Mr. Anuj Agarwal is the Chief Financial Officer of SBI Life Insurance Company and handling responsibilities of investments and finance and accounts. Mr. Agarwal has worked with the Allianz Group for a period of eight years in various capacities having been based at U.K., Thailand, Singapore and India. He has been an integral part of the core group formed by Allianz AG in 2000 to set up life insurance operations in India. He has also worked in the capacity of Principal Consultant with Polaris Software Lab Ltd. in insurance vertical supporting EMEA Sales Team based at the U.K. Having worked in different insurance functions has provided him with a holistic view of Insurance Operations in India and abroad.

Dr. Ranjan Bhaduri is Managing Director and Head of Research at AlphaMetrix. Prior to this he was a Vice President in the Graystone Research group at Morgan Stanley. Earlier, he was on the investment committee in a Canadian Fund of Funds, and at a multi-billion dollar capital management firm where he was involved in all aspects of its fund of hedge funds and structured finance business. He has also worked with two major Canadian investment banks in the Financial Strategy Consulting Group and in Global Risk Management & Control, respectively. Dr. Bhaduri has also held advisory roles at the East-West Center, a leading think tank on the Asia-Pacific region, and at ClassMouse, an early stage software company. He has taught finance and mathematics at several universities and lectured on Derivatives for the Montreal Exchange. Dr. Bhaduri has authored articles on, and been invited to speak worldwide regarding portfolio management, advanced risk management techniques, and hedge fund issues. He holds both the CFA and CAIA charters. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Toronto CFA Society, and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Dr. Bhaduri serves on the Advisory Council of the World Trade University.

Gautam Bhandari heads investments by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, a $4Bn global Infrastructure Fund, in India, Middle East and Southern Africa. He and his team are based in Mumbai. Most recently, Mr. Bhandari was based in New York with the Firm’s Investment Banking Division where he advised clients globally on M&A and financings in the Engineering & Construction, Industrial Services and Alternative Energy sectors. Prior to this, Mr. Bhandari was a senior member of the Firm’s Global Capital Markets group, focusing on structured financings, hedges and securitizations. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2001, Mr. Bhandari worked for a semiconductor technology start-up Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. (ATMI)as Director of Business Development. He was responsible for pursuing growth opportunities in new markets, identifying targets and executing acquisitions. Mr. Bhandari holds a MBA degree in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He also earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Delaware. He is a published author of several scientific papers and is the named inventor on twenty patents in the semiconductor industry.

Mr. Ved Prakash Chaturvedi is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Tata Asset Management Limited. Tata Asset Management Limited manages c.a. Rs.270 bn in assets. Mr. Chaturvedi has over 17 years experience in the Indian debt and equity markets. He has worked with various leading financial services organisations in India. These include CRISIL (Indian business of Standard & Poors), Banque Nationale De Paris, SBI Funds Management. Mr. Chaturvedi has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Mr. Chaturvedi is also a Director on the Board of Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), Member of the SEBI Advisory Committee of Mutual Funds, Member of the Capital Market Committee of the Indian Merchants’ Chamber (IMC) and a Committee Member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Mutual Funds.

Sunil Damania, a Chartered Accountant, is presently working as Managing Editor of Dalal Street Investment Journal. He is aged 40. He joined the Dalal Street Investment Journal in 11th February 1993 as a Research Assistant and went on moving up in the ladder to be as Managing Editor. Under his guidance Dalal Street Journal went again in all colours with contemporary look. When he took over the magazine circulation of the magazine was not at its prime. He not only improved the circulation but also made Dalal Street Investment Journal as India’s largest circulated investment magazine. Today the brand is most sought after in financial world. He has been instrumental in expanding the product range at Dalal Street Journal group by launching various publications including B school Directory, PSUs of India, Golden 400, Mid Cap 250, Small Cap 400, The Stock Market Book, and Quarterly Results. The best part is that all the publications are not only popular but also profitable in shortest possible time. There would not be a single CEOs in the country to whom Sunil Damania may not have interviewed. The story is no different when it comes to leading politicians in the country. He has strong command over company analysis and excellent understanding about the stock market. He also tracks international stock and commodity market on the constant basis. His view is also sought by TV channels on the stock markets. As a responsible journalist, Sunil Damania on many occasions fought for investors’ right and protections and on many occasions taken up the matter with appropriate authority investors’ cause. He strongly believer of investors’ protections and is of the opinion that Indian stock market needs retail money to take India to developed country league. Sunil Damania is married and his wife is leading media consultant and his daughter Prachi is in standard four.

James Drumm serves as Executive Director, Asia, for Omgeo. Mr. Drumm is responsible for managing Omgeo’s Asia business, with a focus on Sales & Relationship Management. Mr. Drumm has been with Omgeo since its inception in 2001. Mr. Drumm came to Omgeo with over 15 years experience at Thomson Financial. Following the TF acquisition of GFI in 1989, Mr. Drumm was seconded to London to manage the Technical Data sales and marketing team. In 1992 he moved to Hong Kong to run sales and marketing for Technical Data. Soon thereafter he was promoted to Managing Director, responsible for the group’s P/L throughout Asia Pacific. In 1994 Mr. Drumm was appointed President of Thomson Research in Boston where he directed the activities of the $4mil publishing business. Mr. Drumm holds a BSc in Business Administration from Fordham University, New York and a Certificate in Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, Fountainbleau, France. He also completed studies at The Ashridge School of Management in Hertfordshire, England.

Jeremy is currently the Managing Director and founder of Vanguard Investments Australia Ltd, which serves as Vanguard’s Asia Pacific headquarters. Jeremy joined The Vanguard Group in the United States in 1980 as Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer, John C. Bogle, after working in Economic Research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia. He then served Vanguard as Senior Vice President of Planning and Development for Vanguard until moving back to Australia in 1996. Jeremy is a Director of Vanguard Investments Japan Ltd, Vanguard Investments Singapore Pte Ltd, Plum Financial Services Ltd, and Deputy Chairman of the Investment and Financial Services Association Limited (IFSA). In November 2005 Jeremy was appointed to the Federal Government's Financial Sector Advisory Council (FSAC). Jeremy is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Financial Literacy and ASIC’s Business Consultative Panel.

Mr. Hetal Gandhi (Mumbai, India) has spent his entire 22-year career in India. He has experience across the entire spectrum of financial service businesses encompassing private equity, corporate lending, infrastructure financing, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets. Hetal founded Tano Capital in India in 2006 along with Mr Carlton Pereira Prior to joining Tano Capital, Mr. Gandhi was the CEO for the financial services business of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (“IL&FS”), a well-known financial institution in India that focuses on infrastructure financing and financial services. Mr. Gandhi spent 17 years with IL&FS during which he was the Managing Director of IL&FS Investment Managers Limited (“IIML”) for six (6) years. IIML is the private equity arm of IL&FS Group, which was acquired from Lazard Credit Capital in September 1996. Mr. Gandhi recruited and managed the private equity team for IL&FS until 2002, and led number of restructurings, investments and exits. Over the years, he has built and maintained an extensive network of relationships with companies, private equity investors and investment bankers. Prior to this, Mr. Gandhi was engaged in management consulting for three (3) years with AF Ferguson & Co. Mr. Gandhi is a certified member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and was one of the founding members of TiE Network in Bangalore. Mr. Gandhi received a B(Com) degree from Bombay University.

Subir Gokarn is currently Chief Economist, Standard & Poor’s Asia-Pacific. He is responsible for shaping Standard & Poor’s macro-economic views in Asia Pacific and expanding its research and commentary on the region’s rapidly growing economies. He assumed this position in August 2007, after being Chief Economist of CRISIL, a Standard & Poor’s company, for over five years. Prior to joining CRISIL in 2002, he was Chief Economist and IFCI Chair in Industrial Development at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi (2000-02) and Associate Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai (1991-2000). He was educated at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, from where he received a Ph.D. in Economics. His doctoral dissertation was on the impact of capital market liberalization on industrial performance in South Korea. During 1997-98, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University. He has been writing a fortnightly column on current economic issues for the Business Standard, a daily business newspaper, for over eleven years. His other external involvements include membership of the executive committee of the Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) and regular membership of committees constituted by media organizations, government agencies, research institutions and industry associations. His views on the economy are regularly cited in print and electronic media.

Frank Holle co-founded Quant Asset Management in 2003, and founded Capital Fund Management in 2002. Prior to this, he managed Holle Guilonard, a company specialising in international electronic equities trading. From 1992 until 1998, Frank worked at Merrill Lynch in London, where he was a director of institutional equities. He joined ABN AMRO Bank in 1989, where he was trained and worked in the international investment banking division. He began his career as a researcher at the corporate law department at the University of Utrecht. Frank graduated from the University of Utrecht with a Masters degree in Business Law.

Mr. Janak R. Jethmalani has been an American citizen since 1987. A former member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, Canada, Mr. Jethmalani graduated from McGill University, Montreal, in 1982, and made New York his base in late 1982. After fruitful stints with the Financial Services Group practice of Touche Ross & Co, Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc, DBL Liquidating Trust, and New Street Capital, the former investment banker, branched out on his own in the spring of 1994. Since then he has traded U.S. high-grade corporate bonds and since 1997 has managed money in various alternative investment strategies primarily in the US and European markets, in both debt and equity. He currently manages in excess of US$ 140 million in assets of foreign clients. Mr. Jethmalani began the Avatar India Opportunities Fund in September 2005. The Fund deals solely in Indian securities. Established in Mauritius the fund is registered with the Financial Services Commission (Mauritius), the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the management Company as an Investment Advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission (US). The Fund uses Reitler, Brown & Rosenblatt llc, NY as lead council, International Management Mauritius as administrator, ICICI bank as the Indian cash and securities custodian, HSBC as banker and Ernst & Young as auditor. There are approximately 10 empanelled brokerage houses that the fund trades with. The fund appears in various databases, including Eurekahedge and Cogenthedge. Mr. Jethmalani is the sole portfolio manager of the fund, but has contractual arrangements with a variety of SEBI registered entities that provide investment advisory services (macro economic, fundamental equity and research). The fund takes the issues of risk management, compliance and KYC very seriously.

Hemant Joshi is the Managing Director & CEO of CRISIL Risk & Infrastructure Solutions Ltd., a subsidiary of CRISIL and heads the Advisory Division - CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, which specializes in Infrastructure Development, Finance, Banking and Disinvestment. He is a chemical engineer from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and has completed Post graduation in Industrial Engineering and a Programme for Global Leadership from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining CRISIL, he has worked in Management Consultancy as well as in Industry. Mr. Joshi is an Institutional and Policy expert. He has been involved in various studies for State and Central Governments for reform, restructuring and privatizing various public sector enterprises in a variety of industries including power, natural gas, mining, heavy machinery, telecom, etc. He has handled consultancy assignments in the areas of business planning, diversification, rehabilitation, organizational structuring and industrial engineering. He has led several studies for State and Central Governments for reform, restructuring and privatizing various public sector enterprises in a variety of industries including power, natural gas, mining, heavy machinery, telecom, etc.

Sudhir Kamath has approximately 19 years of private equity/ venture capital experience in India, and has experience of the full fund cycle with Global Technology Ventures (4x portfolio return) and ICICI Ventures. Prior to working in private equity, he spent 8 years with ICICI as a project officer and leasing manager to corporate clientele in the general engineering, cables, electrical and electronics areas, giving him broad experience in debt as well as in equity transactions. He has strong knowledge of cross-border transactions (US-India) and vast experience evaluating and investing in both technology (electronic design automation, enterprise software, software services and solutions, business process outsourcing, wireless technologies, e-learning, geographic information systems and geographic positioning systems, etc.) and non-technology sectors such as auto ancillaries, chemicals, financial services, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, engineering, food and special materials. Mr. Kamath has a Doctoral Fellowship in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, with specialisation in Finance, prior to which he completed his Masters of Management Studies at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.

Vikram Kotak is Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at Birla Sun life Insurance Company Limited. He has been with the company since last 2 years and has overall responsibility for managing the investment Funds of the company. His responsibilities include asset allocation for funds, developing appropriate investment strategy to achieve committed Investment objective for its Policyholders and creating requisite Funds options to achieve superior long term risk adjusted return. He manages an experienced and well-qualified team of investment managers and Investment analysts across Debt and Equity segments.In addition to his Investment responsibilities, Vikram is also part of core leadership team of the Birla Sun life Insurance company. An Chartered Accountant, Vikram has more than 14 years of experience has previously worked with Birla Sun life Securities, Birla Global and Techno group in the areas of Debt and Equity Brokerage, trading, treasury and portfolio management.

Vivek Kudva is President of Franklin Templeton Asset Management (India) Private Limited, which currently has close to US$ 5.4 billion in assets under management. In this capacity, he is responsible for building Franklin Templeton's business in India. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Mr. Kudva was General Manager - Banking, with National Bank of Oman, Muscat. Before this, he was with Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) for over 18 years. He has extensive commercial banking experience and was Head - Personal Financial Services, in his last assignment with HSBC. He was instrumental in successfully developing and executing the bank's retail growth strategy in India. Mr. Kudva is an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi, India, and has a post graduate diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India. Outside making money for his investors, Mr. Kudva enjoys sports and travel. He enjoys playing bridge and golf.

Ratnesh Kumar is CEO, Institutional Equities at Anand Rathi Financial Services, Mumbai, since March 2008. Prior to Anand Rathi, Ratnesh was Managing Director, India Equity Strategist and Head of India Research at Citigroup Global Markets for nearly 8 years. Before Citigroup, Ratnesh was at CLSA India for over 4 years, as Head of India Research and India Strategist. He started his career in research at SSKI in 1993 and had a brief stint at CRISIL before that. Ratnesh is an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi and also has M.Sc. (Hons) Physics and BE (Hons) Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan.

A. P. Kurian has a career in the financial services industry spread over more than four decades and has held senior positions in the Reserve Bank of India and in the erstwhile Unit Trust of India. Since July 1998 he is the Executive Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) - a trade body of all the Mutual Funds operating in India. He also holds several positions – Chairman of Geogit Financial Services Ltd., Member of the Board of National Stock Exchange of India Ltd., Executive Committee of National Securities Depository Ltd., Technical Advisory Committee of RBI, and on the Boards of several Companies. He has extensive professional experience in the international arena. He was a leader of the team which set up the Ceybank Unit Trust in Sri Lanka in early nineties. He was a Common Wealth Consultant and did research in Capital Markets in Tanzania and made a project report for setting up a Unit Trust in Tanzania. Starting his career as Research Officer - Economic Department, Reserve Bank of India, he grew up to the rank of Director and Advisor - Economic Department. Since 1975 he was with erstwhile Unit Trust of India, the then only Mutual Fund in the country and held several Senior positions such as Director – Investment, Director – Planning and Development and from 1987 till 1993, he was the Executive Trustee equivalent to Managing Director. He was actively involved in the Design and Marketing of several Mutual Fund schemes. For his original contribution in the field of marketing of financial instruments, the Institute of Marketing Management (IMM) has awarded him Marketing Man of the year 1987 Award instituted by Tata Steel. As an efficient manager, having contributed substantially to the growth of the Unit Trust of India, the IMM has awarded him in 1993 the Best Professional Manager Award instituted by Life Insurance Corporation of India. He works closely with the Regulator – Securities And Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to put in place highest professional standards and in promoting the Mutual Fund industry on healthy lines. He took his Masters Degree in Economics and Statistics holding University Rank. He was the first student from Kerala University to be the National Scholar and he did Research in Economics in the University of Kerala.

The organization is based in New Delhi, being a real estate development company with projects across North India. The group has grown at a scorching pace since its inception in September 2005. As the CEO of Realtech Group since March 2006, Rohit looks after the entire company with all heads of divisions & technical professionals reporting to him. This includes land purchase, conception of projects, construction business development, marketing / sales & retail. Interacting with, collaborators, clients (both buyers & sellers), FDI’s, PE’s, funds, retail & luxury brands, architects, project management teams, and service providers etc. Is also a spokesperson for the group, handling all media, public relations & events. Rohit has also presented papers at IIM A on topics related to real estate. Prior to being CEO, Realtech Group Rohit headed Rorit International. The company was into exports and trading of home furnishings, accessories, fabrics & stoles/scarves & tea, out of New Delhi. His earlier assignments include being the Divisional Manager with Netware Technologies (a division of Asian Contec Ltd.), an established firm dealing in optic fiber and net hardware. Started his career as a management trainee with Apeejay / Caparo Group of Companies in their Tea division and rose to be one of their youngest Operational / Profit Center Heads. Here he had the opportunity to develop the operational skills related to all techno-commercial aspects and expertise in strategic planning, organizational and human resource management.

Gaurav Mathur is a Founding Managing Director at India Equity Partners, a $350 million India focused private equity fund where investments include Bharti Infratel, Ocean Sparkle, Ikya HR Services and Amtek India. Previously he was a Principal with JPMorgan Partners (“JPMP”) in Singapore, where he helped run JPMP’s Indian private equity portfolio. Prior to JPMP, he worked with the high-yield capital markets group at Deutsche Bank in London. Gaurav serves on the boards of Ocean Sparkle, Ikya HR Services and Jai Balaji Industries. He has a management degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Delhi.

Mr. Mathur was Chairman of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), the largest life insurance company in India from August 2002 to October 2004. His tenure coincided the opening of the Insurance sector, which resulted into the entry of 12 domestic players with strong brands tying up with leading international insurance companies. Despite intense competition from the new entrants, LIC continued to be the dominant player in the life insurance sector. This period was also marked by sharp decline in the interest rates, which necessitated withdrawal of some of the popular high yield products and introduction of new schemes. The equity portfolio was leveraged through secondary market operations and swapping of debt to realize profits and better asset liability matching. Post retirement from LIC, The Government of India appointed Mr. Sunil Behari Mathur as Administrator of the Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India (SUUTI), the successor of the erstwhile Unit Trust of India in December 2004, wherein Government had provided financial support to meet the liabilities under some of the guaranteed high returns schemes. During the last couple of years, taking advantage of the bullish economy and the buoyant capital markets, SUUTI divested its large holdings in equity without leading to volatility in the markets. The fund was managing over Rs. 42000 crore (around US $ 11 bn) of assets under management as on 19th December 2007 (having doubled in last three years). Mr. Mathur is at present the Secretary General of Life Insurance Council. He is the Chairman of National Stock Exchange and an Advisor to National Investment Fund set up by Government of India. He is also on Board on some leading Corporates.

Jai has over 15 years of work experience with international consulting firms both in India and Singapore. He has been with the India firm for over eight years and worked out of Mumbai and Bangalore offices. Jai specialises in M&A Tax and inbound advisory with a focus on the real estate , infrastructure and retail sectors. Jai has extensive experience in advising foreign companies on entry strategy, M&A, regulatory approvals and devising tax-efficient ownership and operating structures. Jai has advised a number of private equity funds both in developing fund structures and consummating their investments across sectors. In addition Jai has worked on several overseas floats, particularly on AIM. Jai heads the Real Estate practice of KPMG in India and is currently working with several dedicated real estate funds and developer groups.

Rashmi Mehrotra is an investment consultant and Principal in the Sydney office of Mercer Investment Consulting focusing on retail clients such as financial planning groups and platforms. As the Head of Retail Services, Rashmi has additional responsibilities for services to the retail market including Mercer >IS<, the web-based research tool that distributes research to financial planners. Rashmi has been working in Australian financial services for 13 years, joining Mercer in October 2003. Previously she was an Associate Director at van Eyk Research, having worked there for eight years in various roles including research, consulting, marketing and sales, client service and product management of iRate, van Eyk’s web-based research platform. Rashmi has also worked as a financial planner for two years. Rashmi is involved with the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (previously the Securities Institute of Australia) and the CFA Society of Sydney in various roles lecturing and task force duties, which involves setting course direction, assignment and exam papers for portfolio management subjects. Rashmi holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Delhi. She completed the Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment in 1995 and the Chartered Financial Analyst program in 1999.

Naren joined ICICI Prudential AMC in October 2004 and is currently the Chief Investment Officer – Equity. Naren currently manages five funds viz. ICICI Prudential Discovery Fund, ICICI Prudential Dynamic fund, ICICI Prudential Tax Plan, ICICI Prudential Infrastructure Fund, ICICI Prudential Indo Asia Equity Fund. Naren has an overall experience of over 18 years in the almost all spectrum of the financial services industry ranging from investment banking, Fund Management, Equity Research, and stock broking operations. His core competency lies in being involved in the entire gamut of equity market space. After obtaining a B. Tech degree from IIT Chennai, Naren finished MBA in finance from IIM Kolkota and worked with various financial services companies like Refco Sify Securities India Pvt. Ltd., HDFC Securities Ltd. and Yoha Securities in various positions prior to joining ICICI Prudential AMC. Naren is passionate about equity markets and hence has an obvious interest in trick-taking card game bridge. Naren and his wife Veena live in Mumbai with their son Varun.

William Nóbrega is managing partner and founder with The Conrad Group, an emerging market investment advisory and mergers-and-acquisitions facilitation firm with more than 115 consultants worldwide. Mr. Nóbrega is known internationally as a thought leader who has dedicated the past two decades to authoring numerous publications, providing highly valued strategic counsel and successfully initiating global business models in emerging geographies including Brazil, India and China. The Conrad Group, a leading boutique firm with professionals in New Delhi, Sao Paulo and Miami, provides counsel for hedge funds, pension funds, investment trusts and numerous Fortune 1000 companies in a complete spectrum of industry verticals. Prior to establishing The Conrad Group, Mr. Nóbrega worked with Deloitte & Touche Consulting in Europe and the United States. He is a veteran of the Army Special Forces who served in Kurdistan and other areas during the Gulf conflict. Mr. Nóbrega is an acclaimed author of numerous published articles and white papers about emerging market strategic planning. He is a frequent contributor and commentator for such media outlets as CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Businessweek, The Deal and other major national and international media outlets. Mr. Nóbrega’s book, Riding the Indian Tiger; Understanding India the World’s Fastest Growing Market, was published by John Wiley & Sons January 2008. He currently is completing his next book, The Next Wave; How Investors Can Ride an Era of Unprecedented Economic Growth and Innovation, slated for release in 2009. Mr. Nóbrega has a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, and a master’s degree from the University of Leuven, in Brussels, Belgium. For more information, visit www.conradgroupinc.com. Mr. Nóbrega may be reached via e-mail at wnobrega@conradgroupinc.com or at 305.913.7676.

Abhay Pandey 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.

Anu Sahai has over 15 years of investment experience spanning convertibles, high yield and equities. She started Anew Capital Management in October 2006 to capitalize on the India opportunity in the global marketplace. She is the Portfolio Manager of the Anew India Opportunity Fund, an opportunistic long /short India focused fund that invests primarily in equity and convertible securities. Prior to that she was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Convertible portfolios at ING for almost five years with an outstanding track record. Having joined ING in 1997, she served various analytical and portfolio management roles in equities, high yield and convertibles throughout her career there, in each case outperforming the benchmarks significantly. Prior to that she was Head of Indian Research Sales in Hong Kong with Marlin Partners, a London based institutional stockbroker. She started with them as an Indian Equity Analyst and helped develop the research product and methodology for analyzing Indian companies. Prior to Marlin, she researched potential investment ideas as part of corporate planning for Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest public engineering firm. Ms. Sahai has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, an affiliate of Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics from Bombay University. She is a member of the CFA Institute and a member of the American Mensa.

As CEO and Managing Partner, Bharat is responsible for the business of one of the largest and most reputed portfolio management service providers, focusing exclusively on wealth management and portfolio services for private clients (individuals, family offices and institutions) in India and abroad. He is Vice-Chairman of the proposed ASK AMC for the mutual fund foray. Bharat has nearly two decades of experience in the Indian capital markets with deep interface in Indian corporate world. He represents comprehensive insights in Indian capital markets (equity and fixed income) with strong emphasis on bottom-up investment research. He has a considerable understanding of global businesses and stock picking is a special strength. Prior to joining ASK Investment Managers, Bharat was the Chief Investment Officer at Birla Sun Life AMC. His responsibilities included investment management and research activities. He was managing assets of over US$ 1.65 billion.

Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of Beacon India Advisors, advisors to the Beacon India Private Equity Fund (BIPEF). BIPEF is a $200 million private equity fund sponsored by Baer Capital Partners. Deepak has over 10 years successful private equity investing and advisory experience in India, Asia, Europe and the United States. Formerly, Deepak was Founder and Managing Director of GEM India Advisors, a consumer focused India private equity fund where he was responsible for all aspects of the fund from investment strategy to deal sourcing to portfolio management, and FS Capital Partners, an early stage principal investment business. Prior to this, Deepak was Principal with RVC Europe, a $450M leading early stage venture capital fund that spun out of Reuters plc, where he focused on sourcing new investment opportunities and managing portfolio companies. Prior to joining RVC, he was a Senior Consultant with Bain & Company and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (Associate Member, ICAEW) with Ernst & Young. Deepak is the Founder and Chairman of Capco Advisors, who launched the first Indian Modern and Contemporary Art Fund and currently manage Capco II. Deepak serves on the board of Sula Wines, Saffronart, Bakers Circle, Impresario, Bhayana Builders, New Horizon Media, Trek Services and Capco Advisors. Deepak is also on the advisory board of Magic Bus India, a non-profit organization helping develop underprivileged children through sports. Deepak has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, where he won the Andersen Consulting Prize in Strategy, and an undergraduate honours degree in Law from King's College, University of London.

One of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the country today Mr. Nitesh Shetty, is the founding Managing Director of Nitesh Estates one of Bangalore's leading integrated Real Estate Development company. With a reputation for quality and precision, Nitesh Estates develops some of the finest office buildings, residential buildings and now luxury hotels and Shopping Malls in Bangalore. The company is currently developing over 8 million square feet, with projects in the region of 4000 crores. Nitesh Estates currently has presence in over 8 cities in India.

Anubha Shrivastava is a Portfolio Director at CDC Group and is responsible for South Asian investment portfolio. She was previously with Performance Equity Management, LLC, a global private equity fund-of-funds, where she was responsible for managing the European portfolio. Prior to that she was based in New York and was responsible for venture and buyout funds in the United States. She was previously with Hambrecht & Quist in their equity research group.

• Ex-IAS Officer from the undivided Madhya Pradesh Region – 15 years in service
• Over 27 years of work experience in the private sector and in the government.
• In the Government, his experience spans the entire spectrum from policy formulation to implementation of policy.
• As Deputy Secretary/Director in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, he has also worked with other governments, such as UK, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Czech and Slovak republics and others.
• Sunil has worked with CDC (UK), DANIDA, NORAD, SIDA, Ministry of Development Co-operation (Netherlands), Multilateral organizations like IFC and ADB and International FIs/Banks like KFW, ABN Amro, HSBC and Deutsche Bank, Stanchart Grindlays and others
• He has amassed vast experience of networking with both private sector and government agencies in promoting Public Private Partnership Projects.
• Sunil has excellent contacts and good working relationships with key government officials and multilateral and private sector communities.
• He has also worked as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in some of the best infrastructure companies/Projects in India such as GMR Infrastructure and Gujarat Pipavav Port Ltd.

India Capital Management is among the longest standing foreign investors in India. Dan was previously a Principal of The View Group, a venture capital firm focused on the Indo-US corridor. Prior to View, he led business development at India Life, which was acquired by Hewitt Associates (NYSE:HEW). He began his career at Bain & Company, where he advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and organizational design. Dan holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Brown University.

Vikram leads KPMG India’s Private Equity Advisory business . His focus is to work with Private Equity firms through the life cycle of their investments. Vikram has a deep understanding of transaction issues, deal structuring and negotiation issues relevant to private equity transactions. Vikram is quoted on his views on the Private Equity industry in India in leading newspapers and international PE and deal magazines . He recently led KPMG India’s Private Equity survey which was published in February 2008. His recent private equity M&A experience is set out below : Assisted Blackstone with all their PE investments in India including their acquisition of Gokuldas , a publicly listed textile company . Assisted Goldman Sachs with several transactions in India including their USD 175m investment in M&M Assisted Ripplewood in several transactions in India , including a potential USD 1 billion transaction Assisted Warburg Pincus in several transactions including their investment in Havells and Dainak Bhaskar Assisted TPG on several transactions in automotive , banking , liquor ,transportation finance and pharmaceuticals Vikram has led more than 100 due diligence engagements for Private Equity in India since 2002 Vikram's Private Equity clients include, Blackstone, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, TPG , Actis, Ripplewood Holdings, Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, JP Morgan, Advent , Alchemey partners, Temasek , IDFC and ICICI Ventures.

Pankaj Vaish joined Lehman Brothers in April 2007 as a managing director and head of Equities and Fixed Income Liquid Markets (Rates, Foreign Exchange and Commodities), India. Pankaj has over 17 years of capital markets experience across product lines. He has worked extensively in equity and derivatives trading, structuring and trading structured products. Pankaj also brings in-depth knowledge of hedge funds, having previously founded global macro hedge fund PV Capital Management, and worked as a junior partner at Vega Asset Management in New York. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Pankaj worked at Citigroup, New York, where he was most recently Managing Director, responsible for proprietary trading of Global Equity Markets via cash and derivatives. Earlier he was responsible for the North American Equity Derivatives Trading, Global Commodity Derivatives business and Fixed Income Derivatives Trading activities at Citibank. Pankaj has a Master of Science in Management as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.