 2003 Amish was part of transactions tax team in EY.
- Amish is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI (2001) and Cost and Management Accountant from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (2002).
- Amish’s has been involved in more than 400 valuation engagements
- Amish works across sectors such as telecom, technology, automotive, chemicals, financial services.
- Merger of Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy
- Valuation of several insurance companies –life & general – for interse transfer amongst shareholders after increase in FDI limit
- Merger of Centurion Bank of Punjab Limited into HDFC Bank
- Merger of ShashunPharmaceuticals into Strides
- Merger of various entities of Mahindra Group’s auto ancillary business
- Valuation of Idea Cellular Limited
- Valuation for Bosch Group
- Assisted Munich Re, German insurance company, for scouting for Indian Partner which ultimately resulting in stake acquisition in HDFC’s existing general life insurance business
- Valuation of portfolio companies of IDFC Private Equity / Kotak Private Equity / Multiples Fund
Skills and professional experience
Amish’s key competencies includes equity/business valuation, brand and other intangible valuation for various purposes such as swap ratios/share entitlement ratios, other transactions, restructuring, regulatory requirements, financial and NAV reporting
Some of the marquee assignments are as follows:
Skills and professional experience
Amishi Kapadia, Senior President & Global Head Merchant Banking, YES Securities
Amishi has over 22 years of experience in Capital Markets in India. She has successfully managed to raise equity for over 75 corporates in both private and public sector, mobilizing close to INR 1,400 billion. Prior to joining YES SECURITIES, she has worked with SBI Capital Markets, Kotak Mahindra Group, Bennett & Coleman & Co. and HDFC Bank. She holds a degree in International Finance & Business from SIPA, Columbia University, New York and an MBA from India.
Amit Lakhotia, GM - Payments, One97 Communications Ltd
Amit Lakhotia looks after payments and deals business of Paytm. After passing out of IIM Ahmedabad, worked with MakeMyTrip for about four years to build their B2B business from scratch to an annual sales topline of about 500Cr. Post that he dabbled in his own venture in cab space.
Amit Agarwal, Group CFO, Raymond Ltd
Amit Agarwal, President & Head - Private Credit, Edelweiss Alternatives
Amit Agarwal has 2 decades of experience in Private Credit & Special Situation financing, corporate financing, Investments, deal structuring, deal origination, restructuring, performance improvement & turnaround management, acquisition financing, investment banking and corporate finance.
Amit is one of the founding members of the Private Credit & Special Situation business at Edelweiss and has played key role in business development and growth. He has significant relationships across banks, promoters and market participants. He currently leads the flagship $1.3 billion distressed asset fund raised by Edelweiss.
He has led acquisition/investment in stressed assets across strategies and has been instrumental in resolution of large assets. Amit has originated and invested more than ~USD 1 billion across stressed assets transactions. He has been involved in managing the entire lifecycle of large investment and creating exit strategies in several assets.
Prior to Edelweiss, Amit was associated with ARCIL, the first ARC in India, and was a part of strategic business group where he played a key role in portfolio monitoring and analysis. He has also worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers earlier, where his focus was performance improvement and financial restructuring.
Amit is an All India Rank-holder Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the Lucknow University too.
Amit Anand, Founding & Managing Partner, Jungle Ventures
Amit Anand is the Founder and Managing Partner of Singapore based Jungle Ventures, a entrepreneur backed venture firm that funds and helps start-ups scale across Asia Pacific. Prior to starting Jungle, Amit has spent over 12 years in Asia Pacific working for start-ups and corporations across various roles in Product, Marketing and Sales & Business Development. A Kauffman Fellow(Class 18), Amit is extremely passionate about Asian innovators and inventors. He is also presided as Vice Chair on the Board of Business Angels Network South East Asia (BANSEA) for the last 3 years