Ep 06: Unravelling Investment Avenues with Manish Gadhvi, CEO B2B FundsIndia

Ep 08: The Rise and Rise of GCCs in India with Lalit Ahuja, Founder & CEO - ANSR

Lalit Ahuja is the Founder and CEO of ANSR, one of India’s largest providers of Global Capability Centers. Over the past 2 decades, ANSR has helped set-up GCCs for Fortune 500 companies starting with Target in 2006 and expanding to the likes of FedEx, IKEA, Pepsi, Nike, Twitter among others. ANSR’s portfolio today spans over 120 clients with a 20% market share across 12 million square feet. Lalit completed his engineering from BITS, Pilani and followed it up with an MS in Computer science from IIT Bombay. He started his career in the Indian Navy, retiring as a lieutenant commander before founding ANSR in 2005.

Ep 07: Estate and Succession Planning with Shaishavi Kadakia, Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Shaishavi Kadakia is a Partner at Cyril Amarchandand Mangaldas, one of the top law firms in the country. Shaishavi advises families and individuals on personal wealth, estate and succession planning, family business restructurings, family settlements and arrangements, trusts and wills. She has advised a wide range of clients including promoters of some of the foremost business groups in India, leading professionals and executives, entrepreneurs, family offices, and trustees. Shaishavi completed her law degree from Government Law College, Mumbai and has been with CAM for the past 8+ years prior to which she worked at Wadia Ghandy & Co.

Ep 06: Unravelling Investment Avenues with Manish Gadhvi, CEO B2B FundsIndia

Manish Gadhvi recently was appointed as the CEO of the B2B business for FundsIndia, one of India’s largest networks of financial advisors. Prior to this, Manish was associated for over 20 years with NJ India, one of the leading advisors and distributors of financial products and services in the country. During his time at NJ India, Manish helped about 12,000 B2B partners build their business and reach a scale of Rs. 50,000 crore in assets under management. Manish holds an MBA in Finance from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Ep 05: Deconstructing Technical Diligence with Jayant Vaitha, MD at Colliers

Jayant heads the design services vertical for Colliers and has over 30 years of experience in design and architecture of several large-scale projects in India, Middle-east and Africa. Prior to Synergy (now Colliers) his experience includes landmark projects such as Burj-Al-Arab in Dubai and Canary Warf Phase III in London. Jayant also has been instrumental in spearheading international projects such as Vision City at Kigali, Rwanda and many other large-scale developments in India such as Smart City Kochi, Ozone Urbana, Embassy Edge, Oracle Tech Hub and many others. Jayant is an architect with a master’s degree in urban design from the School of Architecture, CEPT Ahmedabad.

Ep 04: Navigating legal property checks with Mridul Kumbalath, Partner at Trilegal

Mridul is Partner at Trilegal and was previously Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. He is a recognized leader in real estate law with over 13 years of experience across diverse and varied practice areas. He has represented a variety of real estate funds, multinational companies, lenders, borrowers, retailers, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers and operators like Blackstone, Embassy Group, Embassy REIT, Xander Group, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund, MapleTree, RMZ, Purvankara, Oaktree, Salarpuria, Tata Realty, DivyaSree Group, Avigna and Indospace, among others. Mridul’s key specializations include acquisition and development of real estate projects – residential and commercial, land aggregation for townships and renewable energy projects, warehouse acquisitions and SEZ development. In addition, he regularly advises on security creation and enforcement as part of lending/investment transactions, commercial leasing, title due diligence, structuring, drafting and negotiation of real estate contracts. Mridul is BA LLB (Hons.) from National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi.