Team

Team

Salil Musale

Mr. Salil Musale

Executive Director
Mr. SalilMusale is the Executive Director of Astarc Group and Astarc Ventures. As a director, Mr. Musale currently works with multiple group companies for improving business performance through financ…

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Salil Musale

Mr. Salil Musale

Executive Director
Mr. SalilMusale is the Executive Director of Astarc Group and Astarc Ventures. As a director, Mr. Musale currently works with multiple group companies for improving business performance through financial and operational analysis. He leads the group’s diversification into new areas of growth both in India and abroad. Prior to joining Astarc Group, Mr. Musale worked with A.T. Kearney where he was involved in project management and business analysis for various clients.

Mr. Kishore Musale

Chairman of Astarc Group
Mr. Kishore Musale is the Founder and Chairman of Astarc Group, founded in 1987, a diversified group with interests in multiple industries. As Chairman of the Group, he oversees the group companies in…

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Mr. Kishore Musale

Chairman of Astarc Group
Mr. Kishore Musale is the Founder and Chairman of Astarc Group, founded in 1987, a diversified group with interests in multiple industries. As Chairman of the Group, he oversees the group companies in Automotive graphics, Retail display and imaging solutions, Mining, Real estate, Power, Ports, IT enabled services in India, East Africa, USA, and Indonesia. He leverages his close relationships with professors from universities like Harvard, Wharton, and Kellogg to advice the group companies.

Mr. Anand Barge

General Manager – Finance
Anand leads Finance Function at Astarc Group. At Astarc Ventures, Anand oversees Finance, Legal, Tax, and Fund reporting. Anand has over 18 years’ of Finance Treasury & transaction advisory experien…

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Mr. Anand Barge

General Manager – Finance
Anand leads Finance Function at Astarc Group. At Astarc Ventures, Anand oversees Finance, Legal, Tax, and Fund reporting. Anand has over 18 years’ of Finance Treasury & transaction advisory experience. He has successfully executed several complex assignments, including negotiation, vetting legal documents, coordinating due diligence, tax and regulatory structuring and transaction closing. He also has vast fundraising experience from leading Banks & NBFCs like KKR, Avendus, and Tata Capital. He has helped Startups Cos to set up their finance function & raise Growth capital for their expansion. He has been involved in devising & executing M&A & Cross-border Business restructuring strategies for Group.

He has previously worked in various industries, including Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Capital goods & FMEG etc.

Anand is a Chartered Accountant & based out of Mumbai.

Mr. Gaurang Dhoot

M&A and Corporate Strategy
Gaurang is responsible for investments, portfolio and exit management at Astarc Ventures. With over nine years of experience spanning across profiles such as mergers & acquisitions and corporate s…

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Mr. Gaurang Dhoot

M&A and Corporate Strategy
Gaurang is responsible for investments, portfolio and exit management at Astarc Ventures. With over nine years of experience spanning across profiles such as mergers & acquisitions and corporate strategy, Gaurang has worked extensively on both domestic and international deals.

Prior to Astarc Group, Gaurang was associated with the TATA Group and PwC. He was chosen for Blue Mint, a TATA group young leadership program conducted in association with the London School of Business.

Mr. Venugopal Sathyanarayana

Mr. Venugopal Sathyanarayana is a Fund Manager with Astarc Ventures.
Venu is responsible for the Investments, Portfolio Management & the Exit Management.
Venu has been actively engaged with assistin…

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Mr. Venugopal Sathyanarayana

Mr. Venugopal Sathyanarayana is a Fund Manager with Astarc Ventures.
Venu is responsible for the Investments, Portfolio Management & the Exit Management.
Venu has been actively engaged with assisting the startups in India for more than a
decade.
Venu’s stints with Qualcomm Ventures & Orios Venture Partners has given him a breadth
of experience in investing across various sectors/ industries.
He has been an Entrepreneur himself. He is currently based in Bangalore.

Advisory Team

Jagmohan Raju

Dr. Jagmohan Singh Raju

Advisory Board
Dr. Jagmohan S. Raju is currently Joseph J. Aresty Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a former Chairperson of the Marketing Department and currently coo…

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Jagmohan Raju

Dr. Jagmohan Singh Raju

Advisory Board
Dr. Jagmohan S. Raju is currently Joseph J. Aresty Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a former Chairperson of the Marketing Department and currently coordinates Wharton’s relationship with the Indian School of Business. He previously taught at The Anderson School at UCLA. He holds a Ph.D. in Business, an M.S. in Operations Research, and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. He also has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

His research interests include pricing, new product introduction strategies, retailing, private labels, and corporate advertising. Currently he teaches the required core Marketing Management course and the Pricing Strategy course. Prior to joining academics, Professor Raju was with Tata Administrative Service for about two years where he worked with a number of companies in the Tata group in India. He also worked as a Design Engineer with Philips (India) Ltd. Professor Raju has consulted extensively with companies around the world including Wyeth/Pfizer,Teva, Johnson and Johnson, Convatec, Medtronic, Warner Home Video and several start-ups on designing and improving pricing strategies and developing launch plans for new products.

He has received numerous teaching awards at Wharton and UCLA: Wharton MBA Core and Elective Teaching Awards, Wharton Executive MBA Teaching Awards, George Robbins Award, and the Marketing Teacher of the Year Award. He received the Frank Bass Award in 1992 and 2000 given by the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science and the John D.C. Little Best Paper Award in 1996 and 2000. He was also recognized at IIM Ahmedabad for the best academic performance in each of the two years he attended.

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