Kailash Vaswani

Kailash Vaswani is the Group Chief Financial Officer at ReNew. He has led Renew in its clean energy transition projects while building portfolio of renewable energy assets and providing decarbonization solutions to corporates. He has been actively involved in creating Net Zero solution for corporates, involving innovative PPA, energy management solutions, green hydrogen solutions among others as well as addressing RE supply chain challenges through solar PV module (PERC and TopCon) manufacturing.
 
In 2011, Kailash joined ReNew as a founding team member to help put the business plan in place and enable ReNew with the first round of raising capital from Goldman Sachs. Over the last 10 years he has successfully led all capital raise for ReNew on the debt and equity side and has raised cumulative capital of more than $10 Bn for the company. As part of the senior management, he has significantly contributed to the growth of the company by being involved in strategic decisions, and organization building and growth of the portfolio of assets through organic and inorganic additions.
 
Prior to Renew, he has worked in financial markets since 2001 and started his career as a Research Analyst at CRISIL (owned by S&P and India’s leading ratings provider) before moving to Morgan Stanley into a fixed income research role, covering the US and European bond markets. He worked in Aditya Birla Group and Saffron Asset Advisors in various corporate finance and investment roles and helped them with investment decisions more than $6.5 Bn. in India and US.
 
Kailash attained Chartered Accountant (CA) membership in 2001 and has also attended Harvard Business School in 2010, specializing in Real Estate Strategy.