Experience

Shweta is Managing Partner and India Head for Advent International. She has over 23 years of experience in Private Equity. She joined Advent in 2009 and has built the Advent India business leading and managing investments of over $4 bn across various sectors. Prior to that she worked for 9 years at ICICI Venture, which at the time was the largest private equity firm in India. She has invested in companies across a wide range of sectors including consumer, healthcare, financial and IT services. Before joining ICICI Venture, she was working for a year at Ernst & Young in their corporate finance division.

Awards & Achievements

• Awarded ‘India’s Top 40 Under Forty’ by Economic Times & Spencer Stuart.
• Identified top 50 women in India Inc. by ‘Forbes India W-Power Trailblazers’.
• Identified as one of the `Most Powerful Women in Indian Business`- Business Today – Identified as one of the `50 Most Powerful Women in Business` – Fortune India Magazine
• Identified as one of the ‘India’s 30 Most Powerful Women’ – Business Today Magazine – Awarded “Investment Professional of the Year” by VC Circle
• Awarded Most Powerful Women – Special Edition of Business today.

Investments participated in

Shweta has worked on many investments at Advent including Encora, BSV Ltd, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited, Quest Technologies, ASK Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd., Manjushree Packaging, Bharat Serums and Vaccines, Suven Pharma, Yes Bank amongst others. Investments in ICICI Venture included companies like ACE Refractories, Updater Services, Rubamin, Tata Infomedia and VA Tech Wabag.

Current Directorships:

• Modenik Lifestyle Pvt.Ltd.
• Manjushree Technopack Ltd.
• Bharat Serums and Vaccines Ltd.
• Cohance Lifescience Limited
• Yes Bank Limited