Investment Management Team

The Investment Management Team at Avigo has created significant value from advising on businesses and investments in Indian and International markets. The Team has complete exposure to all facets of private equity management and collectively over 200 years of Private Equity, Investment / Corporate Banking, Consulting and Operations Experience.
 
   
   
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Achal Ghai

Achal Ghai
Managing Partner
MBA, 45 years, Married, Son and Daughter

Prior Experience: Corporate/ Investment Banking and Private Equity experience with MNCs like ICICI, American Express, HSBC & CIBC World Market in India, Dubai and Canada.

Key Skills: Fund Raising & Investor Management, Deal Sourcing & Structuring, Managing Exits and Relationship Management

     
     
Vivek Subramanian
Partner
MBA (Insead), BE (Mech.), 34 years, Married, Son and Daughter

Prior Experience: Management Consulting with Accenture for diverse medium and large Indian Industrial houses focussed on Engineering, Operations Management and Corporate Strategy

Key Skills: Deal Evaluation & Structuring, Business Performance Improvement, Corporate Strategy and Fund Raising
 
     
     
S.K Mitra
Executive Director
MBA, 61 years, Married, Two Daughters

Prior Experience: Retired as Director (Financial Services) of Aditya Birla Group Companies, Head Merchant Banking of Standard Chartered Bank, Head Corporate and Investment Banking American Express.

Key Skills: Proprietary deal sourcing, Capital markets & M & A
 
     
     
Saif Dhorajiwala
Investment Director
MBA (IIM Calcutta), BE (Chem.), 31 years, Married, Daughter

Prior Experience: Manager with the Tata Group (turnover> USD 60 billion) specialising in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Marketing & Corporate Restructuring. Has prior Chemical Industry experience

Key Skills: Operations Improvement, Deal Evaluation & Structuring, and Financial Modelling
 
     
     
Aradhana Dhand Chatterjee
Investment Director
MBA, 31 years, Married, Son

Prior Experience: Private Equity Investment with Actis Advisors (India) and Investment Banking with the Equity Capital Markets Group at DSP Merill Lynch

Key Skills: Deal Evaluation & Structuring, Portfolio Management
 
     
     
Vishal Kapur
Investment Director
MBA (University of Chicago), B.E.(Chem.), 37 years, Married , Son

Prior Experience: Strategy Consulting with Boston Consulting Group (India) and Booz Allen Hamilton (USA) specializing in operations and corporate strategy.

Key Skills: Corporate Strategy, Business Performance Improvement, Deal Evaluation and Structuring
 
     
     
S. Harikrishnan
Investment Director
MBA, B.Tech., 36 years, Married , Two Daughters

Prior Experience: Investment Management & Private Equity experience with Lazard India PE, UTI Ventures and UTI Mutual Fund. Experience of 14 PE investments across sectors, in addition to 3 Pre-IPO/IPO investments.

Key Skills: Deal Evaluation and Structuring, Investment Management and Capital Market Networking.
 
     
     
Parag Agarwal
Investment Manager
MBA, B.Com, 29 years, Single

Prior Experience: Corporate Finance and IB Consultant involved in Business Valuations , Restructurings, M&As, IPOs for industries like Textiles, Sugar, Auto Ancillaries etc.

Key Skills: Deal Analysis and Evaluation, Business Due Diligence and Financial & Legal Structuring .
 
     
     
Nitin Goyal
Investment Manager
MBA (IIM, Lucknow), B Tech (IIT Kharagpur), 30 years, Married

Prior Experience: Management Consulting with Inductis focussing on Business Strategy. Consultant with Price Waterhouse Coopers in the power sector vertical.

Key Skills: Deal Analysis and Evaluation, Business Due Diligence and Portfolio Management.
 
     
     
Mousum Pal Choudhury
Investment Manager
MBA (ISB Hyderabad), B Tech (IIT Kharagpur), 28 years, Married

Prior Experience: Investment Banking with E&Y focussing on the Energy & Engineering sector. Project management experience with L&T in its Engg. & Construction division.

Key Skills: Financial Modeling, Valuations, Deal Analysis and Business Due Diligence.
 
     
     
Nikhilesh Goel
Investment Associate
MBA (FMS Delhi), BE, 27 Years, Single

Prior Experience: Led an Application Development team at TCS for one of India’s leading telecommunication solutions provider and engaged in Product Development in the mobile communication space with Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.

Key Skills: Financial Modeling, Research and Portfolio Monitoring.
 
     
     
Arjun Dhanoa
Investment Associate
BBS (NYU Stern), 23 Years, Single

Prior Experience: Interned with private banking division of Citigroup (Dubai) – involved in business development, portfolio management and financial planning services.

Key Skills: Portfolio Monitoring and Research.
 
     
     
M. Bala Subramaniam
Industrial Sector Specialist
BE, F.I.E., F.I.M.M.M, 70 years, Married, Two Daughters

Prior Experience: CEO and Director (Member of the Board) of BASF India Ltd. Currently Director on the Board of several Indian companies such as IMC Ltd, Dr. Beck & Co., etc.

Key Skills: Strategic deal evaluation, Portfolio management (through Board Positions).
 
     
     
Pratap Srivastava
Director – Legal & Finance
LLB, M.Com, 37 years, Married, Son and Daughter

Prior Experience: Experience of more then 11 years in Accounts, Finance, Taxation & administration.

Key Skills: Legal and Compliance Management and Accounting.
 
     
     
Nidhi Duggal
Finance & Compliance Manager
CA, CS, B.Com, 26 years, Single

Prior Experience: Fund Accountant at Actis supporting investment team in Transaction Execution, Monitoring & Compliance. Prior experience in Business Advisory & Assurance Services practice at Deloitte Haskins & Sells

Key Skills: Legal and Compliance Management and Accounting
 
     
     
     
     
     
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