Mr. Bharatt Kailash Banka has 30+ years of expertise in running businesses, private equity, financial services and advisory to family-owned businesses/ funds. Mr. Banka is a thought-leader, solution-provider, an expert in spotting and predicting trends ahead of time and a first-mover when it comes to leveraging predicted trends in business and practice.
Currently, Mr. Banka provides management consulting, through his firm M/s. Bharatt K Banka LLP, in areas of Business, Strategy, M&A, Joint Venture, Family-Owned Business and I-Banking to marquee Business & PE/ VC Fund Houses; having advised on deals exceeding $250Mn in a short span since c2016.
Mr. Banka is an active mentor/ advisor and angel investor in startup ecosystem for over a decade. His select investee/ mentee startups include IHO (acquired by Aetna, US), OYO Rooms (SoftBank/ Sequoia portfolio), Perpetuiiti Tech (Intel Capital portfolio), Arya.ai (YourNest portfolio), TalView (Mayfield portfolio), Instasafe (got acquired), amongst many others.
Mr. Banka is an independent Investment Committee member at an early-stage Accelerator Fund and a global Impact Fund.
As Founding MD at Aditya Birla PE & Senior President – Aditya Birla Capital, since c2008, Mr. Banka built and led PE practice with fund-raise of $280Mn, the largest INR PE Fund at that time, built a marquee portfolio in BFSI, Consumer and Leisure ventures; select deals being CARE, RBL Bank, City Union Bank, TransUnion CIBIL, Indian Energy Exchange, BSE, Wonderla Holidays, Olive Bar, Coffee Day Holdings, V-Mart Retail, etc.
Earlier, since c1994, Mr. Banka spearheaded M&A, and Business & Corporate Reorganization as Head – Group Finance and in CXO roles at the Aditya Birla Group, playing a key role in evolution of UltraTech Cement, Idea Cellular (now Vodafone Idea), Aditya Birla Nuvo (now merged with Grasim) and Hindalco to become market leaders through a series of multi-billion dollar innovative acquisitions, capital market interventions, mergers and post-merger integration.
Until c1994, as an investment banker at the JV of J. P. Morgan and ICICI, Mr. Banka managed Public Sector Enterprises practice besides catering to marquee private sector corporate clients on their capital markets and corporate finance needs.
Mr. Banka sits on Advisory Board of incubator at BIMTECH Noida and was earlier on Advisory Board of incubator, Somaiya Vidyavihar Mumbai. He was earlier on National Committees of CII & FICCI for Capital Markets & PE and was elected board member at IVCA (India’s leading association for alternative asset players).