Chairman, North India, Ambit Private Limited

Ashish Guha is Chairman,  North India and has been with Ambit Private Ltd. since 2016.

Prior to Ambit, he was Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at HeidelbergCement India where he played a critical role in its massive turnaround in record time. Before joining HeidelbergCement India, Ashish earlier worked with Ambit Corporate Finance as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Senior Partner.

Ashish  also worked at Lazard India as Chief Executive Officer where he assisted leading corporations both global and domestic in developing and implementing their M&A strategies. At Lazard, he headed telecom and building materials sector, marquee transactions include, Bharti's acquisition of several telecom companies, Govt. of India’s divestiture of ITDC hotel properties, Italcementi’s JV with Zuari Cement, India Cements’ acquisition of Shri Vishnu Cement and Raasi Cements, Zuari's acquisition of Shri Vishnu Cement from India Cements, the first Management Buy Out transaction in India, Baxter's acquisition of Wockhardt’s IV Fluid business and HeidelbergCement Group’s acquisition of Mysore Cement Limited and Avantha Group’s acquisition of significant minority stake in Crompton Greaves Ltd.

He has been an advisor to one of the largest PE Funds in a particular sector.

Whie at Lazard Ashish   also advised several large multinationals and Indian companies such as British American Tobacco (BAT), Danone, Lafarge, France Telecom, Maxis Group, General Motors, Aditya Birla Group, Jaypee Group, Ballarpur Industries, JK Group, India Today Group and has been instrumental in garnering both Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Institutional Investment to India.

At the beginning of Ashish’s career,  he served as Chief Executive Officer of Merwanjee Securities, an arm of the Lazard Group, where he initiated one of the first Equity Research houses in the country in early 1990s. The firm was selected as No. 1 in forex and top 5 firms in Equity and Equity research within two years of his initiation.

Ashish is an Independent Director of Ballarpur Paper B.V., Cosmo Films Ltd. ,Lemon Tree Hotels Ltd. , Fleur Hotels Ltd. and CG Power & Industrial Solutions, and was on the Board of BSNL as an Independent Director.

Ashish is an industry stalwart in Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Securities & Equity Research and Treasury. He has been a Member of Indian business delegation to the United States and many other nations. Ashish has also been a part of the World Economic Forum Annual meets held at Davos in the late 90s.

QUALIFICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

He is an Honours Graduate in Economics and has done a Leadership programme (Management Development Programme) at London Business School.