India

Anand Saklecha, Chief Executive Officer Asco Capital, India

anand@ascocapital.com
He is founder partner of M/s Anand Saklecha & Co. (Chartered Accountancy Firm) & founder director of ASCO Capital Pvt. Ltd. He started his career in the field of financial consultancy way back in the year 2000. His ideas, efforts, strong determination and commitments led to the growth and recognition of the firm & company. He has been guiding entrepreneurs of varied industries in setting up green field and brown field projects. He has also been a part of campaigning programme's of Banks and FIs for conceptualizing and canvassing their financial products to Corporate and other Business Houses. He has vast experience in the field of Project Financing which includes Debt Counseling, Project Appraisal and Techno Economic Viability (TEV) study, Business plan writing, negotiating terms, documentation, post sanction compliances etc. Apart from vanilla products he has handled Private Equity, IPO Management, Company Law matters, Statutory Audits, Taxation, Bank Branch Audits and Stock Audits for Nationalized Banks. He has been speaker on various forums for mentoring and guiding Start- up ventures, SME & MSME ventures.He is appointed as member of committees on rehabilitation and restructuring of Banks and financial institutions for preparing sustainable business package. He is an active participant member in the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).He has taken up and successfully concluded various domestic & cross borders transaction of mergers and acquisitions in the industry of healthcare , food processing, education and hospitality etc. In a span of 16 years he has served across 300+ clients from various industries.
Besides above he is a member of IAN ( Indian Angel Network) which is a network of Angel investors keen to invest in early stage businesses. Was part of delegations of IAN visiting Israel, CII delegation to Japan and WBAF delegation to Istanbul in 2020.