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Kanishk Maheshwari
Co-Founder & Managing Director
India
EXPERTISE
  • Investment Promotion and Facilitation
  • Private Sector Development
  • Policy Advocacy
  • Regulatory Reforms and Simplification
  • Financial Modelling
EDUCATION
Institute of Management Technology
MBA (PGDM Full Time), Ghaziabad, India
B. Tech (Computer Science)
IEC College of Engineering & Technology, Greater Noida, India
ABOUT Kanishk Maheshwari

Kanishk Maheshwari is a co-founder and Board Member at Primus Partners. He leads the “Investment Realization” practice and heads the firm’s Chandigarh office. Kanishk has about 14 years of professional experience working with leading clients both in the public and private sector in areas like Investment Promotion, Regulatory Simplification, Industrial Infrastructure & Promotion, Public Policy, and Governance. He has been involved in several projects involving policy and capacity building of the public sector to make it more effective and efficient. His clients included DPIIT under the Central Government; State Governments of Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab; Donor Agencies such as UNDP, DFID, BMGF, etc; prominent Industry Players in sectors including automobile, defence, secondary steel and food processing. Before co-founding Primus Partners, Kanishk was a Director with KPMG and has earlier worked with organizations like IQVIA, E&Y, and Oracle Solution Services.

HONORS & CERTIFICATIONS
  • Project Management Professional Certification
  • Oracle Certification
PUBLISHED WORK
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30, June 2020
Plan for a marathon, but not a Sprint!
“While we formulate strategies to engage global companies looking for alternative markets, it is pertinent to remain focussed on the...
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25, May 2020
Why India has to plan a marathon and not a sprint in attracting global supply chains
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the global economy at an unprecedented scale and speed. Essential preventive measures led to the shutdown of offices,...
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17, January 2022
Making investment promotion agencies better at pulling in FDI
 “Though the State IPAs have existed for a long time, their true potential has been harnessed in the last five years with implementation of...
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30, January 2023
Accelerating TReDS adoption to reduce the cost of capital for MSMEs
Kanishk Maheshwari, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Primus Partners shares his views on boosting MSME contribution to the GDP, the role of the Trade...