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Anubha
Shrivastava, Managing Director - Asia,
CDC Group PLC
Anubha Shrivastava is a Managing
Director at CDC Group plc, a fund of funds business
owned by the British Government that invests in the
developing economies of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
She is responsible for the Asian investment portfolio
spanning across South and South-East Asia and China.
Anubha Shrivastava commenced her private equity career
in 1999 with General Motors Asset Management’s Private
Equity Group in New York, USA. She was involved in the
global private equity fund-of-funds portfolio as well as
the global co-investment program. Thereafter she worked
at Performance Equity Management, LLC, where she was
responsible for managing the European fund-of-funds and
co-investment portfolios.
Anubha Shrivastava
started her career in Arthur Andersen and went on to
work with Hambrecht & Quist, USA prior to joining
General Motors Asset Management. |
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Atul Khosla,
Partner, Oliver Wyman
Atul Khosla is a
Partner in Oliver Wyman based in the New Delhi office,
specializing in India growth strategy, strategic IT and
operations and organizational development. Atul has
worked in management consulting for over 15 years where
he has served financial services clients in North
America, Europe, Asia, Australia and India in the areas
of insurance, wealth and asset management, personal
financial services and outsourcing/ offshoring Atul
started his career with McKinsey & Co in India and
subsequently led Watson Wyatt's and Everest Group’s
consulting practices in India. Prior to joining Oliver
Wyman, Atul lead the global financial services practice
of a-connect ag in Switzerland. Atul is a B.Tech from
the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and MBA
from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies,
Mumbai |
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Bharat Bakhshi
- Partner, Jacob Ballas Capital
Bharat joined Jacob Ballas in 2006. Jacob Ballas serves
as the Advisor to three India focused private equity
funds, the latest being NYLIM Jacob Ballas India Fund
III ("Fund III") of US$440 million. Bharat leads
investment teams in investing, monitoring and exits, and
is also involved in Fundraising. He serves on the Boards
of several portfolio companies. Bharat has an experience
of 19 years, of which 14 years has been in financial
services. Prior to Jacob Ballas, Bharat has been with
UBS, Citigroup and Atlantic Richfield Corporation.
Bharat has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from
California State University, Fullerton and an MBA from
University of Southern California. |
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Dushyant Singh,
Associate Director, Transaction Services
Strategy, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Dushyant Singh is an Associate
Director in PwC’s Financial Advisory Services practice,
where he leads a team focusing on business strategy and
commercial due diligence. He has over 12 years of
corporate and consulting experience in the domains of
strategy and business development.
Dushyant
has worked extensively in the Education sector,
providing portfolio, growth and market entry advice to
education groups as well as advising private equity
investors in connection with some of their investments
in the sector. He has been involved in thought
leadership initiatives in the education sector and has
often been quoted in the media on issues related to the
sector. |
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Gautam Mehra,
Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Gautam Mehra, leads the PwC Financial Services
Tax and Regulatory team and is Sector leader, Asset
Management and Real Estate. He has a varied experience
of over 23 years. Prior to joining PwC in September
2003, he had stints with two leading accounting and tax
consultancy firms, which was followed by a long
association with an independent practice founded by him.
In the past few years, he has been focussed on
providing tax and regulatory advisory services to
players in the financial services space with a
particular emphasis on the asset management sector, and
also in providing strategic tax inputs to large
multinational as well as domestic Indian players.
Gautam is a regular speaker at seminars, both in India
and overseas and a contributor to the media. He has been
a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also
a Core Committee member of the American Chamber of
Commerce, Mumbai. Gautam is a Chartered Accountant, has
post-graduated in law and holds a degree in financial
management.
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Jasmin Patel,
Managing Director, Fidelity Growth Partners - India
Dr
Jasmin Patel is Managing Director with Fidelity’s India
– based team advising their Growth Capital /Private
Equity Fund since 2007. His investment interests span
various sectors including agri, cleantech, education,
healthcare and life sciences. Before Fidelity, he held
multiple senior roles at Novartis Pharma in Switzerland
and India. Prior to that Dr Patel was a management
consultant with McKinsey for 4 years and was a R&D
scientist at Gen-Probe and Chugai Biopharmaceuticals for
6 years in San Diego. |
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Jayanta
Banerjee,
Managing Partner, Pravi Capital Advisors LLP
Jayanta
Banerjee is one of the founding partners of Pravi
Capital, a lower mid-market focused private equity firm.
Jayanta has around 20 years of industry
experience with the last 8 years in private equity
business in India. He has in-depth experience of full
cycle investing and fund raising in private equity and
in investment banking. He has also been an entrepreneur
and has worked in the industrials sector. Jayanta has
made investments in wide range of sectors like BFSI,
infrastructure services, logistics and manufacturing.
Prior to starting Pravi Capital, Jayanta was
President – Private Equity at ICICI Venture. In that
capacity, he was responsible for investments in pharma
and healthcare and was also in-charge of fund raising of
India Advantage Fund (IAF) Series 3. Prior to that, as
Head of Private Equity - India at Lehman Brothers,
Jayanta led a team covering all sectors. In his earlier
stint at ICICI Venture, Jayanta led investments in Auto
Components, Logistics and Textiles and led the fund
raising process of IAF Series 2. Jayanta also worked on
and managed multiple investments from ICICI Venture’s
India Advantage Funds apart from managing and exiting
several private equity investments of the legacy funds
of ICICI Venture. Jayanta was member of the Board of
Directors of various portfolio companies including Arch
Pharma, Bharat Biotech, Malladi, Radiant Research and
Transafe.
Jayanta is an MBA from IIM Bangalore
and an electrical engineer from Jadavpur University. He
lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children. He is
interested in Indian contemporary art and amateur
Bengali theatre. |
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Jairaj
Purandare,
Leader Financial Services,
PricewaterhouseCoopers India
Jairaj is based in
Mumbai, India.
Jairaj Purandare (‘Jai’) is
Regional Managing Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
(‘PwC’) India. In addition to being a key member of the
India Leadership Team, Jai is Country Leader – Markets &
Industries for PwC India.
Jai was previously
Chairman of E&Y in India. Prior to joining E&Y, Jai was
the Country Head of the Tax & Regulatory practice of
Andersen in India and has several years experience in
advising multinational companies in India.
Jai
has extensive experience in Foreign Investment
Consulting/Establishment of Joint Ventures,
International Tax, Transfer Pricing and Mergers &
Acquisitions. He has significant expertise in advising
clients on various issues in the Financial Services,
Power and Media Industries.
Jai advises clients
on investment proposals to regulatory authorities
including the Foreign Investment Promotion Board,
Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank of India. Jai
advises clients on investment proposals to regulatory
authorities including the Foreign Investment Promotion
Board, Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank of India.
In its report on the World’s Leading Tax
Advisers, International Tax Review (Euromoney) has named
Jai as among the leading Tax Advisers in India.
Jai is a frequent speaker at seminars in India and
abroad and has presented several papers in areas of his
expertise. |
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Manish Chhajed,
Vice President, Reliance PE
Manish is a Vice President
at the Reliance ADA private equity team. He is currently
serving on the board of several investee companies at
Reliance ADA private equity some of which include Sarla
Holdings Private Limited, runs Pathways world school,
Su-kam, leading inverter and battery manufacturer, DTDC,
leading courier company and EMI Transmission Limited,
leading power accessory manufacturer. Prior to joining
Reliance ADA private equity, he worked with Temasek
Holdings and Vertex Management Pte Limited (Venture
Capital arm of Temasek Holdings) for over three years.
At Vertex he was primarily responsible for investments
in India and for the business development of Vertex
Israel portfolio companies in South East Asia. Some of
the key deals Manish led while at Vertex are investments
into Everonn Systems India Limited, India's second
largest technology aided knowledge services company and
M&B Footwear, a leading shoe manufacturer and retailer.
While at Temasek Manish was part of the team that
invested into Citic Resources, the fourth largest oil
and gas company in China and also the Asia Pacific
Exploration Consolidated, a startup exploration company
focusing on South East Asian Oil and Gas assets.
Manish has a broad exposure to various sectors such
as auto ancillary, education, power ancillary, telecom,
media, technology, logistics, and retail. Prior to
Temasek Holdings, he worked for two years with Defense
Research Development Organization, India.
Manish
holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and
Communication Engineering from National Institute of
Technology, Hamirpur and received his PGDM from Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. |
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Pankaj Dutt,
President, Welkin Partners & Board Member, IRC
Global Executive Search Partners
Pankaj
leverages his experience of managing profit centers &
advising board members in successfully executing search
assignments for clients across industry sectors. At
Welkin he conducts CXO level & board member searches for
both Fortune 500 & VC funded start ups. He has over 15
years’ experience in various leadership and general
management roles with some of the prominent
organizations such as American Express, PwC, EXL and WNS
Holdings. Besides executive search, Pankaj also advises
private equity funds on their India investment strategy
& deal sourcing. He is a Chartered Accountant from India
& a Certified Public Accountant from USA. |
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Piyush Goenka,
Vice President, TANO Capital
Piyush is
a Vice President at Tano India private equity team. Tano
is a sector- agnostic growth stage fund which has been
investing in India for over four years. Piyush is part
of the investment team and is responsible for making
investments for the Fund and also managing investee
companies. He is currently serving on the board of
several investee companies
Prior to joining
Tano, Piyush worked with Infrastructure Leasing &
Financial Services (IL&S) for about four years. At
IL&FS, he was involved in investment banking, structured
finance, prop book investments and corporate advisory.
Earlier, Piyush has worked with Exim Bank of India
involved in Project Finance and Corporate banking and at
First Global as an equity research analyst covering
macro economics, consumer goods and retail sectors.
Piyush is an MBA from MDI, Gurgaon and a CFA charter
holder |
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Raj Pai,
Managing Director, GEF Advisors India
Raj Pai is a
Managing Director with Global Environment Fund (GEF) and
is responsible for the firm's investment activities in
India and South Asia with a special focus on GEF’s
target sectors of clean technology and alternative
energy. GEF manages private equity dedicated to clean
technology, emerging markets, and sustainable forestry,
with approximately $1 billion in aggregate capital under
management. Prior to GEF, Raj was a Managing Director at
CID Capital, a 27 year old investment firm that has
invested over $500 million of growth and expansion stage
capital under its management. Raj was responsible for
successfully raising and deploying two venture stage
funds, investing in over 25 companies – leading efforts
in technology, life sciences and clean technology areas.
He has served on various boards of companies in US and
in India (Reva Electric Car and E4E, Inc). |
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Rajesh Begur, Founder & Managing
Partner, ARA LAW
Rajesh is the founder and managing
partner of ARA LAW. He is one of India’s leading
corporate lawyers whose career spans over two decades of
practice experience.
Rajesh provides counsel and
representation to a broad base of domestic and
international clients on a range of corporate areas
encompassing Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity,
Infrastructure and Real Estate, Capital Markets and
Banking and Finance. He is known for the breadth of
experience, insight and perseverance required to handle
complex and challenging legal, regulatory and business
transactions. He is recognized as one of the prominent
lawyers in the legal arena for his Mergers &
Acquisitions and Private Equity practice. He has been
acclaimed and is well known for his acumen, knowledge
and experience on mutual fund regulations. |
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Rajesh Dalal, Venture Partner,
OrbiMed Advisors
Rajesh Dalal is a senior
consultant to the Healthcare Industry in Asia. He is a
Venture Partner on the Asia team of OrbiMed Advisors
(Private Equity) besides being advisor to leading
multinationals. Rajesh has worked for more than 30 years
with Johnson and Johnson (J&J) in Asia including the
past five years as the head of M&A for J&J Medical in
the Asia Pacific Region. In this role, he worked closely
with scores of medical device companies in China, India
and other parts of Asia. Rajesh was previously the
Managing Director of J&J Medical, India for six years
with overall responsibility for the medical device
businesses at Cordis, DePuy, Endo, Lifescan, Ethicon and
Hospital Supplies. J&J Medical India enjoyed
unprecedented growth in sales and profits during his
tenure as Managing Director. He is credited with
development of scores of future leaders within J&J
including two current Managing Directors.
Rajesh
has been actively engaged in working with the Government
of India to formulate a Regulatory Policy for Medical
Devices. He has worked closely with the Medical Device
Industry Associations in India and has been the Chairman
of American Chamber of Commerce in India.
Mr.
Dalal has co-authored a recent cover story of Forbes
India titled “WINNING IN CHINA”. These articles
highlight typical pitfalls in doing business in China
(and Asia) and also reveal strategies for success that
he has observed during his interactions with scores of
successful corporations. |
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Roopchand
Betala,
Director, Volvie Capital Management
Roop
is working with Volvie Capital as Director since 1995.
Volvie Capital has office in Mumbai, Singapore and New
York and works extensively on fund syndication as well
as cross-border transactions.
Roop personally
works on Capital Raising, Acquisition /strategy and JV
partnership for large infrastructure projects. He has
over Twenty five years of experience in the Indian
Capital Market with significant knowledge on foreign
listing and raising capital including structured
finance. |
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Shobhit Agarwal, Director,
Protiviti India
Shobhit leads the M&A Risk
Advisory practice at Protiviti India. He is a Chartered
Accountant with over a decade of experience in M & A
advisory, risk consulting and governance. Shobhit began
his career with Arthur Andersen in 1998 and then worked
with Ernst & Young in both India and the United States.
Shobhit has assisted a number of private equity funds
and strategic investors in their investment decisions
and across consulting assignments including preliminary
investment reviews, financial and business due
diligence, business plan reviews, and
business/operations improvement. Post investments,
Shobhit is advising several investors/companies on
matters related to corporate governance and enterprise
risk management. Shobhit has worked across industry
segments including - Manufacturing, Telecom, Real
Estate, Infrastructure, Power, Technology, Automobile,
Media and Entertainment. |
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Samir Inamdar, Founding Partner,
Forum Synergy PE Fund
Samir is the Co-founder, MD & CEO
of Forum Synergies (India) PE Fund Managers, which
manages PE Funds focused on SMEs in Information &
Communication Technology, Engineering, Healthcare and
Clean Technology verticals. A Mechanical Engineer and a
PGDM from IIM, Calcutta, Samir’s initial career was in
automotive industry with TELCO (Tata Motors) and
Maruti-Suzuki. In his 12 years with American MNCs, he
first led the spectacular revival and turnaround of Tyco
Electronics, South Asia (formerly AMP). Then, as the
President & CEO, South Asia for GE Consumer &
Industrial, Samir revamped the business to generate
profitable explosive growth. |
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Sandeep
Aneja, Managing Partner, Kaizen PE
Fund
With 15
years of work experience in private equity investment
leadership, and operations management, Sandeep is
considered a thought leader in the private equity
space. Sandeep is the Founder and Managing Director of
Kaizen Private Equity, India’s first education focused
private equity fund. Kaizen is focused on the fast
growing $86 billion education sector. The fund invests
in companies across all segments of the education sector
with the objective of promoting high quality inclusive
education and delivering superior returns to investors.
Sandeep has an MBA from the Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University and an MS in Civil
Engineering from the University of Delaware. |
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Sachin
Maheshwari,Principal, Draper Fisher
Jurvetson
Sachin Maheshwari is a Principal with
Draper Fisher Jurvetson and focuses on investments in
India. Sachin currently serves on the Boards of
Catura and mGinger.
Sachin has over 10 years of investing, operating
and consulting experience. Prior to DFJ, Sachin spent
two years at Opus Capital where he focused on
investments in consumer internet, wireless and software.
In addition, Sachin brings both technology and
business expertise to DFJ. He has had engineering and
product management roles at EFI, Inc. and Unimobile, a
wireless startup acquired by EFI. He later joined the
Corporate Strategy group at EFI and worked on developing
the channel strategy for EFI products. He also worked
for Boston Consulting Group in their San Francisco
office.
Sachin holds an MBA from the Wharton
School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. He also
holds a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from IIT
Kanpur.
Sachin is very active in the TiE and the
PanIIT community. He serves on the PanIIT USA executive
committee leading the IIT Distinguished Alumni program.
He has organized several TiE and IIT conferences
(Content co-chair, TiEcon 2008; Marketing co-chair, IIT
2007). |
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Suneet
Maheshwari, CEO, L&T Infrastructure
Finance
Suneet has about 28 years of experience in India in
Infrastructure financing, Corporate finance,
Infrastructure & Energy sector reform, Investment
banking and Private equity. He has set up infrastructure
advisory & financing in several start-up and rapid
growth situations and has also been closely involved
with various Infrastructure sector reform and PPP
initiatives at the national & state level since 1991,
viz., July ’91 Liberalisation policy, NHAI inception
plan, Power sector reform & IPP program, Telecom &
Petroleum sector reform, Punjab power sector reform
committee, Maharashtra water sector reform, etc.
Currently he is the Chairman of Infrastructure Committee
of the Indian Merchants Chamber – for the year 2010-11
and Chairman – CII Core Group on Infrastructure
Financing & Member of the CII National Council on
Infrastructure for the year 2010-11.
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Currently, since August 2006, he is the CEO of L&T
Infrastructure Finance Co. Ltd., a start up rapid
growing infrastructure finance company floated by L&T
Ltd.
· Between 2004 to 2006 he was Executive
Director & Member of the Board of SREI Infrastructure
Finance Ltd., a leading Calcutta based infra finance
company looking after Venture Capital, Investment
Banking, Structured Finance, Corporate Strategy &
Corporate Affairs;
· From 2000 to 2004 he
was Partner and MD & CEO-Core Infra group of Feedback
Ventures Ltd., a leading infrastructure advisory firm
· From 1984 to 2000 – ICICI Ltd \
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1984 - 1990 – Merchant Banking Division
o 1990 –
2000 – Head of Infrastructure Advisory Services group
o While at ICICI, he was also Founder Director :
Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund (TNUDF)
ICICI
Knowledge Park (Hyderabad)
ICICI Winfra
Development Co Ltd (West Bengal)
ICICI Kinfra
Development Co Ltd (Kerala) . |
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Sumeet
Mehta, CEO, Paradigm Advisors
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Vijaydeep
Singh, Director, Welkin Partners
Vijay is a Senior Director with Welkin Partners.
Prior to joining Welkin Partners, he was associated with
Deloitte’s Financial Advisory practice as Senior
Manager, working out of its New Delhi office. Prior to
Deloitte, he has spent couple of years with HCL
Technologies in their business finance cell at senior
level where he commercially evaluated large outsourcing
deals. Earlier to HCL, he worked with the Financial
Advisory practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 10
years. Vijaydeep has provided a range of professional
experience to large multinational clients, private
equity funds and small companies in carrying out
financial & commercial due diligence as well as
valuation for M&A activity, fund syndication or
corporate restructuring situations. He has also
developed business plans and conducted working capital
reviews for multi-national and public sector clients.
Vijaydeep is a qualified Chartered Accountant from
India and has undergone various professional education
programs on valuation (assets and business), due
diligence, risk assessment and accounting standards. |
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Vikram Nagargoje, Investment Director,
Aloe Private Equity PLC
Vikram Nagargoje is an
Investment Director with Aloe Private where he is
responsible for investments in India and managing the
portfolio companies in India. Vikram is a qualified
accountant and is a Bachelor of Commerce from Pune
University. He is CFA Level III candidate. Prior to
Aloe Private Equity, Vikram was working with
PricewaterhouseCoopers (Mumbai, India) in the Financial
Advisory Services and worked on more than 20 M&A and
private equity transactions. Vikram has also worked in
corporate finance of Thermax Limited, $ 900 million,
energy and environment technologies Company in India.
Aloe is an entrepreneurial and globally
successful investor dedicated to growing highly
profitable environmental and socially sustainable
companies. They currently have three funds under
management and are actively investing. With offices in
London, Paris, Mumbai and Beijing, Aloe is the
international high-integrity partner that can deliver
global expansion |
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