Sh. Anup Vikal

Vice President

Anup is a global business leader and has over 30 years of working experience as a business leader in various sectors of Banking & Finance, Telecom & Technology, Travel, Hospitality & Aviation, Consumer technology like ecommerce, financial technology & SAS platforms, and Oil & gas. He is a Mechanical engineer and management graduate. He has also been conferred with an honorary
doctorate in Financial Turnaround for Business Potential by the French Sorbon University. He is also a certified executive coach and a keen mountaineer.

Anup has been responsible for many multibillion dollar turn-arounds of companies in very complex regulatory & statutory environments, fixing fractured balance sheet and restructuring many multi billion debt structures, building and executing strategy and automation and driving mergers and acquisitions. He is credited with fund raising of over USD 30 BN in his career, in all forms of
instruments, across all global geographies. Anup is an industry veteran respected for his extensive experience in investment community and proven track record of growth, operational excellence and turnaround with both established companies and start-ups. He has been instrumental in transforming the investor relations, business planning, management reporting, monetizing, and
divesting of businesses. Anup’s thorough understanding of various industries and sectors have enabled him to perform leading role in over two dozen mergers & acquisitions, sell-offs, joint ventures, portfolio management and business restructuring. He has been a member of multiple Boards and Chairman of various Board Committees.

He has been credited with creating and implementing strong fiscal discipline and fiduciary governance structures across companies and industries. He has led various large litigation and arbitrations across India and global jurisdictions. He is credited with some very innovative first of its kinds legal-commercial contracts globally which made a high impact to the business and received various awards. He brings unique perspective to business performance review and helps set the performance benchmark to enable businesses achieve high growth. Anup has led the strategy function and can embed core strategic goals to achieve business and financial outcomes.

Anup has a keen interest in community and developmental work. He has led corporate social responsibility initiatives, which has been bestowed with CSR Campaign of the Year by S&P Global Platts at their 2021 Awards Summit in New York for initiatives towards social responsibility, customer commitment, environmental protection, and employee care. Anup is a jury member of the Indian Sanitation Council promoted by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
(FICCI) and sits on the jury of TIOL Tax awards in India.

Prior to joining Maple Highways, he has led top-performing organisations viz. Nayara energy Ltd, Bharti Airtel, Jasper Infotech (Snapdeal), InterGlobe Enterprises, and others.