Our speakers

Amit Hirawat, Director, India Value Fund

Amit joined IVFA in 2008 and is based in Mumbai.

Amit has been involved in evaluating and executing IVFA’s investments in the healthcare services, manufacturing and infrastructure related businesses. Amit has also contributed towards development of the firm’s framework for evaluating exit opportunities for portfolio companies.

Amit has worked for six years with DSP Merrill Lynch in Mumbai in their M&A and private equity group and for three years with Deutsche Bank in Singapore as part of investment banking team. He was involved in raising capital and M&A in telecom, healthcare, financial services, IT, internet, infrastructure, manufacturing in and outside India.

Amit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Amit Jain, Managing Director - Private Equity, Blackstone Advisors India Private Ltd

Amit Jain is a Managing Director in the Private Equity Group and is based in Mumbai. Before joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Jain worked at McKinsey & Company focusing on infrastructure and financial projects in India. Prior to that, Mr. Jain worked at Hindustan Unilever limited ("HUL") where he worked primarily in the manufacturing and supply chain area, setting up and operating manufacturing plants in HUL. Mr. Jain received a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur where he received the "Institute Silver Medal" and a P.G.P. (equivalent to an M.B.A.) from the Indian School of Business ("ISB"), Hyderabad where he was awarded the "ISB Scholar of Excellence."

Amit Jain, Partner, Price Waterhouse & Co LLP

Amit is a Partner at Price Waterhouse & Co LLP with experience of over 15 years. He leads the Fintech regulatory practice with industry focus on digital payments, digital lending, neobanks, cross-border remittances, and other fintech segments.  He has been extensively assisting his clients in obtaining necessary regulatory licenses, setting-up of regulatory compliance and governance framework, policy advocacy, due diligence and other consulting areas. Amit also leads the knowledge partnership engagement with industry groups and members on research and representation to policy makers on emerging fintech topics.

Amit Jain, CEO & Co-founder, CarDekho.com | @CarDekho

An IIT Delhi 1999 alumni, Amit Jain co-founded the Jaipur based IT outsourcing firm Girnar Software Pvt. Ltd. in 2007 along with his brother Anurag Jain, also an ex-IIT Delhi student. Following his visit to the auto expo of 2008, the idea of Cardekho.com kicked off as the flagship portal of GirnarSoft.

Amit started his career with Trilogy, an Austin based company and due to his knowledge and expertise in the field of technology development, he moved up the ranks quickly to take on the role of Product Manager with the company. After spending 8 years with the company, his passion for innovation steered him towards starting his own venture, GirnarSoft. His decision of acquiring leading auto portals Gaadi.com and Zigwheels.com brings the group company GirnarSoft another step closer to the goal of being a multi-billion dollar company before 2021. Amit’s zeal towards fostering entrepreneurship and creating products that create a superior consumer experience has led him to be an angel investor to various internet startups. He is also a regular speaker at Tie Events.

Amit Jaju, Sr. MD, Ankura Consulting

Amit Jaju is a Senior Managing Director based in Mumbai. Amit has over 17 years of experience in technology consulting with a focus around client issues such as fraud, data theft, intellectual property, financial crime. Amit is the only digital forensics expert from India in the Who’s Who of Legal list of experts. Amit covers a wide range of areas covering digital forensics, ediscovery, cyber, analytics, software license compliance, and automation.

Amit Kansal, Chief Investment Officer, Aditya Birla Stressed Asset AMC Pvt Ltd.

Mr. Amit Kansal is the Chief Investment Officer of Aditya Birla Stressed Asset AMC Pvt Ltd which runs a Category II AIF focusing on special situations and distress opportunities. At Aditya Birla, he has been involved in some of the most marquee transactions including the largest OTS of its kind for a 1350 MW Thermal Power plant. With a total experience of more than 18 years, he has now been with the Aditya Birla Group for more than a decade and spearheaded the group’s entry into this business.

Prior to this role, he as one of the founding members of team, led the Project & Structured Finance vertical for North & East for Aditya Birla Finance and set up an immensely successful franchise in that business. His role spanned project linked lending, structured debt and corporate finance solutions to large and mid-market corporate houses. He has covered infrastructure, core, hospitality and real estate sectors extensively apart from manufacturing and select sunrise sectors. Previously, he has worked at Srei Infrastructure, ICICI Bank and Ernst & Young.

He is a commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce and a Rank Holder Chartered Account.

Amit Kapoor, Co founder & Director, Eupheus Learning

Amit has more than 15 years’ experience in sales and marketing across Education, Training & Entertainment industries covering Indian and International markets. His stints at NIIT, Palador Pictures, Centum Learning, Across World Education and Encyclopaedia Britannica have been focussed on Sales, market entry and growth strategies coupled with a focus on business development.

In his last assignment, Amit was Director - Digital Sales at Encyclopaedia Britannica South Asia. He holds PGDM from T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal.

Amit Kapoor, MD, Matrix Partners

Complementing his knowledge of India is Amit’s passion for entrepreneurship and innovation. He started his first profit-making venture at the age of twelve, when he opened a community library with zero capital. Later, he helped an entrepreneur in his hometown start a successful dairy processing unit, followed by an education franchise in Jaipur, which he helped establish and managed for three years.

Amit joined the MBA program at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, where he was awarded the Director's Merit Certificate for excellent academic performance. While at IIM he worked closely with the founding team of Concordas Limited, a company serving the life sciences industry. Upon graduation he joined McKinsey & Company where he supported senior management of leading Indian retail and IT services companies on a range of issues including business development, organization restructuring, operational efficiency and channel management.

As a private equity professional, Amit continues his search for exciting business opportunities in India and is passionate about working with local entrepreneurs to build world class companies.

Amit Kapur, Managing Promoter, Vedatya Institute

Amit is the managing promoter of a services focused educational institute called Vedatya. Since establishing its new campus in the NCR, he is now helping drive the business development initiative and shaping the next phase of institute’s growth that includes understanding the application of artificial intelligence and human psychology towards human learning.

Before moving back to India in 2006, he complemented his electronics engineering background with a business focused work experience in US. As a chip designer in Intel’s first 64-bit microprocessor team in California, Amit was part of a team that established Intel’s next generation microprocessor architecture as an industry standard. He also had roles in marketing, business development and as an apprentice to a CEO of a mid-cap company during his career in the US.

Amit holds a Bachelor degree from Arizona State University and a Masters degree from University of Southern California, both in Electronics Engineering. He also holds an MBA from The Wharton School in Philadelphia.

Amit Kapur, Promoter, IIMT

Amit Kapur is a promoter of an institute called IIMT.
In this role as a promoter, Amit is helping drive the business development and marketing related activity at the institute, formulating and implementing growth plans including a new campus near Gurgaon and ensuring broad compliances.

 

Before moving back to India in 2006, he complemented his electronics engineering background with a business focused work experience in US. Broadly speaking, his experience includes working as a chip design engineer at Intel, California, a business development executive at a mid-cap semiconductor company in the bay area and as a Technical Assistant to the CEO in a company called SMSC in New York. In this last role in US, Amit lead broad based business issues to completion.

 

Amit holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electronics Engineering from US an MBA from The Wharton School, Philadelphia