K. Jayakishan

Chief Executive Officer

Jayakishan’s
experience spans over 20 years in project planning and development, policy advisory and
structuring project transactions especially for development under
Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) frameworks. Having worked across multiple sectors
including transportation, urban infrastructure, commercial and industrial
infrastructure, and tourism, he has played the role of an adviser to central and state
governments, corporates and development agencies on various project, policy and strategy
initiatives.

An electrical engineer and a Master in Business Administration, Jaykishan started his
career with Feedback Ventures Ltd., and has worked with L&T Infrastructure Finance
Company Ltd. (infrastructure project finance arm of the Larsen & Toubro group) and
DIMTS Ltd. (a joint venture of IDFC with the Government of Delhi) before taking up his
current role at iDeCK.

Jaykishan likes drawing and is a bird watching enthusiast.

Debashis Ghosh

Executive Vice President

Debashis has
over 13 years of experience in infrastructure transaction advisory, project
feasibility studies, project structuring, financial modeling and project management,
especially in the transport and tourism sectors.

A Civil Engineer, he started his career with Haldia Petrochemicals Limited in
Kolkata. He assisted in commissioning of the plant and was responsible for contract
documentation, contract implementation and co-ordination of relevant studies
required for commissioning the plant. He then went on to pursue his MBA Degree at
the Bharathidasan Institute of Managament in Trichy, before joining iDeCK.

The activities dealt by him at iDeCK include preparation of project-specific
technical & market studies, assessment of financial and commercial viability for
various projects, project structuring, financial modeling, contract documentation
and assistance in bid process management.

Debashish has also undertaken various training programs on PPP and has been a part
of the faculty for the National PPP Capacity Building Programme, Training of
Trainers workshops sponsored by Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance,
Government of India. He was also a faculty for the PPP Awareness Workshop in Sri
Lanka organized by the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and Commonwealth
Secretariat.

Debashish loves listening to music, photography, reading and watching movies.

V P Raguram

Head- Finance and Accounts

A chartered
accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants Of India, Raguram is also
Company Secretary from The Institute of Company Secretaries Of India. He has more
than 21 years of experience in Financial reporting, MIS reporting, Performance
monitoring, Cost & Budgetary controls, Investor Relations and Corporate Laws.
And has vast experience in capital re-structuring including merger and de-merger,
creation of AOP, treasury operations & funds management, undertaking project
feasibility studies and funds investment into various ventures.

T Paul Koshy

Executive Vice President & Head – Corporate Affairs

Paul Koshy is a
veteran in the field of engineering and business development. A 1987 batch graduate
in Electrical Engineering from NIT- Raipur, he has served 25 years in L&T,
another 3 years in the French Engineering Consultancy major EGIS at top management
positions.

His experience spans across Infrastructure design and Project Management,
Manufacturing and Process Industries, Software development and Services, Sales and
Marketing, Channel and retail sales and service network, Product development and
application, Supply-Chain Management, P&L head, developing new businesses in
various global geographies and guide lining processes and policies to dynamically
mould the organisation to provide the best value to clients.

Paul, now heads our Business Development function globally. He thus provides
leadership to iDeCK’s new initiatives across all sectors both internally and to the
clientele.

Dr. Pankajkumar Sampat

Senior Vice President

Dr. Pankaj
has a rich experience of over 31 years in urban development including water supply,
town planning, and buildings. Appointed as Member-Expert committee for Sensor based
Geo-Spatial Urban applications, Department of Science and Technology, Government of
India, New Delhi, Aug. 2018 till date.

He graduated as a civil engineer from S.P. University (BE in 1986), and as an
Infrastructure Planner (M. Plan in 2009) from CEPT University. He earned PhD from
CEPT University (Gujarat, India) in 2016. on the subject ‘Quantification of
Municipal Water Supply and Role of metering in Large Indian cities’ is an
interdisciplinary work, emphasizing on quantification issues. His original
contribution includes developing the water accounting following the method of United
Nations.

Before joining iDeCK, served as Associate Professor, Administrative Staff College of
India (ASCI), Hyderabad, Vice President (Planning), GIFTCL (Apr.2012 to Feb.2017),
Town Planning Officer of GIFT city (May 2012 to June 2015) has contributed in
developing India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), which is a
smart-city green-field project, popularly known as GIFT city. He was the first and
under his able leadership two towers (120 m high and 1.2 million BUA tallest
buildings in Gujarat), largest data center in India (of 900 racks capacity), fuel
station and school were also planned, approved and developed. Affordable housing
scheme of 1130 units planned and designed. Played instrumental role in ODAS-online
Development Approval System, techno-legal evaluation of GIFT master plan and filing
appeal seeking approvals from Airport Authority of India for increased building
height. He also established accreditation of professionals and developed
institutional relationship with NIRMA and IIM-A for Skill Development. He has
constructed an indoor stadium with a seating capacity of 1500 at Rajkot,
successfully implemented water supply projects and done water supply management in
Gujarat cities.

Currently he is working (planning, DPR PMC Advisory) in the area of (1) urban water
supply projects (2) Smart City (3) Waste Water Reuse (4) ‘One Water’ (5) Lake
rejuvenation and development (6) Housing (7) Municipal Solid Waste management along
with ICT applications and (8) Campus, local area/market development etc.
He is interested in the best practices for water supply, addressing issues like
inefficiency and accountability, reducing UFW and NRW, water reuse projects in a
cost-effective manner. He is committed to capacity building with the objective to
bring desirable change in practice.

Pankaj is pioneering the idea of Integrated Water Accounting Platform-IWAP to
audiences across the globe. IWAP is a concept to integrate leak detection &
prevention and water accounting, using GIS and GPS technologies, to optimise
municipal water supply systems through a proactive management. Looks forward to
interact with individuals and organisations interested.

Jaideep B

Senior Vice President

Jaideep is a
result-oriented leader with about 30 years’ experience which include 10 years in
Dubai in buildings & associated infrastructure development industry coordinating
across functions to meet stakeholder goals. He holds a M. Tech degree in Civil Engg
with Distinction and is a Chartered Engineer, Institution of Engineers India.

His experience spans across India & Middle East region in Project Management
Consultancy involving application of modern construction techniques, post-contract
administration, design management, structural engineering, multi-disciplinary
coordination & stake holder management, but not limited to.

He has executed large fast-track development projects including cluster of tall
structures up to 55 floors in multi-national consultancy environment. Projects
include educational, residential, industrial, healthcare & commercial projects
in Govt./ private sectors. Acquainted with Indian and British standard codes of
engineering practices/ FIDIC/ CPWD conditions of contract. He was also holding
membership in the Society of Engineers- UAE and an approved Structural Engineer
under Sharjah Municipality.

Jaideep is passionate, keen learner and customer centric aligning all stake holders.

Aashish Kapur

Senior Vice President, Business Development

Mr. Kapur is a
seasoned professional with well over 15 years of exposure and proven technical and
business development skills in infrastructure consulting and financial advisory both
at national and international level with significant exposure to senior management
level experience in diverse infrastructure sectors such as railways, roads and
highways, ports, inland waterways, industrial parks, urban, inland security, and
logistics and warehousing, agriculture related infrastructure, real estate and
inland security. He has established and grown profitable consultancy groups over the
last few years. He has hands on experience in working with central government,
public sector undertakings, state governments, multi-lateral funding agencies,
department of economic affairs, planning commission and various private sector
organizations.

Over the years he has undertaken many a task ranging from engineering services,
project management, planning and operations, business development and policy levels;
providing technical and business solutions at a senior management level. He has
provided technical and strategic direction in the fields of infrastructure
consulting and business development that has impacted ground level improvement
solutions in these fields.

In addition to Indian business development activities he is also leading the
international business development activities for iDeCK which is currently focused
in South Asia, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa.

Sudhendra Kumar Karanam

Senior Vice President

Sudhendra has
over 20 years of experience in infrastructure consultancy including, project
feasibility studies, traffic studies, travel demand forecasting, infrastructure
planning, traffic management and project management in transportation sectors.

A Civil Engineer, and a Post Graduate in Urban Engineering (specialized in
Transportation planning and Engineering), he started his career with
TOPIC-Bangalore. After having involved and assisted in studies on Traffic and
Transportation Policies and Strategies for Urban areas and traffic management and
planning studies for Bangalore city, he then joined CES (I) Pvt Ltd and was part of
several projects in highway development and urban transport studies. Sudhendra then
joined EGIS India and was part of several highway, safety and urban transport
projects including developing feasibility reports and DPRs for LRT and BRTS. During
this tenure, he led the Traffic and Transportation Department and headed Roads and
Highways Design Department for more than 4 years before joining iDeCK in 2016.

At iDeCK, he leads a team of professionals in the Roads and Highways Engineering
department. The team’s core activities include techno-economic feasibility studies,
traffic studies, Detailed designs and Detailed Project Reports, technical due
diligence etc.

In his free time, he loves to spend time with family, reading and watching movies.

Gurleen Kaur

Senior Vice President

Gurleen Kaur
heads the advisory team for the Tourism Sector at a Global Level.

A business leader with relentless drive for research and innovation in the tourism
sector, with an astute and a highly collaborative mindset, her strengths emerge from
her ability to focus on long-term strategic ideas and accurate industry predictions.

Valuable insights from her more than fourteen years of experience in the
Infrastructure sector, with specific focus on specialized aspects viz. planning,
project development and structuring, research and analysis, feasibility studies, Bid
process management and policy development related to Tourism sector are at disposal.

Gurleen has worked closely with the Tourism Department for the Governments of
Karnataka, Jharkhand and Daman & Diu. She is an integral part of the team that
framed the prestigious Karnataka Tourism Policy 2015-20, a one of its kind in India,
which focuses on accelerating and facilitating private investment into the tourism
sector.

She has also successfully anchored the pioneering concept of Rating of various
tourism products through Accreditation Agencies, launched for the first time in
India, in Karnataka.

She is an Architect with a Master’s Degree from School of Planning and Architecture,
New Delhi, India.

Her other passions include music & active participation in charities.

Sumitha Rao

Senior Vice President

Bhooshan Kumar Luthra

Senior Vice President, IT and e-governance

Bhooshan is an experienced IT professional with over two and half decades of IT
industry experience spanning project management, execution, senior level client
management, consulting and e-governance. He has worked across multiple sectors and
managed geographically distributed teams across India, US and Europe and a decade of
e-governance and consulting experience in projects with central and state
governments and brings a unique blend of IT project development and execution
experience from the private and government sectors. Having actively participated in
achieving CMMI level 3 and 5 certifications during his career, he is an astute
believer in quality processes and its relevance in project execution.
A Computer Sciences Engineer, Bhooshan has worked in large IT companies like HCL
Technologies, Network Programs India, Keane Inc and NISG before taking up his
current role at iDeCK.
Bhooshan heads the IT and e-Governance vertical at iDeCK.

Balakumaran Jayaprakasam

Senior Vice President, Energy

Balakumaran has over 17 years of experience in Consulting & EPC Operation for Renewable Energy Projects, Thermal power plants, Mining, Pulp & Paper, Mineral Processing, and Material Handling Systems. He is also expertise in infrastructure Transaction advisory, Project feasibility studies, Project structuring, Financial Modeling, and Project management for Renewable Energy Projects.

Bala holds a Master degree in Power Systems Engineering, MBA in Project Management, and an Advanced Diploma in IT Networking. His experience spans across Electrical & Automation design engineer, Project Management, Bids & Proposals, SCM, and P&L management for EPC Companies. Before joining iDeCK, he worked with EPC giants like Conergy Energy Systems, Elecon EPC Projects, ABB, and FLSmidth.

He has executed Solar PV systems both ON-grid, OFF-grid, Micro-Grid and Wind Hybrid systems across all the terrains and various altitudes in India. He was involved in the development of Renewable Energy projects of more than 1.2GW capacity and several EPC packages in 5.5GW of thermal power projects. He was also worked as Project Installation Manager for AGETNL Solar Power Plant, one of the world’s largest single location Solar Power Project; Project Manager (Electrical & Automation) for the second-largest single pleat overhead conveyor system in India; Project Head for one of the world’s highest altitude Solar PV system (Micro-grid) in Leh-Ladakh.

Bala is also published many technical Papers in IEEE Journals and International Conferences.