Commisioner
Mr. Pande has over 25 years’ experience in mergers & acquisitions, investment banking, and private equity and debt investing. Apart from on the Board of Commissioners of PT Arkora Hydro, He is also presently a partner and investment officer at Linnean Capital Management, a quantitative investment firm based in Summit, NJ, where he sits on the investment committee. He is also a director and member of the investment committee at Ironmont Partners Ltd., a Singapore-based investment firm focused on renewable energy investments in Southeast Asia. Mr. Pande is Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group, the leading global commercial diplomacy firm, where he focuses on some investment related and international transactional advisory work. Prior to Linnean and Ironmont, he was Managing Director at American Capital Energy & Infrastructure (ACEI), a private equity group within American Capital Ltd. While there, he established the firm’s activities in Asia, and was a member of the Energy and Infrastructure investment committee. Prior to joining American Capital, he spent 15+ years at Citigroup’s investment banking department (formerly Salomon Smith Barney) where he was a Managing Director. While there, he held numerous positions, including Managing Director in the North America Energy Group, co-head of Asian Energy, Power and Chemicals Banking, and Head of Southeast Asia Industrials. During this time at Salomon Smith Barney and Citigroup, he oversaw, originated, led or executed several hundred transactions, including over $35 billion of senior loans, bond and equity transactions and over $30 billion in mergers & acquisition transactions. In 1998, Mr. Pande was a Principal at A.T. Kearney Inc. where he worked on corporate strategy and mergers & acquisition engagements in the transportation, health care, infrastructure and automotive industries. He is on the National Board of the I Have A Dream Foundation, a national nonprofit providing educational support to disadvantaged children at the primary and secondary school level. Mr. Pande has an AB in quantitative economics from Dartmouth College, and an MBA with high honors in finance and strategy from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he was a Wallman Scholar.