Vincere Partners

Arzaan Patel is a Vice President at Vinceré Partners, actively involved across the investment lifecycle including deal origination, evaluation, execution, and post-investment value creation. He brings nearly a decade of experience in the consumer space across investing and operating roles. Prior to Vinceré, he was at Sharrp Ventures focusing on early and growth-stage consumer brand investments, was part of the early investment team at Fireside Ventures, and has operating experience at a Singapore-based startup. He began his career at KPMG and subsequently worked at Duff & Phelps (now Kroll) in valuation and deal advisory. He has had board-level engagement with SuperBottoms, Neeman's, Slurrp Farm, Nat Habit, and MCaffeine.

Sarad is part of the Investment Team at Vinceré Partners, where he focuses on investments across sectors. With around five years of experience in investments and consulting, Sarad brings a strong analytical and strategic foundation to the investment space. Prior to joining Vinceré, Sarad was a part of the investment team at Pavestone Venture Capital where he focused on B2B Enterprise and Deep Tech investments. Sarad is a Gold Medalist with an MBA in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting and Finance from St. Xavier's College and is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary, with CFA Level I completed. Beyond his professional pursuits, he is an avid traveller and has a keen interest in music and singing.

A career business and human resources professional, she is now a strategic advisor and executive coach with expertise in talent management, leadership and organization development, diversity and inclusion, and organization transformation. She also serves as an Independent Director across diverse industries, including boards such as IDFC First Bank, Cyient, and Greenlam Industries Ltd. Ms. Gowrishankar has over three decades of experience in senior leadership roles in business and HR across India and overseas, including 14 years at BP plc, where her last role was Global Head of Capability Development and Director of the Global Leadership Academy. She has worked across multiple industries and has been associated with several Indian and global organizations, including Standard Chartered Bank, Reebok India, GE, Zensar Technologies, Cummins, and Castrol India. Ms. Gowrishankar is a certified coach and facilitator and is associated with many organizations and programs, including the Strategic Human Resources Program at Harvard Business School and the Senior Executive Program at Cornell University. She holds a BA in sociology and a post-graduate degree in personnel management and industrial relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

Suryanarayanan (Suri) is a CA, CS, CWA and law graduate. He was associated for close to three decades with the L&T Group, including leadership roles of the Accounts, Compliance, Information Technology, Internal Audit, Operations and Secretarial functions at their financial services group with responsibility over more than a dozen companies present in several financial services businesses. Prior to the financial services stint of around 10 years, he has held Chief Executive and CFO roles with L&T's group companies in the tyre machinery and plastics machinery space, including an Indo German JV. Previously, he was associated with Multiples Private Equity as a compliance advisor, with oversight over their funds, asset manager, trustee and portfolio companies on this function. Post his corporate career, he has been a senior advisor to Excellence Enablers Private Limited, a prominent entity in the corporate governance space, founded by Mr. M. Damodaran, formerly Chairman of SEBI.

Dinesh brings over 25 years of experience in private equity, with deep expertise across emerging markets and extensive leadership experience as a Partner across multiple investment platforms. He is currently the Managing Director at Broad Peak Capital Advisors LLP. Over the course of his career, Dinesh has played a pivotal role in building and scaling early-stage private equity franchises, including the India businesses of Standard Chartered Private Equity, Alcazar Capital, and Multiples. He has also worked with leading global investment firms such as Actis, J.P. Morgan, and ICICI Venture. As an investor and board member, Dinesh has closely partnered with portfolio companies on growth strategy, organizational development, capital raising, and mergers & acquisitions, contributing meaningfully to long-term value creation.