Mr. Jalan is a Chartered Accountant and MBA (Finance) from SPJIMR, Mumbai and an alumnus of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.  He is responsible for transaction evaluation, deal structuring, investing, fund raising and managing the portfolio. He has deep experience in domestic credit markets with almost 15 years of experience across asset management, bank and rating agency. Before setting up the credit AIF practice, Ashish was part of Fixed Income Investment team at Nippon India Mutual Fund for almost 9 years. Prior to joining Nippon India, he has also worked with DBS Bank, ICRA Ltd. and Global Analytics.

Mr. Apte is a B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering (IIT Madras) and an MBA in Finance & Marketing from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. Rahul has over 18 years of professional experience and is adept in all aspects of structured credit including deal sourcing, client development, credit assessment , portfolio monitoring and managing exits. Hewas among the founding members of the Project & Structured finance business at Aditya Birla Finance and played a prominent role in scaling up the wholesale credit AUM to ~$2 bn over a decade. He then led the NBFC’s foray into the Emerging Clients segment as a Business Head.