Mr. Sunil Kumar Chaturvedi is the Chairman of Gainwell Group – a group of Indian multinational corporates in engineering, manufacturing, and distribution of capital goods for construction, mining, defence, railways and material handling sectors with group footprints across Asia, Australia, US and Africa. The Group has its origin in 1944. A Chartered Accountant by training and a former civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service, he has worked in the State of West Bengal as well as in different ministries of the Government of India for 20 years. He is associated with CII, FICCI and Assocham and is a country member of FutureCoal® – an international alliance of corporates working in coal sector. Prior to his entrepreneurial journey with Gainwell since 2014, Mr. Chaturvedi worked for Bharat Forge Limited as its Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer in the Capital Goods Division for more than 5 years. Mr. Chaturvedi serves on the boards of various group companies in India and abroad including TIL Limited (TIL) and Gainwell Commosales Private Limited (GCPL) – as the CMD and on the board of Vesuvius India Limited (VIL) as an Independent Director.

Ms. Anjali Karamnarayan Seth is a professional lawyer with a vast experience of more than 35 years. During her career span she has provided advices and consultation to top Banks, Financial Institutions and Large Corporates, on a range of matters including M&As, PE Investments, Industrial/ Employee Relations, Corporate Governance, Real Estate Negotiations etc. Apart from being a legal consultant, Ms. Seth is Director on the Board of various Companies.

Mr. Praveen Garg is a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer with experience of more than three decades. He has served Government of India for more than 8 years in the Ministry of Law and Justice, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change. Further, he has over 25 years of experience with the State Government of Madhya Pradesh holding key positions such as Secretary (Finance), Commissioner (Institutional Finance), Managing Director of MP State Industrial Development Corporation Limited, Managing Director of MP Trade and Investment Facilitation Corporation Limited, Revenue Commissioner (Bhopal Division) and District Magistrate (Jabalpur, Khandwa, Satna and Sidhi-Singrauli). Mr. Garg is a Commerce graduate from Delhi University and a Chartered Accountant. Further, Mr. Garg is Director on the Board of LIC Mutual Fund Asset Management Limited and Lemon Tree Hotels Limited.

Mr. Subodh Kumar Jaiswal is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer with extensive leadership experience in national security, law enforcement and organizational management. He began his journey in the Indian Police in 1985. In a career span of 38 years, he had served with distinction in command positions with organisations of the Government of India/Maharashtra State. Mr. Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has served in critical roles such as the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Director General of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Director General – Maharashtra Police, Commissioner of Greater Mumbai Police and AIG and DIG, Special Protection Group, Government of India. Mr. Jaiswal holds the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing from Punjab University, Chandigarh. Further, Mr. Jaiswal is an Independent Director on the Board of HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd., Dreamcap Management Private Ltd., and Siemens Energy India Limited. He is also Senior Advisor at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP and advisor at ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Limited.

Mr. Pradip Panalal Shah is a gold-medallist Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and MBA from Harvard, who helped establish Housing Development Finance Corporation, the first retail housing finance company in India; CRISIL, the first and largest credit rating agency in India; the Indocean Fund, a pioneer private equity fund, in partnership with affiliates of Soros Fund Management and Chase Capital Partners; the AMP-IndAsia India Fund, in joint venture with AMP of Australia; Universal Trustees; and Grow-Trees.com, a social enterprise. He has served on several expert committees of state and central governments and is currently chairman of Pfizer India, BASF India, director of many companies, sits on the governing boards of some non-profit organizations and a chamber of commerce and serves on the investment committees of two venture funds and on the advisory boards of two other funds.

Mr. Manish Jain has an extensive experience of over 2 decades in investment industry with significant knowledge and track record in sourcing, analysing, advising, asset resolution and real estate investments. He is an expert at managing deals across sectors including consumer, cement, auto component, financial services, manufacturing, hospitality, real estate, infrastructure, steel and power. As Partner and Head of India at Ares Asia Group, he ensures implementation of the group’s vision through professional due diligence and underwriting standards in the team’s investment advisory process and is responsible for identifying, analysing and assisting in execution of investments in India. Mr. Manish Jain has done Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is on ACRE’s Board of Directors where he shares his expertise in asset restructuring, modelling, valuations, etc. to help the company grow. 

Mr. Kartik Bangalore is President and Head of Conglomerates and Large Corporates at Axis Bank. He is a career banker with over 23 years of experience in wholesale banking in India. During this period, he has advised and helped corporates in India raise over $20bn in financing across loans, debt & equity. Prior to his role in Axis Bank, he was Managing Director - Corporate Banking & Head of Local Corporate Banking at Citibank, India. Mr. Kartik is a graduate in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and is a Chartered Accountant.

Mr. Chandan Churiwal is Chief Executive officer and Whole Time Director at ACRE. He has an experience of over 18 years in buying and resolving stressed financial assets. At ACRE, he has been instrumental in addition of new AUM of more than 20,000 Crore and recoveries of more than 17,000 Crore. Prior to joining ACRE, he was working with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), where he was managing a stressed asset book of ~USD 1bn spread across power, sugar & telecom sectors and was closely involved in multiple exits for the bank. Prior to SCB, he has worked with Yes Bank, Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd. and ICICI Bank. He is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.