Praveen Chakravarty, CEO

  • Over 18 years of experience as a financial services professional, Former Managing Director, BNP Paribas Securities India and Founder Director of Thomas Weisel International Pvt Ltd (India business of San Francisco based investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners).
  • Eisenhower Fellow 2012
  • Member, Primary Markets Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
  • Board Member - TVS Electronics, Bombay Stock Exchange Institute, mSwipe Technologies, Springboard Finance.
  • Social Impact Initiatives – Founding Trustee - IndiaSpend Foundation, Advisor - Centre for Civil Society, Advisor – PRS Legislative Research
  • Co-founder Mumbai Angels, India's leading angel investing group
  • MBA Wharton School, BS Computer Science BITS, Pilani.
Padam Jain, Executive Director

  • 38 years of commercial and investment banking experience
  • General Manager, Bank of India
  • Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers and Chartered Institute of Bankers, London
  • M. Com, Delhi University ; Diploma in management, FMS Delhi
Anil Kakani, Executive Director, Cross Border

  • Over 10 years of experience in leading U.S.-India cross border commercial and economic/financial sector policy engagements
  • Senior Advisor for India to US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Business Development Manager, Corning Inc
  • Economics degree, UCLA; Masters degree, Harvard University; Law degree, University of Arizona
Amit Dhingra, Executive Director, Client Coverage

  • More than 10 years of experience in investment banking at Citi (Mumbai, Hong Kong), Kotak/Goldman Sachs (Mumbai, Hong Kong) and HSBC (Mumbai, London,  Tokyo)
  • Over 30 deals originated and executed across capital markets and M&A in India and Asia ex Japan
  • B.A (Hons.) Economics, Delhi University; MBA, IIM Ahmedabad; CFA Charterholder
Dr Jagprag S. Gujral, Director, Healthcare

  • More than 12 years of experience in the life-sciences; primarily in corporate strategy, management consulting and operations
  • Head of consulting & Principal for Clearstate Advisory in Singapore and senior leadership positions with Apollo Hospitals & Fortis Healthcare.
  • Double postgraduate doctor of medicine (MBBS, PGDPPHC, PGDMLS) ; MBA, ISB, Hyderabad
Dr. Rahul Porwal, Associate Director, ECM

  • Over 13 years of investment banking and corporate strategy experience; including over 8 years at AnandRathi, with transaction experience across pharma, infrastructure, consumer , textiles, industrials and energy sectors
  • Head of ECM Practice and supervised more than a dozen IPOs, QIPs, PE deals, M&A, Open Offer and debt syndications
  • Ph. D., Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant
Raman Sharaph, Associate Director, Industrials

  • Over 10 years of financial services and investment banking experience
  • Investment Banking and Advisory at KPMG, Edelweiss, Ernst & Young
  • Rank holder CA; MBA, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Sachin Mehta, Vice President, Financial Sponsors Group

  • Over 6 years of experience in equity capital markets
  • Investment Banking at Ambit Corporate Finance and Karvy Investor Services Limited
  • MBA, IIPM Mumbai