About Us
- One of India’s Leading Alternative Asset Management Platforms
Our Background
Edelweiss Alternatives is a part of the Edelweiss Group, among India’s leading diversified financial services companies. The Asset Management business manages/advises over ~$ 22bn across traditional mutual funds and alternative assets.
Edelweiss Alternatives is the private alternative asset management arm with over a decade of experience in Indian private debt and real assets. We manage/advise assets aggregating over $ 6.7bn. Our customers represent global institutional investors – pension funds, insurance companies, large family offices and ultra-high networth individuals.
“In a world that is searching for yields,
Edelweiss Alternatives provides a unique platform for global investors to access the large and secular
private debt and real assets opportunities in
India through our investment expertise,
institutional platform and robust
governance standards”
Venkat Ramaswamy
MD & CEO
Our Vision
Be the trusted and respected India alternative asset advisor, creating value for all stakeholders
Our Mission
Superior Investment Performance
We strive to deliver superior risk adjusted returns to our customers with a focus on capital preservation
Deliver Value to Investee Companies
Our bespoke solutions address diverse requirements of our investee companies
Create a Sustainable Impact
Our capital creates a positive impact for our investee companies, the economy and the society at large
Our Edge
We are investment specialists in Indian private debt and real assets. We believe that deep domain knowledge built through years of experience provides us with formidable expertise in managing alternative assets.
Our People
We believe that our people make us unique. We attract solution-oriented and innovative
team players with strong integrity and values.
Venkat Ramaswamy
MD & CEO
Harish Agarwal
President & COO
Subahoo Chordia
President & Head – Real Assets
Amit Agarwal
President & Head – Private Credit
Sanjeev Rastogi
Fund Manager – Real Estate Credit
Parag Kothari
Fund Manager – Performing Credit
Venkat Ramaswamy
MD & CEO
Venkat has three decades of experience in the financial markets and has been one of the driving forces in transforming what was once India’s first new age boutique investment bank to a leading independent financial services company. Amongst his responsibilities, he is also the Chairman of Edelweiss’s Asset Management Business and has oversight over Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction company. Using his skills at building and maintaining large institutional relationships, including International Pension Funds and Insurance companies, the Alternative Asset Management business has become among the largest in India over the last 5 years. He is an MBA from the University Of Pittsburgh, USA and he also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering.
Harish Agarwal
Chief Operating Officer – Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors
Harish Agarwal is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors Limited. He has been with Edelweiss Group for over 5 years now, and is responsible for business strategy, risk and regulatory frameworks, finance, technology, process, and operations. Prior to Edelweiss, Harish was associated with DBS Bank, India for six years as Head- Special Asset Management & Restructuring Group. At DBS, he was senior credit risk approver for large corporate proposals and successfully set up the Special Asset Management division, which was adopted group-wide in 2010. Harish career spans over two decades of experience in the Banking & Finance sector. He was previously associated with HSBC and ICICI Bank wherein he was majorly responsible for management of stress assets. Harish is a Charted Accountant, Company Secretary and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) from Mumbai University.
Subahoo Chordia
Fund Manager – Infrastructure Yield
Mr. Subahoo Chordia has set up and heads the Edelweiss Infra Fund Business. He has total experience of almost 21 years in the Infrastructure Space across private fund management, asset management, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and advisory. He is the man behind the vision and successful execution of first Infrastructure yield fund in India. He started Infrastructure practice in Edelweiss in 2007 and has shown ability to build businesses. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he has worked with Axis Bank and IDBI Bank in the project finance, portfolio management and investment banking. Amongst his roles, he has interacted with various key stakeholders in Infrastructure Projects including Government/Government Authorities, Lenders/Arrangers, Developers – both Indian & Foreign, Global & Domestic Investors, etc. He has an extensive network of relationships with Infrastructure companies in India and has worked with more than 100+ companies across the infrastructure sub-sectors. He has sourced and executed about 45 transactions with a deal value of c. US$ 5 bn across all sub-sectors including Highways, Renewables, Transmission, Ports, Airports, etc. He is a qualified chartered accountant with an All India 42nd Rank.
Sanjeev Rastogi
Fund Manager – Real Estate Credit
Mr. Sanjeev Rastogi leads the real estate investments practice and has been with Edelweiss for more than a decade. Formerly, he was a partner at IL&FS Investment Managers Limited for over two years and was a key member of the team responsible for raising and managing a USD 525mn offshore real estate fund. He has also worked for G Corp Realty, Australian Pacific Projects (India) and SembCorp (India). He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, a Master Degree in Building Engineering and Management and a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering.
Parag Kothari
Fund Manager – Performing Credit
Parag Kothari has over 25 years of experience in financial services – Performing Credit. He heads the ESOF Strategy (Edelweiss Special Opportunities Fund) under the Private Debt business with over 10 years of experience within Edelweiss. He has been part of the entire life cycle of ESOF 1 Fund. Mr. Kothari’s prior engagements include over 14 years of wholesale lending experience with Cholamandalam Finance, a leading NBFC in India, as the Business Head – Corporate Finance. He has also been Executive Vice-President and Head – Investment Banking in Dhanlaxmi Bank, a private sector bank based in South India. He holds an MBA from JBIMS, Mumbai and Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, University of Mumbai
Amit Agarwal
Fund Manager – Special Situations
Amit has close to 20 years of experience in stressed assets investments, origination, transaction structuring, turnaround & asset reconstruction. He has been a core member of Edelweiss stressed asset investment business since its inception. He is credited with several large & marquee investments as well as successful exits. Formerly, he has worked with investment banking at Edelweiss, strategic business unit at ARCIL and management consulting at PwC. Amit is an All-India Rank Holder Chartered Accountant and also has bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Lucknow University.
Venkat Ramaswamy
MD & CEO
Harish Agarwal
President & COO
Subahoo Chordia
President & Head – Real Assets
Amit Agarwal
President & Head – Private Credit
Sanjeev Rastogi
Fund Manager – Real Estate CreditParag Kothari
Fund Manager – Performing CreditVenkat Ramaswamy
MD & CEO
Venkat has three decades of experience in the financial markets and has been one of the driving forces in transforming what was once India’s first new age boutique investment bank to a leading independent financial services company. Amongst his responsibilities, he is also the Chairman of Edelweiss’s Asset Management Business and has oversight over Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction company. Using his skills at building and maintaining large institutional relationships, including International Pension Funds and Insurance companies, the Alternative Asset Management business has become among the largest in India over the last 5 years. He is an MBA from the University Of Pittsburgh, USA and he also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering.
Harish Agarwal
Chief Operating Officer – Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors
Harish Agarwal is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors Limited. He has been with Edelweiss Group for over 5 years now, and is responsible for business strategy, risk and regulatory frameworks, finance, technology, process, and operations. Prior to Edelweiss, Harish was associated with DBS Bank, India for six years as Head- Special Asset Management & Restructuring Group. At DBS, he was senior credit risk approver for large corporate proposals and successfully set up the Special Asset Management division, which was adopted group-wide in 2010. Harish career spans over two decades of experience in the Banking & Finance sector. He was previously associated with HSBC and ICICI Bank wherein he was majorly responsible for management of stress assets. Harish is a Charted Accountant, Company Secretary and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) from Mumbai University.
Subahoo Chordia
Fund Manager – Infrastructure Yield
Mr. Subahoo Chordia has set up and heads the Edelweiss Infra Fund Business. He has total experience of almost 21 years in the Infrastructure Space across private fund management, asset management, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and advisory. He is the man behind the vision and successful execution of first Infrastructure yield fund in India. He started Infrastructure practice in Edelweiss in 2007 and has shown ability to build businesses. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he has worked with Axis Bank and IDBI Bank in the project finance, portfolio management and investment banking. Amongst his roles, he has interacted with various key stakeholders in Infrastructure Projects including Government/Government Authorities, Lenders/Arrangers, Developers – both Indian & Foreign, Global & Domestic Investors, etc. He has an extensive network of relationships with Infrastructure companies in India and has worked with more than 100+ companies across the infrastructure sub-sectors. He has sourced and executed about 45 transactions with a deal value of c. US$ 5 bn across all sub-sectors including Highways, Renewables, Transmission, Ports, Airports, etc. He is a qualified chartered accountant with an All India 42nd Rank.
Sanjeev Rastogi
Fund Manager – Real Estate Credit
Mr. Sanjeev Rastogi leads the real estate investments practice and has been with Edelweiss for more than a decade. Formerly, he was a partner at IL&FS Investment Managers Limited for over two years and was a key member of the team responsible for raising and managing a USD 525mn offshore real estate fund. He has also worked for G Corp Realty, Australian Pacific Projects (India) and SembCorp (India). He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, a Master Degree in Building Engineering and Management and a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering.
Parag Kothari
Fund Manager – Performing Credit
Parag Kothari has over 25 years of experience in financial services – Performing Credit. He heads the ESOF Strategy (Edelweiss Special Opportunities Fund) under the Private Debt business with over 10 years of experience within Edelweiss. He has been part of the entire life cycle of ESOF 1 Fund. Mr. Kothari’s prior engagements include over 14 years of wholesale lending experience with Cholamandalam Finance, a leading NBFC in India, as the Business Head – Corporate Finance. He has also been Executive Vice-President and Head – Investment Banking in Dhanlaxmi Bank, a private sector bank based in South India. He holds an MBA from JBIMS, Mumbai and Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, University of Mumbai
Amit Agarwal
Fund Manager – Special Situations
Amit has close to 20 years of experience in stressed assets investments, origination, transaction structuring, turnaround & asset reconstruction. He has been a core member of Edelweiss stressed asset investment business since its inception. He is credited with several large & marquee investments as well as successful exits. Formerly, he has worked with investment banking at Edelweiss, strategic business unit at ARCIL and management consulting at PwC. Amit is an All-India Rank Holder Chartered Accountant and also has bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Lucknow University.
Venkat Ramaswamy
MD & CEO
Harish Agarwal
President & COO
Subahoo Chordia
President & Head – Real Assets
Amit Agarwal
President & Head – Private Credit
Sanjeev Rastogi
Fund Manager – Real Estate CreditParag Kothari
Fund Manager – Performing CreditVenkat Ramaswamy
MD & CEO
Venkat has three decades of experience in the financial markets and has been one of the driving forces in transforming what was once India’s first new age boutique investment bank to a leading independent financial services company. Amongst his responsibilities, he is also the Chairman of Edelweiss’s Asset Management Business and has oversight over Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction company. Using his skills at building and maintaining large institutional relationships, including International Pension Funds and Insurance companies, the Alternative Asset Management business has become among the largest in India over the last 5 years. He is an MBA from the University Of Pittsburgh, USA and he also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering.
Harish Agarwal
Chief Operating Officer – Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors
Harish Agarwal is Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors Limited. He has been with Edelweiss Group for over 5 years now, and is responsible for business strategy, risk and regulatory frameworks, finance, technology, process, and operations. Prior to Edelweiss, Harish was associated with DBS Bank, India for six years as Head- Special Asset Management & Restructuring Group. At DBS, he was senior credit risk approver for large corporate proposals and successfully set up the Special Asset Management division, which was adopted group-wide in 2010. Harish career spans over two decades of experience in the Banking & Finance sector. He was previously associated with HSBC and ICICI Bank wherein he was majorly responsible for management of stress assets. Harish is a Charted Accountant, Company Secretary and also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) from Mumbai University.
Subahoo Chordia
Fund Manager – Infrastructure Yield
Mr. Subahoo Chordia has set up and heads the Edelweiss Infra Fund Business. He has total experience of almost 21 years in the Infrastructure Space across private fund management, asset management, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and advisory. He is the man behind the vision and successful execution of first Infrastructure yield fund in India. He started Infrastructure practice in Edelweiss in 2007 and has shown ability to build businesses. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he has worked with Axis Bank and IDBI Bank in the project finance, portfolio management and investment banking. Amongst his roles, he has interacted with various key stakeholders in Infrastructure Projects including Government/Government Authorities, Lenders/Arrangers, Developers – both Indian & Foreign, Global & Domestic Investors, etc. He has an extensive network of relationships with Infrastructure companies in India and has worked with more than 100+ companies across the infrastructure sub-sectors. He has sourced and executed about 45 transactions with a deal value of c. US$ 5 bn across all sub-sectors including Highways, Renewables, Transmission, Ports, Airports, etc. He is a qualified chartered accountant with an All India 42nd Rank.
Sanjeev Rastogi
Fund Manager – Real Estate Credit
Mr. Sanjeev Rastogi leads the real estate investments practice and has been with Edelweiss for more than a decade. Formerly, he was a partner at IL&FS Investment Managers Limited for over two years and was a key member of the team responsible for raising and managing a USD 525mn offshore real estate fund. He has also worked for G Corp Realty, Australian Pacific Projects (India) and SembCorp (India). He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, a Master Degree in Building Engineering and Management and a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering.
Parag Kothari
Fund Manager – Performing Credit
Parag Kothari has over 25 years of experience in financial services – Performing Credit. He heads the ESOF Strategy (Edelweiss Special Opportunities Fund) under the Private Debt business with over 10 years of experience within Edelweiss. He has been part of the entire life cycle of ESOF 1 Fund. Mr. Kothari’s prior engagements include over 14 years of wholesale lending experience with Cholamandalam Finance, a leading NBFC in India, as the Business Head – Corporate Finance. He has also been Executive Vice-President and Head – Investment Banking in Dhanlaxmi Bank, a private sector bank based in South India. He holds an MBA from JBIMS, Mumbai and Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, University of Mumbai
Amit Agarwal
Fund Manager – Special Situations
Amit has close to 20 years of experience in stressed assets investments, origination, transaction structuring, turnaround & asset reconstruction. He has been a core member of Edelweiss stressed asset investment business since its inception. He is credited with several large & marquee investments as well as successful exits. Formerly, he has worked with investment banking at Edelweiss, strategic business unit at ARCIL and management consulting at PwC. Amit is an All-India Rank Holder Chartered Accountant and also has bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Lucknow University.
Amit Agarwal
Investment TeamFund Manager – Stressed Assets Strategy
Kriti Ghosh
Investment Team
Executive Vice President
Puneet Jain
Investment Team
Executive Vice President
Navin Sambtani
Investment Team
Executive Vice President
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Satyen Kanabar
Asset Management Team
Practice Lead – Turnaround & Strategy
Amit Agarwal
Fund Manager – Stressed Assets Strategy
Amit has close to 20 years of experience in stressed assets investments, origination, transaction structuring, turnaround & asset reconstruction. He has been a core member of Edelweiss stressed asset investment business since its inception. He is credited with several large & marquee investments as well as successful exits. Formerly, he has worked with investment banking at Edelweiss, strategic business unit at ARCIL and management consulting at PwC. Amit is an All-India Rank Holder Chartered Accountant and also has bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Lucknow University.
Kriti Ghosh
Investment Team
Executive Vice President
Kriti has over 18 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the Edelweiss distressed credit business, he worked as an Investment Director at SSG Advisors India Pvt Ltd. He also worked with Lehman Brothers as VIce President Asia Special Situations Group. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he was a distress credit desk analyst at Adventity India Pvt Ltd. Post MBA he had joined HCL Group as a core member of mergers and acquisitions team. He holds an MBA (Finance) from IIM, Calcutta, and B-Tech. (Electrical Engineering) from IIT, Kanpur.
Puneet Jain
Investment Team
Executive Vice President
Puneet has over 17 years of experience in the Indian financial industry, comprising distressed assets and equity research. He has done more than 25 debt acquisition/fresh funding deals across different structures with broad spectrum of financial institutions. Puneet was featured by Private Debt Investor amongst 8 global professionals as “Titan of turnarounds” in November 2019. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, heading research for India consumer and real estate sectors. He holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur
Navin Sambtani
Executive Vice President
Navin has 14 years of experience in stressed asset investments across two distressed assets cycles in India. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he led the India business of ADM Capital, an Asia focused special situations/distressed assets fund which also was the first foreign distressed asset investor in India. Apart from the franchise leadership role, Navin was involved in the full investment cycle of close to $650mn of investments in India between 2007 and 2017. Navin holds an MBA (Finance) from S.P. Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai and B.Com from St. Xavier’s College
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Satyen Kanabar
Asset Management Team
Practice Lead – Turnaround & Strategy
Satyen has over 18 years of experience in areas of operational turnaround, strategy, contract management, project management, operation management working across various infrastructure projects (Power and Port). Prior to joining Edelweiss, he has worked at Torrent Power, Suzlon Energy and Nuclear Power Corporation. He holds master’s in business law from National Law School of India University (Bangalore), executive post graduate diploma in general management from XLRI (Jamshedpur) and bachelor’s degree in instrumentation and control engineering (Gujarat University).
Pranjali Agrawal
Asset Management Team
Practice Lead – Turnaround & Strategy
Pranjali has close to 12 years of experience, primarily advising CXO’s on operational turnaround, corporate finance and strategy. Prior to joining Edelweiss, she worked with a Dubai based mining and natural resource conglomerate leading several performance improvement project’s across group companies, along side fund raising and financial restructuring. Pranjali has done her MBA from IIM Calcutta and B.Tech from NIT Bhopal.
Subahoo Chordia
Fund Manager – Infrastructure YieldSreekumar Chatra
Partner – Edelweiss Infrastructure Yield Plus FundAshish Kumar Jain
Investment DirectorSubahoo Chordia
Sreekumar Chatra
Partner – Edelweiss Infrastructure Yield Plus Fund
Sreekumar has over 25 years’ experience in the infrastructure space being part of many transactions in India, the UK, the Middle East and South Asia. His experience covers a range of sectors including transport, power & utilities, industrial parks and related infrastructure. He has a played key role in closing transactions in infrastructure sector valued at ~US$3bn having led many of them. He was also a member of the core team that raised the US$1.2bn Macquarie-SBI India Infrastructure Fund. At Edelweiss Infrastructure Fund, he has led the deployment of significant quantum of capital in the fund till date. Sreekumar’s work over the years is multi-disciplinary covering M&As, establishing funds & capital raisings, principal investing, asset management, policy advocacy & formulating regulations and advisory. He has held leadership roles in establishing new businesses, creating teams and building important relationships with industry players, governments, regulators and global investors. Prior to Edelweiss, Sreekumar has worked with Macquarie Capital, PwC, KPMG, Arpwood Capital and Feedback Ventures. He was also an adviser to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). He holds a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA (Finance) from IIM Ahmadabad.
Ashish Kumar Jain
Investment Director
Ashish has around 18 years of experience in India and the UK across private equity, M&A and commercial banking. Previously he was the Director of Neev Fund and prior to that Director at Standard Chartered Private Equity. He has also worked with Standard Chartered Bank across Group Corporate Development (in-house M&A) in London and commercial banking in India. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
Parag Kothari
Investment Team
Fund Manager – Performing Credit
Navin Bhutoria
Investment Team
Investment Director
Gaurav Gairola
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Bishnu Agarwal
Investment Team
Investment Director
Anand Jalan
Investment Team
Investment Director
Samir Satyam
Investment Team
Investment Director
Shishir Kumar
Head – Transaction LegalParag Kothari
Investment Team
Fund Manager – Performing Credit
Parag Kothari has over 25 years of experience in financial services – Performing Credit. He heads the ESOF Strategy (Edelweiss Special Opportunities Fund) under the Private Debt business with over 10 years of experience within Edelweiss. He has been part of the entire life cycle of ESOF 1 Fund. Mr. Kothari’s prior engagements include over 14 years of wholesale lending experience with Cholamandalam Finance, a leading NBFC in India, as the Business Head – Corporate Finance. He has also been Executive Vice-President and Head – Investment Banking in Dhanlaxmi Bank, a private sector bank based in South India. He holds an MBA from JBIMS, Mumbai and Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, University of Mumbai
Navin Bhutoria
Investment Team
Investment Director
Navin has about 17 years of investing experience in private equity and special opportunities transactions. He has been with Edelweiss for over 11 years and has been part of the ESOF, performing credit fund, since the inception of this strategy and has been instrumental in seeing full cycle of a Fund, from fund raise to exit and return of capital. In his current role, he heads transaction evaluation, structuring, diligence & execution and manages portfolio post investment. His prior experience includes private equity investments with Temasek Holdings, Singapore. He holds an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai; CFA (India), ICFAI; and Master’s degree in Commerce from Mumbai University.
Gaurav Gairola
Investment Team
Investment Director
Gaurav has 18 years of experience in investing across the capital structure – senior secured to mezzanine to equity. At Edelweiss, he is responsible for deal origination for the Edelweiss Special Opportunities Fund. His previous associations include Darby Private Equity, Yes Bank and GE Capital. He holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Delhi.
Bishnu Agarwal
Investment Team
Investment Director
Bishnu has 18+ years of lending experience with Citibank, SCB, Yes Bank and Edelweiss where he has worked on the origination side, leadership roles managing deal origination, management and profitable exit to the satisfaction of bank objectives. He is responsible for transaction origination, execution, post investment deal monitoring, exits and client management. Bishnu holds an MBA from MDI, Gurgaon
Anand Jalan
Investment Team
Investment Director
Anand has over two decades of experience across Credit, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Global Markets and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he had over 13 years of experience at Citi heading Derivative Sales as part of the Corporate Sales & Structuring Group and later leading the DCM / Structured Finance Business as part of the Capital Markets / Investment Banking teams; subsequently headed the DCM / Structured Finance business at Standard Chartered Bank. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, CFA from ICFAI, Hyderabad and a PGDM from IIM, Ahmedabad.
Samir Satyam
Investment Team
Investment Director
Samir is having 20+ years of experience in Alternative Investments, Structured Finance and Promoter Funding. In ESOF he is responsible for Investment Origination & Closures and Asset Management. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he was associated with Hero Fincorp ltd where he was responsible for managing and growing Structured Finance and Capital Market Lending business. Some of his prior associations include Strugence Capital, Bajaj Finance, Religare Finvest and Cholamandalam DBS Finance. Samir has completed his MBA from ICFAI Business School & BA (Economics) Hons from Delhi University.
Shishir Kumar
Head – Transaction Legal
Shishir is an astute legal professional with more than 22 years of experience in Banking and Finance sector handling matters related to NBFC, Banking, project finance, structured finance, real estate, corporate lending, stressed assets and litigation at every forums. He is presently part of Edelweiss Alternative Assets business as Head Legal for Private Debt. He joined Edelweiss NBFC in 2014 as Head Legal for Real Estate business and later worked as Head Legal for structured Finance business. Prior to joining Edelweiss, he was part of IDFC Ltd as Director- Legal for close to 8 years handling legal matters relating to project finance, fund raising and litigation. He also worked in IDBI Bank Ltd and as arguing counsel in Calcutta High Court.
Sanjeev Rastogi
Investment Team
Fund Manager – Real Estate Credit
Hina Kamra
Investment Team
Executive Vice President
Chirayush Agarwal
Investment Team
Senior Vice President
Saurabh Shah
Investment Team
Senior Vice President
Sourabh Agrawal
Investment Team
Senior Vice President
Abhishek Aggarwal
Asset Management Team – CommercialHari Misra
Asset Management Team
Head – Legal, Real Estate Financing
Mehul Naik
Asset Management Team – TechnicalSenior Vice President
Sanjeev Rastogi
Investment Team
Fund Manager – Real Estate Credit
Mr. Sanjeev Rastogi leads the real estate investments practice and has been with Edelweiss for more than a decade. Formerly, he was a partner at IL&FS Investment Managers Limited for over two years and was a key member of the team responsible for raising and managing a USD 525mn offshore real estate fund. He has also worked for G Corp Realty, Australian Pacific Projects (India) and SembCorp (India). He holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, a Master Degree in Building Engineering and Management and a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering.
Hina Kamra
Investment Team
Executive Vice President
Hina has overall work experience of 25 years in the financial sector across multiple asset classes and varied platforms (Commercial Bank, Investment Bank, NBFCs) predominantly in coverage, origination and execution team management roles for high value structured transactions with P& L responsibilities. She has been with Edelweiss for almost 11 years and has originated over USD 650mn in Real Estate Structured Credit with an outstanding AUM of over USD 230mn. Previously, she was the Exec Vice President and Head Fx and Derivative Sales at Kotak Mahindra Bank, where she was responsible for P&L, Coverage, Strategizing and Execution. Prior to this she was with IDBI Bank, PNB Gilts in senior positions. Hina has done Executive Program in Management from Columbia Business School, New York, PGDBM (Finance Marketing) from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and B Com (Honours) from Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Chirayush Agarwal
Investment Team
Senior Vice President
Chirayush has over 14 years of real estate investment experience. He was part of the team involved in developing and building approximately USD 2,000mn debt real estate book from inception. He is currently handling North zone and is based out of Delhi. Chirayush is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Saurabh Shah
Investment Team
Senior Vice President
Saurabh has over 7 years of real estate investment and asset management experience in Edelweiss. Previously he worked at L&T Realty where he was leading the strategic sale and divestment initiatives. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Sourabh Agrawal
Investment Team
Senior Vice President
Sourabh has over 18 years of experience in Financial Services in India, with specialisation in Real Estate Investments all through his career. He has experience in providing financial assistance to real estate developers in the form of debt, quasi equity, structured finance and investment in real estate projects. Sourabh joined Edelweiss team in 2015 and is currently working as SVP Real Estate Financing. Previously he was the regional head of Commercial Real Estate at Standard Chartered Bank and ICICI Bank where he was primarily responsible for handling commercial real estate lending requirements. Sourabh is a Chartered Account and ICWA.
Abhishek Aggarwal
Abhishek has joined Edelweiss in 2017 and he currently heads the asset management – Real estate, additional credit and underwriting. Prior to this he worked with Standard Chartered Bank as a Director of Relationship Manager Real Estate and other organisations such as Private Equity Investments and Pragnya Investment Management. Abhishek holds an MBA (Analytical Finance) from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and a Bachelors of Engineering (Metallurgy) from Punjab Engineering Colllege.
Hari Misra
Asset Management Team
Head – Legal, Real Estate Financing
A science graduate, Gold Medalist in graduation in Law, also post-graduation in Law with 26 years of rich and diversified work experience – as an independent lawyer, with Public Sector Financial Institution and with Private Sector financial institution/conglomerate having expertise in both the transaction, litigation management, and advisory. He has a wide-ranging experience in structuring deals, structure financing, investigation of title, real estate financing, syndication of loan, securitization of debt, loan sale down, infrastructure projects, promoter funding, takeover financing, NPA resolutions, OTS and settlements, recovery and enforcement matters. He holds an LLM from University of Rajasthan and an LLB from Avadh University.
Mehul Naik
Senior Vice President
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Hemant Daga
Executive DirectorKamala Kantharaj
Non Executive DirectorSunil Phatarphekar
Independent DirectorKanu Doshi
Independent DirectorHemant Daga
Executive Director
Hemant Daga has 18 years of investment experience and is the CEO for Edelweiss Asset Management. As the head of the Asset Management business, Hemant is responsible for the Alternatives business and the Mutual Fund business. He has been instrumental in the scale up of the business, with Edelweiss Alternatives business being the largest Alternative Asset Manager in India. Hemant was instrumental in the conceptualization and launch of the first debt ETF in India, in association with the Government of India. He is considered as a leading voice on India Alternatives and India credit with deep expertise across the credit spectrum. He joined Edelweiss in 2005 and has been instrumental in scaling the Edelweiss Global Markets business across sectors, asset classes and geographies. Hemant has investment experience across asset classes in India. Additionally, he was also responsible for managing the treasury at Edelweiss and overseeing all investment decisions for the organization. He has been part of the core leadership team in designing and structuring the Edelweiss Leadership Programme, a key leadership and talent development forum for senior and mid-level Edelweiss employees. Prior to joining Edelweiss, Hemant worked with ICICI Bank in the Global Markets division gaining investment expertise across local and global markets. Hemant has done his Post Graduation from IIM, Bangalore.
Kamala Kantharaj
Non Executive Director
Ms. Kamala K. is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has rich and varied experience of more than 28 years in the field of corporate laws, securities laws and corporate governance in financial services sector. Ms. Kamala K. has been associated with Edelweiss group since 2016 as Group Chief Compliance & Governance Officer. Prior to Edelweiss, she was associated with National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) as Head – Regulatory Compliance. She has deep understanding of BFSI space.
Sunil Phatarphekar
Independent Director
Mr. Sunil Phatarphekar is the proprietor of SNP Legal (Advocates) and has over 30 years of experience as a practicing advocate. He started his career in 1987 with Crawford Bayley & Company, Advocates and Solicitors, a pre-eminent law firm. He was admitted as a partner in Mahimtura & Company, to enhance their corporate practice. Subsequent to that, he co-founded Shah Desai Doijode & Phatarphekar, Advocates. Mr. Phatarphekar also practices in the corporate field with specialization in commercial contracts and new technologies.
Kanu Doshi
Independent Director
Mr. Kanu Doshi is a chartered accountant with long professional career as a tax consultant to leading corporates & mutual funds. Presently, he is the Prof. Emeritus – Finance at the Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research where he teaches tax planning, financial management and allied subjects. He has co-authored books on taxation and accounting.
Hemal Mehta
Chief Financial Officer
Niranjan Risbood
Head of Products Strategy & Marketing
Sushanth Nayak
Head of Credit & Operational Risk