Bettany Centre Speaker Series - Introducing Nishant Hada and Simon Rowlands
Nishant is an alumnus of Cranfield MBA 21/22. He works as a Principal at Africa Platform Capital, where he is responsible for evaluating technology startups and investment decisions. Before coming to the UK, he was head of Marketing at uFaber Edutech, an Ed-Tech startup in Mumbai, building the marketing department from scratch. He has 15 years of experience in diverse industries, which span startups, digital marketing, tech companies and as a writer in Bollywood- the Indian film industry.
Simon was a Co-Founding Partner of Cinven for 26yrs, the global private equity firm. This entailed acquiring and growing companies across Europe and the US, whilst establishing and running the Healthcare team.
His family office, Africa Platform Capital was formed in 2016, focussed on investing in Disruptive Technology and Healthcare.