Archana, the Executive Director, IL&FS Investment Managers Limited (IIML), has over 21 years experience in the financial services business, teaching and research. Her focus has been on private equity, project finance and financial structuring.

She has been with the IL&FS Group for 13 years, and has performed a multitude of roles – starting off as an economist and moving on to project finance, and asset management.  Archana’s focus over the last 11 years has been on private equity fund management.  She is one of the founding members of the IL&FS private equity business and has overseen investments with an aggregate capitalization value in excess of US$ 4.5 BN. She has overseen strategic management of a number of investee companies, with a successful track record for achieving exits from the same.
 
In 2003, Archana moved from IL&FS to its affiliate IL&FS Investment Managers Limited, India’s second largest domestic private equity firm, with over US$ 900 MM under management.