Nepean Capital

Gautam Trivedi is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Nepean Capital. He has over 30 years of experience in Indian and Asian financial markets. His last role before Nepean was CEO of Religare Capital Markets, one of India's leading domestic investment banks, where he pioneered 'The Great India Roadtrips' — channel checks across Tier 2 and 3 towns. Before Religare, he was Managing Director and Head of Equity Distribution at Goldman Sachs India and served on the board of Goldman Sachs India Private Limited. He also spent time at Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong) as an Executive Director in Asian Equities. Earlier in his career he worked at DSP Merrill Lynch, CLSA Asia, and Jardine Fleming (Hong Kong), and spent four years in the Corporate Finance and M&A team at Reliance Industries Ltd. He holds an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC Marshall) and degrees in Law and Commerce from Mumbai University. He is an Aspen Institute Fellow, President of the USC Marshall Alumni Association of Mumbai, and sits on the India Advisory Board of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He is on the boards of Collective Artist Networks, Extramarks Education India, Landmark Cars Ltd, Maddock Films, Raymond Realty, and UFO Moviez India.

Anand Trivedi is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Nepean Capital. He has over 28 years of experience in the Indian and Asian financial industry, of which 16 years were spent investing in public and private markets. His last role before Nepean was Managing Director and Head of GE Private Equity in India, investing primarily in Indian mid-caps with strong growth potential. Prior to GE, he spent years in Hong Kong as a fund manager with Nicholas Applegate Capital Management (India and Asia). He also worked in Equity Capital Markets at Lehman Brothers (Hong Kong) and ABN AMRO Rothschild (Hong Kong), and ran Principal Investments at Shinsei Bank in India. He spent four years in the Corporate Finance and M&A team at Reliance Industries Ltd. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and degrees in Law and Commerce from Mumbai University. He sits on the boards of Extramarks Education India and UFO Moviez India.