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Mr. Anil Kumar Chaudhary, is a Group MD & CEO, Essar Group (Ex-Chairman, SAIL) and Chairman, Minerals and Metals Committee, PHDCCI Shri Anil Kumar Chaudhary is a widely acknowledged leader and amongst the most respected professionals of the Industry. He is currently serving as Group MD & CEO for ESSAR Group, responsible for Metals and Mining related initiatives across the Globe. He superannuated from the services of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) where he served for almost 37 years, in December, 2020. Prior to this, he had also served in erstwhile IBP Co. Limited giving him over 44 years of rich experience. Traits like passion, diligence and perseverance have been the hallmark of his entire life and especially his professional life, contributing to his phenomenal rise to the position of Director (Finance), SAIL in 2011 and later the Chairman in 2018. He also served as Chairman of mjunction services ltd, a JV of SAIL and Tata Steel, and International Coal Ventures Ltd. (ICVL), a JV of five CPSEs namely SAIL, CIL, NTPC, RINL and MMDC. After completing his graduation, B Com (Hons) from DU, Shri Chaudhary entered the corporate world at a young age. However, with his unwavering attitude coupled with humility and zeal to learn and update himself, he went on to acquire professional degrees like CMA, CS, PG Diploma in Personnel Management and LLB. Never known to stop, his juggernaut continued as he garnered all-round knowledge of the Industry. His success story cuts across various functions and disciplines like Finance, Marketing, Operations, Projects, Personnel, Materials, Business Planning, Risk Management, Corporate Governance, etc. Shri Chaudhary has always been a man with macro perspective. He has steered the efforts of Industry and Commerce bodies like FICCI, CII, PHDCCI, SRTMI, etc. for the development and growth of industry and economy at large.

Mr. Rajat Kumar Mishra has extensive experience in incubating new business lines and strategic initiatives in Indian and multinational companies. He has expertise in product innovation and execution of intelligent transportation systems and was involved in the implementation of the FASTag systems, AI-based incident detection systems and integrated traffic management systems. He is currently the Managing Director at EFKON India wherein he is responsible to strategize and execute Intelligent Transportation system projects and several other projects. He was also associated with Siemens in India and Europe for several years in different capacities. He is a visiting faculty at India Institute of Technology and is also associated with Manava Bharti Society – National Trustee . Mr. Mishra holds a Bachelors degree in Technology (Electrical Engineering) from IIT Delhi and Masters in Business Administration (International Business) from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.

Mrs. Jyoti Davar has extensive experience of working with Indian corporates and industry bodies. Jyoti Davar is currently the Additional Director General at FICCI, working with cross functional teams on matters such as economic affairs, financial sector, corporate laws, IBC, corporate governance and CSR. As Deputy Secretary at FICCI, she has anchored several key initiatives and conceptualised and facilitated several ministerial delegations for the Finance Ministry, Government of India on investment promotion. She was also the Chief of Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Governance, and Financial Services at the Confederation of Indian Industry. Jyoti Davar has completed her Masters in Business Economics degree from University of Delhi and Bachelors of Commerce degree from Sriram College of Commerce, New Delhi.

Mr. Ralf Nowack joined Actis in 2019 as Energy & Infrastructure Operations Director. His main focus is with Actis’ Long Life Infrastructure Fund (ALLIF) deals from both a due diligence perspective and driving operational performance to ensure that the assets deliver the firms’ investment committee case expectations. Prior to Actis, Ralf worked at Contour Global for three years as Renewables COO, managing an operations portfolio of over 1500MW of wind, solar and hydro assets. He was also responsible for the construction of new build renewable projects and global health and safety. Ralf has 30 years’ experience working in the power sector across Europe, Latam and Asia with Contour Global, RWE and the Steag Group undertaking a number of roles in Finance, Operations, Commissioning, Project Management and Engineering. Ralf is a mechanical engineer holding a PhD from Aachen University in Germany on “Reduction of CO2 emissions from coal power plants”. He speaks English, German, Spanish, French, and a bit of Dutch.

Mr. Sumit Sen is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has over 21 years’ experience across accounting, investment banking and investing in energy, infrastructure and other sectors. He has been involved with the infrastructure sector in various roles throughout his career with specific focus on investments in the infrastructure sector over the last 12 years. Sumit joined the Actis Long Life Infrastructure team in 2017 and is responsible for Actis’ infrastructure activities in India and South East Asia. Prior to joining Actis, Sumit worked for more than a decade at Goldman Sachs (GS), most recently as Executive Director in the GS Principal Investment Area (PIA) where he was responsible for investments across sectors with a specific focus on energy, infrastructure, TMT and healthcare. Whilst at PIA, Sumit was a key member of the team that led the investment in Renew Power, one of the largest Indian renewable companies.

Mr. Rakshit Jain is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI), Cost Accountant (ICWA) and an MBA with almost 30 years of focused infrastructure development experience since the initial period of ‘opening-up’ of Indian Economy in 1992 having worked across spectrum in Power, Roads, Ports, Airports, Industrial infrastructure sectors both in Private (India & International) as well as Public Sector. Developing the business strategy for a large international infrastructure group in the Highway & Airport sectors for India – bidding for brown field projects, evaluating M&A options for the sector. During the last 12 years have submitted bids for 40-50 NHAI road projects, multiple M&A projects in the road sector and 3 airport projects. Have also worked with Autostrade India Infrastructure Development Private Limited, a subsidiary of Atlantia SPA, for 15 Years. Have directly led the implementing and construction of Highway project since bidding to operationalization of road projects.  Total of more than 15 years direct experience in bidding, developing, implementing and operating Highway Projects. Have been intricately involved in financing of infrastructure projects since early stage of careers and have over time been involved in raising of more than $10 bn equivalent of international and domestic financing.