Ashish Patil is the Managing Partner of Singapore based SAAA Capital and a Founder Partner of Nalanda Capital since 2007, a leading fund in Asia Pacific. Ashish is a career banker with two Masters (Finance, CFO leadership) two Bachelors (Engineering, Law), two professional qualification (CA, CS). Prior to Nalanda he was with Merrill Lynch, Investment banking (~10 years). He also has teaching experience of ~10 years as Adjunct faculty with SP Jain Centre of Global Management, Singapore & Dubai. Ashish has also authored highly reviewed books “Mergers & Acquisitions – The Art of Science”, “Yogi Corporates” and “Only Yoga” and is an active investor and mentor to emerging technology startups.
Simanta Das is a Managing Partner of Netherlands based Stalhmarg and Founder of Rising Stars Ventures. After a long professional career leading Strategy in Consulting companies and European Banking majors, he moved to Financing Deep Tech companies, specifically in Healthcare, Energy and Edtech sectors and is a board member in 6 such invested companies. Simanta is an alumnus of MIT Sloan and Harvard.
Rahul Chawla is the Head of Financial Sponsor Financing for Asia at Duetsche Bank Asia. He has been a career banker with earlier stints in Deutsche Bank India and Credit Suisse. Rahul is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and St. Stephens, Delhi.