Debabrata Mukherjee, Chief Business Officer, has been appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr Mukherjee has been a key member of the management team since joining the Company in August 2015, when the organization was in its formative phase. Over the years, he has successfully built and nurtured the business and has been instrumental in steering some of the significant milestones and achievements of the Company. As Chief Business Officer, he has been spearheading business development, fund raising, credit and investments.
In a career spanning over 32 years in financial services, Debabrata has worked with leading Indian and global institutions across corporate and project finance, special situation investments, corporate advisory and investment banking. His experience encompasses advising, structuring, raising capital and financing large-scale projects across all layers of capital structure - debt, mezzanine and equity.
In his previous role, Debabrata was a Senior Director in IDFC where he led debt and structured investments across multiple sectors in the infrastructure domain. Prior to IDFC, he held key positions in ASK Raymond James, BNP Paribas and SBI Capital Markets where he worked on investment banking transactions spanning across mergers & acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets and structured finance.
Debabrata holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Srinivas Upadhyayula is presently the “Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel” of NIIF Infrastructure Financial Limited. Prior to this assignment Srinivas has worked as a Senior Director (Legal & Compliance) in the Special Situations Management Group (SSMG) of IDFC Ltd. Srinivas has more than 30 years of rich experience in legal, documentation of project & non-project finance, corporate finance and infrastructure finance documentation, including litigation management & recovery management in the Banking and Financial sector. He is having expertise in leading the delinquent accounts, recovery planning and in regular reviewing of the non-performing assets of the loan portfolio to identify trends and significant changes for effective recovery and financial restructuring and a structuring of the loans.
Prior to IDFC Limited, Srinivas was working with Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd (Arcil) (the first Asset Reconstruction Company established in India and is a prominent player in the Distressed Assets) as Senior Vice-president & Group Head – Legal.
Srinivas started his career as an Advocate on Civil and Labour side in the District Courts of Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam. He then worked with Sterling Tree Magnum (India) Ltd (a Sterling group company), and as Law officer in Canara Bank & as Deputy General Manager (Legal) IDBI Bank Ltd.
He has completed his Bachelor of Laws with specialisation in Company Law and Banking Law from Andhra University. He has completed post graduate diploma in Industrial Relation and Personnel Management from Bharatiya Vidyabhavan. He has also completed his CAIIB.
His interests include tracking the stock market & reading of various magazines and articles on litigation.
Mr. Ajay Singh has completed his Post Graduate Degree in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore and is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He has around 22+ years of experience in risk, credit, and business functions in infrastructure sector. He has 3+ years of experience in Larsen & Toubro after his B.Tech.
He started his career into infrastructure financing from IDFC handling Business Development and Credit Function in the Project Finance team at IDFC Ltd. Thereafter, he became a Principal and Director in the Credit Risk team.
Since 2012, he has worked in Aditya Birla Finance Limited (ABFL) heading Credit Risk and Compliance where he was responsible for Risk of infrastructure loan portfolio including developing risk framework within the infrastructure sector and compliance with statutory and regulatory guidelines.
Mr Sudeep Bhatia is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of NIIF Infrastructure Finance Limited (NIIF IFL) where he is responsible to support the CEO, Management Committee and Board of directors through comprehensive strategic, financial & operational advice and help integrate business objectives with on ground execution to achieve sustained profitable growth.
Sudeep is an experienced Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Certified Public Accountant with over 25 years of rich,
well-rounded experience in full spectrum of business finance areas across Corporate Finance, Investor Relations, Fund raising, Private equity,
Mergers & acquisitions, Business planning & Strategy, Financial Control, Taxation and Regulatory compliance.
Sudeep started his career with Deloitte and gained extensive experience in key finance roles working with IL&FS, Unilever, GE Capital,
Citi Financial, Tata Capital, Macquarie and Lendingkart Technologies at progressive levels of responsibility, within and outside India. His
last assignment before joining NIIF Infrastructure was Chief Financial Officer of Protean Technologies (erstwhile NSDL e-Gov Infrastructure),
promoted by National Stock Exchange and several large Domestic and International banks, with its vision to build Digital Public Infrastructure
supporting Government of India, enabling digital transformation and citizen centric services at population scale.
During his professional career, Sudeep has led multiple initiatives driving key aspects of Investor relations, IPO, Capital Market borrowings,
Structured instruments, Foreign investments, Co-lending partnerships, Strategy and business planning, regulatory, legal and corporate governance,
leveraging his past experience and industry relationships to bring well-rounded perspective to these verticals.
Sudeep provides general direction and rigor in deployment of Financial Management across organization. He is responsible to provide leadership
in development and enforcement of systems of Internal control and Management reporting.
Sudeep leads Investor relations to drive growth opportunities and to represent the company to potential private and public equity investors
and financial partners including financial institutions, public officials, investment banks leveraging his industry experience to meet growing
capital requirements of business and heightened business visibility in the capital markets.