Mr. Akash Kedia is a Senior Vice President in GIC's Private Equity department, where he leads the Financial Services, Technology Services, and Business Services sectors in Asia Pacific. Akash has been with GIC for over 10 years. He has worked with several portfolio companies, including Bandhan group and Kotak Mahindra Bank in Financial Services, and Perficient, Virtusa, Mphasis, Genpact and Quest Global in Technology Services. Before joining GIC, he spent two years as an investment banker at Macquarie and Deutsche Bank, and three years in Deloitte's audit practice. Akash is a Chartered Accountant and an all-India rank holder, placing among the top 50 candidates at each stage of the CA programme. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calcutta, where he ranked first in his college.