Sanjay Nayar

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Mr. Sanjay Nayar is the Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at Sorin Investments. He serves as Board Member at Flexiloans. He served as Partner and Chief Executive Officer of KKR India at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He serves as Chairman at KKR India Financial Services. He served as Board Member at InCred Finance. He also served as a Board Member at Avendus Capital, Ramky Enviro Engineers, Max Financial Services, and Radiant Life Care. He joined KKR in 2009 and is a Member and CEO of KKR India. He is also a member of the Asia Portfolio Management Committee. He is on the board of KKR's portfolio companies Alliance Tire Group, Bharti Infratel, Magma Financial Services, Dalmia Bharat Cement, and Coffee Day Holdings. He has had significant involvement with KKR's investment in Apollo Hospitals and Avantha. He also supports expanding the range of KKR's credit and capital markets offerings across the region. Before joining KKR, he served as CEO of Citigroup's Indian and South Asian operations and as a member of Citigroup's Management Committee and Asia Executive Operating Committee. Mr. Nayar was the deputy chairman of the Indian Banks Association (IBA), a member of the board of the US-India Business Council (USIBC), and co-chairman of the Banking Committee for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He also serves on the Committee of the Reserve Bank of India tasked with building a Centre for Advanced Financial Learning (CAFL). Currently, he is on the board of Habitat for Humanity, Pratham, and Grameen Capital and is a founding member of the Brookings Foundation, India. He was recently appointed to the Board of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) and serves as the Chairman of the Indian Private Venture Capital Association. In addition, he is also on the Board of the Indian School of Business (ISB). He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.