Mr. Rajesh Agarwal established the Shapoorji Pallonji Investment Advisors franchise as its founding Chief Executive Officer in April 2010. His responsibilities include providing overall strategic direction to the platform in addition to investor liaison, overseeing investment strategy and managing investor and developer relationships. SP Investment Advisors has established its credentials successfully in commercial real estate and is now expanding its footprint across data centres, student housing and other sub-verticals which represent long term value creating opportunities in India and across the region.

Rajesh has over 26 years of varied experience in the Indian financial services sector with an in-depth understanding of real estate, infrastructure, and private equity businesses. He has executed real estate private equity transactions aggregating to over US$ 2 billion of asset value. 

Rajesh has led the first few pioneering real estate development and rental yield transactions in India as a part of ICICI Venture and has held multiple India specific leadership roles across global institutions including AIG Global Real Estate, Deutsche Bank AG and GE Private Equity. 
 
Rajesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Bombay University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is a member of the FICCI Real Estate Committee that represents the industry on real estate policy matters.