Team

Nilesh Lele
Partner

Nilesh Lele
Partner
Nilesh Lele is a young dynamic serial entrepreneur having almost 20 years of experience in varied fields in India and in USA
Nilesh holds a Chemical Engineering Degree from ICT (formerly called UDCT, Mumbai) and an MBA (Finance) from USA. He is also a CFA and FRM charter holder
Nilesh has served as Vice President for MNC Banks such as Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank in USA and India.
Professional activities:
Nilesh is very active member professionally and committed for contributing to alma mater and society in various ways:
· Secretary, Board of Governor of UDCT Alumni Association (2019-present)
· President of Association of Food Scientists & Technologists India (AFSTI) – Mumbai Chapter (2018 – 2020)
· Mentor for Food & Beverages and Agriculture – StartUp India, DIPP Govt. of India
· Secretary, Food Technology Industry, Hardware Edition, Smart India Hackathon 2019 & 2020 MHRD Initiative, Govt. of India
· Mentorship Board of AIC-ADT Agri Incubator at Baramati, Maharashtra

Prashant Naigaonkar
Partner

Prashant Naigaonkar
Partner
Prashant S. Naigaonkar is a commerce graduate and done post graduation in Law and pursued Master of Financial Management (MFM) at NMIMS having corporate experience of 30 plus years working with blue chip corporate and mid-corporate companies in their finance department where main task was to raise funding as well manage cash flows, forex treasury management, import export banking transactions.
He was involved in process of external credit ratings and was part of the team handling IPO and private placement of equities. Having worked with industry I understand their aspirations and since had a close liaison with funding community appreciate their expectations and able to bring both on same page to strike a mutually acceptable deal.
With this background he has founded an advisory company RampUp Advisory LLP helping SMEs to raise funding where we stress upon making companies fundable and funding ready so that they get funded, company’s USP is holistic approach for working out deal for the client as well as investors.