Mr. Amit Kansal is the Chief Investment Officer of Aditya Birla Stressed Asset AMC Pvt. Ltd. which runs a Category II AIF focusing on high yield private credit. He is the Business Head for Stressed Asset Platform at Aditya Birla Capital which includes an Asset Reconstruction Company. At Aditya Birla, he has been involved in some of the most marquee transactions including the largest OTS of its kind for a 1350 MW Thermal Power plant, largest cash debt buyout, HOLDCO financings for some of the dominant infrastructure players in the country. With a total experience of more than 21 years, he has now been with the Aditya Birla Group for more than a decade and spearheaded the group’s entry into this business, from ideation to scaling up.

Prior to this role, he was one of the founding members of team, led the Project & Structured Finance vertical for North & East for Aditya Birla Finance and set up an immensely successful franchise in that business. His role spanned project linked lending, structured debt, and corporate finance solutions to large and mid-market corporate houses. He has covered infrastructure, core, hospitality, and real estate sectors extensively apart from manufacturing and select sunrise sectors. Previously, he has worked at SREI Infrastructure, ICICI Bank and Ernst & Young.

He is a commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce and a Rank Holder Chartered Account.