Category: Advisors

Alok Kochhar has 30+ years in wholesale banking and management. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Asia-Pacific) he held senior leadership roles across businesses and geographies, culminating as Vice Chairman, Asia (to Dec 2014), and from 2003 led FIG Asia-Pacific, overseeing client coverage, strategy, and cross-border financing/advisory and balance-sheet solutions for regional financial institutions. Since…

Venkat has nearly three decades in financial markets and played a central role in Edelweiss’s evolution from a new-age boutique investment bank into a diversified financial-services group. He is recognized for building deep institutional relationships—particularly with global pension funds and insurers—that helped scale the EAAA Alternatives platform; under his tenure, the Alternatives business became one…

Sandeep Gupta is Managing Director and Partner at Broad Peak Investment Advisors Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based investment manager specializing in alternative investments across Asia. Based in Singapore, he leads the firm’s focus on high-impact opportunities in emerging markets. In 2021, he forged a strategic partnership with Brescon & Allied Partners (India) to deploy up to…

Rohit Bhagat is an experienced business leader with domain expertise in financial services and tech-enabled services. He is Chairman of PhonePe, Chairman of the Franklin Templeton ETF Funds, and Lead Independent Director at Meesho, and has served on multiple other public and private boards in these sectors. Previously, he was Chairman, Asia Pacific at BlackRock…

W. Preston Hutchings is a seasoned investor with ~40 years in financial markets. Before retiring in 2022, he was Chief Investment Officer of Arch Capital Group Ltd. (Bermuda), overseeing a US$26bn portfolio with significant allocations to Asian fixed income, private credit, hedge funds, and equities. Prior to Arch (from 2005), he served seven years as…

Shyam Maheshwari has 25+ years in financial services. He spent his first decade at Lehman Brothers, starting in Tokyo to help build the credit business (high grade, high yield, illiquid) and moving to Hong Kong in 2006 to develop the India franchise—including a lending platform, local-currency debt and equity investing, and a partnership with an…