Samir Pandey

Samir is a shareholder and Chief Strategy and Finance Officer at Munchbox Frozen Foods, which owns the market leader D2C brand, Frozen Bottle, in the deserts space with more than 180 outlets pan India.

He recently concluded a majority investment by Cure Foods (India’s second largest food tech company) into Frozen Bottle. This deal is the largest deal in the cold foods space during the COVID period in India.

Previously, he headed the Investment Banking operations of Protiviti in India. Protiviti is a USD 2 bn global financial consulting firm which is an offshoot of the erstwhile Arthur Anderson. Prior to working with Protiviti, Samir was leading the Investment Banking vertical across Consumers, Healthcare and IT at Centrum Capital.

Samir possesses more than 15 years of experience across Corporate Finance, M&A, Corporate Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He has executed corporate finance deals worth more than INR 10,000 Crs with successful closures across the entire gamut of products – PE Exit, PE Investment, M&As, Strategic Alliances, Debt funding etc.

He is an engineer and holds an MBA from from Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK.