Chaitanya Suvanam
National Head - Financial Sponsors @ IDFC FIRST Bank |PE, VC, Private Credit | Indian Private Markets | AIF, GP, LP Banking | Capital & Structured Credit Solutions
- Role
- National Head - Financial Sponsors at IDFC FIRST Bank
- Location
- Mumbai, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chaitanya Suvanam
I work with, to help them build, scale, and operate in India’s rapidly deepening private markets.Currently, I lead the, where we are building the franchise from the ground up—covering PE, VC, and Credit AIFs—across India’s key financial hubs.Over the last two decades, I’ve built and scaled multiple banking franchises at inflection moments: • Part of ’ founding team, scaling the platform from zero to startup clients in three years (2022–2025) • Built ’ franchise in North India, navigating the post-moratorium trust deficit in 2020 and repositioning the bank as a go-to partner for startups by 2022 • Scaled for in Tamil Nadu (2011–2019), working across core sectors (Infra, Hospitality, Healthcare, Realty etc) and structured creditIndia’s private markets are entering their second act. They are where Indian public markets were in late 90s. The opportunity ahead lies in building, —not just funding more deals.
Experience
National Head - Financial Sponsors
Aug 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Chemical engineer
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
B.Tech, Chemical Engg.
2002 — 2006
XLRI Jamshedpur
PGDBM, Financi, Marketing
2007 — 2009
XLRI Jamshedpur
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Finance
Advanced Financial Modeling Workshop by Geral Stever
Certificate of merit in Advanced Financial Modeling
2010 — 2010
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