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Mr. Krishan Rattan is a Founding Partner at Terra-Invest.

In his life as a banker and then a financial services entrepreneur, Krishan has raised, deployed and overseen transactions worth over USD 12 Bn. Prior to Terra-Invest, Krishan set up Mount-Row, a global alternative asset manager with over USD 1.2B in AUM across the energy and infrastructure sectors. Krishan’s career has spanned a variety of capital market roles across New York and London. 

He has been Managing Director and Global Head of Alternative Capital Solutions group at Société Générale. This business alone delivered in excess of USD 200 million in annual revenues to the bank. Prior to Société Générale, Krishan spent time in the emerging markets business at Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse. He started his career as a banker at Morgan Stanley. 

Since 2012, Krishan has been a financial services entrepreneur in Europe and Asia.
In the financial services universe, Krishan is credited to have established the very first traded index tracker in Africa and created the first emerging market inflation-linked bond.

He is credited to have pioneered the optimisation of NAV based financing for asset managers. Krishan also led the creation of index linked liability reduction cost overlays to benchmark debt issuance. 

Krishan maintains close connections with his alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley and serves as a member of the steering committee for the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is also a member of the Greater London chapter of the YPO and an advisor to the Indo-European Business Forum. 

Krishan is also a Patron of the Loomba foundation and a Trustee of Project Anthropocene, a thought-collective of leading academic thinkers focused on human impact on climate change.

Ms. Ankiti Bose is a Founding Partner at Terra-Invest.

Ankiti began her career at McKinsey, transitioned into venture capital, and then co-founded Zilingo. Under her leadership, Zilingo became one of Asia’s largest B2B supply chain tech startups, operating in eight countries and managing a team of 800, with the company reaching a valuation of approximately USD 1 billion. Ankiti is one of the very few women of color to have achieved such a position. However, due to the impact of COVID-19 and a well-publicized business partner dispute, Zilingo eventually collapsed.

The fallout from Zilingo’s failure profoundly affected Ankiti, prompting her to introspect and seek guidance from globally recognized thought leaders in governance, investing, public policy, academia, and leadership. Many of these leaders have since become part of Terra-Invest’s team and vision.

During this period, Ankiti focused on understanding the failure points of capital structures that back innovation without adequate policy or governance. She worked closely with Mount Row Partners to establish investment initiatives in sectors such as energy transition, finance, and technology across India and the Middle East. 

She co-conceptualized the global wealth-management platform, Kairoswealth, alongside Mr. Krishan Rattan and Mr. Vincent Teyssier. Guided by Mount Row Partners, she also set up investment vehicles supporting pre-IPO investments in India in key sectors like energy, renewables, and trade finance.

Ankiti leaned on her mentors, partners, and investors to turn her efforts from the ashes of her unicorn’s demise into executing a grand vision where technology and policy create outsized outcomes. Terra-Invest is the result of this group’s collective vision to merge policy, governance, and capital to drive transformative decisions.

Outside of work, Ankiti is an avid art lover and musician, spending her time creating both digital and physical art. She is also a patron of several mental health initiatives focused on not just raising awareness but also matching people with resources to overcome illness.

Ambassador Kirk Wagar is a Founding Partner at Terra-Invest.

   Wagar served as the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore from 2013 to 2017, working with many of the over 4,000 American companies based in Singapore to navigate the issues businesses face throughout Asia as well as spearheading foreign direct investment into the United States.
 

He is a founder of Worldview Advisory, a global Geopolitical, Strategic Communications and Capital Advisory firm and utilizes decades of experience at the intersection of public policy and business to solve complex problems for clients from Kansas City to Lagos.
 

Ambassador Wagar served as President Obama’s Florida Finance Chairman from January 2007 through the President’s re-election 2012, as Florida Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2004 for Senator John Kerry and has been involved in Democratic politics for over thirty years. Wagar takes a special amount of pride in the fact that President Obama is the first Democratic candidate for President to win the coveted state of Florida twice since President Franklin Roosevelt.

 

Prior to his Ambassadorship, Wagar served on the Export-Import Bank Advisory Committee for the 2011 and 2012 terms and served on the Bank’s Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee in 2010. He founded Wagar Law, P.A. in 1998, a commercial litigation firm that focused on complex commercial and insurance matters. Wagar has served on the board of governors for the American Association for Justice and on the boards of directors for the Florida Justice Association as well as the Miami-Dade Justice Association. 

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Ambassador Wagar is currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative and a member of the Investment Committee of MUSEL, a private Real Estate Investment Trust based in Singapore and previously served numerous boards including seven years in the private education sector, culminating as a member of the Board of Directors of Gems World Academy Singapore, and XCL Education and as a Member of the Board at the East-West Center.
 

He is globally considered a leader in navigating businesses through the cross section of public policy and commercial goals. He has served as Senior Advisor to Binance, Tik Tok, Tesla, and some of the largest private equity, sovereign and pension funds on political risk, government affairs and community engagement across the globe. 

Mr. Shailesh Haribhakti is the 

Mentor-In-Chief at Terra-Invest.

Mr. Shailesh Haribhakti is a five-decade career Chartered and Cost Accountant, and a Certified Internal Auditor, Financial Planner & Fraud Examiner.

He is Chairman of M/s. Shailesh Haribhakti & Associates and serves on the board of Adani Total Gas Ltd, Bajaj Electricals Ltd, Bennett Coleman and Company Ltd. (Times Group), Future Generali India Life Insurance Co Ltd, Brookprop Management Services Pvt. Ltd. (A Brookfield REIT), Gaja Trustee Company Pvt. Ltd. (Gaja Capital Group)and several others.

He serves as non-executive Chairman of IBS Fintech India Pvt Ltd, Planet People & Profit Consulting Pvt Ltd. He also serves as the Chairman – Western Region of

Institute of Directors and Vice Chairman of GOvEVa Consulting.

He has been conferred with the Global Competent Boards Designation (GCB.D) by Competent Boards Inc. Canada. He has also been awarded “Vivekananda Sustainability Award 2022” by Vivekananda Youth Connect Foundation. 

Mr. Haribhakti actively promotes shared value creation and a green environment through his own enterprise, and his leadership roles as Chairman of the CSR / ESG / Sustainability committees of some of the Boards that he serves on. 

Mr. Okazawa is a Senior Advisor at 

Terra-Invest.

Mr. Kyoya Okazawa founded Brinc Japan Ltd as a subsidiary in Japan

of Brinc Ltd, a venture capital and accelerator firm based in Hong

Kong in June 2024. Prior to that, he co-founded Animoca Brands

Japan (Animoca Brands KK) as a strategic subsidiary in Japan of

Animoca Brands Ltd, a leading global web3 company based in

Hong Kong and served as Chief Investment Officer until May 2023.

Oka has more than 25 years of experience in investment banks

such as UBS, Credit Suisse and BNP Paribas. In BNP Paribas, he

served as an Executive Committee Member of APAC Global

Markets, the Head of Corporate and Institutional Sales APAC and

the Head of Research APAC in Hong Kong until March 2021.

He also serves as an International Financial City Ambassador and

Web3 Business Investment & Attraction Advisor in Fukuoka City,

an Advisor of Asuene Inc. and an advisor of VMO Japan.

Oka holds a BA degree in Economics from Keio University.

Ms. Kreitzman is a Senior Advisor at 

Terra-Invest.

Linda Kreitzman is a strategic advisor and the co-chair of the Fintech and Blockchain track for Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley's premier accelerator and incubator of the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a lecturer at the Haas School of Business for the Master of Financial Engineering program, a top-ranked program in the United States, which she helped launch in 2000 and where she served as director, executive director and then assistant dean for 21 years. 

Linda was the first director in the United States to develop a pre-program set of courses and curriculum in data science and artificial intelligence as early as 2012 as well as seminars on blockchain and cryptocurrencies beginning 2013. In 2017, Linda was invited by Dr. Laura Tyson, Clinton's former presidential advisor and former dean of the Haas School, to be the co-lead on the Faculty Research Review Committee on the Berkeley Blockchain Initiative where she oversaw the students' projects on blockchain and cryptocurrency till 2022.  

Linda possesses extensive worldwide industry contacts in Finance, Fintech and Blockchain. She holds post graduate degrees in economics and political science. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish and is also investor, adviser, and board member to several start-ups in the United States, France, LATAM, and the Middle East.

Mr. Jai Pathak is a Senior Advisor at Terra-Invest.

Jai is one of the most pre-eminent and well recognized lawyers in Asia today with an extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, dispositions, privatizations, joint ventures, licensing, infrastructure development, as well as private equity and structured finance transactions. His clients have included governments, financial institutions, investment banks, multinational companies and U.S., European, and Asian companies.

His practice has included projects in the United States, Europe, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Canada, Australia and China. Top legal journals across India, the US and Singapore have frequently awarded Jai with the highest honors for his excellence as a legal advisor.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Jai practiced with Jones Day since 1985, where he was a partner heading the transactional practice in Los Angeles and coordinating the M&A section for the California region. He previously served as head of that firm’s India practice and partner in charge of the Singapore office. He also spent more than a decade practicing in that firm’s London, New York and Cleveland

offices.

Jai graduated from law school with a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence (Honors) in 1984 from the University of Oxford where he also earned his Master of Arts in 1989. He received his Master of Laws from the University of Virginia in 1985. He also received his Bachelor of Arts (Honors) and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Delhi (St. Stephen’s College) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Mr. Devottam Sengupta is the Chief Legal Counsel and Head of Structuring at Terra-Invest. 

Devottam has had a multifaceted career, with leadership roles in law firms, major multinational corporations and in a variety of startups, giving him a uniquely broad set of experiences and expertise. Notably, he has worked on transactions and regulatory matters across Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe and South America. 

Prior to Terra-Invest, Devottam was a member of the founding team at Mount-Row, a global alternative asset manager with over USD 1.2B in AUM across the energy and infrastructure sectors. In this role, he was also responsible for the legal and compliance matters at Mount-Row’s diverse portfolio companies across Asia, Middle East and Australia.

Devottam joined Mount-Row from his role as a Partner at Hill Dickinson, Singapore, where he was instrumental in growing the firm's corporate, banking and technology practices in Asia.  

There are three previous roles that defined Devottam’s career. Firstly, during his time at Amarchand & Mangaldas, Devottam advised on marquee transactions, such as JSW Steel receiving a US$ 1.2 billion investment from JFE Steel, JSL Stainless Limited’s US$ 2.1 billion debt restructuring and the joint venture between Apollo Global Management and ICICI Ventures for the formation of AION Capital.

The second role was that of Co-head, Global Markets and Banking Law at Louis Dreyfus Company, where Devottam had a global remit. He worked on the gamut of banking, structured finance and derivatives transactions, as well as disputes and investigations, in countries as disparate as China, the US, Brazil, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Australia. 

Lastly, Devottam had a stint at Greensill Capital, the implosion of which instilled in him a deep respect for strict governance and compliance checks, simplicity in transaction structuring and a desire to build an institution with solid foundations. 

Devottam has a Masters in Law and Economics, jointly awarded by Die Universität Hamburg and the University of Manchester, for which he had received the prestigious Erasmus Mundus scholarship from the European Commission.

He is also an alumnus of National Law School of India University at Bangalore. As if being a lawyer wasn’t hard enough, Devottam is a passionate fan of Manchester United Football Club, global politics and electronic music.

Mr. Adeeb Hussain is a Senior Investment Associate at Terra- Invest.

Having mastered in Management and Finance from University College London, Adeeb has gained expertise in Mergers and IPOs, Corporate Finance, International Capital Markets, Investment Management, and Quantitative Finance.

Adeeb attended Aldenham boarding school in North London, where he balanced academics with his passion for football and various extracurricular activities. He graduated from Newcastle University Business School with a degree in Business Management and Marketing. 

During his years at university, Adeeb co-founded a platform connecting job seekers with mentors to facilitate internship placements, where he developed business plans and conducted pre-seed investment valuations and forecasts. As president of the entrepreneurship society, he organized and managed activities for over 150 students.

To further refine his skills, Adeeb undertook internships at Emirates NBD, where he engaged with accounting and valuation fundamentals, and at EY, where he delved into due diligence and strategy. His academic pursuits were further enhanced by a summer program at Harvard, focusing on private equity and capital markets through intensive case studies.

Professionally, Adeeb progressed to an Investment Analyst role at MountRow, focusing on private equity investments in various sectors. He was also a founding team member at Kairos Wealth, now a part of Terra’s Financial Services portfolio. 

Adeeb is trained in Indian classical musician and ardent lover of Sufi music. Adeeb has has represented Delhi at the State level as a footballer U-16, and is passionate about Horse riding and Tennis.

Ms. Wan Yi Lim is a Senior Investment Associate at Terra-Invest.

Wan Yi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Finance from Singapore Management University, where she earned the prestigious Dean's List award. Her academic excellence was also recognized during her Diploma in Banking and Finance, where she received the Edusave Certificate of Academic Achievement from the Ministry of Education.

Wan Yi embarked on her career at renowned firms such as HSBC, Mapletree, Tikehau Capital, and Strand Hanson Asia. During this, she gained valuable experience in various financial domains, including financial reporting, analysis, research, and modelling. These experiences laid a strong foundation for her professional journey.

Wan Yi later joined Mount Row Partners as an Investment Analyst, where she specialized in Venture Capital and Private Equity Deals. In this role, she honed her skills in financial modelling, due diligence, and portfolio management, further broadening her expertise in the finance sector.

Beyond her professional achievements, Wan Yi is a multifaceted individual with diverse interests. She is an avid practitioner of Pilates, which she credits for enhancing her focus and discipline. She is also deeply committed to charitable work, having spent time in Vietnam volunteering to help children in need. Additionally, Wan Yi is dedicated to continuous learning and personal growth, always exploring opportunities to upskill and expand her knowledge.

Ms. Sanskriti Pandey is an Investment Associate at Terra- Invest.

Sanskriti is a Chartered Accountant by training, an SRCC (Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University) gold medalist by education, and an official LinkedIn Creator by passion.
Sanskriti has performed and concluded statutory audits for few of the most prominent and high net-worth Indian clients in Real estate, FMCG, Renewable energy, Agricultural warehousing, and E-Commerce. Sanskriti’s academic and intellectual track record is well known and immensely inspiring. She has been awarded by esteemed personalities including Mr. Rajat Sharma (Chairman and Editor in Chief of India TV), Mr. Rajiv Kumar, then Hon'ble Chief Election Commissioner of India and Mrs. Smriti Irani, then Indian Cabinet Minister for her various academic achievements in the field of finance.
She has been awarded by the Hon'ble Governor of Uttarakhand and Womennovator as one of Top 100 Women Creators of India, and has been bestowed upon the title of ‘Iconic Women Changing world for All’ by Women Economic Forum. 

As an ‘Official LinkedIn creator’ with over 67K followers and various LinkedIn Top Voice badges, she creates content on her life’s philosophy of prudence, about business, finance, and other life’s musings. Her aim is to bridge the gap between the required and possessed skillset by young professionals and students, and help people become a better version of themselves. She had been chosen as one of Top 200 LinkedIn creators for the first ever ‘LinkedIn Creator Accelerator’ Program in India. 

She has a profound love for music and rhythm, that led her to be a trained Jazz dancer. She has played multiple sports like cricket and badminton and loves to read fiction thrillers. She is a TV Show fanatic who takes her life lessons from various on-screen alternative realities and quotes different characters every chance she gets. 

She is a well-known mentor for young people across schools and colleges in Delhi NCR across themes of Women Empowerment, Entrepreneurship and Personal Finance.