Rajesh Ranjan

• Rajesh Ranjan, the CEO of NABVENTURES Limited, has a strong background in venture and private equity investments at IDFC Limited, IDFC Investment Advisors, Q Investments,LP and CapAleph fund
• Part of the two-member team managing IDFC’s principal investments and was an Investment Principal at the India arm of Q Investments, LP, a US based multi-strategy fund. In his last stint, Ranjan was Director and head of investments at CapAleph Fund, an early stage fund focused on food and agri investments.
• Some of his investments include Utkal Tubers, XCEL Telecom, L&T Infrastructure and Development Projects Limited, SMMS Investments, Gujarat State Petronet, National Stock Exchange, ARCIL etc.
• On the investment banking side, Rajesh has worked with IDFC Limited/IDFC Investment Advisors, Transwarranty Finance Limited, Destimoney Securities and Asia Cap Advisors (erstwhile India Capital Advisors and Investment Holdings).
• Overall work experience of 21 years.
• Holds a BA (Honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College (Delhi University) and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
• Holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter of CFA Institute (USA) and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charter of CAIA Association (USA).

Gills John

Gills John is a Vice President at NABVENTURES. He has over 12 years of experience in Investments. Before NABVENTURES, he has worked with Sprout Capital Advisors, CapAleph Fund, a food and Agri focused fund and SIDBI Venture Capital. He holds an MMS (Finance) degree from Mumbai University.

Ankit Bhatnagar

• Ankit was working with Thinq Ventures as an Investment Analyst. At Thinq Ventures, he focused on seed to early stage investments.
• In the past, Ankit has worked with Canara Bank Securities and ICICI Bank.
• He holds PG in Securities Markets from NISM.

Tunu Sahu

Tunu Sahu is the Company Secretary and Compliance Officer in NABVENTURES. He has over 15 years of experience in Corporate Secretarial, Legal, Finance and Managerial Functions. Previously, he was working with Reliance Communications, The Rubber Products Ltd and Technocraft Industries India Ltd. Tunu holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law & Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Sambalpur University & Associate member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), New Delhi.

Dr. Harsh K Bhanwala

• Chairman of NABARD and NABVENTURES Limited.
• Holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Management (PGDM) from IIM Ahmedabad and is a PhD.
• Former Executive Director in India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL) and Chief managing director.
• Expert on financial inclusion, microfinance, cooperative credit institutions, rural infrastructure project development and project appraisal related to agricultural projects.
• Dr. Bhanwala guides many national level institutions as a member of the board of directors. The major ones include the Deposit Insurance & Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Small Farmers’ Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC), National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (IIB&F), National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM). He is the Chairman of Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), NABARD Consultancy Services (NABCONS) and Board of Supervision of NABARD.

Mr. L. Balachandra Naidu

• Mr. Naidu is the Managing Partner at Argha Capital, Singapore. Argha is a fundamental value focused long only fund operating pan Asia.
• Bala was earlier a partner at Baring Private Equity Asia (with $17 billion of committed capital, it is one of the largest private equity funds globally and the largest asset manager in Asia).
• Prior to Baring Asia, Bala was Managing Director and Head of the Asian Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs, Singapore. He was responsible for $1.5 billion in investments in Asia.
• He has more than 20 years of investing experience in Asia and has successfully invested across asset classes and sectors including growth private equity, leveraged buyouts, public equity, debt and mezzanine financing.
• He holds a PGDM from IIM Calcutta.

Mr. Surender Singh

• Mr. Singh is the Executive Chairman of Nexif Pte Ltd. and manages InfraCo Asia, a company of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) established in 2002 as a coalition of donors mobilizing private sector investment to assist developing countries attain infrastructure vital to boosting their economic growth and combating poverty. InfraCo Asia is currently funded by three members of PIDG - the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT); the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO); and the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
• Founder and Co-CEO of Nexif Energy which invests in renewable and conventional power generation in South East Asia.
• Prior to Nexif, he was the MD of AES Corporation, VP of DSP Merrill Lynch and a Deputy Manager at IDBI.
• He hold a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad.

Mr. Rajesh Ranjan

• The CEO of NABVENTURES Limited has deep investment experience in food, agriculture, infrastructure, consumer etc.

Mr. Dilip N. Magar

• Chief General Manager of Finance Department and Department of Subsidiaries and Strategic Investments of NABARD and is heading the department.
• Member, Investment Committee of NABARD.

Mr. L. R. Ramachandran

• Chief General Manager of Department of Financial Inclusion and Banking Technology of NABARD and is heading the department.