Everstone Group
Zhekai (Kai) Zhang is a private equity professional with extensive experience in the finance sector. Currently serving as a Private Equity Associate at Everstone Group since March 2021, Zhekai has previously held roles as a Private Equity Analyst within the same organization and as an Investor at Apeiro, a personal training gym in Singapore. Prior experience includes working as an M&A Junior Associate at Frontier Management Inc. from 2019 to 2021 and completing internships at Dymon Asia Capital and Shenzhen CDF Capital in 2018. Zhekai also served as a Platoon Commander in the Singapore Armed Forces between 2013 and 2015. Zhekai holds a degree from Nanyang Technological University, having participated in a semester exchange at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Everstone Group
The Everstone Group is one of Asia’s premier investment groups focused on cross border North America – Asia investments as well as domestic investments in India and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2006, the Singapore headquartered firm has assets in excess of US $5 billion across private equity, real estate, infrastructure and venture capital. Everstone has over 400 people working across seven offices—Singapore, India (Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru), Mauritius, London and New York. Our private equity investment philosophy focuses on combining classic approaches with proactive deal sourcing, as well as an active, collaborative, and hands-on partnering style, to deliver long-term returns for our investors. We partner businesses across different sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, food and beverages and wellness. Through our funds, we have invested in over 35 companies that employ more than 100,000 people. Everstone Group has a fully integrated real estate development platform called IndoSpace and is one of India’s leading developers in industrial and retail real estate. It has developed around 50 million square feet of real estate in 17 cities across India. EverSource Capital (EverSource), the green investing arm of the group was founded in 2018 as a 50:50 joint venture between Everstone and Lightsource BP, a global market leader in renewable energy development, to invest in India’s rapidly scaling green growth market through a unique partnership and differentiated investment approach. Everstone has been awarded ‘Mid-Market Firm of the Year in Asia’ thrice and eight times for ‘Private Equity Firm of the Year in India’ by Private Equity International. Everstone Capital has also won the ‘Indian Fund Manager of the Year’ at the VC Circle Awards 2020.