Nilesh Mehta

(Independent Director)

Mr. Nilesh Mehta, 62, has over forty years of experience in investing, financial services and business strategy – of which more than twenty years are in direct private equity investing. He is a Chartered Accountant and a management graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He holds a Bachelors of Commerce from Gujarat University. He is cofounder and Managing partner of Access India Fund-1. Prior to founding Access, he was part of the founding team in India at Aureos, which managed SME private equity funds across developing economies. He has also earlier founded Infinity II, a technology fund, and also managed unlisted investments at Meghraj Financial. He is Charter Member of TiE, Mumbai. Mr. Mehta also sits on the Boards of a few public and private limited companies, and is one of the founder trustees of Aavishkaar Micro Venture Fund, set up to invest in socially relevant, sustainable and scalable rural businesses.