Sanjaya Kulkarni

Bio

Sanjaya graduated with an Engineering Degree from IIT Bombay and a Master's in Business from IIM Ahmedabad. He then embarked upon a career in finance as a member of Citibank N.A.'s Merchant Banking department in 1973. After working in the Merchant Banking and Corporate Banking divisions of Citibank for 7 years, Sanjaya founded 20th Century Leasing Corporation along with a number of his colleagues. 20th Century grew to be one of India's largest finance companies and had interests in Car Finance, Retail Finance, Mutual Funds and Commercial Banking. 20th Century had tie-ups with large Multinationals like Zurich Insurance, GMAC, IFC Washington and Asian Development Bank. 20th Century set up 20th Century Venture Capital Limited in the early90's, one of the first Venture Capital companies in India. Sanjaya was heading this company and was also responsible for Private Equity Investments made by 20th Century from their propritory funds. Sanjaya has hence been associated with the Venture Capital/Private Equity industry since the outset. Sanjaya represents IDEA as Chairman of the IDF Investment Committee since inception. He is also the Chairman of the eTEC investment committee. Sanjaya has been appointed to various committees of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, the Bombay Management Association and the Reserve Bank of India. Sanjaya has been Co-Chairman from 1989 to 1993 and then Chairman of the Equipment Leasing Association of India from 1993 to 1995.