Sreenath Vakkaleri

Role:

• Regional Head, Heading a team of 5, covering risks across the TF&L APAC book; FI flow, corporates flow, lending & structured lending, established new relationships – insurers, sureties, trade credit insurers, new banks; refreshed older relationships across the product suite

Achievements:

• Top 1-2 in placing risk in the market with insurers / sureties – deepened the liquidity, depth and sharpened pricing and responsiveness to inquiries across the product suite; widening bank relationships on doc trade, FI risk, increasing secondary sourcing of assets
• 1st guarantees de-risked in APAC (Feb 2024), run rate of de-risking trending to $0.5 bn;1st MLAB in TF&L APAC (Nov 2024), large secondary loan sell-down (Jun 2025); coordinator role in lending (Sep 2025);
• Size: Delivered on large capacities on single names (~$300 - $500 m) at sharp pricing for limits and improving KPIs insurance across
• Team: re-built the entire team to distribute risk (both insurance and cash sales, including for syndicated facilities) across the wide suite of products - FIs, corporates (trade, term loans and guarantees), working capital (trade credit insurance), project finance, STEF-ECA, RBL

• Structuring Head, TF&L India and additional charge of the S. Indian region; tilted the book to LT trades, away from shorter term trade loans; managed flow trades (receivables, guarantees, etc., set up securitisation trades within TF&L in JV with Markets for NBFIs, pioneered long-term lending with TF&L – “ECBs” in GIFT City and outbound India, ECA-backed loans Team of 4 across flow and lending; role through covid period; helped establish

• Partner & Head, Investment Research, co-founder of a new investment manager – started up operations, secured SEBI license, formed a team of 3 analysts; overseeing a number of equity and credit securities / positions, deployed investments of over Rs 1,300 m in this period; debt advisory; since closed

• Vice President Credit Risk, APAC (Sep ’11 to Mar’18), CRM Principal Investments (Oct 09 – 11); and Global Markets (Sep’ 07 to Sep’ 09)
• Senior credit officer for structured credit transactions handling transactions in APAC; Prior to current role (2007-11), key analyst within CRM-Principal Investments assisting the Investment Committee / CRM reach investment decisions on proposals and responsible for portfolio monitoring. Role covered various sectors – renewables, infrastructure, natural resources, power, gas storage, industrials, etc across geographies - Asia, N America & Europe. Principal Investments Portfolio at peak historic cost > €2.5 bn

• Team Lead on various assignments: a) O&G Major planning upstream India market entry, b) City Gas opportunities and market assessment; c) helping a global LNG player in market assessment for its expansion plans; d) American petroleum major for their India entry strategy and an associated acquisition; e) Comparative cost study for a European client which markets an alternate technology for gas imports; f) project to assess a large multi-product petrochemicals complex; g) financial feasibility of a refinery being planned in north India; h) led a consortium team (tax, legal, geo-sciences) assisting a large PSU in evaluating an overseas upstream transaction; assisted a large PSU in evaluating an upstream gas investment opportunity & in negotiations with JV partners; etc.

• Corporate - Advisory, valuation, pre-feasibility / feasibility studies, etc.

• Consultant with Government Reforms and Institutional Strengthening (GRID) under Assurance and Business Advisory Services (ABAS) - Electricity industry reform, restructuring projects across different states

• Polymer Business group (Sep 1999 – Aug 2000); Operations (Nov 1995 - Sep 1999) - Process plant operations; commissioned 3 large petrochemical plants – Aromatics (location: Hazira; Benzene, Toluene and Mixed Xylenes); Pure Terephthalic Acid (location: Hazira); Aromatics (location: Jamnagar; Paraxylene and others)

• Engineer – Wet processes, Electronics division manufacturing Printed Circuit Boards