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Subba Rao Amarthaluru  is President and the Group Chief Financial Officer of the GMR Group. He is a Chartered Accountant with about 23 years corporate experience. He is associated with GMR for the last 10 years and thus the most part of GMR’s evolution from a small time manufacturing group to a premier infra developer.

Shri A Mahesh Reddy, Managing Director of AMR Constructions Limited has created a high value firm, which is scaling to new heights every year in Infrastructure, Mining and Construction industry.

A graduate from Dharwad University, he has a vast experience of twenty years. He gained extensive ground knowledge in the pure contracting and set a reputation for the timely, quality execution in an industry where this is not heard often.

AMR Constructions was established in 1992 and later incorporated as Limited company in 2001, headquartered at Hyderabad; their main areas of focus today are mining and infrastructure. Good projects, great clients, high efficiencies and a deep core competence - these sums up his winning streak.

Abhay is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital India. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Abhay was head of Real Estate and Infrastructure investment banking at DSP Merrill Lynch where he led capital raising for the largest Indian companies in these sectors including the largest Indian initial public offering for DLF Ltd. Prior to that, Abhay worked at McKinsey & Co, in Mumbai and Johannesburg. At McKinsey, Abhay worked with a number of leading Indian corporations in the Media and Entertainment and Manufacturing sectors. Abhay received an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay.

Mr. Amulya Charan is a B.E. (Mechanical) from the University of Roorkee, India and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has an overall experience of 37 years in various industries, ranging from consumer goods, international marketing, joint venture promotion, automotive components, information technology, telecom and power sector. He has been with The Tata Group since 1996. He is also on the Board of several Tata companies.

Mr. Padam Prakash Gupta is an Hons. Graduate in Industrial Engineering with Post-Graduation in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.  After his initial experience in BHEL and as a Merchant Banker at National Grindlays Bank, he took over TEECL in 1980.

Under his guidance, TEECL has emerged as a leading Company as EPC in all the three segments of Power Sector in India i.e., Generation, Transmission and Distribution.  He has led TEECL to become the largest Company in Eastern India.  Now he is spearheading TEECL into Green Power.

He is actively involved in various power sector developmental activities on behalf of industrial bodies and Ministry of Power, India.

He represented/represents following bodies in various capacities :

IEEMA, CII, IIPM, IIW

He is well-known in Power Sector in the country and has close proximity with Power Utilities, Power Traders & Generators, Power Transmitters and Regulators.

Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of BCP Advisors, advisors to the Beacon India Private Equity Fund ($320M under management including co-investment pool).  Prior to that he was Managing Director at private equity fund GEM India Advisors, and worked with Reuters Venture Capital, Bain & Company and Ernst & Young.

Deepak currently serves on the board of Baker's Circle, Bhayana Builders, Impresario, New Horizon Media, Sula Wines, Saffronart, Vatika and Trak. Deepak has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD (Dean's List) and an LLB (Hons) from King's College London. Deepak has 14 years of principal investing experience

G Subramaniam is a Chartered Accountant with additional qualifications in Cost & Management accounting and over 27 years experience in industry. Of this, the last 15 years have been in Telecoms, Media and Infrastructure. Apart from providing leadership to the Finance function he has additionally lead managed M&A, Corporate Strategy, Information Technology, Commercial and the Customer Services functions. He also briefly headed a venture in the broadband telecoms sector.

 

He is currently, Director – Finance, of Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd., (MIAL) a member of the GVK group. MIAL is a GVK JV with Airport Company of South Africa (ACSA), Bidwest SA and AAI. This venture has been tasked with setting up a brownfield airport in Mumbai at a project cost of around $ 2.2 Bn. Prior to joining MIAL, he variously headed the Finance function in organizations such as Bennett, Coleman & Compamy Limited, Aircel, Star TV and BPL Mobile.

Pinaki has 12 years of experience in the infrastructure industry across the energy value-chain in India, US and Europe. Prior to joining IDFC Private Equity, Pinaki looked at private equity investments in Clean Tech infrastructure with Vantage Point Venture Partners/New Energy Capital in the US. Previously, Pinaki held positions at Bank of Scotland and InterGen (former Shell-Bechtel JV) working on project finance, strategy, asset management and the exit of a 3,300 MW portfolio in US. Pinaki started his career with ABB ALSTOM Power/ALSTOM working on global sourcing and project execution for power projects in India.

Pinaki received an MBA and a Dean's Certificate in Financial Engineering from Cornell University and a BE (Mechanical) from the Delhi College of Engineering. Pinaki is married and has a son. He enjoys work, cricket, movies, selective reading, trekking and spending time with the family.

George Thomas is a Partner at India Value Fund Advisors. He joined the firm in 2002 to strengthen the "Business Building" function. As a Business Manager, George has leveraged his turnaround and marketing experience to assist portfolio companies with merger / integration, strategy, and branding. George has also assisted the Fund to fine-tune its under-writing capability by supporting Fund Managers in appraising transactions.

As a Business Manager at Trinethra, George strengthened operational controls and developed the fastest growing supermarket chain in South India which had benchmarked processes and results significantly ahead of competition both in terms of cost structures and in terms of control efficiency. On acquisition of Music Broadcast, George took direct oversight on operations of Radio City during the initial period of uncertainty caused by the delay in announcement of the new licensing policy. He helped TTK Healthcare Services migrate to a centralized IT enabled delivery platform, which he identified along with the management of the Company as a seminal initiative to scale the growing healthcare insurance claim processing and to migrate the business to a cutting edge, analytics based healthcare insurance company capable of supporting its customers not only with the most efficient claims processing but also able to generate knowledge on high quality insurance underwiriting. His most recent engagement has been with V Link Travel Solutions where he has been deeply involved in the pioneering launch of Meru cab services in Mumbai and major cities of India.

George is a Post-Graduate in History from St Stephen's College, Delhi University 20 years of work experience, prior to joining IVF Advisors. He was the Whole-Time Director and Chief Operating Officer at BPL Soft Energy Systems Limited. Prior to this, he headed Warner Lambert India on a restructuring assignment as a Director there. George started his career in the foods business of Unilever and held various positions in this Company both in India and the UK.

Mr.  Krishna Kumar is currently the Co-CEO of Standard Chartered IL&FS Asia Infrastructure  Growth  Fund  – a US$ 660 mn infrastructure fund focused on Asia,  jointly  managed by IL&FS and Standard Chartered Bank.  Mr. Kumar has over 18 years of financial services and infrastructure investment experience.   Over the last 14 years, Mr. Kumar has managed private equity funds  that  have  invested  in  assets  across a variety of infrastructure sectors  including  Utilities,  Telecom  and  Maritime.

He was a key member of the team that made investments in Max Telecom (now Vodafone), Konaseema Power and Pipavav Port.   Prior to joining IL&FS Investment Managers Limited in 2002, Mr.  Kumar  was with the parent organization – Infrastructure  Leasing  &  Financial  Services  Limited (IL&FS), a leading financial  services institution with a focus on infrastructure development, as a Manager in Asset Management, and was an original team member of IL&FS' private  equity  practice.   From  1992  to  1995,  Mr. Kumar was with Kotak Mahindra  Finance  Limited  as  a  Senior  Officer  and  at  Synergy Credit Corporation Limited as an Officer in the Finance Department.

Mr.Patil, has done his Master’s in Business Management from  George Washington University, USA. Presently he is the Executive Chairman of Patil Group.  The group deals as a one stop shop for all railway track solutions mainly for Metro Rail projects.

Mr. L.  Mr. Patil has been in the business for the last 20 years and personally oversees the implementation, operations, marketing functions and progress of all the projects undertaken by the group•  He has been instrumental in the diversification activities taken up by the group by setting up several new companies, units and joint ventures bringing in world class technology into India.  Patil Group is associated with the metro railway infrastructure projects in the country including the Urban Metros that are coming up across India.  Patil group has been providing world class technology to make travel safer, faster and reliable

Nainesh Jaisingh, Managing Director, SCPE, is a Partner with Standard Chartered’s Asian Private Equity business, and has been with the business since 2000.

In 2001, he co-founded Fin Ventures, a global Venture Capital Fund sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank, headquartered at Singapore. In 2003, Nainesh was instrumental in the launch of the Merlion India Fund, a JV between SCPE and Temasek, Singapore.

With SCPE, Nainesh has made and managed successful investments in several sectors - Software/BPO, Engineering, Pharmaceuticals, Shipbuilding, Auto Components, Power Generation, Travel, and Financial Services. He serves on the Board of Directors of several companies.

Nainesh is an Engineer with an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

    

Hemant heads M&A Advisory practice at ICICI Bank.Hemant has over fifteen years of experience in the Investment Banking field with KPMG Corporate Finance and Lazard.

He has advised domestic and multi-national corporations on a variety of domestic and crossborder transactions and has also been involved in divestments, acquisitions, mergers, debt syndications and corporate and debt restructurings.

During his tenure, ICICI Bank catapulted to one of the leading players in the M&A advisory practice, with leadership position in mid-market space.

Hemant has an MMS degree from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and is an engineering graduate from one of Mumbai's leading engineering colleges.

Mr. Vikas Kothari is Director, Business Development in OM Metals Infraprojects Ltd., He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from University of Hartford, CT U.S.A and holds a Masters degree from IIM Bangalore. After graduating from US, he started as a Site Engineer in OM Metals in 1997. He has been contributing towards the growth of OM Metals for the last 12 years. He was elevated to the post of a Director with effect from 2009. He is a very active member of the Board, supervising all the joint ventures, for the domestic and international projects, and also and. He has been instrumental in identifying new business and initiating marketing activities for the group.

Vikram is an investment professional with over 20 years of experience in private equity and finance both in India and Europe.

He is currently a Senior MD with IDFC Project Equity Company, which was set up in 2007 by IDFC to manage the US$~927MM ‘India Infrastructure Fund’ ("IIF" see www.idfc.com). IIF invests equity in core infrastructure projects in India’s energy,utilities, transportation and telecom sectors, and aims to generate long‐term, yieldbased income in addition to capital gains.

Prior to joining IDFC, Vikram held a senior investment role from 1999‐2007 in the telecom team of ABN Amro Capital in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Over this period, his group invested equity (through seed, expansion, and in LBO transactions) in 17 investments across 9 countries. Vikram worked on, amongst others, landmark investments in the German and Polish cable TV sector, in the Bulgarian, Czech and Dutch wireless space, and in Brazilian and Benelux fiber rollouts. Prior to ABN Amro Capital, Vikram worked for 6 years with ANZ Grindlays Bank in India.

Vikram completed his MBA from INSEAD (France) and holds an honours degree in commerce from the Shriram College of Commerce in Delhi University.

Sanjeev Mantri is General Manager, with ICICI Bank Ltd., the largest private bank in India and a leader in SME banking services. Sanjeev drives SME & Agri Corporate lending portfolio across the country, in addition to SME Private Equity and M&A advisory services for the Bank. Under his leadership, SME & Agri business of the bank has shown significant growth.

He joined ICICI Bank Ltd in 2003 to take charge of the Corporate Linked SME lending portfolio and has been responsible for introducing various innovative products to service the needs of this segment.

Prior to joining ICICI he has spent over 7 years with BNP Paribas, Mumbai handling diverse responsibilities in Corporate Banking space.

Sanjeev is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant. Often quoted in the Indian media, he is a regular speaker in many national and international forums for SME Banking.

Shri Deepak Amitabh is Director (Finance) & CFO at PTC India Limited (PTC). He has more than 25 years of experience in auditing, financial analysis, revenue mobilization and coordination, including time spent as a Commissioner of Income-Tax with the Indian Revenue Service.

At PTC he has led the company’s IPO and a series of QIP offerings, as well as creating, in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Macquarie, PTC Financial Services (PFS), a non-banking finance company for the power sector. Most recently, in a joint venture with Ashmore Group, he was instrumental in setting up an asset management company to be focused on the Indian energy sector and currently engaged in raising India’s First Energy Fund.

Shri Amitabh is closely involved in the structuring of Long Term Power Purchase and Sale Agreements for PTC, as well as spearheading the fuel linkages services being developed by PTC for various Independent Power Producers.

Before joining PTC, he worked as Financial Advisor to Director General Naval Projects, Mumbai and has also held the post of Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, New Delhi and Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Mumbai. He belonged to Indian Revenue Service, before being absorbed in PTC.

Deepak joined 3i in March 2007, bringing two decades of work experience starting with the World Bank in Washington DC, followed by a stint with a major Indian business conglomerate, where he was involved with corporate planning and establishing green field projects. Deepak worked with Citigroup since 1989 in various roles including structured financial solutions for State Governments, Capital Markets, Financial Institutions and public/private Corporations. From 1996 he was involved with global equity offerings by Corporations in Europe and Asia.

Deepak was a member of the Banking & Finance Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards (ISO afiliate 2005-06). He was also a member of the committee established by the Government of India to recommend corporate governance norms for independant directors (2006). Deepak has a Bachelors degree with honours in Economics from St Stephens College, Delhi University, and a Masters in International Trade & Finance and Diplomacy, from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Binod is responsible for management of all Projects being executed by the company.

Binod has more than 10 years of experience in running companies in Power and Software Industry. Binod has been the chief architect responsible for growing Shyama Power at more than 100% rate for the past 5 years. He also manages Shyama Power's software subsidiary i.e. Shyamasoft. He orchestrated the acquisition of Kaizer Software Solutions into Shyamasoft and runs this business unit for Shyama Power.

Ranbir has 37 years of project services delivery experience, of which 22 years has been in India, & the rest in 11 other countries. The experience covers over 500 projects of varying scale, domain, & discipline. After working for several consulting firms in various countries for 18 years, Ranbir became an entrepreneur. He is one of the founders, & the Managing Director, of Fairwood Consultants – one of the leading project services companies in India.

Ranbir has a wide variety of exposure ranging from agri-business, to rural development, to heavy industry, to urban development, to urban infrastructure, to social infrastructure, to energy, to transportation, to new city development. With this wide variety of project exposure in many locations, he has learned to create a symphonic nature of development in mega projects, which are necessarily multi-disciplinary & multi-domain. This has resulted in many firsts in project configurations, in terms of component structuring, component scaling, & in terms of technology adaptation across domains. Thus his expertise can be categorized as project visioning & project structuring.

Ranbir has completed, or is working on, projects ranging from small & micro scale to individual projects of US$ 15 billion in capital expenditure, as Project Director. Ranbir is now guiding the next stage of development of Fairwood from a pure services delivery firm to an end product delivery firm – with the tag of mega, green, & high tech. In this effort, new initiatives have been taken in the fields of new city development, clean energy, green transportation, & waste-to-energy – all for the first time in India, & some for the first time in the world.

Neeta has been with Feedback for four years, and has a wide experience advising corporate clients in entry strategies and business planning exercises.  She has worked extensively in the Real Estate, Logistics and Food & Agribusiness sectors.  She currently manages all private sector advisory projects for the Transportation Division.

Prior to Feedback, Neeta has worked with Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) on Business Process Restructuring assignments and with Rabo India Finance in the Food & Agribusiness consulting domain.

Neeta holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Masters in Management Studies from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.

Mr. Atul Tantia obtained his Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentration in Finance and Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA in addition to B.S. in Systems Engineering with concentration in Logistics and Project Management from SEAS, University of Pennsylvania, USA in 2002.
 
Along with his responsibility for the company’s concrete sleeper business in India and abroad, Atul is also responsible for the Finance, Banking, and MIS functions of all the Group Companies.
 
Atul is actively involved in GPT’s export projects in Myanmar, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, including project execution and business development.
 
Under Atul’s leadership, the Group has forayed into international markets in Africa and South East Asia. The group has also started manufacturing of railway track components, and had undertaken a capacity expansion of its concrete sleeper plant in India.

Atul is also a Director of the 2 subsidiaries of the company in Mauritius and South Africa. He is also a Director on the Board of the associate company in Namibia

After successfully completing Mechanical engineering degree from Punjab Engineering college, Mr. Bansal joined Engineers India Limited. In 1983, he left the cushioned corporate job to fulfill his long envisaged dreams.

His first venture started with providing Design consultancy followed by EPC for Sugar plants. Innovation and R&D are the two critical attributes Mr. Bansal has inculcated in the employees and has made them DNA of the group. Later the company ventured into Pre-Fabrication business for Piping, started its own fitting manufacturing capacity and is now one of the leading international engineering enterprises offering a single source solution for piping systems.

Under the supreme guidance and management of Mr. Bansal for last 27 years, the company grew by leaps & bounds and have achieved new heights. But if you take his words it’s just the starting and there is lot to be achieved and to be given back to the society.

The company ventured into Biomass space way back in 2003, when it was just a beginning of green power/ cleantech era. With the years of industry experience and passion to do something new, Mr. Bansal along with the team erected and commissioned 2 biomass plants in the record time of 9 months from the date of starting the civil works.
The vision of setting up these plants was beyond corporate profits & accounts. It was to give back something to the society, something to the farmers, to rural people and something to the State of Punjab where his roots are from.