Managing Director and Head, Carlyle India Advisors
Amit Jain is the Managing Director and India Head of Private Equity at Carlyle, one of the world’s leading alternative investment firms.
Before Carlyle, Amit spent a decade at Blackstone India as Senior Managing Director, where he led private equity investments and served on the boards of EPL, FINO Payments Bank, Aakash Educational Services, and Sona Comstar. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company in India and was Manufacturing Head at Unilever.
Amit holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, where he was a Gold Medalist and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, where he graduated with a Silver Medal.
He currently serves on the boards of several Carlyle portfolio companies including Quest Global, Piramal Healthcare, VLCC, Viyash Life Sciences, Highway Roop, and Strata Geosystems. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (IVCA).