Experience

Panthera Capital (Investment arm of Fujairah Holding)

• United Arab Emirates
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Manager & Head of Investments

  • Dec 2022 - Present

• Head - Venture Capital & Private Equity

  • 2021 - Dec 2022



Corporate Trust

• India
• Investment Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Partner

  • 2017 - 2021

  - Managed and advised on the alternative investments portfolio of a few family offices - Investments included private equity, venture capital and structured derivatives / baskets of commodities, currencies, listed equities and fixed income - Advised on buy-side and sell-side transactions, investment and commercial mandates across TMT, logistics and education sectors - Managed and advised on the alternative investments portfolio of a few family offices - Investments included private equity, venture capital and structured derivatives / baskets of commodities, currencies, listed equities and fixed income - Advised on buy-side and sell-side transactions, investment and commercial mandates across TMT, logistics and education sectors



Al Masah Capital

• Dubai

• Senior Vice President, Private Equity

  • 2014 - 2017

  Al Masah Capital was a $1.5 billion Private Equity Fund. It was one of the leading and fastest growing funds in the MENA region between the years 2010 and 2020, having won many industry accolades such as “Best MENA Asset Manager” and “Best PE House” Invested in Education, Logistics, Food & Beverage, and Healthcare sectors, across ~45 assets - Served in the founding team of the Logistics Fund - Made buyout investments and majority control acquisitions in assets across various sectors - Owned the PnL for a few investments, and operated / expanded / reevaluated business models to create value Show less



The Wharton School

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• MBA Graduate Student

  • 2012 - 2014

  Triple Major | Recipient of Ibrahim Family Fellowship | Admissions Fellow | Chair of Wharton 2013 Southeast Asia PE Trek | Chair of Wharton 2013 Consulting Conference | Selected as Teaching Assistant for Macroeconomics and Dynamic Marketing Strategy Triple Major | Recipient of Ibrahim Family Fellowship | Admissions Fellow | Chair of Wharton 2013 Southeast Asia PE Trek | Chair of Wharton 2013 Consulting Conference | Selected as Teaching Assistant for Macroeconomics and Dynamic Marketing Strategy



Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Consultant

  • Apr 2013 - Aug 2013

  - Advised one of the biggest shipping & logistics players of South-East Asia - Financial Modeling: quantified value creation, decomposed high-level strategic implications into base-level financial metrics, validated assumptions with the client, generated insights for the steering committee - Pricing strategy: researched industry trends, status quo pricing models and future pricing implications, created external benchmarking studies with other industries, aligned with industry experts to formulate competitor benchmarking, analyzed internal operational processes driving pricing leakages, advised pricing levers at four levels to the client based on insights Show less



Herbal Sugar Venture

• Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Director of Growth, Angel Investor

  • 2011 - 2013

  Herbal Sugar is a Nutraceutical startup with a proprietary technology to reduce GI of certain carbs by 30%, developed with 10 years of R&D by founding scientists for product development. Led the strategy as Director of Growth for extended product offerings, product packaging and marketing, strategic investments and partnerships with two of India’s leading FMCG brands. Invested into the business together with other angels. Exited to a strategic investor realising 2.5x cash on cash. Herbal Sugar is a Nutraceutical startup with a proprietary technology to reduce GI of certain carbs by 30%, developed with 10 years of R&D by founding scientists for product development. Led the strategy as Director of Growth for extended product offerings, product packaging and marketing, strategic investments and partnerships with two of India’s leading FMCG brands. Invested into the business together with other angels. Exited to a strategic investor realising 2.5x cash on cash.



Standard Chartered Bank

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director, Derivatives Structuring (Financial Markets), covering MENA region

  • 2008 - 2011

  - Quadrupled the corporate finance and capital markets Structuring business in MENA for the bank within 18 months, with cumulative deal value of $10 billion - Advised on investment structures (using interest rates, FX, commodities, credit) to private family offices and investment houses in the MENA region- Bid and won the mandate for the largest share of interest-rate hedging structure for the $2.6 billion Egypt Refining Company (ERC) financing deal, led by Citadel Capital (one of the largest PF deals of Africa)- Structured the longest FX deal for SCB for $1.3 billion Barka Sohar IPP- Structured hedges and complex novation mechanics in the $1.5 billion Rabigh IPP deal that was named “Middle-East Power Deal of the Year by PFI”- Structured the first-ever Treasury-lock swap for the Bond Issuance of a GRE (government-related entity)- Advised on interest-rate hedging structures to governments’ and supranational banks’ bond issuances - Optimized investing and hedging structures with multiple asset classes using stochastic models, e.g. Black Scholes Show less

• Derivatives Sales (Financial Markets), covering North India region

  • 2007 - 2008

  - Structured SCB India’s biggest single-ticket “derivative basket investment” deal comprising of gold and currency asset classes- Structured and advised alternative investment structures such as auto-callables, accumulators and baskets, to corporate clients using interest rates, FX, commodities and credit asset classes- Designed hedging structures using interest rate swaps, caps / floors, swaptions, range-accruals, knock-in / knock-outs swaps for corporate clients across interest rates, FX and commodities asset classes Show less

• Global Corporates, covering Southeast Asia region

  • 2006 - 2007

  - Worked on the TMT (telecom, media and technology) and FMCG portfolio- Advised Tata Telecom on its debt syndication deal - Developed revenue growth strategy for Nestle’s expansion within Southeast Asia



Stanford ASES

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member / Co-founder : Singapore Chapter (Stanford's premier global entrepreneurship community)

  • 2005 - 2007

  Stanford’s premier global entrepreneurship community - Represented Singapore at Stanford University in the ASES Entrepreneurship Program 2005 - Co-founded and Served on the Board of ASES Stanford’s Singapore Chapter - Built a platform in Singapore to bring together Silicon Valley and Singapore startups, VCs, governments, universities and other stakeholders of the startup ecosystem together - Worked with startups through this platform to develop their business plan definition, growth strategies, cap table structuring, capital raising and legal setups - Served as a the President of Entrepreneurship Club of Nanyang Technological University (2004-05) Show less



Nineo

• Singapore

• Co-Founder

  • 2004 - 2006

  - Co-founded Singapore's largest student freelance job portal - Grew to the total project value of >$1m per year, with >50% success rate in staffing - Co-founded Singapore's largest student freelance job portal - Grew to the total project value of >$1m per year, with >50% success rate in staffing



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Imagine Cup - National-level Competition

  • Jan 2005 - Jul 2005

  - Led a team of 4 to ideate and create an MVP of a location-based dining suggestions platform using Microsoft .NET technology - Selected as one of the 9 finalists among 75 teams competing in Singapore in a 3-staged competition - Led a team of 4 to ideate and create an MVP of a location-based dining suggestions platform using Microsoft .NET technology - Selected as one of the 9 finalists among 75 teams competing in Singapore in a 3-staged competition



Visa

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Innovation

  • Jan 2005 - Jun 2005

  Re-engineered and automated internal HR and admin workflow (HR-tech solution), which was piloted for employees in Asia-Pacific Re-engineered and automated internal HR and admin workflow (HR-tech solution), which was piloted for employees in Asia-Pacific