
Sameer Karulkar
Founder & Partner
- 25+ years of cross border experience
- Built managed Cross Border M&A across 20 countries for SBI Capital – part of largest bank State Bank of India
- Full cycle Venture/Multistage investments for the largest media Group Portfolio – Times of India
- Independent Director and Board advisor
- Business Angel Investor and Mentor
- Worked with founders across age, sector, business verticals/functions, geography, stages - from listed, global, to mid-market/SME, start-ups and ofcourse varied situations.

Viral Trivedi, ACA
- Chartered Accountant (CA) with work experience in financial services and capital markets. In my professional career of over 22 years
- Founder & Partner – LIFE Investment Services
- Manages equity investments, advises clients on investments in various other asset classes such as Mutual Funds, AIFs, Real Estate
- Raising debt capital for mature businesses
- academics and corporate training as visiting faculty at NMIMS (Mumbai) and Dun & Bradstreet (D&B, Mumbai)

Jayesh Pankaj Matani
- Two decades of experience in project management, operational and production efficiency for SMEs
- Family owned financial services & product distribution company based in Mumbai
- Services to a wide variety of clientele including Corporates, HNI's, Family offices and, institutions for their capital allocation with low risk and without compromising on capital growth andliquidity.
- Financial expert, Public speaker
- Former experienced Project Management consultant across Industrials globally

Nitin Gumaste
- 17+ years of corporate finance experience in institutions like ICICI Bank, ING Vysya, SBI Capital Markets
- Debt & Equity raising, Special Situations advisory, capital budgeting advisory, financial restructuring, M&A and advisory services
- Founder - Provalue Financial Advisory with offices in Pune & Bangalore
- Since starting in 2017, has led the team to close about 19 transactions raising capital of over Rs 500Crs
- Deep relationships across the financial institutions landscape

Devina Choudhary
- Over 13 years of experience in front-end client facing roles, across diverse range of sectors – infrastructure, consumer, healthcare and sustainability
- Advised in areas encompassing corporate finance, investment decision analysis & strategic initiatives
- Successfully led several M&A transactions
- An entrepreneur having launched an exclusive online D2C brand, achieving 10x growth in revenue
- Advisor to several start-ups & also an angel investor