Yesh Nadkarni
Chief Executive Officer, Wholesale Lending, Piramal Enterprises Limited
Yesh Nadkarni is the CEO of Wholesale Lending at Piramal Enterprises Limited (PEL). He has over two decades of investing experience across debt, equity and special situations spanning India, Australia, and Southeast Asia.
As CEO of Wholesale Lending, Yesh is responsible for further expanding PEL’s wholesale lending business, building a high-quality granular book across different real estate/corporate segments, establishing, and strengthening key client relationships and using data analytics/AI to enable superior underwriting.
Before joining Piramal, Yesh was the Managing Director & CEO of the India Real Estate lending business atglobal investment firm KKR, where he built a leading India real estate credit franchise.
Prior to KKR, he has held senior leadership roles at J.P. Morgan where he led Asia-ex China franchise of the balance sheet investing group, and ICICI Prudential, where he set up and led real estate / corporate investing business.
Yesh has a Masters in Finance from the London Business School and is a Bachelor in Engineering, from University of Pune, India.
