SAPPHIRE & SAGE - Key Persons
Anil P. Gupta provides domain expertise for the Infrastructure division. He has over 39 years of global, international and Indian leadership experience in full group business and P&L management, corporate governance and as a member of various boards, having worked with different industries and regions across the world, with top global MNC's like GE, Honeywell, ABB and Indian companies like Reliance Infrastructure, NTPC among others. In his international leadership role, he has worked for General Electric's Energy business at their global headquarters in the USA, as their Global Market Executive in addition to various leadership roles covering Africa India, Middle East and Asia Pacific. He has worked as President & Country Head-Honeywell India overseeing all its various businesses in Aerospace, Defense and Homeland Security, Transportation, Specialty Materials & Refineries, Industrial & Automation. As the President & Head of Reliance Infrastructure he has significant experience in areas of metros, roads, regional airports & sea link which also included overseeing the first Indian PPP in metros. He has also worked in ABB and NTPC in the power sector. He has strong Project Experience in Infrastructure, Energy & Power fields across Project Life Cycle & Value Chain from concept, feasibility & detailed project reports, engineering and design, project execution, site commissioning to services and DBFOT (Design Build Finance, Operate & Transfer) and PPP Projects including contracts management and building partnership, alliances and Joint Ventures and M&A acquisition integration.
Dr. Prakash Nanda guides us on policy and regulatory practices. He is an author and a columnist with over 30 years of media and academic experience with specialization in international affairs, strategic issues of the Indian Government & Politics who is currently engaged as the Editor of "Geopolitics", a niche Indian monthly on strategic affairs. He is also the Distinguished Fellow of Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. He has also authored various articles in South Asian Journal, Think India Quarterly and Journal of Peace Studies. In addition to this, he has written over 2500 articles and columns in India's national media and several international dailies and magazines. Dr. Nanda, with such rich experience, has significant expertise in various policy matters.
Rupinder Walia's professional experience spans over 3 years with specialization in criminal law. He has represented clients in criminal litigation in various Courts and Forums. He has provided services in matters relating to bank/financial institutions fraud & forgery, violation of intellectual property rights /cyber laws, piracy, imitation, dishonour of cheques, criminal breach of trust, FEMA violation, narcotics and drugs violations, custom & excise laws, general criminal laws namely bails, trial, evidence, suspension of sentence, appeals, revisions, quashing of FIR and criminal writs.
Somesh Arora is one of the preeminent real estate attorney in India. Mr. Arora started his legal practice in 1990 and is very well regarded amongst the counsels for his systematic and aggressive approach. Mr. Arora has been an arguing counsel in more than 400 cases at the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts. He has over almost 30 years of real estate law experience encompassing crores of rupees of real estate transactions of all kinds. Mr. Arora currently limits his practice to corporate, real estate, and business transactional matters. His transactional and litigation real estate experience encompasses commercial and multi-family income real estate projects ranging from industrial, office and shopping centers to apartments, single-family developments and housing cooperative. He has also been advising several Multi-Nationals, Aviation, Finance, Construction and Manufacturing companies and has been extensively involved in drafting a variety of agreements, from all types of business agreements, aircraft leases, joint venture and technical collaboration agreements to commercial contracts and finance agreements.
Vijay Gopal Jindal, an accomplished professional, has more than 30 years of experience in managing businesses, brands, private equity investments and undertaking strategic initiatives. He has been Advisor to the Chairman at Jindal Steel & Power Limited. He has been Chief Intellect Officer of the Times of India group and rejoined the group as Principal Secretary and Member of the Board in November 2002. He also served as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of ZEE Telefilms Ltd. During his career, he also served as Chief Executive Officer of The Economic Times.