MD & CEO

Prem Prabhakar

Mr. Prem Prabhakar has been appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at SBI Ventures Limited (Formerly known as SBICAP Ventures Limited) in June 2024. Prior to his appointment at SVL, Mr. Prabhakar was the General Manager in State Bank of India (SBI).

Mr. Prabhakar has over 24 years of extensive experience in the banking sector. He has handled assignments both in India and overseas across various functions. His assignments include being the Deputy General Manager (B&O), where he managed retail business and operations. His expertise lies in treasury operations, where he has more than 12 years of experience covering forex, money markets, derivatives, resource management, ALM, and risk management of interest rates, liquidity, funding, etc. He has also held significant positions such as Chief Dealer (Forex) at SBI Global Markets, Mumbai and Chief Dealer at SBI New York. Additionally, he served as a director on the board of Jharkhand Rajya Gramin Bank, a Regional Rural Bank.

Mr. Prabhakar is a postgraduate in humanities and holds the Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB) certification.

Chief Operating Officer

Satish Kachhawa

Mr. Satish Kachhawa has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer at SBI Ventures Limited (Formerly known as SBICAP Ventures Limited) in June 2024. Bringing over 22 years of extensive experience in the banking industry, Mr. Kachhawa has a rich background in Private Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Credit, SMEs, Investment, and Risk Management roles, both within India and overseas.

Before joining SVL, he served as the Deputy General Manager at the State Bank of India (SBI). His career at SBI began as a Probationary Officer, where he made his mark by playing a pivotal role in establishing the bank’s Private Equity Portfolio. His expertise and leadership were further demonstrated during his tenure as Chief Dealer (Private Equity) at SBI Global Markets, where he managed a portfolio exceeding US$1 billion and spearheaded several significant investments.

In addition to his roles in India, he also held the prominent position of Assistant Vice President (Investments & Syndication) at SBI Chicago. Here, he successfully managed the bank’s investment portfolio, which included Mortgage-Backed Securities, Corporate Bonds, and Syndicated Assets.

Satish holds an MBA in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai and is a CFA charter holder.

Chief Investment Officer (NEEV Funds) & Head – Fund of Funds

Akshay Panth

Akshay has close to 2 decades of experience in Private Equity, Principal Investments and Advisory roles with leading domestic and international investors. He started his career with the India Infrastructure Fund (a c.US$1Bn Infrastructure Fund managed by IDFC Alternatives) and has since worked with multiple private equity and principal investors. His previous experience includes working with CapAleph Private Equity, GMR Infrastructure, and MAPE Advisory Group.

At CapAleph, he handled the Infrastructure Support Services and Education & Skill Development segments for the Fund. At GMR Infrastructure, he was part of the Project Finance team working on the road sector where he submitted multiple bids to the NHAI. He has been part of teams that have invested over US$100Mn in the Indian infrastructure space.

Akshay holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and PGDM/MBA.

Chief Investment Officer (SWAMIH Fund)

Abdul Kader Suriya

Kader has close to 2 decades of rich work experience in various facets of real estate alternative investments, strategic advisory and investment banking. He has been a part of several full life cycle RE deals from investment appraisals to exit in his previous stints. He has been associated with marquee organisations like Morgan Stanley, ICICI Venture and Brookfield. He started his career with an arm of Morgan Stanley, focusing on investment banking in global real estate. Later, at ICICI Venture, for almost a decade, he led several notable acquisitions and financings (across various sectors, geographies and investment structures), portfolio management and eventually divestments for US$550MM real estate private equity funds as well as a domestic structured debt fund.

Kader holds bachelor’s degree in Commerce, M Com and is a Chartered Accountant.

Principal Investment Officer (SWAMIH Fund)

Berinder Sahni

Berinder has over 2 decades of experience in Investments and financial services. He has worked on M&A, equity and debt offerings over US$ 2 billion. Berinder started his career with EY in Assurance services. He worked with the Investment banking arm of JPMorgan in India and United States. He was a part of the team that commenced the real estate investment banking practice at Colliers International in India. While at Colliers, Berinder worked with developers, NBFCs and private equity funds to raise US$ 250 million in debt and equity. As a Director in Unicus Advisors, he worked on Family office investments managing over US$250 million in assets. In his last role, Berinder led the corporate finance and strategy team of a large Mumbai based Developer

Berinder holds a Masters degree in Commerce, Chartered Accountant and a CFA charter holder.

Principal Investment Officer (SWAMIH Fund)

Nikhil Kejriwal

Nikhil has close to 2 decades of experience, largely into Real Estate Investment Management. He started his career in family business, he moved on to join the investment banking practice at Morgan Stanley. With platforms such as TCG real Estate, Milestone Capital and Capital India Finance, Nikhil has led investments in real estate project and handled the entire spectrum – deal origination, investment evaluation, transaction structuring, due-diligence, legal documentations, asset management and exits.

Nikhil holds bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Chartered Accountant, a CFA charter holder and MBA..

Principal Investment Officer (SWAMIH Fund)

Vivek Agarwal

Vivek has close to 2 decades of experience, in Assurance, Consulting and Real Estate Investments across the Indian market. He started his career at Assurance practice of PwC and joined EY Transaction Support division. He was part of financial due diligence team working across sectors with focus on Real Estate. Later, he joined Xander Finance, NBFC arm of The Xander Group Inc. and led senior secured high yielding Real Estate investments across NCR, Hyderabad and Kolkata region for almost 8 years. Thereafter, he was part of Piramal NCR Investments team for around 2 years. Both at Xander and Piramal, he managed the entire gamut of commercial, residential and hospitality transactions. He also handed the entire spectrum of deal origination, investment evaluation, transaction structuring, due-diligence, legal documentations, asset management and exits.

Vivek holds bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Chartered Accountant.

Principal Investment Officer (SWAMIH Fund)

Rajat Goyal

Rajat has 2 decades of experience across various functions including private equity, strategy consulting and commercial banking with key focus on sectors like Real Estate and Infrastructure. He started his career as a commercial banker with Kotak Mahindra Bank and moved on to work with KPMG in consulting. In last 10 years, he has worked across various Real Estate and Infrastructure focused funds such as L&T Infra Private Equity, ILFS Investment Manager, Shapoorji Pallonji Investment Advisor and LOGOS India. He has worked across the spectrum of investment cycle i.e. identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, negotiations, structuring, underwriting, diligence and deal closure. At L&T Infra Private Equity, he has led investments and managed an AUM of US$ 150mn across real estate and infrastructure. At IL&FS, he was part of the US$ 1.4bn Real Estate private equity fund and was responsible for asset management & divestment. At Shapoorji, he led acquisition of $250mn commercial asset through a competitive bidding process. At LOGOS (Warehousing platform), he was responsible for acquisitions in North and West region.

Rajat holds bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Chartered Accountant and MBA.

Principal Investment Officer (SWAMIH Fund)

Shuvam Pandit

Shuvam has close to two decades of experience in real estate and allied sector investments across India.

He started his professional career with Wipro Technologies, where he was part of a team delivering technical solutions to a global leader in imaging and printing solutions. After completing his post-graduation, he was part of Yes Bank’s Urban Infrastructure team and was a team leader for the West region, looking after lending to the real estate, hospitality, healthcare, and education sectors. In his last assignment, he was heading real estate investments for the West region at Xander Finance, the NBFC arm of The Xander Group Inc. Both at Xander and Yes Bank, he managed the entire spectrum of the deal lifecycle, starting from origination, investment evaluation, transaction structuring and negotiations, due diligence and documentation, asset management, and exits.

Shuvam holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering and MBA in Finance.

Principal Investment Officer (NEEV Fund)

Suken Shah

Suken has over a decade of experience in fund raising investments and asset management across Infrastructure assets working with Private Equity, Principal Investments and Advisory firms. He has also a part of a leading family office, where he was responsible for investing and managing mid-market opportunities. He has also been a part of Brescon Advisors, where he provided financial and strategic advisory to mid and large corporates; he was instrumental in striking a JV with Piramal group to setup a USD 1 billion special situations investment platform.
Suken holds bachelor’s degree in Commerce, MBA in Finance and CFA charter holder.

Principal Investment Officer (NEEV Fund)

Jai Shah

Jai has over a decade of experience across Fund Management, Strategic Advisory, Equity Research and Investment Banking working with Kitara Capital, AltFort Capital. He has executed various deals in the Private Equity and Investment Banking space. He has been also involved fund raising, fund formation and strategic advisory roles.

Jai holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and MBA in Finance.

Vice President ESG (NEEV Fund)

Anjana Seshadri

Having a market presence of 13+ years in the field of sustainability and ESG, Anjana leads the ESG and impact evaluation, action plan implementation for the funds, along with stakeholder management.

In addition to an important ESG compliance function, she plays a key role in delivering additional value from systemic improvements across the portfolio. Prior to her role at the fund, she was leading the sustainability programme at IndusInd Bank. Anjana has been awarded as the ‘Top under 40’ AIF professionals in 2021

She holds a master’s in planning with specialization in Environment from School of Planning & Architecture and a bachelor’s in architecture.