Avinash Gupta

Avinash is a highly experienced, execution-focused senior leader with a strong global background and brings more than three decades of experience and a vast network of business relationships. Avinash has worked extensively in financial services including M&A, equity and debt financing, private equity placement and advisory across the EMENA and Asia.

Prior to joining Dun & Bradstreet in 2020, Avinash worked with Rabo Equity Advisors where he was the Managing Director. Over the years, he has held various leadership positions including Head of Deloitte India's Financial Advisory Services business. He has worked in senior positions across geographies and products in institutions such as HSBC, UBS, Barings, Citibank, Falcon Capital, and Alpen Capital. In his initial years in the USA, he worked as an equity analyst covering the Oil Services sector at Wedbush Morgan Securities (Los Angeles) and Howard Weil (New Orleans).

Avinash has an MBA from the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University (Deans List with full fellowship) and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU Varanasi.

Avinash is a member of the National Executive Board of American Chamber of Commerce in India (AMCHAM), the Executive Committee of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) - Maharashtra State Council, and the Advisory Board of Bennett University (Greater Noida, India). He has been active with industry bodies like Association of Chambers of Commerce (ASSOCHAM) where he co-chaired the MSME Committee for a number of years, and with FICCI where he was a member of the National Executive Council.

He is an independent board member on the boards of Jupiter Wagons Ltd., Keventer Agro Ltd., Stovekraft Ltd. and Transport Corporation of India Ltd.