The View Group-Team

Mintoo Bhandari

Mr. Bhandari is the principal founder and a Managing Director of The View Group. He has deep experience as an investor in private and public enterprises in both the United States and India. He was an early participant in the sourcing, execution and development of transactions and enterprises in the Indo-US corridor. The View Group is today a leading investor in business services companies, seeking to invest approximately $10-20m per transaction in companies which seek to link the US and Indian economies. A professional investor since 1987, Mr. Bhandari was with the Harvard Management Company prior to founding VIEW in 1992. As part of the Harvard Private Equity Group, he was involved in private equity investments across a wide range of industries. He later managed two public markets funds for Harvard, a risk arbitrage fund and a traditional hedge fund. Prior to joining Harvard, Mr. Bhandari played a role in the management and growth of his family’s business and worked in mechanical design and software engineering roles at UTC-Carrier and C.S. Draper Laboratories, a defense contractor specializing in military navigation and control systems. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”

Mehool Parekh

Mr. Parekh was the Country Advisor for Indian investments of The View Group LP, Boston, a venture capital investor specializing in Indo-US cross-border investments from 1998 to 1999.
Prior to joining The View Group, Mr. Parekh was the President of a privately-held investment company, J. V. Gokal Finance & Investments Pvt. Ltd. In that capacity, he had principal responsibility for the management of a multi-million dollar private equity fund dedicated to investing in Indian equities, both public and private, from early 1995 to early 1998.
Before joining J. V. Gokal, between 1991 and 1995, he was the head of research and data operations for the Corporate and Economic Research Centre at DaRT, India's first on-line information vendor. In that position, Mr. Parekh was the head of a group of 200 people who set up from scratch an extensive database on over 6,000 companies listed on the Indian stock exchanges.
He has also helped brokerage houses in India establish and organize research efforts on Indian listed companies. He has worked as a consultant to various governmental and private entities and has over 15 years of experience in consulting, financial markets and research of which the last 7 years have been in private equity and venture capital. He is member, Board of Governors of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Commerce Graduate of Bombay University.

Jonathan Everett

Mr. Everett is a Managing Director of The View Group. Formerly a Partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, one of the world's largest law firms, he has been involved in the structuring and execution of over one hundred corporate mergers and acquisitions. He worked on some of the earliest leveraged buyouts in the United States, advised on financings in Russia, China, Japan, and Europe, and helped pioneer interest rate and currency swaps. Mr. Everett came to India in 1994 to work on the financing of the Dabhol Power Company, a joint venture of Bechtel, Enron, and GE that is the largest foreign investment in India's history. In 2000 he was a member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India's committee on venture capital reform. Mr. Everett holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in History from Harvard University. He was a Knox Fellow at Oxford University, and earned a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago.

Gopal Jain

Mr. Jain is a close friend of the View Group and was a member of the core team at View for several years. In total, Mr. Jain has been investing in India for over twelve years, in both the private and public markets, and is among the pioneers in equity research and investment management in India. Mr. Jain is a co-founder of Gaja Capital Partners, an India focused investment firm based in Mumbai, India and was the head of research at VLS Finance, a merchant bank in New Delhi. He is a charter member of the Mumbai chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Gopal has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

James Madison

Mr. Madison is a Principal and Chief Financial Officer of The View Group, and was a founding member of the firm. His responsibilities include review, selection and management of the investments of View and participation in the general management of the firm. Prior to joining View, he was a controller in the fixed-income and derivatives products group at Harvard Management Company. Mr. Madison also served as a Business Analyst at Codex Corporation (a subsidiary of Motorola Corporation), a manufacturer of high-speed data transmission products. He received his B.S. in Finance and A.S. in management from Bentley College.

Aashish Bhinde

Mr. Bhinde is Senior Director and Chief Operating Officer in Mumbai. Prior to joining View, he founded Audiovortex, a services company that facilitated e-commerce transactions in the audio equipment and component industry. Previously, Mr. Bhinde was Chief Operating Officer at Peerless Audio, India's largest exporter of high fidelity loudspeaker systems and components. He began his career with Colgate-Palmolive India Ltd. in sales and marketing. Mr. Bhinde earned his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and B.E. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani.

Ranjan Dasgupta

Mr. Dasgupta is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with the View Group. Prior to joining View, Mr. Dasgupta was with Crompton Greaves Ltd., the largest private sector electrical organization in India. Mr. Dasgupta was with Crompton Greaves for thirty-seven years in positions of increasing responsibility, finally as President - Power Systems and Director. As head of Power Systems in Crompton Greaves, a $200 million company, he managed 4,500 employees in thirteen divisions, including twelve manufacturing plants, an automation laboratory and two joint ventures in India and abroad. Mr. Dasgupta has served on the board of eight other companies during his career, and is currently Chairman of two organizations, Vice-Chairman of another and on the board of two other companies. Mr. Dasgupta was until recently the National President of the Indian Value Engineering Society, the Indian chapter of the Society of American Value Engineers. He is a past National President of the Indian Electrical & Electronic Manufacturers Association, and has served on the Executive Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry of Western Region for eight years, including service as Chairman of the Sub-Committee for Technology and the Sub-Committee for Human Resource Development and Technical Education & Training. Mr. Dasgupta is an honours graduate in Mathematics and a graduate in Electrical Engineering. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management and Harvard Business School, and has trained with the Union of Japanese Scientists & Engineers, Tokyo in Total Quality.

Manish Sabharwal

Mr. Sabharwal is a Venture Partner in Mumbai. He is the founder and former CEO of India Life Hewitt, a leading third party administrator of employee benefits and compensation in India and East Asia, which was acquired by Hewitt Associates in 2003. Previously, he led corporate finance at Pennar, a diversified group with interests in petroleum, aluminum and steel. Mr. Sabharwal serves on the board of governors of the treasury program of Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India as well as Vice Chairman of Icap India, India's largest fixed income and foreign exchange inter-dealer broker. Mr. Sabharwal is a graduate of Sriram College of Commerce and holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business.

Tej Nandury

Mr. Nandury is an Associate in Mumbai. Mr. Nandury previously headed the business development group at Expopoint, a Mumbai-based internet company. Prior to that, he was with McKinsey & Co. in Washington, D.C., where he worked on formulating strategy for several large technology corporations. Mr. Nandury has also worked with the World Bank Group in the Development Economics Vice Presidency under Chief Economist Joe Stiglitz. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.

U Parthasarthy

Mr. Parthasarthy is an Associate in Mumbai. Prior to View, he was a strategy consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Previously he worked as a management consultant with A.F. Ferguson & Co., and as a product manager with Philips India. Mr. Parthasarathy earned his M.B.A from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, and B.E. in electronics engineering from Regional Engineering College, Calicut.

Himanshu Shah

Mr. Shah is Head of Finance & Accounts in Mumbai. He is responsible for the finance, accounts, legal and secretarial functions of View India and View's portfolio comapnies. Prior to View, Mr. Shah was Assistant Vice President, Finance & Accounts with Central Depository Services (India) Limited. Mr. Shah holds a B.Com., and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (A.C.A. and Grad.C.W.A.).

Renee Becker

Renee Becker is Manager – HR & Administration in Boston. Prior to joining View, she was involved in consulting, operations, and project management for the financial services industry. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University and an Information Age M.B.A. (IAMBA) from the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley College.

Girish V. Nadkarni

Mr. Nadkarni is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with The View Group. Prior to joining View, Mr. Nadkarni was the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of vSimplify, Inc., a company providing web-based services for voluntary benefits and other financial services. Prior to founding vSimplify, Mr. Nadkarni was the Chief Operating Officer of Uniprise, Inc., a $2 billion subsidiary of United Healthcare. In that capacity he served as the chief operations officer of United Healthcare, with responsibility for fifty-five claims and customer service centers. Before joining United Healthcare, Mr. Nadkarni spent three years at GE Capital and GE corporate in business development and marketing roles. He was one of the top fifty executives in GE Capital worldwide; in his last role at GE he was part of a four-person team reporting to Jack Welch on GE-wide growth initiatives. Prior to GE, Mr. Nadkarni spent eight years as a senior executive at Prudential in Investments, Asset Management, and Group Insurance. Mr. Nadkarni also spent six years on Wall Street as an attorney with Coudert Brothers and Shearman & Sterling, specializing in bank financings and mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Nadkarni has written numerous articles on the subjects of worksite marketing and leveraging the Internet to provide employee benefits. He holds law degrees from the University of Bombay and the University of Virginia, which he attended as a DuPont Fellow, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, from which he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Piyush Rach

Mr. Rach is an Accounts Assistant in Mumbai. Prior to joining View India, he worked with La-Ruta Foundation Wear for six years, where he gained extensive experience & knowledge of garment manufacturing and accounts. He also worked with Adi Enterprises as an Accounts Executive. Mr. Rach holds a B.Com. degree from Mumbai University, and a Diploma in e-Commerce from NIIT.

Asit Ganatra

Mr. Ganatra is the Accounting Manager in Boston. He has over ten years of experience in accounting, finance, and auditing, including four years in India and six in the United States. Mr. Ganatra holds a B. Com. degree with a major in accounting and audit from M.S. University of Vadodara, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the U.S. Mr. Ganatra is currently enrolled in the M.S. in Finance program at Northeastern University.

Anuraag Srivastava

Mr. Srivastava is an Associate in Mumbai. Prior to View, he was a Vice President with eVentures India Limited, a Softbank subsidiary, where he helped structure deals and closely supported several portfolio companies in strategy, international expansion and fund raising. Prior to eVentures, Mr. Srivastava worked in a variety of roles at Procter & Gamble, the leading consumer goods company. He helped manage the company's Internet Venture Fund for Asia and was involved in Internet strategy formulation; Mr. Srivastava also held direct responsibility for a commercial web venture of P&G's Indian subsidiary. He also worked in P&G Sales & Distribution in a large supply chain restructuring project, and spent time in P&G’s Brand Group, where he held direct profit responsibility for several of the company's brands. Mr. Srivastava started his professional career in Larsen & Toubro's Construction Group, working on-site in large infrastructure construction projects. He earned his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.

Jayant Sinha

Mr. Sinha is a Special Counselor to the View Group. He is currently President of Internet Business Capital Corporation (IBCC), an early stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge, MA that concentrates on enterprise software and services companies. Prior to joining IBCC, Mr. Sinha was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he helped found and lead McKinsey's Global Software & Services practice. At McKinsey, he advised senior management at leading technology firms on market development strategies, partnerships & acquisitions and organizational growth. Mr. Sinha holds a B. Tech. with Distinction from I.I.T.-Delhi, an M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. with Distinction from the Harvard Business School. He is on the Board of Concentric Visions and Differential Technologies and on the Advisory Board of DYS Analytics and MIT Media Lab Asia.

Ashwani Kumar

Mr. Kumar is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with The View Group. Prior to joining View, Ashwani was Projects Director - India with Powergen, a leading UK-based electricity and gas company with over £5.5 billion in revenues. In that capacity, he had responsibility for all business development and projects in India, including several large generation projects under development (each over 500 megawatts) and an operating station of 655 megawatt capacity in Gujarat. Before joining Powergen, Ashwani worked for Rolls-Royce Industrial Power Group in India, in commercial and project financing roles. Prior to Rolls-Royce, he was with President Park Group in Bangkok, where he was responsible for fund raising and pre-IPO placement activities for the group. Ashwani started his career at SBI Capital Markets, India's leading merchant bank, where he gained experience in the areas of project appraisals, debt syndications, international finance, and project finance advisory. Ashwani has attended numerous seminars and conferences on the electricity and gas industries worldwide, as well as management courses at Ashridge College and Henley College in the UK. He is an honours graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Jaipur, India and holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School, having attended its General Manager Program in 2001.

Daniel Tennebaum

Mr. Tennebaum is a Principal of the View Group in the Boston office. He has been a management consultant and senior manager in the U.S. and India since 1997. Prior to joining View, he led business development at India Life Hewitt, India's leading third party administrator of employee benefits, which was acquired by Hewitt Associates. At India Life, he oversaw the launch of new services that helped the company achieve market share double that of its nearest competitor and grow sales by over 200% annually. Previously, Mr. Tennebaum was with Bain & Company in Boston, where he consulted in the financial services, telecommunications, media and energy industries. At Bain, he advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, new product launches, and organizational design. Mr. Tennebaum holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University.