Dhanpal Jhaveri is Vice Chairman-Everstone Group, a premier investment group focused on India and South East Asia, with assets in excess of US$6 billion across private equity, real estate, credit, climate change and green infrastructure, and venture capital. He is also the CEO for EverSource Capital, a joint venture between Everstone Capital and Lightsource BP that provides global investors with an opportunity to invest in the Indian green infrastructure alongside a global industrial leader and established regional fund manager.

Dhanpal is passionate about the environment and investing; hence he is associated with CII as a member of its Renewable Energy Council and its National Committee on Private Equity and Venture Capital. He is also on the Finance Advisory Panel of The India Sanitation Coalition (ISC). In addition, Dhanpal is involved with IMC as the Chairman of The Alternative funding (PE and Capital Markets) committee of IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a member of the Managing Committee of IMC.

He also mentors young business leaders and entrepreneurs ardently and is a member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), Mumbai Chapter. EO is a community of business owners across industries with a global footprint in more than 61 countries. Dhanpal is also a board member and an Ex-President of TiE, Mumbai and the Board Member of Avasara Leadership Institute; an educational institution focused on accelerating academic and leadership outcomes for India’s brightest girls.

Dhanpal’s previous experience includes Director (Corporate Strategy) with Vedanta Resources Plc, Head of Investment Banking at ICICI Securities, and Partner for Corporate Finance at KPMG.

He has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai and a Master of Business Administration from Babson College, USA.