The Pegasus Team

SHRIDHAR N.

Founder and Managing Partner

Shridhar, the Founder of Pegasus, is also a director and advisor to the Hiranandani Group. Along with his vast experience spanning over 30 years across real estate, infrastructure, financial services and FMCG, Shridhar has also been mentoring startups and founders for many years. Shridhar has been the CFO of various large companies including Future Capital Holdings Ltd., Britannia Industries Ltd and Coca Cola India. His experience spans across various facets of business strategy & finance including M & A, treasury, and restructuring business models for efficiency

Nitika Agarwal

Principal & Head of Investments

24+ investment banking and international corporate experience. Partner with Successroute - advisory firm in stressed assets and mid-market M&A. Active in the start-up space providing mentoring, fundraising and strategic business advisory to early stage start-ups. MBA from SPJIMR, Mumbai and Economics graduate

Viren Makwana

AVP - Investor Relations, Operations & Compliance

10+ years in Deal Origination, Capital Raising, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Investment Banking and Corporate Development. Previously worked with Advance Pharma owned by Cinven, wherein he raised capital via debt & equity and did Merger & Acquisitions for several corporates. Completed MBA in Finance from Cardiff University (UK) & Company Secretary from ICSI.

Girish L Papat

Advisor
Legal & secretrial

16+ years experience in Legan and Advisory
Completed Company Secretary from ICSI

Mr. Subhash Lode

VP Investment Operations and Business Development

• 20 + years of cumulative experience in the Startup Ecosystem. Technology,Agri & Food Tech, Data Science, AI, ML and Enterprise Blockchain. As VP of Investment Operations & Business Development with Pegasus India Evolving Opportunities Fund. Where Subhash helps investee companies to achieve growth, plan overall strategy and exits, fund point of view. Erstwhile Subhash led BVG Group’s Agri & Food Ecosystem and was responsible for managing BVG Groups Agtech platform, Satara Mega Food Park (Contract manufacturing for Weikfield and TATA Fabsta brands) and BVG Agrotech.
• Subhash worked on Agrowbook.com, which was an profitability oriented initiative for the farming community where he conceptualized farmers balance sheet as a tool to record and monitor the farm based profit and loss statements. During his corporate career Subhash was leading the Centre of excellence for Global Supply Chain for Harsco, where He was guiding the team on supply chain strategies, spend analysis and strategic sourcing, procurement & Sales intelligence, cost models and data management. While with Harsco and Unisys Subhash has worked on complex IT Architectures and worked in USA, UK, Netherlands on work assignments of ERP implementations

Anjana M Hareendran

Accounts & Finance

• 2+ years experience in various function of Finance.
• Completed Bachelors in commerce and pursuing Chartered Accountant.

Hriday Bhatia

Hriday Bhatia

Investment Analyst

Hriday has a Bachelor of Accounting and Finance (BAF) degree from HR College of Commerce and Economics and has passed level 2 of the CFA charter. He is a motivated professional with a strong background in accounting and finance, augmented by the CFA program. With about a year of experience in hedge funds, He has developed solid skills in financial analysis and investment strategies. He is eager to use his expertise to help evaluate portfolio companies and contribute to fund performance as part of the team.

IMPACT, GOVERNANCE, RISK & COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE

IGRC an external committee, which oversees the actions of the Investment Committee and ensures
1. ESG Compliance and Sanity Checks for portfolio companies
2. Impact parameter approval and monitoring of our portfolio companies

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SUHAS TULJAPURKAR

Suhas is the Founder and Managing Partner of Legasis Partners. In a career spanning over three decades Suhas initially acted as the General Counsel for major corporations before turning into a full time professional. A rare blend of “In House” and full time professional practice has been instrumental in Suhas becoming a specialist in several fields including Corporate Law, Intellectual Property and Technology law, Joint Ventures, M & A, Energy/Power, Venture Capital Funding, Equity Investments, FDI in different sectors, Litigation and Dispute Resolution.He is acknowledged for having pioneered areas such as developing Regulatory Practice and Privatization of Infrastructure Super Sectors. Suhas extensively works for MNCs, Celebrities in Sports and Media, Funds and other Investors

JAYA SINGHANIA

Jaya is a general corporate lawyer with more than two decades of experience. She has advised foreign and domestic clients across various sectors including real estate, infrastructure, financial services, media, healthcare and mining with respect to domestic and cross border investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, other partnering arrangements, restructurings and exits.

Advisors & Mentors

VINITA BALI

Advisor
Ex - CEO, Britannia

Ms. Bali was Chief Executive Officer, Director & MD at Britannia Industries Ltd., Vice President-Corporate Strategy at The Coca-Cola Co. and Principal at Cadbury Schweppes Beverages Pvt Ltd. (a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Co.), Managing Principal at Zyman Group LLC and Chairman of The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.

Niranjan Hiranandani

Chairman
Hiranandani Group

Niranjan Hiranandani is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur, co-founder and managing director of Hiranandani Group, engaged in real estate business. He is ranked by Forbes among the 100 richest Indians.In 2017, he was one of the top 10 Indian real estate tycoons according to the Grohe Hurun report.Along with members of his family, Hiranandani controls the privately-owned Hiranandani Group.

Mr. Pradeep Palreddy

Mentor
Portfolio Companies

Pradeep Palreddy is the CEO and Founder of Transcend Technology Group, Inc, an Outsourced Software Product development firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, and Hyderabad, India, and Co-Founder in a couple of stealth mode software product firms. Pradeep is committed to helping others; he spends about 40 to 60 hours a month enriching high school students seeking to attend college, job seekers, people in career transition, and entrepreneurs. Pradeep founded and exited a Raleigh, North Carolina, USA-based National IT Services firm. He has over 25 years of experience in IT and Management and has attended graduate school for Computer Science at the University of Maryland System in the USA. Pradeep humanizes business and has a unique ability to scale the breadth of several opportunities for clients using his strengths in Sales and Marketing.

Sharad Sanghi

MD & CEO at NTT-Netmagic

Sharad is the Managing Director and CEO of a leading global technology service company that has been recognized with 4 awards at the CIO Choice 2019, 2 awards at the Datacenter Dynamics India 2019, and Frost & Sullivan India ICT Awards 2018.