Sandeep Aneja is the Founder and Managing Director of the Kaizen Private Equity, India's first education-focused private equity fund. He leads overall fund strategy, investment analysis, fund raising and relationship management with many of the Fund's clients and investors. He has 17 years of professional experience, which spans from consulting, operations leadership and investment management. Sandeep is regarded a thought leader in the private equity space and regularly contributes by speaking at conferences and private equity panels.

Subsequent to an engineering consultancy stint, Sandeep moved to California and acquired an MBA from the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University. Post graduation, he joined the venture capital industry where he was involved in a variety of successful transactions and start-ups including Bridgestream, Lassologic, Reconnex, GraniteEdge Network, Clairmail, Xactly Corporation and others. Sandeep currently represents Kaizen on the Board of a company in distance education services segment in India. His passion is to work with entrepreneurs in building market leading companies.