Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Impetis seeks to progress its high value assets through collaborations and partnerships in order to transform lives of patients suffering from diseases which have no or limited therapeutic choices.
Our goal is to find global partners and work through a network of value-based relationships to progress our Best-in-Class candidate drugs in order to meet needs of global markets.
KRS Jamwal
Executive Director, Tata Industries Ltd. & Chairman, Board of Directors, Impetis Biosciences Ltd.
KRS Jamwal, as executive director of Tata Industries, is responsible for the incubation of new ventures as well as investments made by Tata Industries in new businesses and start-ups.
Mr Jamwal is also on the Board of Tata companies - Tata ClassEdge Ltd, which provides K-12 learning solutions and Inzpera Healthsciences, a health sciences company that markets palatable and efficacious therapeutic products, both of which companies he Chairs the Board. He is also a Director of Tata Medical & Diagnostics Ltd, a leading-edge healthcare solutions provider. He is a member on the Board of the overseas subsidiary of Tata Industries — Qubit Investments Pte (Singapore). He represents Qubit on the Board of i3 Equity Partners, a Tel Aviv based technology incubator in IoT (Internet of Things) and industrial IoT. From 2016 to 2022, he represented Qubit on the Funding Board of SDX Partners LLC, USA, which provides seed funding to student-initiated business ideas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.
Mr Jamwal has in the past served as Director and Chair of the Board of Tata SmartFoodz Ltd. (sold to Tata Consumer Products Ltd.), Tata Unistore Ltd. (sold to Tata Digital Pvt. Ltd.), Tata Advanced Materials Ltd. (sold to Tata Advanced Systems Ltd.), Advinus Therapeutics Ltd. (sold to Eurofins Group) and Drive India Enterprise Solutions Ltd. (sold to TVS Group).
Prior to joining Tata Industries, he served as Vice President, strategy, group corporate centre, Tata Sons, assisting the then Group Chairman, Ratan Tata, on strategy-related matters concerning Tata companies and supporting him on special assignments such as the Investment Commission (2005-2009) and the US-India and UK-India CEO Forums.
Mr Jamwal started his career with TAS (formerly known as Tata Administrative Services) in 1989. His initial assignments, such as with the Indian Hotels Company Ltd. (Taj Group of hotels), included project management for setting up new hotels and flight catering units, with subsequent responsibilities relating to strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, where he was awarded the scholastic gold medal and the KV Srinivas Award for the best all-rounder. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in technology in petroleum engineering from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, and was awarded the scholastic gold medal and the best student shield.
S Sriram
Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary, Tata Industries Ltd. & Director, Impetis Biosciences Ltd.
S Sriram is a Chartered Management Accountant (UK), Cost Accountant & Company Secretary with more than 36 years post qualification experience working in reputed Companies in India and abroad. He has led the Finance function covering Corporate Finance & Treasury, Consolidation of Accounts, MIS, Financial planning, Taxation etc., apart from Legal and Secretarial functions covering Share Purchase & Shareholder agreements, business transfers, demergers, funding arrangements etc.
He has played and continues to play a strategic role in Mergers & Acquisitions, Divestments/Stake sales, Private equity transactions, Strategic investments in startups/Funds, Structuring new investments/divestments with the legal documentation, Contracts & Commercial negotiations and Initial Public Offering (IPO). His experience also spans across functions setting up systems & processes together with ERP (SAP) implementation.
As the CFO, Company Secretary & Head of Legal functions at TIL, 2012 onwards, he has handled several transactions, including sale of Divisions, hive-off into subsidiaries, merger of a foreign subsidiary through NCLT as well as restructuring schemes through High Courts. He has worked with the reputed Legal Counsel in India and foreign jurisdictions on agreements related to acquisition/ disposal of stake, veto and affirmative rights across various transactions. He is also well versed with the regulations of RBI on Core Investment Company (CIC) and foreign subsidiaries as well as financial regulations of Mauritius, Singapore and US, having set up subsidiaries in these jurisdictions. He has raised funds/ debt across different instruments including Foreign Portfolio investment (FPI), term loans, ECBs and negotiated loan agreements for Indian and foreign jurisdictions. He has negotiated and led some of the investments in funds with lead investor and MFN rights along with marquee investors in Israel and US jurisdictions. He has also led the exercise for getting credit rating across 2 major credit rating agencies and continuing the surveillance over years, having structured the Rating Rationale to reflect the business in an objective manner.
Apart from heading the Finance, Secretarial and Legal functions, he also oversees the HR & Admin and related areas at TIL. Additionally, he is Designated as Chief Ethics Officer and leads the Ethics function with its attendant responsibilities.
Presently he is on the Boards of Tata Industries and 3 of its subsidiaries – Tata ClassEdge Ltd, Impetis Biosciences Ltd. and Qubit Investments Pte Ltd. (Singapore). He is also on the Board of a Section 8 Company in his private capacity.
Sriram has a keen interest in economics and corporate governance and gives occasional lectures in those areas and his other interests include social work, marathon running and reading.
Attreyi Mukherjee
General Counsel, Tata Industries Ltd. & Director, Impetis Biosciences Ltd.
Attreyi is a dual qualified lawyer (India and UK) with over 19 years of experience in corporate legal practice. She is the General Counsel of Tata Industries Ltd and advises TIL on its domestic and cross border corporate transactions and commercial contracts for its global portfolio of technology investments and operating businesses. Attreyi has advised businesses in diverse sectors including Aviation, Aerospace Manufacturing, E-commerce, EdTech, Digital Health, Fintech and Lifesciences.
Prior to joining Tata Industries, Attreyi was part of the Tata Group Legal Department since 2011, where she worked on several strategic projects including aviation joint ventures and divestments of assets by Tata group companies. She had earlier worked for one of the big 4 consultancies and some reputed Indian law firms.
Attreyi is Co-Chairperson of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She often speaks at seminars and panel discussions organised by the Chamber. She has co-authored successive editions of a book titled ‘Handbook on the Law of Sexual Harassment at Workplace’, published by Thomson Reuters. She is regularly invited by various Tata companies and other forums to speak on sexual harassment and gender issues at workplace.
Attreyi holds a Bachelor of Arts, Hons. (History) from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and LL.B. degree from Mumbai University. She is also admitted as Solicitor in England & Wales.
Abhishek Jain
Assistant Vice President at Tata Industries Ltd. & Director, Impetis Biosciences Ltd.
Abhishek is Assistant Vice President at Tata Industries. He heads Projects at Tata Industries which includes incubation of, and investments in, new businesses for Tata Group. He also leads efforts to identify and develop business hypotheses for new areas and emerging technologies for Tata Industries’ roadmap. He guides and enables the portfolio companies of Tata Industries to develop and leverage stronger IP positions during their growth journeys.
Before joining Tata Industries, he was Senior Vice President at Allied Inventors, a technology investment fund based out of Seattle. The fund invested in more than 1,000 early-stage technologies and had a presence across 13 countries. At the fund, he held various responsibilities during the fund’s life cycle, including heading the investment and monetization strategy of the fund’s investment portfolio which included more than 5,000 patents and patent applications.
Abhishek has a bachelor’s degree in Power engineering and a post graduate degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore where he specialized in technology and IP management.