Ranveer Sharma
Dilip Upadhyaya
Alastair King
Ranveer Sharma
Managing Director
- Extensive investment experience across growth capital and distressed assets and turnarounds covering Infrastructure, Real Estate, Consumer and Technology sectors – operated at multiple CXO/interim roles in portfolio companies.
- Founded Vaillant Capital in 2015 as a specialist India advisor for global institutional investors and family offices for private investments in India.
- Previously, MD and India head for UK based Eredene Capital PLC, one of the first India dedicated infrastructure and real estate funds quoted on AIM London.
- Prior to that with Citicorp Information Technologies, a portfolio company of Citigroup Venture Capital (CVC), which was eventually sold by CVC to Oracle Corporation for c.US$ 900m. Prior to that with ING Vysya Bank (now Kotak Bank) at Bangalore.
- MBA from London Business School.
Dilip Upadhyaya
Executive Director
- Seasoned finance and operations executive with over 30 years of experience across manufacturing, agriculture and real estate sectors in senior positions.
- Previously, CFO at Matheran Realty, an India focused affordable housing platform launched by UK based Eredene Capital PLC.
- Served for 20 years in various senior roles at Mahyco Ltd, the pioneer of high-quality hybrid and open pollinated seeds in India which revolutionized the country's agrarian face.
- Prior to that with The Agrawal Group, a diversified conglomerate engaged in the manufacturing of textile goods and petrochemical products.
Alastair King
Senior Advisor
- Global investment professional with a longstanding track record in private equity and venture capital investments across Infrastructure, Real Estate, Minerals and Mining and Media and Technology.
- Founder and Chairman of Naisbitt King Group, an independent bespoke asset manager and family office based in the City of London.
- Originally qualified as a solicitor and practiced with Baker & McKenzie in London and in Central Asia before moving into venture capital/private equity with NewMedia Spark (now Spark Venture Management).
- Prior to that, founded Eredene Capital PLC, an AIM-quoted investment company specialising in Indian Infrastructure investments.
- MSc in Finance from London Business School.
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
Michael Jordan“Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
Mattie Stepanek“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.”
Mother Teresa“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined for greatness.”
Napoleon Hill“It is the long history of humankind that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
Charles Darwin“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
Henry Ford“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
John Quincy Adams“Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.”
Mark Cuban“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
Stephen Covey“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein