Mr. Birendra Kumar, currently managing AIF of Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Singapore, as Executive Director, Wisler Investment Management Pvt Ltd, Investment Manager. He was Senior Advisor, Duff & Phelps India Private Limited from mid November 2018 to mid-November 2020.

Mr. Kumar has recently joined the Board as independent director and Chairman of Advait ARC Pvt Ltd, which is in the process of applying for RBI license. He was earlier Non-executive Vice Chairman on the Board of International Asset Reconstruction Company Private Limited (IARC) from September 1, 2018, to May 16, 2019, prior to which he was the founder Managing Director & CEO since IARC received Certificate of Registration from RBI in March 2007. During his tenure of over eleven years till he relinquished charge as on August 31st, 2018, as MD&CEO, Mr. Kumar was instrumental in raising equity and two Funds with renowned domestic and international investors and third Fund in March 2018 with Blackstone Tactical Opportunities who have also taken majority stake in the company, with HDFC Bank, Tata Capital Ltd and ICICI Bank being the other Institutional shareholders.

Mr. Kumar has been a career banker with over five decades of rich and diverse experience in commercial, credit, investment & international banking in India and abroad. Mr. Kumar was the Deputy Managing Director & Chief Credit Officer of State Bank of India when he retired in April 2002. Immediately prior to this, Mr. Kumar was the MD & CEO of State Bank of India (SBI) Capital Markets Limited for a period of over three years. Mr. Kumar has handled various important assignments in India including as Private Secretary, Chairman, SBI and Secretary, Central Board of SBI. Mr. Kumar also has over five years of overseas experience with SBI in the USA during which period he was first Representative in Washington for over a year and half and then headed the West Coast operations of SBI as President &CEO, SBI (California) and Chief Executive Officer, Los Angeles Agency, Los Angeles for over three years.

Mr. Kumar has wide experience in the stressed asset sector, having been Advisor, Financial Advisory Services, PwC, Mumbai from 2002 to 2007 wherein he was instrumental in initiating and leading Business Recovery Services (Distressed Debt Advisory) practice. He was actively involved in advising ARCs on positioning strategy, formulation of business plan, operational strategy and policies and processes. He was the member of the PwC team for undertaking a study on behalf of Asian Development Bank and Government of India to suggest regulatory changes for creating an enabling environment for successful functioning of Asset Reconstruction Companies in India.

Mr. Kumar has served on several Expert Groups set up by the Reserve Bank of India and Government of India. He was a Special Invitee nominated by RBI on the in-house working group set up to examine issues pertaining to development of market for asset securitization and for high level meeting convened by Government of India in January 2002 on setting up the first Asset Reconstruction Company. Mr. Kumar was the member of Key Advisory Group set up by the Government of India in 2011 to study and recommend measures to improve the functioning of ARCs. He was also Member of Ministry of Corporate Affairs Working Group on operationalization of the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code.

Mr. Kumar has been associated with Industry bodies like FICCI, CII and ASSOCHAM and has served on their committees essentially related to financial sector and distressed assets. He was Chairman, ASSOCHAM’s National Council on Asset Reconstruction. He was also Chairman of Association of ARCs in India for close to seven years till the end of March 2018. He is presently member of Advisory Board of Association of ARCs in India. He is also member of FICCI’s stressed asset committee. In view of his long professional career as a banker, investment banker and in the stressed asset sector, he is well networked.

He completed his master’s in mathematics from St Stephens College University of Delhi. He is also Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking.

Mr. Ashish Kehair has been instrumental in co-creating and driving the business strategy and expanding the wealth management businesses across geographies. He played an instrumental role in formulating the strategic direction of the business and has been a key member of the Executive Committee.

Ashish brings over 23 years of experience in the financial services sector. He has had an extensive career in the areas of Private Banking and Wealth Management, Asset Management Structuring of Investment products & Treasury in India and offshore markets. Additionally, he also has an exposure in Venture Capital and Private Equity domain where he has been involved in project incubation funding (seed and late stage) and exits.

Prior to joining Edelweiss, Ashish was associated with IDFC Bank as Head – Wealth Management & Private Banking, Third Party Products and was the part of the Senior Management start up team that was instrumental in building differentiated franchise across all segments of the Bank. He has strategized and executed full advisory process, customer focused asset allocation & profiling models that were pioneers’ services to address the real customer needs. His past associations include ICICI Securities Ltd, ICICI Bank & TAIB BANK E.C. (Asset Management).

Ashish is a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant & Cost Accountant.

Mr. Srivastava has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Srivastava joined PAG in April 2019 and is the Managing Director and head of India Private Equity at PAG. Prior to joining PAG, Mr. Srivastava has almost a decade of experience at Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts, with a breadth of global experience where he has evaluated a wide range of investment opportunities across India, Singapore and the United States, and additionally was the head of KKR’s special situations and healthcare private equity group in India. Mr. Srivastava has also worked at Goldman Sachs and Co. Inphi Corporation in California.

Mr. Abhishek has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in Finance and a Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. In 1982, Mr. Abhishek joined the Indian Administrative Service, Bihar Cadre and was also the Chairman of the Forwards Markets Commission from August 2011 to August 2015.

Mr. Abhishek worked in various capacities across the civil services including serving as a district magistrate in Bihar, a director in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries and as a secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.

Ms. Anisha Motwani has been the advisor with the World Bank on the prestigious ‘Swachh Bharat Programme’,‘Adoption of Solar Rooftops’ & National Mission for Clean Ganga.

Ms. Motwani serves as an Independent Director on the board of some leading organizations. Ms. Motwani is a multi-faceted business leader & draws from her rich experience of over 30 years in diverse industries – FMCG, automobiles, financial & health services.

After a successful 25 year corporate career, Ms. Motwani founded StormTheNorm venture in 2015, a company specializing in Brand, Digital & Innovation Projects. Ms. Motwani brings in new perspectives on how businesses can challenge the conventional norms & storm them in a way that will help them re-wire to succeed in a disruptive world.

Ms. Motwani is the author of Storm the Norm – first-of-its-kind collection of 20 contemporary stories of truly inspiring businesses and brands from India that either wrote or rewrote the norms of their respective industries and brought in unprecedented change and vibrancy.

Ms. Motwani is on the Advisory Board of Atal Incubation Center, India Diversity Forum & a regular speaker at national and global business platforms.

In recognition of her achievements, Ms. Motwani was voted as one of the ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Indian Business’ by Business Today for three consecutive years since 2009.

Ms. Motwani has also been recognized amongst the ‘Top 50 Women in Media, Marketing and Advertising’ by Impact & Colors for 4 consecutive years since 2011. Ms. Motwani has been conferred ‘Women at Work Leadership Award 2011’ by Asian Confederation of Business and ‘Brand Builder of the year’ award by NDTV amongst many others.

Mr. Tushar Agrawal holds a degree in Bachelor of Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Surathkal, Karnataka, and a Masters of Business Administration in Finance from S.P.Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai.

Mr. Agrawal has been with the Edelweiss Group for 13 years. He has joined Edelweiss group as a management associate and has been instrumental in setting the ESOP, LAS and various other Capital market related loan products over the years. His client centric approach has helped to build products that are suitable to client's needs and his business acumen has helped to build scalable & profitable products for the company. His balanced approach makes him a unique leader.

He is a sports person and loves playing squash, basketball and cricket in his free time.