Ayan Desai

Background

About Ayan Desai

Ayan holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and International business from Leeds University Business School and a Masters in Marketing from Mumbai University. Ayan has been part of the Alternatives capital market since Ayan is also a founding partner at Nalanda Capital Partners, incorporated for advisory and Capital Markets activities for impact ventures, funds etc. Further Ayan is an Associate Director at Fort Capital and oversees the Capital Markets function to setup alternate investment structures and raise capital. From 2010 to 2015 Ayan invested and advised on RE ventures. Most prominent was advising the India entry strategy for SOHO House Mumbai a leading private members club. Ayan was a founding team member for an India focused Real Estate fund management house SAFFRON (2005 - 2010) heading the Capital Markets division. During this period Ayan setup the Capital Raising and Investor relations platform with USD 440 million raised in 3 fund raisings. Ayan was also a member of the Managing Committee whose main purpose was to setup the best in line international Private equity practices and also oversee the development of Saffron, the team, processes and development of projects. He started his career with TATA- AIG in India and was part of the western team that helped buildthe business segments.