Peter DeYoung is the CEO of Piramal Global Pharma, Piramal Pharma Limited, and a member of the Piramal Pharma Limited Board. Piramal Global Pharma is comprised of Piramal Pharma Solutions and Piramal Critical Care business units. In his current role, Peter is responsible for steering strategy and driving profitable growth of these businesses.
Prior to this, he has spearheaded several leadership mandates at the Piramal Group, including CEO, Piramal Critical Care and President, Life Sciences.
Previously, Peter worked in various investing and consulting roles in healthcare in the USA, Europe and India. He joined McKinsey & Company in New York after graduating from Princeton, where he worked on a number of projects for pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He was then seconded by McKinsey to the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland as part of the Global Health Initiative. Peter returned to McKinsey in New York and later in Mumbai, where he focused on the pharmaceutical and healthcare practice. Later, he joined the Blackstone Group’s Private Equity Division in Mumbai where he was part of the deal team for several significant transactions, across a wide spectrum of industry sectors in India.
Peter holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Stanford University (Arjay Miller Scholar), California, USA and a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Engineering from Princeton University, New Jersey, USA (summa cum laude).
Mr. Harinder Sikka is Group Director – Strategic Business at the Piramal Group. He is a former Lt. Commander from the Indian Navy and has been with the Group for nearly three decades. He has been awarded by the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group, Paris as also recipient of ‘The Indira Super Achiever Award’, besides other prestigious recognitions. He is trained on Intellectual Property Rights from AOTS, Tokyo, Japan.
He is a prolific writer and an acclaimed film-maker. He went to the Kargil battle theatre in 1999 as a freelance embedded journalist and has written over hundred articles in leading newspapers. He produced the multiple National Awards winning film Nanak Shah Fakir, directed short films and authored two best-selling books Calling Sehmat (made into the blockbuster film ‘Raazi’) and Vichhoda. Calling Sehmat was published in six Indian languages and is amongst the best 50 books globally on espionage. Vichhoda is available in Hindi and English.
Mr. Rupen Jhaveri is the Group President at Piramal Enterprises Limited (PEL). In his role, Rupen is responsible for business development, strategy, M&A, capital allocation and corporate finance with a primary focus on financial services.
Rupen has close to two decades of experience across private equity and investment banking. Prior to joining PEL, he was the Managing Director of KKR India, a global investment firm. As part of the founding team in India, Rupen has led investments in Jio Platforms, Reliance Retail, Alliance Tires, Magma Fincorp (Poonawalla Finance), Dalmia Cement, Max Financial Services, Emerald Media, SBI Life Insurance, Bharti Infratel, HDFC Ltd and RE Sustainability.
Prior to KKR, Rupen has worked with Goldman Sachs & Co. in its Principal Investment Area (PIA), Warburg Pincus and Merrill Lynch.
Rupen is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – Corporate Governance Council and the Global Investor Council of Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (IVCA). He holds a B.S., magna cum laude, from Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. He has also been the recipient of The Economic Times and Fortune 40 under 40 Business Leader awards.
An avid cricketer and tennis player, Rupen pursuits also include social work in rural India.
Jairam Sridharan is the MD of Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited (PCHFL). He has over two decades of rich domain experience and specializes in setting up and scaling new businesses.
Before joining Piramal, Jairam was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Axis Bank. He has handled a variety of roles at the Bank and was previously President, Retail Lending & Payments. In this role, he was responsible for driving growth in the retail lending and payments businesses comprising retail lending products (home, car, personal & other loans), cards business (credit, debit & prepaid) and the agriculture & rural lending business. In his 5 years in this role, Axis Bank saw industry leading, 6X growth and emerged as one of the top 5 retail lending institutions in the country.
Prior to Axis, Jairam served Capital One Financial, a consumer bank based in Richmond, VA (USA) as Head – ‘New to Credit’ Card Acquisitions in the US Cards Business. At the start of his career with ICICI Bank, he played a key role in their initial foray into the retail lending businesses, serving as Head – Business Intelligence Unit.
Jairam holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi and Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Kolkata where he was awarded a Roll of Honour for academic excellence.
In 2019, Institutional Investor magazine named Jairam “Best CFO” in their All-Asia Executive team for Banks, based on Sell-Side analyst votes. In 2015, Mr. Sridharan was chosen by The Economic Times as a part of their “40 Under 40” list of India’s hottest business leaders. Jairam is an avid reader and likes to spend his free time travelling with his family and looking for a track to run.
Mr. S.K. Honnesh, Group General Counsel at the Piramal Group, is responsible for overseeing the legal function across the Piramal Group. He also heads the Secretarial, Patent, Trusteeship and Compliance functions of the Company.
Honnesh joined Piramal Group in 2013 and has helped set up and organise the legal function across the group. He plays a critical role in identifying, mitigating and managing legal risk across the group companies. Honnesh also plays an important role in executing corporate transactions, acquisitions, mergers, sale and transitions in the Company. He has worked on diverse deals through his tenure with the Group. Some of the major transactions include fund raising of $ 770 Million at PEL by QIP of Compulsorily Convertible Debentures (the first and largest by a non-banking company) and Rights Issue, investments in the financial services companies, Shriram Transport and Shriram Capital, acquisition of the product portfolio from Janssen, Mallinckrodt and setting up of IndiaRF, the company’s Distressed Asset Platform, sale of DRG, Carlyle investment in Pharma and acquisition of DHFL.
Honnesh is a qualified Corporate lawyer and holds a Degree in Law from National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
Kalpesh Kikani is the Chief Executive Officer of Piramal Alternatives. In his current role, Kalpesh drives profitable growth across all Piramal Group’s alternative asset funds across multiple asset classes.
Kalpesh has over twenty-five years of expertise in investing and financial services including a decade as the founding Managing Director at AION Capital, a joint venture between Apollo Global Management and ICICI Group to invest in buyouts, distressed and hybrid capital solutions.
At AION, Kalpesh led both fund raising and deployment of over $ 1.25 Billion of capital and served on the boards of several its portfolio companies.
Prior to AION Capital, Kalpesh spent over 15 years at ICICI Bank. Kalpesh played a significant role in building the bank’s commercial banking business to over $ 10 Billion in assets and the structured finance business to over $ 5 Billion in assets. Kalpesh setup and built the bank’s corporate and investment banking business in London to $ 4 Billion in assets. Earlier, Kalpesh was part of the retail banking team at the time of the merger of ICICI Limited and ICICI Bank Limited. Kalpesh started his career at ICICI Limited in project finance where he led multiBillion dollar corporate and infrastructure financing.
Kalpesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance from Bombay University and is a member of the CFA Institute, USA.
Mr. Shantanu Nalavadi is the Managing Director at India Resurgence Asset Management Business Private Limited, a partnership between Piramal Enterprises Limited and Bain Capital Credit, which manages a $ 629 Million fund (“IndiaRF”). A Chartered Accountant by profession, Mr. Nalavadi carries with him over two decades of experience in financial services, banking and corporate finance.
In his role at IndiaRF, Mr. Nalavadi oversees through active engagement and controls, resurrection of businesses from under- performance to market leading performance; thereby driving positive impact on companies, economy, employees, stakeholders, communities and the environment. IndiaRF looks to provide bespoke debt and equity capital solutions to complex situations, under-pinning asset revival in and outside of bankruptcy courts, dealing with all stakeholders (lenders, promoters) and with control mind-set at asset level or via loan to own strategy. IndiaRF actively invests across growth sectors such as industrials, infrastructure, manufacturing, consumer businesses etc., targeting India’s burgeoning demand growth and exports. The on-ground team that Shantanu spearheads, post- investment engages extensively with management on turnaround efforts across operations, HR, ESG, governance, practices, controls etc, and aims for highest standards across business practices, governance, ethics, diversity and ESG matters.
Previously, he was Co-Head of the Structured Investment Group of Piramal Enterprises Limited, with over $ 350 Million in assets under management. Prior to this, he was a Partner at New Silk Route Advisors Pvt. Ltd., a Private Equity Fund with over $ 850 Million in assets under management. His vast tenure of work experience includes global multinationals such as ANZ Grindlays Bank, Star TV and Walt Disney with P/L and business development responsibilities.
Mr. Nalavadi brings with him an experience of investing, creating value and monetising investments across several sectors, including financial services, consumer retail, infrastructure, cement, media, logistics and manufacturing. In creating value for his portfolio companies he actively participated in partnering with strategic / managements for operational improvements, competitive marketing positioning and sustainable expansion.
Mr. Nalavadi articled with Arthur Andersen, India, before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1993.
Mr. Yesh Nadkarni is the CEO of Wholesale Lending at Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited (PCHFL). He has over 22 years of real estate investing experience across debt, equity and special situations spanning India, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
As CEO of Wholesale Lending, Yesh is responsible for further expanding PCHFL’s wholesale lending business, building a high-quality granular book across different real estate segments, establishing, and strengthening key client relationships and using data analytics/AI to enable superior underwriting.
Before joining Piramal, Yesh was the Managing Director & CEO of the India Real Estate lending business at global investment firm KKR, where he built a leading India real estate credit franchise.
Prior to KKR, he has held senior leadership roles at J.P. Morgan where he led Asia-ex China franchise of the balance sheet investing group, and ICICI Prudential, where he set up and led real estate investing business.
Yesh is a Masters in Finance Graduate from London Business School and is a Bachelor in Engineering, from University of Pune, India.
Mr. Nitish Bajaj is the CEO of Consumer Healthcare Division, Piramal Enterprises Limited. He brings with him extensive experience and knowledge in business and marketing strategy, process restructuring, innovation, digitization, media planning, entry strategy and merger & acquisition in the Consumer Healthcare and Automotive space. He has been instrumental in launching and building the architecture of global power brands through robust consumer in-sights and by creating innovation pipelines.
Prior to joining Piramal, Mr. Bajaj was Senior Vice President, Marketing at CEAT Tyres and has worked with organizations such as Reckitt Benckiser (India) Limited, Ranbaxy Global Consumer Healthcare and Heinz India Private Limited.
Mr. Bajaj holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and a Degree in Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU).
Mr. Vivek Valsaraj is the President and Chief Financial Officer of Piramal Enterprises Limited. A qualified CMA with over two decades of experience in the field of Finance, he currently oversees the Finance & Shared Services functions of the Company.
Mr. Valsaraj has been associated with the Piramal Group for over 18 years, and has previously served various roles across Corporate, the erstwhile Domestic Formulations business as well as CFO of the Pharma business. Over the past few years, he has actively participated in key acquisitions and divestments, and has also been responsible for executing systems and processes and internal controls that ensure financial discipline.
Prior to joining Piramal Group, Mr. Valsaraj has worked with companies such as Wockhardt Ltd. and Bharat Bijlee Ltd. His extensive experience pans across functions such as Corporate Finance, Business Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Structuring, Corporate Governance and Taxation.
Mr. Vikram Bector is the President and Chief Human Resources Officer for the Piramal Group. He holds an MBA degree in Marketing & Finance and is also certified as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC – International Coach Federation), since 2007.
Vikram comes with 27 years of professional experience across diverse sectors like IT, Consulting, Automotive and Healthcare. He has previously worked with big global Indian conglomerates and MNCs like – Cipla, Reliance Industries Limited, Tata Motors, Deloitte, Satyam Computers and Aditya Birla Group.
He has presented papers at the ASTD International Conference and Exposition in San Diego and also been awarded as the best speaker at the Global Learning Summit at Singapore in 2013.
In addition to core HR practices, he has expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions and leading change initiatives across different cultures in geographies such as Brazil, United States, China, Japan and the Middle East. He has worked on building world class e-enabled practices in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Leadership development, Succession planning, managing high potentials, Employee Engagement, Learning and Organizational Development. He has steered initiatives in organizations to enhance the employer brand and become an employer of choice.
Mr. Viral Gandhi is President and Group Chief Information Officer, Piramal Group. As a Digital and Change leader, he is responsible for driving tech innovation and reinvention across the Group entities. He enables the businesses to gain competitive advantage by leveraging technology and digital-led platforms to boost engagement with all stakeholders, across touch points.
Mr. Gandhi is a Technology & Digital Strategist with deep expertise in building and implementing innovative technology solutions and establish strong technology culture to transform organisations and propel business growth.
Prior to joining Piramal Group, Mr. Gandhi served as Chief Information Officer at the Cox & Kings Group and was instrumental in driving business transformation through consumer tech solutions across the group companies, globally. Previously, during his tenure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), he partnered with several Fortune 100 clients such as General Electric, NASDAQ, World Bank, HP and Procter & Gamble, in their technology transformation journeys.
With over two and half decades of rich experience, Mr. Gandhi has been conferred with several prestigious awards for his contributions in the field of technology and innovation.
Mr. Gandhi has completed an Executive Leadership Program from Harvard Business School, USA and a Strategy and Innovation Program from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai, India.
Aditya Natraj is CEO of Piramal Foundation. A chartered accountant, with a master’s in economics and MBA from INSEAD. Aditya started his career with KPMG for 5 years and then joined a start-up internet company in Europe for 2 years. For the last 18 years, he has worked in the Development sector – first with Pratham in Gujarat for 5 years and the Piramal Foundation for the last 13 years. Aditya is an Ashoka Fellow, an Echoing Green Fellow and an Aspen India Fellow.
Aditya serves on the governing board of Quality Council of India, Akanksha Foundation and BridgeSpan India. He was awarded the Times Now Amazing Indian award in Education, and was previously Founder Director of Kaivalya Education Foundation and Piramal School of Leadership.