Nilesh Shrivastava

International Finance Corporation

Company Type: Investment Firm

Preferred Industries: Communication Financial Inclusion FinTech

Brief Profile: Nilesh Shrivastava heads the financial institutions investments portfolio for IFC in South Asia covering India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries. He has been working in the financial sector for over 17 years and has a decade of experience with IFC, investing and working closely with banks, financial institutions and payments companies across South Asia, East Asia and Africa. Currently he manages 75 clients with invested assets over $2.2 Bn spanning early stage and mature clients in banking, micro/SME finance, housing finance, infrastructure finance and payments companies. IFC has been among the most active private sector investors in the financial sector in the South Asia across equity, debt and mezzanine instruments building an impactful and profitable financial sector portfolio and Nilesh has been an integral part of the journey. Earlier, he has worked with HSBC in banking roles. He holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and an engineering degree from Lucknow University. Additionally, he is also an author with two published fiction novels - released in 2009 and 2014.

Past Company and Other Details: HSBC

Funding Type: Equity