Manish Kejriwal

Manish Kejriwal is the Managing Partner and Founder of Kedaara Capital. Kedaara is a private equity firm pursuing control and minority investment opportunities in India. It currently manages over ~US$ 6.0 billion in AUM, through investments in leading businesses. Kedaara has remained dedicated to its strategy of focusing on investments built through trust-based relationships with best-in-class entrepreneurs and management teams. Kedaara combines the strengths of a well-networked, highly experienced local investing and operating team, with the experience of their strategic partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a global private equity firm.

In early 2004, Manish founded the India office of Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd, and as its Country Head led all investments till 2011. As a Senior Managing Director, he was a core member of its leadership team in Singapore, and a member of the Senior Management Committee (SMC), and Senior Investment & Divestment Committee (SIDC). He was also tasked to lead the firm’s global investments in the FIG sector.

Prior to Temasek, Manish was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, Inc. and was part of their New York, Cleveland and Mumbai offices. He helped found “The Private Equity Practice” during his years in New York and was instrumental in conceiving and co-authoring the widely followed “NASSCOM McKinsey reports”. Prior to McKinsey, Manish had worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and with Goldman Sachs (Principal Investment/Corporate Finance) in HK.

Manish received an AB from Dartmouth College (Magna Cum Laude, received the Dean’s Plate). He holds an MBA from Harvard University (Baker Scholar).

Manish is the lead independent director at Bharti Airtel, serves on the boards of Bajaj Finserv and Bajaj Holdings, and various Kedaara investee companies. Over the years he has been on the boards of various portfolio companies such as Parksons Packaging, ICICI Onesource, and Fullerton India Credit Company. He is passionate about education, and is reflected by his ongoing involvement in the United World College movement, as a founder trustee at Ashoka University and a former member of the Harvard Alumni Board.

Manish was named a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. He is the Co-Chair of the CII National Committee on PE/VC and was a member of the Alternative Investments Committee, constituted by SEBI. He has authored various articles on PE and has been profiled in various newspapers and periodicals and is a sought after speaker. He was profiled as one of the “25 hottest young executives in India".