Yesh Nadkarni

Yesh Nadkarni is the CEO of Wholesale Lending at Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited (PCHFL). He has over 22 years of real estate investing experience across debt, equity and special situations spanning India, Australia, and Southeast Asia.

As CEO of Wholesale Lending, Yesh is responsible for further expanding PCHFL’s wholesale lending business, building a high-quality granular book across different real estate segments, establishing, and strengthening key client relationships and using data analytics/AI to enable superior underwriting.

Before joining Piramal, Yesh was the Managing Director & CEO of the India Real Estate lending business at global investment firm KKR, where he built a leading India real estate credit franchise.

Prior to KKR, he has held senior leadership roles at J.P. Morgan where he led Asia-ex China franchise of the balance sheet investing group, and ICICI Prudential, where he set up and led real estate investing business.

Yesh has a Masters in Finance from the London Business School and is a Bachelor in Engineering, from University of Pune, India.