Ashish Khandelia

Founder

Ashish has over 20 years of experience with expertise in Real Estate Investing and Lending. In his earlier roles, he led RE businesses at KKR and Morgan Stanley Real Estate (MSRE) in India. He has ~US$1.9Bn of transaction experience and has been instrumental in building three businesses around real estate banking, equity investing and lending.

Ashish founded Certus Capital in July 2018, with a vision to build an integrated real estate investment management platform. He is a management graduate from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and a Chartered Accountant.

CAREER FLASHBACK

2013-2018

KKR India Co-Head, Real Estate

2006-2013

Morgan Stanley Real Estate, India- Head of Acquisitions

Amongst the first two Indian employees to join MSRE and instrumental in building the business
Was part of US$700MM+ primarily equity investments in various companies, including Oberoi Realty Ltd. and Panchshil Group, Pune

2004-2006

Kotak Investment Bank- Associate

Was instrumental in establishing Kotak’s real estate investment banking practice and executing one of the first entity-level PE investment in the Indian RE