Amit Jain

Amit Jain is a Managing Director, Partner and Head of Carlyle India Advisors. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Jain served for ten years at Blackstone in India, most recently as Senior Managing Director in its Private Equity Group where he focused on investments in the consumer, healthcare, auto, telecom and packaging sectors as well as parts of financial services. He held board positions in numerous companies including EPL, Aakash Educational Services, Aakash Edutech, Comstar Automotive Technologies, SONA BLW Precision Forgings, FINO Payments Bank, FINO Finance, FINO Paytech and CMS Infosystems. Currently he is on the Board of Varmora Granito, VLCC & Viyash Lifesciences. Prior to Blackstone, Amit was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and started his career with Unilever in operating roles.

He holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, where he was conferred ‘ISB Scholar of Excellence’ and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, where he was awarded the ‘Institute Silver Medal’ for his academic performance.

Amit was recognized by The Economic Times as one of India’s ‘40 Under Forty’ young business leaders in 2019. He was also awarded the Young Alumni Achieve Award (YAAA) by his alma mater, IIT Kharagpur.