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Independent Investment Committee

Our Investment Committee comprises seasoned and meticulous professionals with more than a decade of first-hand experience across banking, asset management and real estate sectors. The team will oversee and ensure compliance with regulations alongside undertaking responsibilities for investment decision-making.

Gitanjali Mirchandani

Investments Advisor & IC Member

16+ years of experience in financial services

Worked with ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank in the real estate lending business

Played a key role in setting up the real estate lending business in JM Financial

Built and managed a book of over USD 1.6 bn

Dhaval Vussonji

IC Member

A well-respected lawyer with 15+ years of diverse experience

Founder of Dhaval Vussonji & Associates, operating in the areas of Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Real Estate Laws

P. N. Prasad

IC Member

Retired Deputy Managing Director, SBI

37 years of experience in multiple fields of banking, corporate banking, and infrastructure lending

Currently, he is an Independent Director in Insolvency Professional Agency of Institute of Cost Accountants of India (IPA ICAI)

Ashutosh Taparia

IC Member

Retired Deputy Managing Director, SBI

37 years of experience in multiple fields of banking, corporate banking, and infrastructure lending

Currently, he is an Independent Director in Insolvency Professional Agency of Institute of Cost Accountants of India (IPA ICAI)

16+ years of experience in financial services

Worked with ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank in the real estate lending business

Played a key role in setting up the real estate lending business in JM Financial

Built and managed a book of over USD 1.6 bn

A well-respected lawyer with 15+ years of diverse experience

Founder of Dhaval Vussonji & Associates, operating in the areas of Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Real Estate Laws

Retired Deputy Managing Director, SBI

37 years of experience in multiple fields of banking, corporate banking, and infrastructure lending

Currently, he is an Independent Director in Insolvency Professional Agency of Institute of Cost Accountants of India (IPA ICAI)

Gitanjali Mirchandani

Investments Advisor & IC Member

A veteran in the financial services business with over 16 years of experience, Gitanjali Mirchandani has managed a team of Relationship Managers, Credit Analysts, Associates, and Underwriters and is recognised for her innovative and inspiring leadership.

Energetic and dynamic, with a keen eye for detail, she has played an instrumental role in setting up the real estate lending business at JM Financial. She has built and managed a book of over USD 1.6 bn over the last decade. Not only that, but Gitanjali has also previously worked in the real estate lending business with notable organisations such as the ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank, which has further added to her rich and vast background in lending to the real estate sector for project development, acquisition of property, loan against property, and loan against shares.

In addition to this, her expertise also lies in evaluating real estate assets across the life cycle and making underwriting decisions based on financial viability and risk parameters. She also has experience in operating across all the major metros. Her extensive knowledge and commitment to maintaining sound business practices have enabled her to take every organisation she has been associated with, to the next level of growth.

Gitanjali is an alumna of S P Jain Institute of Management and Research.

Dhaval Vussonji

IC Member

Well-known as a “leading, sound, and very hands-on lawyer,” Dhaval Vussonji is the founder of Dhaval Vussonji & Associates, a young and fast-expanding law firm in Mumbai. Guided by his vision and active leadership, the firm is recognised for its solution-oriented approach in diverse areas of practice that include Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate Advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Real Estate laws.

Vussonji’s 15 years of background spans extensively across multiple areas of Real Estate, Corporate Debt Restructuring, EPC Contracts, Hotel Management Contracts, International Commercial Arbitration, Litigation and Arbitration, Private Equity Investments, and Maritime Laws.

He regularly advises on real estate matters and leverages his vast and diverse experience to effectively deal with several issues relating to land titles, acquisition of lands, development of such lands, sale of premises constructed on the lands, leasing of premises of such lands, construction of malls, leasing of premises in malls and construction of hotels, among others. This has earned him the reputation of being an astute lawyer in his field. Besides that, he is also a regular advisor for transactions involving foreign direct equity investment in completed and under-construction real estate projects in the country. What’s more, he has also advised on the structuring of apartment funds and, formulating 80:20 schemes, in compliance with RBI norms, and setting up businesses for Non-Banking Financial Companies.

Mr Vussonji pursued a bachelor’s in commerce and is also a Chartered Accountant by qualification. He likes to contribute to topical issues through articles in publications like Corporate Law Advisors and journals released by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

P. N. Prasad

IC Member

Mr P. N. Prasad is a seasoned professional who has 37 years of vast experience in multiple fields of banking. A sharp and astute banker, his specialisation cuts across corporate banking, project finance and structuring, infrastructure lending, debt syndication, audit compliance, international banking, risk management, trade finance, stressed asset management, and resolution.

With sheer determination, hard work, and sincerity, he steadily climbed the ladder to success before retiring eventually. At the time of his retirement, he was leading the corporate banking vertical as the Deputy Managing Director of the State Bank of India (SBI), one of the largest banks in the country. He was also spearheading the Project Finance and Structuring SBU of the bank. Moreover, his illustrious career also saw him as a nominee director of the State Bank of India on the boards of Oman India Joint Investment Fund Management Company Private Limited and HDFC Venture Capital Limited.

Mr Prasad completed his post graduation in science and is a first- rank holder in his Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers examination. Currently, he is an Independent Director in the Insolvency Professional Agency of Institute of Cost Accountants of India (IPA ICAI). Besides that, he is also a member of the committee constituted by the Reserve Bank of India in April 2021 for a comprehensive review of the working of Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs). Furthermore, he was also elected as the Shareholder Director of the Bank of India for a term of 3 years in 2020.

Ashutosh Taparia

IC Member

Mr. Ashutosh Taparia has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience in building and scaling businesses to global leadership. Ashutosh was the Joint Managing Director of Famy Care Limited before its sale to Mylan Pharmaceuticals for 800 Million USD and played a pivotal role in making it a global major in Women’s Healthcare. Ashutosh led the manufacturing operations, supply chain management, marketing activities in the regulated markets and strategic initiatives for the Group. He is part of the Taparia Group. The group continues to run various businesses in the pharmaceutical, health & wellness, FMCG and retail industries. Some of the businesses that he manages are Guardian Pharmacy, GNC India, Bella Vita and Springwel.

Ashutosh also is the founder and Managing Partner at Ananta Capital, an investment management platform focused on partnering with businesses over the long-term. He also leads public markets investments and new business ventures for the Taparia Group. Ashutosh is an MBA from University of Texas, USA.