What is the impact of COVID-19 on monetisation
of India’s transportation assets?
Wednesday, 27th May
16:30 - 17:30 | Indian Standard Time (GMT+5:30)
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Manish Sharma
Partner & Leader-Capital Projects & InfrastructurePwC
India
Manish is Partner and Leader for Transport and Logistics Sector in PwC’s Advisory services vertical. He has over 23 years of experience across the various segments of transport and logistic with both services providers and infrastructure developers.
Confirmed Participants
Confirmed Participants
Co-chairs
Abhay MishraFormer President & CEO - Reliance Infra
Alvaro SantosROADIS
Aman HansNITI Aayog
Anjali Gupta3i India Private
Arpit AgrawalBrookfield Advisors India Private Ltd.
Arvind ChokhanyTATA Projects
Ashish JainGMR Group
Behnad ZandiAdani Airport
Bruce CraneOTPP - Singapore
Cyril ShroffCyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Daanish VarmaYes Securities
Debabrata MukherjeeIDFC
Deepak MalhotraCDPQ
Gaurav KhannaIndInfravit Trust
Hardik ShahKKR
Harsh ShahIndiGrid
Hsing IsuAGUNSA
Jatin AnejaShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Jayant MhaiskarMEP Infrastructure Developers
Krishna Prakash MaheshwariAdani Group
Kumar V PratapMinistry of Home Affairs
Kunal AgarwalI Squared Capital-India
Manish ChitkaraSekura Roads
N PrakashSBI Capital Markets
Naveen KhandelwalBright Night Energy
Neeraj SanghiHighway Concessions One
Neha KumarClimate Bonds Initiative
Nitish HemdaniGIC
Pawan KantIndInfravit Trust
Prateek JhawarAvendus
Prateek MaheshwariOMERS
Pushkar KulkarniCPPIB
Rahul ModyAmbit Capital
Rajesh SirohiaTata Realty & Infrastructure
Sandeep UpadhyayCentrum Capital
Saurabh AgarwalCDPQ
Shagoofa Rashid KhanNIIF
Shailesh PathakLarsen & Toubro
Sidharath KapurSidharath Kapur
Sudhir HoshingIRB Infrastructure Developers
Vijay AgarwalInfracap India Advisers India Pvt Limited
Confirmed Participants
Abhay Mishra
President & Chief Executive Officer
Former President & CEO - Reliance Infra
Alvaro Santos
Deputy CEO Asia
ROADIS
Aman Hans
Lead Consultant PPP Cell
NITI Aayog
Anjali Gupta
Partner -Managing Director
3i India Private
Arpit Agrawal
Managing Director & Head of Investments, India & Middle East
Brookfield Advisors India Private Ltd.
Arvind Chokhany
CFO
TATA Projects
Ashish Jain
Group Head – CSPD & ERM
GMR Group
Behnad Zandi
CEO
Adani Airport
Bruce Crane
Managing Director - Infrastructure APAC
OTPP - Singapore
Cyril Shroff
Managing Director
Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Daanish Varma
Group Executive Vice President
Yes Securities
Debabrata Mukherjee
Head - Business
IDFC
Deepak Malhotra
Director, Infrastructure, South Asia
CDPQ
Gaurav Khanna
CFO
IndInfravit Trust
Hardik Shah
Managing Director
KKR
Harsh Shah
CEO & Executive Director
IndiGrid
Hsing Isu
Asia Representative
AGUNSA
Jatin Aneja
Practice Head–Projects & Infrastructure
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Jayant Mhaiskar
Chairman and Managing Director
MEP Infrastructure Developers
Krishna Prakash Maheshwari
Chief Executive Officer
Adani Group
Kumar V Pratap
Sr. Economic Advisor
Ministry of Home Affairs
Kunal Agarwal
I Squared Capital-India
Manish Chitkara
CEO
Sekura Roads
N Prakash
Sr. VP
SBI Capital Markets
Naveen Khandelwal
COO
Bright Night Energy
Neeraj Sanghi
CEO
Highway Concessions One
Neha Kumar
India Programme Manager
Climate Bonds Initiative
Nitish Hemdani
Investment Professional
GIC
Pawan Kant
CEO
IndInfravit Trust
Prateek Jhawar
Executive Director and Head, Infrastructure & Real Assets
Avendus
Prateek Maheshwari
Managing Director / Head of Asia
OMERS
Pushkar Kulkarni
Managing Director - Infrastructure
CPPIB
Rahul Mody
Managing Director
Ambit Capital
Rajesh Sirohia
Head - Corporate Strategy & BD
Tata Realty & Infrastructure
Sandeep Upadhyay
MD & CEO - Infrastructure Advisory
Centrum Capital
Saurabh Agarwal
Managing Director, Infra, South Asia
CDPQ
Shagoofa Rashid Khan
Partner
NIIF
Shailesh Pathak
Head - Special Initiatives, Development Projects
Larsen & Toubro
Sidharath Kapur
Sidharath Kapur
Sudhir Hoshing
Joint Managing Director
IRB Infrastructure Developers
Vijay Agarwal
Director
Infracap India Advisers India Pvt Limited
Abhay Mishra
President & Chief Executive OfficerFormer President & CEO - Reliance Infra
India
Abhay Kumar Mishra is President, Transportation Business of Reliance Infrastructure looking after Roads, Highways, Airport and Metro businesses of R-Infra. He is also the CEO of Mumbai Metro One Pvt Ltd. He is a visionary business leader with 40 years of rich experience in Real Estate and Infrastructure Sector. A Harvard Business Alumni, he is a Civil Engineer by qualification and an Ex - member of prestigious Indian Railway Services of Engineers. He took voluntary retirement from Govt. of India after serving 23 years in Indian Railway. In 2013, Mr. Mishra joined Reliance and led its Metro business with great business acumen and astute leadership.He is now leading Transportation business of Reliance Infrastructure .
Alvaro Santos
Deputy CEO AsiaROADIS
India
Mr. Alvaro Santos Higuera is Director of Indus Concessions India Pvt Ltd. and CFO of ROADIS SBU ASIA. Previously, he was Financial Director of Isolux Infrastructure in India, in charge of highways, roads and photovoltaic plants. Before this, he was Head of International Financing department for Isolux Group, being responsible for structure financing for projects in Mexico, US and India. Prior to this, Mr. Alvaro Santos was Head of Project Finance Spain and Portugal with Depfa Bank. He started his career working in BNP Paribas in several departments (M&A; Project Finance and Leverage Finance). Alvaro received a Master in Finance from Georgetown University and he studied Business Administration at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE).
Aman Hans
Lead Consultant PPP CellNITI Aayog
India
Aman Hans is a Public Private Partnership Specialist with NITI Aayog, Government of India. He is also the active in-charge of the Government’s ambitious proposal to set-up Giga-factories to manufacture Advance Chemistry Cells (ACCs) in India. Aman has over ten years of experience in diverse facets of Public Policy and Structured finance. Prior to NITI Aayog, he has served with various multi-nationals including SBI Capital Markets Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Ernst & Young LLP and ITC Ltd. He holds a B.A (Hons) Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, a Post-graduate degree in Msc Finance from Warwick Business School (U.K) and is a level-3 CFA Candidate.
Anjali Gupta
Partner -Managing Director3i India Private
India
Anjali is Partner, Managing Director India. She joined 3i in 2007 from ICICI Bank where she was part of the project finance group. Anjali has more than 26 years of experience having worked in the areas of project financing, debt and equity syndication, restructuring and investment banking in her prior assignments at ICICI Bank, Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd., KPMG and SBI Capital Markets. She holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Gujarat University.
Arpit Agrawal
Managing Director & Head of Investments, India & Middle EastBrookfield Advisors India Private Ltd.
India
Arpit Agrawal is responsible for Brookfield’s infrastructure investment initiatives in India. He joined Brookfield in 2016 in the Mumbai office. Prior to joining Brookfield, Arpit spent 7 years with Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure fund business where he was involved in transactions across renewable energy, transportation and utilities sectors. Arpit holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology.
Arvind Chokhany
CFOTATA Projects
India
Mr. Arvind Chokhany is the CFO of Tata Projects Ltd. He has over 23 years of experience in Corporate Planning, Investments, Finance Operations, Capital structuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Raising strategic investments, Funds deployment, and monetization through stake dilution and Joint ventures through mezzanine and equity structures.
Ashish Jain
Group Head – CSPD & ERMGMR Group
India
Behnad Zandi
CEOAdani Airport
India
For more than 30 years, Ben Zandi has been a driving force behind business turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions, commercial expansion and industry reinvention. Mr. Zandi takes an active role in re-imaging airport travel with pioneering technologies, retail concepts and new levels of customer experience. Ben has been on the leading edge of brand redevelopment, growth, and scalability in performance management. Ben was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Fraport USA, the North American division of Fraport Group, where the operations extended from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore‐Washington to JetBlue’s Terminal 5 at JFK and the new $1.2 billion Nashville International Airport.
Bruce Crane
Managing Director - Infrastructure APACOTPP - Singapore
Singapore
As Managing Director at OTPP Infrastructure, Bruce is responsible for leading infrastructure-related efforts in APAC and is based in Singapore. He was previously based in New York, and was responsible for sourcing and leading investment opportunities in the transportation and power-related infrastructure markets in the Americas. His asset management experiences included Chicago Skyway, GNL Quintero S.A and Midland Cogeneration Venture. Prior to joining OMERS Infrastructure, Bruce spent 10 years with UBS and Morgan Stanley, providing investment banking advisory services, and four years with Foster Wheeler as a field engineer. Bruce holds a B.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Columbia University.
Cyril Shroff
Managing DirectorCyril Amarchand Mangaldas
India
Daanish Varma
Group Executive Vice PresidentYes Securities
India
Debabrata Mukherjee
Head - BusinessIDFC
India
In his role as business head, Debabrata is primarily responsible for business development and management of the asset portfolio including origination and client relationships, overseeing the evaluation and delivery of investment and credit proposals and portfolio performance. In a career spanning over twenty five years in financial services, he has worked with leading Indian and global institutions across corporate and project finance, special situation investments, advisory services and investment banking. He has worked on all forms of capital - debt, mezzanine and equity and has been involved in evaluating, advising, structuring and funding of projects worth over US$ 6 billion.
Deepak Malhotra
Director, Infrastructure, South AsiaCDPQ
India
Deepak Malhotra is Sr. Director, Infrastructure, South Asia at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ). He has over 18 years of experience across all facets of infrastructure. Before joining CDPQ, Mr. Malhotra worked with International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, where he led many debt and equity investments in the infrastructure sector. Prior to IFC, Mr. Malhotra worked with one of the leading credit rating agencies in India and in the shipping industry. Mr. Malhotra holds a Bachelors Degree from Delhi University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
Gaurav Khanna
CFOIndInfravit Trust
India
Mr. Gaurav Khanna is the CFO of LTIDPL Indvit Services Limited , the Investment Manager for Indinfravit Trust . He has over 20 years of experience in Corporate Finance, Investment, Taxation, Audit, Strategic Planning and commercial functions.
Mr Khanna has significant experience in Greenfield and Brownfield Asset acquisitions, Portfolio, and asset management, and orchestrating timely exits for large Global Funds, due to his strong Corporate Finance & Investment Management background. He has a deep understanding of Real Estate and Infrastructure Sector.Prior to joining Indinfravit, Mr. Khanna was working with Tata Group for last 13 years as was the CFO for the Infra Business of Tata Realty and Infrastructure Limited (TRIL)
Hardik Shah
Managing DirectorKKR
India
Hardik Shah joined KKR in 2018 and is a member of the Asia-Pacific Infrastructure team. Mr. Shah is responsible for infrastructure investments in India. Mr. Shah began his career at Macquarie Group in Sydney where he spent over 10 years across their Sydney and Mumbai offices and was involved in building their India infrastructure business. More recently, he led Brookfield’s India business in India and was responsible for building Brookfield’s team and presence. Mr. Shah has led ~USD4bn of transactions in India across various infrastructure sectors such as Telecom Towers, Toll Roads, Airports, Energy transportation and Renewable Energy. Mr. Shah holds a post graduate degree from S.P. Jain Institute of Mgmt & Research & is CFA charterholder.
Harsh Shah
CEO & Executive DirectorIndiGrid
India
Mr. Harsh Shah has extensive experience in infrastructure sector across bidding, financing, operations, M&A and regulatory policy. Mr. Shah was instrumental in setting up IndiGrid, India’s first InvIT in the power transmission sector, where he currently serves as the CEO and Whole-time Director. He is also a member of the SEBI Advisory Committee for InvITs and REITs. Previously, he served as the CEO at Sterlite Power Transmission. He has worked with L&T, L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Limited and Procter & Gamble International Operations Pte. Limited. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Nirma Institute of Technology.
Hsing Isu
Asia RepresentativeAGUNSA
Hong Kong
Jatin Aneja
Practice Head–Projects & InfrastructureShardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
India
Jatin is part of the management board of the Firm. He has extensive experience in urban infrastructure, conventional & renewable energy, roads, ports, airports, railways, power, and oil & gas sector in India and the sub-continent. Jatin has been consistently ranked in ‘Band 1’ by Chambers and Partners; ‘Leading Lawyer’ by Legal 500, IFLR1000 & Asialaw Profiles and ‘Thought Leader’ by WWL 2019. He has advised on several marquee transactions including privatisation of Delhi & Mumbai airports, re-gasification projects by IOC, PLL & others and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline projects. Currently he is advising GMR Infrastructure on divestment of major shareholding (over USD 1 billion) in GMR Airports Ltd.
Jayant Mhaiskar
Chairman and Managing DirectorMEP Infrastructure Developers
India
Jayant D. Mhaiskar is the Chairman and Managing Director of our Company. He is one of the founding Directors and Promoter of our Company. He has completed the first year of his Bachelor's degree in Commerce from K.V. Pindharkar College of Arts, Science & Commerce. He has 17 years of experience in the Tolling and Infrastructure industry.
Krishna Prakash Maheshwari
Chief Executive OfficerAdani Group
India
Mr. Krishna Prakash Maheshwari has over two decades of experience in the infrastructure industry across various sectors and in various capacities. Currently he is heading the Roads, Rail, Metro & Water Business of Adani Group. Prior to joining Adani, Mr. Maheshwari was heading Essel Highways Ltd. Before joining Essel Highways Ltd., Mr. Maheshwari was heading the Integrated Environment Infrastructure business of UPL Ltd. He has also donned various hats during this 12 years stint with Reliance Infrastructure. He was the CEO of metro business and played a key role in the setting up of the first line of Mumbai Metro as well on the Delhi Airport Express.
Kumar V Pratap
Sr. Economic AdvisorMinistry of Home Affairs
India
Kumar V Pratap is passionate about Infrastructure and Public-Private Partnerships. Currently, he is Joint Secretary (Union Territories), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Earlier, he has worked with the Prime Minister’s Office and Ministry of Finance (as Joint Secretary, Infrastructure Policy & Finance) at New Delhi, and the World Bank and Embassy of India at Washington DC. He has lectured at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), London School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore), Duke University, University of Maryland, World Bank (Washington DC), IMF (SARTTAC), Indian Institute of Management (IIM, Ahmedabad), IIM (Lucknow), and IIM (Indore).
Kunal Agarwal
I Squared Capital-India
India
Manish Chitkara
CEOSekura Roads
India
Mr. Manish Chitkara is the Whole-time Director & CEO of Sekura Roads Limited. Mr. Manish Chitkara is a senior infrastructure professional with over two and half decades of techno-commercial experience across EPC companies and Project developers in core infra projects from Underground Metros, Hydro and Highway Projects with EPC Contractors and Developers.Prior to joining Sekura Roads, Mr. Chitkara worked with Hindustan Construction Co. Ltd. (HCC) for 20 years and handled several responsibilities in Projects construction with responsibilities for execution, planning and design coordination, contracts management and project management then leading the project monitoring & control of over 45 HCC projects.
N Prakash
Sr. VPSBI Capital Markets
India
Mr. Prakash is an experienced project finance professional with over 25 years of experience. He has been involved in the structuring and syndication of large infrastructure projects. He is currently Senior Vice President , Project Advisory and Structured Finance Group at SBI Capital Markets Ltd.
Naveen Khandelwal
COOBright Night Energy
India
Neeraj Sanghi
CEOHighway Concessions One
India
Neeraj has over 30 years experience in managing oil&gas & infra sector. He worked on development of LNG receiving terminal project at Hazira, Gujarat at Essar (1994-98). He developed 3 projects at Total India(1998 - 2010) viz. LNG terminal at Mumbai (project didn’t take off), LPG Cavern Project at Visakhapatnam(as CEO) & Hazira Port sub concession project at Ahmedabad. As CEO-Essar Concessions, he looked after Essar’s entry into infra business viz. road, water, airports, pipelines, etc. Currently, he is CEO-Highway Concessions One(HC1), road platform of Global Infrastructure Partners India. HC1 operates seven projects acquired by India Infrastructure Fund. He is also founder President of HOA(India), an industry body for road investors.
Neha Kumar
India Programme ManagerClimate Bonds Initiative
India
Ms Neha Kumar works as the India Programme Manager for Climate Bonds Initiative and is based in Delhi. She drives policy, strategy and partner programmes in the country to scale up the green bonds market and green financial ecosystem. She has fifteen years of experience working on public policy and industry action in India on non financial risks, sustainability and responsible financing. In her stint at GIZ India (German Development Agency) prior to joining CBI, she steered projects that led to ESG disclosures regulation by the Indian market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India; and the development of financial sector led Responsible Financing Guidelines.
Nitish Hemdani
Investment ProfessionalGIC
Singapore
Pawan Kant
CEOIndInfravit Trust
India
Mr. Kant is an Infrastructure & engineering professional with nearly 30 years industry experience in Core Infrastructure, construction, Real Estate sectors. He has worked with reputed organizations such as Great Eastern Shipping Co Ltd, Hindustan Construction Company Ltd, Sembcorp Construction and Engineers (Singapore), the Tata Group. He has worked across functions such as Project Financing & Structuring, Strategic Planning, Project Execution, Operations, Commercial and Contracts, Tendering and Business development. He has worked in India, Middle East and Singapore on large infrastructure projects such as Roads, Industrial park, SEZs, Power Transmission, Condominium projects, Townships, etc.
Prateek Jhawar
Executive Director and Head, Infrastructure & Real AssetsAvendus
India
Prateek Jhawar joined Avendus in 2008 and heads the Infrastructure & Real Assets vertical of the investment banking business. With over 18 years of experience in investment banking and corporate finance, he specializes in private equity fundraising and mergers & acquisitions for clients across multiple sectors including, infrastructure, power, logistics, and real estate. Based in Mumbai, he has been an integral part of the Avendus investment banking team for over a decade. As part of the core team, he was instrumental in establishing the structured finance and special situations advisory business. Later, he went on to set up the Infrastructure and Real Assets vertical, building a high calibre advisory team in the sector.
Prateek Maheshwari
Managing Director / Head of AsiaOMERS
United Kingdom
Prateek joined OMERS Infrastructure in 2019 as a Managing Director based in London and leads investment efforts in transport and renewable energy infrastructure. Prateek also serves on the boards of Associated British Ports and London City Airport. Prior to joining OMERS, Prateek was a Senior Principal with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for 12 years, where he has worked in the power, energy and transport sectors across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. Before GIP, he worked as an investment banker with Dresdner Kleinwort, Barclays Capital and ICICI Bank in M&A, leverage and project finance, debt capital markets and derivative structuring.
Pushkar Kulkarni
Managing Director - InfrastructureCPPIB
India
Pushkar Kulkarni leads the Infrastructure practice for Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) for India. CPPIB is amongst the world’s Top Ten Pension funds with AUM of C$550.4 billion (as of December 2021). As their first investment in India, CPPIB has made an investment of INR 20 bn. into L&T IDPL making it one of the largest Private Investment in the roads sector. Prior to CPPIB, Mr. Kulkarni has worked in several esteemed organizations including Serco, an Infrastructure Services company, he served as Managing Director for India. Efkon India a leader in ITS systems for Transport Infrastructure and Philips. He has represented the Bureau of India Standards at the ISO on several Intelligent Transport System expert committees.
Rahul Mody
Managing DirectorAmbit Capital
India
Rahul Mody has 24 years of Investment Banking experience, and is a Managing Director at Ambit Corporate Finance. Rahul leads the firm's Infrastructure practice comprising the Transport, Urban Infrastructure, Mobility, Power, Utilities, Energy, and Telecom sectors. Rahul started his Investment Banking career at Dresdner Kleinwort in Mumbai in 1996 and transferred to London in 2001. He was based in London for the next 13 years; he moved from Dresdner Kleinwort to Greenhill in 2009 and was a Managing Director and Partner at Greenhill’s London office. Rahul relocated to Mumbai in mid-2014 to join Ambit. In his career, Rahul has advised on a wide range of M&A, Divestiture and Equity & Debt Capital Raising transactions in India and globally.
Rajesh Sirohia
Head - Corporate Strategy & BDTata Realty & Infrastructure
India
Mr. Rajesh Sirohia is currently the Head - Corporate Strategy and Business Development, TRIL Roads Private Limited, which is a 100% subsidiary of Tata Realty and Infrastructure
Limited. Mr. Sirohia is a management professional having more than 20 years’ experience in infrastructure, financial services & startups and strong academics - MBA from Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines & Chartered Accountant.
He has an End to End Life Cycle management experience in the Infrastructure and Public Utilities space - Bidding, Due Diligence, Project Development & Construction, Operations,
Policy & Regulations and Divestment. Apart from this he has been successful in raising capital both on debt and equity for various road assets.
Sandeep Upadhyay
MD & CEO - Infrastructure AdvisoryCentrum Capital
India
Sandeep Upadhyay joined Centrum Capital Limited in June 2008 and is currently serving as Managing Director of Infrastructure Practise at Centrum Capital Limited. As a senior Coverage Banker he is responsible for covering the Stressed asset resolution apart from leading Investment Banking initiatives across core sectors like Transportation, Logistics, Energy & Utilities space.He is an alumnus from XLRI, Jamshedpur besides holding a Post Graduate Degree in Project Management specialising in Infrastructure sector. He has over sixteen years of extensive experience in raising Private Equity, Project Finance and advising Government & established private sector clients on M&A, Stressed asset resolution and Bidding initiatives.
Saurabh Agarwal
Managing Director, Infra, South AsiaCDPQ
India
Saurabh Agarwal is the Managing Director, Infrastructure, spearheading CDPQ’s infrastructure investment efforts in South Asia, based in New Delhi, India. He is responsible for strategy development, sourcing, evaluating, executing and managing high-quality investments, as well as developing long-term partner relationships in the region. Saurabh has 19+ years of experience in financial and technology sectors. At CDPQ, he leads CDPQ’s investments across sectors including utilities, renewables, transportation, telecom and social.
Shagoofa Rashid Khan
PartnerNIIF
India
Shagoofa is Partner and Head-Funds, Investments and Advisory. She has 22 years of post-qualification experience across structuring funds, managed accounts, fund documentation, private equity, acquisitions / exits / restructuring / joint ventures and strategic initiatives, international taxation and planning, corporate & commercial laws, business advisory, compliance and ethics advisory, audit and finance. She was in-house counsel, for 10 years, with leading Indian corporate houses.
She has been recognised as Leading Individual by Legal 500 APAC and Distinguished Practitioner by AsiaLaw. She was named in India’s Top 100 Women in Finance by AIWMI (2020) and in Top 20 Emerging Legal Leaders:India by RSG (2019)
Shailesh Pathak
Head - Special Initiatives, Development ProjectsLarsen & Toubro
India
Mr. Pathak has over 3 decades of experience shared equally between the private sector and Government of India's IAS (Indian Administrative Service). He started his career in 1986 with a 4-year investment banking stint at ICICI and HSBC before joining the IAS. He re-joined the private sector in 2006, in IDFC. He returned to the ICICI group as Senior Director (Investments), ICICI Venture, investing private equity in infrastructure. He joined Larsen & Toubro in 2017.He has 360-degree experience in infrastructure finance and execution, having worked in private equity investing and fundraising, both national and global, project finance, project structuring, preparation and appraisal, and investment banking.
Sidharath Kapur
Sidharath Kapur
India
Sudhir Hoshing
Joint Managing DirectorIRB Infrastructure Developers
India
Experienced Joint Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the civil engineering industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Highways, Project Estimation, Feasibility Studies, Construction, and Cost Control.
Vijay Agarwal
DirectorInfracap India Advisers India Pvt Limited
India
The covid-19 pandemic and the resultant nationwide lockdown have hit toll collections on National Highways. National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI) plans to monetise almost $1 billion by selling toll rights are likely to get impacted by the lockdown.
Discussion will touch on
- What measures can be taken to build investor confidence?
- What are the current challenges faced by NHAI?
- How soon can the road sector bounce back from this crisis?
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Pushkar Kulkarni
Managing Director - Infrastructure
CPPIB
Pushkar Kulkarni
Managing Director - InfrastructureCPPIB
India
Pushkar Kulkarni leads the Infrastructure practice for Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) for India. CPPIB is amongst the world’s Top Ten Pension funds with AUM of C$550.4 billion (as of December 2021). As their first investment in India, CPPIB has made an investment of INR 20 bn. into L&T IDPL making it one of the largest Private Investment in the roads sector. Prior to CPPIB, Mr. Kulkarni has worked in several esteemed organizations including Serco, an Infrastructure Services company, he served as Managing Director for India. Efkon India a leader in ITS systems for Transport Infrastructure and Philips. He has represented the Bureau of India Standards at the ISO on several Intelligent Transport System expert committees.
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Debabrata Mukherjee
Head - Business
IDFC
Debabrata Mukherjee
Head - BusinessIDFC
India
In his role as business head, Debabrata is primarily responsible for business development and management of the asset portfolio including origination and client relationships, overseeing the evaluation and delivery of investment and credit proposals and portfolio performance. In a career spanning over twenty five years in financial services, he has worked with leading Indian and global institutions across corporate and project finance, special situation investments, advisory services and investment banking. He has worked on all forms of capital - debt, mezzanine and equity and has been involved in evaluating, advising, structuring and funding of projects worth over US$ 6 billion.
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India
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Global Head of Infrastructure & India
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Pedro Nicolau is a Partner and the Global Head of Infrastructure and Portfolio Director for India at GRI Group. He leads the infrastructure division which is active in Latin America, India, China, and the USA. He also leads the real estate activities in India with a local team based in Mumbai. Prior to GRI, Pedro worked for Clarion Events Brazil in the Transportation, Mobility, and Sanitation portfolio. He has a bachelor degree in International Affairs at Unesp (São Paulo State University).
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Director - InfrastructureGRI Club
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Confirmed Participants
Alpna Jain
Sr. Specialist-PPPNITI Aayog
India
Aman Hans
Lead Consultant PPP CellNITI Aayog
India
Aman Hans is a Public Private Partnership Specialist with NITI Aayog, Government of India. He is also the active in-charge of the Government’s ambitious proposal to set-up Giga-factories to manufacture Advance Chemistry Cells (ACCs) in India. Aman has over ten years of experience in diverse facets of Public Policy and Structured finance. Prior to NITI Aayog, he has served with various multi-nationals including SBI Capital Markets Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), Ernst & Young LLP and ITC Ltd. He holds a B.A (Hons) Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, a Post-graduate degree in Msc Finance from Warwick Business School (U.K) and is a level-3 CFA Candidate.
Ankit Godiyal
ManagerPwC
India
http://www.pwc.com
+91 91 79 3091 7000
Mumbai | India
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 2,36,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com In India, PwC has offices in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. For more information about PwC India’s service offerings, visit www.pwc.com/in PwC refers to the PwC International network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate, independent and distinct legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details.
Arvind Chokhany
CFOTATA Projects
India
Mr. Arvind Chokhany is the CFO of Tata Projects Ltd. He has over 23 years of experience in Corporate Planning, Investments, Finance Operations, Capital structuring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Raising strategic investments, Funds deployment, and monetization through stake dilution and Joint ventures through mezzanine and equity structures.
Bharat Nalla
ManagerPwC
India
http://www.pwc.com
+91 91 79 3091 7000
Mumbai | India
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with more than 2,36,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.com In India, PwC has offices in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. For more information about PwC India’s service offerings, visit www.pwc.com/in PwC refers to the PwC International network and/or one or more of its member firms, each of which is a separate, independent and distinct legal entity. Please see www.pwc.com/structure for further details.
Bruce Crane
Managing Director - Infrastructure APACOTPP - Singapore
Singapore
As Managing Director at OTPP Infrastructure, Bruce is responsible for leading infrastructure-related efforts in APAC and is based in Singapore. He was previously based in New York, and was responsible for sourcing and leading investment opportunities in the transportation and power-related infrastructure markets in the Americas. His asset management experiences included Chicago Skyway, GNL Quintero S.A and Midland Cogeneration Venture. Prior to joining OMERS Infrastructure, Bruce spent 10 years with UBS and Morgan Stanley, providing investment banking advisory services, and four years with Foster Wheeler as a field engineer. Bruce holds a B.A.Sc. (Civil Engineering) from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Columbia University.
Deepak Malhotra
Director, Infrastructure, South AsiaCDPQ
India
Deepak Malhotra is Sr. Director, Infrastructure, South Asia at Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ). He has over 18 years of experience across all facets of infrastructure. Before joining CDPQ, Mr. Malhotra worked with International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, where he led many debt and equity investments in the infrastructure sector. Prior to IFC, Mr. Malhotra worked with one of the leading credit rating agencies in India and in the shipping industry. Mr. Malhotra holds a Bachelors Degree from Delhi University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
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