The IHO Team

Bharat Banka

Mr. Banka has been engaged with IHO since its inception as a Mentor & Advisor. Mr. Banka, as the Founder MD & CEO at a reputed Private Equity business of a large Indian corporate Group, leads a team that currently manages $200m. This fund focuses on infrastructure enablers and sunrise sectors like healthcare, education and logistics.

He has been with corporate India for close to 2 decades and is the youngest CEO at the corporate Group. Before founding the PE business, he headed Group Finance as an in-house investment bank.

He has led India’s most complex and largest multi-billion M&A deals in new-age businesses like telecom, financial services and IT as deftly as in traditional ones like cement, natural resources, metals, chemicals, etc. He led multi-billion public floatation of leading cement and telecom companies of the Group. Before this, he was at the Indian Joint Venture of J P Morgan with ICICI, where he led the primary markets and PSU practice.

By education, he is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, Associate Cost Accountant and Company Secretary. An active member of CII National Committee on Capital Markets, co-author of the book ‘Project Finance’ for CA Institute and writes a column “Bankanomics” for the business magazine ‘The Entrepreneur’. Is an active member of Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Mentor Square.

He is a member of the Board at the AMC of the Private Equity he leads besides Anupam Industries and V-Mart Retail.

Mr. Banka is married to Annu and has one lively son, Shloke.

With IHO: As a senior advisory council member, Mr. Banka guides the IHO team on its overall strategy & in planning its areas of future growth.
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