Personal Biography
Rahul is the Head of Energy business for Southeast Asia and is based in the Singapore office.
He joined Actis in 2012 and has been involved in several of Actis’ energy infra investments in Asia and across the entire lifecycle of deal origination to portfolio management to exits.
In India, he was involved in the two renewable energy platform investments of Actis namely Ostro Energy and Sprng Energy, the two Indian renewable businesses set up and exited by Energy Fund 3 and Energy Fund 4 respectively wherein Actis invested more than US$750mn across these two platforms to establish more than 3GW+ of operating wind and solar capacity.
He has been leading the origination and execution activities for Southeast Asia energy sector for Actis since 2016, consummating in formation of two power platforms in the region namely Levanta Renewables (Actis Energy 5’s Southeast Asia focussed renewable power platform with a commitment of US$500m) and Bridgin Power (Actis Energy Fund 5’s Asia gas power platform with a commitment of US$400m).
Rahul has a total of 18 years of experience spanning across infrastructure and energy private equity, project finance, investment banking and advisory.
Prior to joining Actis, Rahul worked with ICICI Venture as an Associate Vice President in their infrastructure private equity team and previously with a mezzanine fund of IL&FS
Rahul holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering, post graduate degree in management and operations from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an MBA from INSEAD in France and Singapore.