“Monu Jain is currently a Partner at Aavishkaar Capital and manages the ESF First credit Fund and India Credit Strategy.

Monu possesses extensive domain expertise in the credit market space, spanning diverse corporates and SMEs, with a rich experience of over 25 years. She has been in leadership roles encompassing a broad spectrum of responsibilities – including Strategy, Revenue management, Client and Risk management, Team leadership, and various Organisational and Cross-functional responsibilities. Having built credit lending businesses through her career, she has significant experience in origination, structuring and unit management.

Prior to Aavishkaar, she has been a senior Banker working with Indusind Bank and Bank of America. Monu is an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM Bangalore) with an under-graduation in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.

Monu has diverse interests –she has undertaken a residential Sustainability Programme from Cambridge University, UK. She volunteers for an Angel Network as part of their selection committee. She is also an (Erickson) certified Executive Coach. She is a dedicated practitioner of Yoga and Vipassana meditation. She also pursues Birding as a hobby and is a certified Birder from WWF.”