Manas Tandon

Mr. Tandon is a Promoter Nominee Director appointed on the Board of Aavas by ESCL and Master Fund. He is the Head of Private Equity in Asia for Partners Group and is a member of its Private Equity Directs Investment Committee. Prior to joining Partners Group, Mr. Tandon co-led TPG Growth's investments in India, having started his investing career with Matrix Partners, where he was responsible for investments in mobility and financial services. Before that, Manas was engaged in designing and selling cutting-edge telecom solutions for start-ups such as MaxComm Technologies (acquired by Cisco Systems) and Camiant Inc. (now part of Oracle). Mr. Tandon holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar, and a Bachelor's Degree in Technology (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he was awarded the General Proficiency Medal for outstanding academic performance. Mr. Tandon holds eight US patents and is a member of the Mumbai chapters of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO).