Harjeet Kohli

Starting as a corporate & investment banker & finance professional leading into business roles, Harjeet has 22 years of work experience. As the Director Finance for Bharti Enterprises, he sponsors the business value proposition & growth for all of group's emerging businesses, across Life & General Insurance, Real Estate, FMCG, Tech & Distribution & others; leads the group's and Airtel's corporate finance, funding and risk & markets verticals.

Harjeet also serves as a Director on the boards of Bharti Enterprises Limited, Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company Limited, Bharti AXA General Insurance Company Limited, Bharti Realty Limited, Comviva Technologies Limited, Brightstar India, Centum Learning Limited, Centum Workskills India Limited, amongst others.

Harjeet has also been a specialist across equity, financing and markets space, both as a banker to large corporates as also as a large cap multinational issuer / corporate & leads the corporate finance function for Airtel & Bharti Enterprises, for capital structure, equity, currency & rate risk, investments management, and stakeholders' management. Harjeet has worked on several strategic projects for Bharti Enterprises, across expansion, acquisitions, divestitures, IPO, QIP, Secondary sales, capital markets debt, equity market - across listed companies (Airtel/ Infratel) & including business/franchise deals in Insurance, foods, real estate et al.

Prior to joining Bharti Enterprises 10 years ago, he had 12 + years of corporate & investment banking experience at Citibank, across business build-outs, product lead, structuring, sales, relationship management, capital markets & market management. Having played the role of a Trusted Advisor to clients across all their senior needs, organic as well as strategic; complimented well by corporate / buy side roles across capital management and business - provides him the ability to look at diverse businesses, across industries and varied evolution and situations, for strategic interventions so as to create and enhance value.