- Amit Kunal, Managing Partner, Growtheum Capital Partners
Amit is the Managing Partner at Growtheum Capital Partners. Previously, Amit was the Managing Director and Head of Direct Investment Group, Southeast Asia, at GIC where he led private equity investments in Southeast Asia. Amit was also a Investment Committee Member at GIC’s Private Equity group and co-led the ASEAN Business Group. Prior to GIC, he served as a Vice President in the Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Singapore and in New York. Amit obtained his MBA in Finance and Accounting from Kelley School of Business, Indiana University (Beta Gamma Sigma) and Bachelor of Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (First in Class).
- Omar Mahmoud, Managing Director, Creador Private Equity
Omar is Managing Director at Creador, as well as Country Head for the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. His key focus is to identify new investments for Creador as it looks to expand its geographical coverage across Southeast Asia. He is a member of the Creador Investment Committee and is also responsible for fundraising at the firm.
Prior to joining Creador, Omar was Managing Director & Country Head of Global Banking at HSBC Malaysia. In his 15-year tenure with the bank, he worked in various roles across Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, in addition to Scandinavia, the UK and Ireland. He also spent three years working in HSBC’s Specialised Finance department in London, structuring debt finance transactions for Private Equity buyouts across Europe. Omar is a qualified barrister, called to the bar at the Inner Temple, London. He has two degrees: one in Law from the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, and one in Finance from the University of Manchester. Outside of work, Omar is passionate about music and plays a variety of sports. He is also an avid traveller and is constantly exploring new places to try different types of food and wine.
- Philip Hu, Founding Member & Managing Director, Primavera Capital
Philip is a Founding Member and Managing Director of Primavera Capital. He sits on the Leadership Committee, Investment Committees, Strategic Partnerships Committee, Portfolio Management Committee, Sustainability Committee, Operations Committee, Risk Committee, among others. His board experience has been across for-profit and non-profit sectors. Prior to Primavera, he held positions in investment banking based in Hong Kong and in a hedge fund based in San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University. Globally, Primavera Capital manages $20 billion in AUM with 100+ portfolio companies and 100+ professionals across PE, VC, and Credit strategies.
- Ramesh Kannan, Partner, Somerset Indus Capital Partners
Ramesh Kannan has over 25 years of consulting experience in management, business, finance and strategy of which 20+ years in healthcare consulting. He is a healthcare strategist, business strategy and catalyst, innovation and transformation specialist, is pro-active, participative, has personalized involvement in a company’s affairs and enables the company to achieve its objectives. He focuses on fund raising, managing investor relations, deal sourcing, evaluation, concluding the deal, monitoring and value addition efforts.
His specialties include Resource Raising – Debt, Structured Debt, Equity and Private Equity. He helps companies in – 1. Local consolidation 2. Regional aggregation 3. Pan India Expansion 4. Global integration; He is responsible for Identifying opportunities, strategizing, proactively bringing to the table strategic and financial relationship opportunities, alliances and partnering prospects, joint venture, special purpose vehicle options, solicitation, mergers & acquisitions & leveraged buy outs; He is also involved in managing and monitoring the strategic business initiatives and alliances to maximize value for the company. He has worked with various healthcare delivery groups in South India to raise funds through Private Equity and is familiar with the entire deal process, documentation and monitoring processes followed by the PE community.
He is associated and advised Healthcare Brands like – RV Hospitals, Vasantha Subramanian Hospitals (VS Hospitals), VS Biotech, Muthu Medicals, Gunasheela IVF, NU Hospitals, NU Trust, Kosmoderma Clinics, , Sparsh Nephrocare, Jananam Fertility, Qikwell, Impulse Technologies, Dhiti Omics, Sahyadri Hospitals, Vikram Hospitals, HCG ( BIO & Curie ), Indus Health Plus, Image Hospitals Jhankaria Imaging (now SRL), Mallya Hospital, GVN Hospitals, Express Clinics, White Cross Clinics, White Lotus Clinics, ISIS Medicare, Pinnacle, CK Group, Ayurvaid, Fungroo, Evolko, Arvee Synthesis, Vanguard Therapeutics, Genotypic, QTLomics, Motherhood and Cloud 9.
He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
