India Japan Fund

Sanjiv Aggarwal is the Managing Director and CEO of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited. He leads NIIF's investment strategy, LP relationships, and bilateral fund initiatives including the India Japan Fund.

Jitender Tanikella is a Principal at NIIF responsible for PE & VC/M&A/JVs with a focus on new economy ventures, and also advises on fund structuring and formation. He has engaged closely with DPIIT (formerly DIPP), FIPB, SEBI, and RBI on regulatory matters. He is qualified to practise law in India and holds a law degree from Columbia Law School, Columbia University.

Akhilesh Tilotia is NIIF's Head of Research, responsible for developing the firm's GRIX (Greeks) investment framework and anchoring macro-level India investment thesis. He regularly engages with media and institutional investors on India's growth story.

Vinod has 20+ years of experience across investments, strategy and management consulting and project finance. Vinod has made investments across varied sectors across early stage, growth stage and platform deals. He is amongst the few investment professionals in the Indian private equity infrastructure investments landscape with full investment cycle experience. He joined NIIF in early 2017 and is currently the Managing Partner for NIIF Master Fund. In his current role, Vinod is responsible for the overall investment strategy including setting up sectoral platforms and forging relationships with strategic operators, portfolio management and stakeholder management. Prior to NIIF, Vinod spent 13 years with IDFC Alternatives. During his tenure, he evaluated and invested in companies across sectors including oil and gas value chain, transportation value chain, logistics, real estate, education, consumption and agri value chain. Some of the marquee deals he handled include Gujarat State Petronet Limited (GSPL), L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Limited (L&TIDPL), Gujarat Pipavav Port Limited (GPPL) and few city gas distribution companies. At IDFC, Vinod served on Boards of investee companies, helping with interventions in strategic directions, strengthening management team, assisting investee companies with access to regulators, business development and others. Vinod was also instrumental in consummating exits of investee companies through various routes - IPO, sale to strategic investors, sale to financial investors and promoter buybacks. Prior to joining the IDFC Alternatives, Vinod worked with the infrastructure advisory vertical of Credit Analysis & Research Limited (CARE).