Our Leadership Team

Mr. Kuldeep Jain is the Managing Director of CleanMax.

Kuldeep was previously working as a global partner at McKinsey & Company and headed the Energy and Corporate Finance division for McKinsey & Company in India.

Kuldeep has an MBA from IIM – Ahmedabad, holds a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant degree.

Mr. Pratap Jain was the CEO of Raymond’s Apparel and has worked at various senior-level positions at Raymond Group.

Mr. Jain holds a Chartered Accountant degree.

Mr. Somak Ghosh is the Managing Partner at Contrarian Capital. He earlier served as Co-CEO of Motiwal Oswal and Group President of Corporate Finance at Yes Bank.

Prior to YES Bank, Mr. Somak Ghosh was the Director of Infrastructure and Sustainable Finance at Rabo Bank. In the early stages of his professional career, Mr. Ghosh worked with Reliance, ICICI and Peregrine Ltd.

Mr. Somak Ghosh is an alumnus of Faculty Management School Delhi.

Mr. Sumit Banerjee has worked with various large corporates in India at a senior position and is currently an invited member of the managing committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He has served as the Vice Chairman at Reliance Cement, Managing Director at ACC Limited and at Tube Investments of India Ltd as well.

Mr. Sumit Banerjee is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Mr. Christoph Wolff is the Managing Director of European Climate Foundation and heads the power sector de-carbonization, low-carbon transport and energy efficiency programmes.

He was senior partner at McKinsey and a Board member for DB Schenker. He has been the CEO of Novatec Solar GmbH and Solar Millennium AG.

Mr. Christoph Wolff is on the board of several new energy start-ups and is also faculty at the Institute for Energy Economics in Cologne.

Mr. Darius Lilaoonwala is a Founding Partner at Augment Infrastructure

He has 20+ years of investing in infrastructure globally and was the Co-head, US$1.2 billion IFC Global Infrastructure Fund (2012- 2019). He was the Co-author of IFC’s ESG guidelines for power (2007-2008) and is a Member of EMPEA’s Infrastructure and Energy Council.

He is an alumnus of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and has an MBA from Wharton.

Mr. Viktor Kars is a Founding Partner at Augment Infrastructure

He has 20+ years of investing in infrastructure globally and was the Co-head, US$1.2 billion IFC Global Infrastructure Fund (2012- 2019). Mr. Viktor Kats prior career involves roles as a sale-side equity analyst at Sector Capital (Russia) and Creditanstalt Investment Bank (Russia)

He has an MBA from INSEAD; MSc from Moscow Institute of Electronics.

Mr. Nikita Baryshnikov is a Principal with Augment Infrastructure focused on investing and corporate development.

He brings more than a decade of investing and financing experience in fast growing emerging markets.

He holds a BSc in Economics with First Class Honors from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Mr. Richard Abel is the Managing Director of UK Climate Investments (UKCI), which is managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) in partnership with the UK Government.

Richard’s career in MIRA has included global and pan-European COO roles and asset management and transaction activity.

Before joining MIRA, Richard was a UK Senior Civil Servant.

Deepa Hingorani is Vice President for Asia at IFU, The Danish Investment Fund for developing countries. She leads a team that manages IFU’s activities in the region with offices in New Delhi, Singapore, Shanghai and HCMC. IFU invests equity and debt for impact in emerging markets.

She has 25+ years of investment experience with transactions in Climate, Financial Inclusion, Agribusiness and Healthcare.

Deepa holds a Masters in Finance from University of Delhi and an Executive MBA from SIMI Copenhagen.