Chennakeshav Adya

About Chennakeshav Adya

24x Founder, 3x Success, 2x VCExit, 19x Failure, 100x Resilient, 14x Sectors, 6x Continents. Keshav is a versatile and resourceful entrepreneur with 20+ years of global experience in building businesses from a concept and leading global teams of 200+ spanning corporate finance advisory, fund-raising, M&A, growth; and technology delivery for top-flight firms such as Morgan Stanley, Lloyds, HSBC, IMS Health, Hitachi, TCS in 25+ countries. Currently, Keshav is the founding Managing Partner of Adan Corporate, a global corporate advisory firm with a team of 45+ senior corporate professionals in 20 countries, focusing on mid-market firms(SMEs) and Private Equity(PE) funds and their continuous needs of cross-border fund-raising, M&A, corporate strategy, IPO etc. A deca-lingual, multi-talented zymurgist, Keshav formulates the vision and converts it into strategy and reality through disciplined execution. He is resourceful with a wide variety of personal and professional skills; has a strong and vast industry network at all levels globally; a penchant and reputation for getting things done with empathy, creativity, discipline and humour. Keshav began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 9 at school, where he formed a library and by lending out books and reinvesting the returns, managed to put together about 8,000 books in 7 years. Subsequently, over the next 20 years, he gained experience across a wide range of sectors, geographies, business functions, transactions, deal-types, deal-sizes and in the process, has developed a leadership style of an agile-athlete to handle ambiguity by constantly learning from successes and failures; setting up processes and systems to scale; building multi-tiered leadership teams; revising risk appetite; resolving multiple constraints and dependencies creatively and frugally; and using effective planning, organizing, prioritising and communication skills. As a leader, he has grown teams from 2 to 200+ and is skilled in directing teams through the "Unknown"; by instilling a common vision in complex multi-disciplinary matrix structures, uniting diverse agendas to achieve common goals, defusing difficult interpersonal situations and creating a trust-based relationship. He has scouted, built and trained global high-performing teams and introduced sustainable governance structures to ensure transparency, accountability and growth. Keshav holds an MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor's degree in engineering from Visveswaraya Technological University, India.