Ms. Shweta Jalan
Board of Director
Crompton
India
Biography
Ms. Shweta Jalan is the Managing Director of Advent India PE Advisors Private Limited. She joined Advent in 2009. Prior to this, she worked for almost a decade at ICICI Venture, which at the time was the largest private equity firm in India. She has experience in sourcing and negotiating transactions, and advising on the management and successful exiting of investments through both sale to strategic buyers and listing of companies. She has experience of working across a wide range of sectors including healthcare, FIG, consumer and IT/BPO. Before joining ICICI Venture, she was working for a year at Ernst & Young in their corporate finance division. Ms. Shweta Jalan has worked on a large number of investments during her career, four at Advent, including Care Hospitals, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited, Quest Technologies and the Element K acquisition by Skillsoft. Investments in ICICI Venture included companies like ACE Refractories, Updater Services, Rubamin, Tata Infomedia and VA Tech Wabag.
Research Interest
Business and management