Team

Cedar-IBSi FinTech Lab has a global team. Seasoned investors, operators, FinTech experts, and advisors.

Cedar-IBSi FinTech Lab :Team

Cedar-IBSi FinTech Lab has a global team. Seasoned investors, operators, FinTech experts, and advisors.

FinTech Lab Team

Cedar-IBSi Capital
Angleen Malik
Lab Director
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Sumit Gilitwala
Associate – Investments and FinTech Lab
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Omar Kamal
FinTech Consultant and Investment Associate
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Investments Team

Cedar-IBSi Capital
Sahil Anand
Founder & Managing Partner
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Subit Saurav
Associate Partner
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Sunny Desa
Director – Investor Relations
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Alan Nigrel
Investment Associate
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Niranjan Dubey
Analyst
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Fund Advisors & Venture Partners

Cedar-IBSi Capital
Sanjiv Anand
Executive Chairman, Cedar & IBSi
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Felipe Martinez
CIO and Mgmt board, Revolut Bank
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Pradip Shah
Founder, HDFC and CRISIL
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Bobby Parikh
Board Member, Infosys Ex Board Member, HDFC Bank
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Sandeep Chouhan
Former COO, key UAE banks
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In-house FinTech Experts & Scouts (+50 more)

Cedar-IBSi Capital
V Ramkumar
Senior Partner and Head, Cedar Financial Services practice
Chetan Parekh
Managing Partner and Head, Cedar FinTech practice
Amit Jain
Partner and Co-Head, IBS Intelligence
Robin Amlot
Managing Editor, IBSi FinTech Journal
Tarishi Kumari
Engagement Manager
Jared Zerman
Senior Director, US markets
Nikhil Gokhale
Director - Research and Digital properties
Abhishek Ojha
Engagement Manager
Soham Dutta
Engagement Manager
Pankul Verma
Principal, FS & FT practice

Corporate Services & Development (+20 more)

Cedar-IBSi Capital
Ojas Kulkarni
20+ years of experience in brand and performance marketing
Sumit Raisinghani
15+ years of years of experience in talent acquisition & human resource management
Pooja Roy Chowdhury
11+ years of experience in digital media and marketing
Priti Gaikwad
15+ years of experience in content marketing and social channels
Adi Panthaky
18+ years of experience in IT design, infrastructure, security, project management

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Angleen Malik

Lab Director

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  • 30+ years of experience across wealth management, investment & business advisory
  • Has worked closely and interacted with leadership of FinTech lab members to understand their capital requirements and raise plans, and introduce them to relevant buy-side members of Cedar-IBSi’s ecosystem
  • Strong track-record of past wealth management, IPO, and investment banking experience between India and the GCC
  • Past highlights include:
    • Recognized for facilitating a deal of $57.3 million (the largest deal of the Bank) at RAKBANK
    • Assisted in portfolio management in structured products with an average ticket size of $2-5 mn across corporates like ICICI and TATA Group

Sumit Gilitwala

Associate – Investments and FinTech Lab

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  • 6+ years of FinTech advisory, accelerators, funnel-building, and screening in Southeast Asia
  • Deep experience in market research and advisory across the region where he worked with leading financial services institutions in selecting the right FinTech partnerships
  • Ideated, designed and executed multiple FinTech corporate innovation programs for leading banks and financial services organizations
  • Screened and interacted with founders of 200+ FinTech startups across the value chain. Often subsequently advising them and mentoring them on their growth

Omar Kamal

FinTech Consultant and Investment Associate

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  • FinTech Consulting & Start-up experience
  • Strong understanding of B2B FinTech & BankTech. Hands-on experience in driving digital transformation for financial services clients across the region
  • Operator experience in a DIFC based FinTech; led revenue and team growth
  • Familiarity with MENA startup ecosystem due to experience with Harvard Business School’s MENA research center
  • Native Arabic speaker & MENA-based

Sahil Anand

Founder & Managing Partner

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  • Past PE/VC experience at global funds; Everstone Capital and DSG Consumer Partners
  • End-to-end deal experience; proactive origination to portfolio management and exit planning. 100+ investment opportunities evaluated across geographies, sectors and deal sizes
  • Co-led and executed iconic USD 100 Mn Burger King India deal and played multiple execution roles
  • Some past tech investments include:
    • ~ USD 74 MN investment in a leading global IT services player
    • ~ USD $30 MN investment in a leading Indian educational content publisher
    • ~ USD 1.5 MN in India’s early POS terminal disruptor
    • Early FinTech company in the P2P lending space

Subit Saurav

Associate Partner

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  • 10+ years of FinTech/Impact venture capital experience
  • Strong understanding and network in the B2C FinTech space
  • Board member and portfolio company management experience
  • Experience and network in working with bankers/third-parties to facilitate exits. Exit track-record at strong average MOIC metrics
  • Some past tech investments include:
    • ~ USD 8mn series A funding for Altum Credo
    • ~ USD 5mn series A funding for Chqbook.
    • ~ USD 5mn series A funding in 2020 for Ergos
    • ~ USD 3mn series E funding of holding company of Utkarsh co invest & Utkarsh small finance bank

Sunny Desa

Director – Investor Relations

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  • 17+ years of experience in strategy development, capital raising, investor relations, sales & trading, financial markets and private wealth management
  • Active leader of 4-member team that financially transformed and turned around YES Bank
  • Equity and debt capital markets experience whilst dealing with global investors
  • Due diligence analysis experience across PE/VC, hedge funds, among others
  • Past capital raising instances at YES Bank –
    • $1 bn via preferential allotment through two marquee global private equity players
    • $2 bn via FPO, one of largest FPO’s in the country
    • $1.2 bn of survival capital via SBI and 7 financial institutions

Alan Nigrel

FinTech Consultant and Investment Associate


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  • Strong understanding of core banking systems, trends and key players
  • Experience in leading banking infrastructure FinTech programs for leading banks
  • Assisted a leading bank in it’s digital channel upgrade
  • Productivity and cost improvement exercise experience for insurance companies in India
  • Author of whitepapers and research on B2B FinTech areas

Niranjan Dubey

Analyst

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  • 2+ years of experience in FinTech consulting and market intelligence
  • Experience in in-depth FinTech profiling, analysis, and pipeline building
  • Has screened over 500 FinTechs
  • Previous experience at APAC Financial Service

Sanjiv Anand

Exec Chairman, Cedar & IBSi


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Sanjiv is a recognized global thought-leader in strategy formulation, execution, and performance management powered by the Balanced Scorecard Framework. Cedar’s heritage is being part of the firm founded by Prof. Kaplan, HBS, co-creator of the BSC. For over 30 years he has helped Boards, CEOs globally develop strategy, merge financial institutions, and transform their business & organizations. Global PE funds have also leveraged his expertise in development of their fund strategy, assessing investment targets and improving performance of portfolio companies.

His Financial Services clients have included HDFC, Deutsche Bank, RBL, ADCB, American Express, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, ADIB, CBD, DIB, Dubai Investments, EmiratesNBD, FAB, Mashreq, Nedbank (South Africa), among others. In his 30 year+ career he has worked across sectors and driven significant FDI into Asia for clients including Whirlpool, Emerson Electric, Kellogg, Kraft, Honeywell, General Motors and many others. He started his career in the US as a telecom strategist.

Sanjiv has been a Member of the NYU Stern Alumni Council in New York, and a Chapter Chair of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) & YPO Gold Mumbai. Sanjiv has written 2 best-selling books – “Unlocking Human Capital to Drive Performance | A CEO HANDBOOK” by McGraw Hill & “Execution Excellence using the Balanced Scorecard”.

Felipe Martinez

CIO & Mgmt board member, Revolut Bank

  • CIO & Mgmt board member at Revolut Bank
  • 25+ years of banking technology and transformation
  • Former Senior Director at Finastra
  • Former CIO at Santander UK
  • Former Core Banking Senior Manager at Accenture
  • University of Oxford – FinTech Programme

Pradip Shah

Founder, IndAsia Fund Advisors Private Limited

  • Founder, IndAsia Fund Advisors Private Limited
  • Chairman – Pfizer Ltd, Kansai Nerolac, Sonata Software & BASF India.
  • Founder, HDFC & CRISIL
  • Advisor to multiple government committees on economic policy across India & the world
  • Advisor, World Bank
  • Member of SEBI committee on Venture Capital & SIDBI working group on capital markets

Bobby Parikh

Managing Partner, Bobby Parikh Associates

  • Managing Partner, Bobby Parikh Associates
  • Former Board Member, HDFC Bank
  • Co-Founder BMR Advisors
  • Former CEO Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen India
  • Advisor to leading global MNCs in entry strategy, mergers & acquisitions & business re-organization

Sandeep Chouhan

CTO, Network International

  • CTO at Network International
  • Former Board Member, Mashreq Global Services, COO Mashreq Bank
  • Former Chairman, Massoun, Gekko, COO Commercial Bank Qatar
  • Former CIO, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Citibank
  • Advisory Board, Oracle, Accenture, Gartner, FinTech Hive