Founder and Chief Executive Officer
A trusted advisor to global boards and institutional investors, with 38 years of experience building and transforming multi-billion-dollar industrial businesses across the Asia-Pacific region.
Mahesh Palashikar Advisory Services
Bridgingcapital, capability,and execution.
Mahesh Palashikar Advisory Services is an independent strategic advisory firm. We advise global corporations, institutional investors, and corporate boards on complex market entry, energy transition, and industrial transformation.
01About
Who We Are
Senior, partner-led advice for companies and investors shaping their India strategy.
Mahesh Palashikar Advisory Services (mpas) provides senior-led strategic guidance to decision-makers navigating high-stakes industrial and capital decisions in India.
We bring over 125 years of combined executive leadership experience across global industrial, energy, technology, and capital sectors. Built upon a foundation of proven leadership—including extensive tenures shaping global industrial enterprises and chairing NSE-listed company boards—mpas operates at the intersection of strategy, capital, partnerships, and execution.
We deploy a lean, agile operating model. This ensures our clients engage directly with seasoned practitioners possessing deep domain expertise and extensive relationships across India’s regulatory, public sector, and industrial ecosystems.
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Capital
Connecting capital providers with credible India opportunities, and businesses with the right capital partners.
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Capability
Bringing the sector, operational and policy depth needed to turn investment into enterprise.
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Execution
Staying through delivery, so partnerships, supply chains and transformation create measurable value.
Leadership
Chief Value Officer
A global business executive and former board director bringing over four decades of leadership in commercial strategy, operational excellence, and industrial transformation across 19 countries.
Senior Advisor
A legal, risk, and regulatory leader with over 25 years of experience across the energy, financial services, and fintech sectors, and Global Head of Legal at Pine Labs.
02Strategic Capabilities
Our Capabilities
We work alongside leadership teams to turn ambition into an executable path.
01India Strategy and Market Intelligence
Strategic advisory for global corporations, private equity, and institutional investors.
02Board Advisory & Strategic Partnerships
Strengthening leadership, governance, and strategic decision-making.
03Strategic Ecosystem Integrator
Connecting clients with regulators, industry leaders, technology partners, EPCs, PMCs, and supply chain networks.
04Industrial Growth & Supply Chain Optimization
Deep sector expertise across high tech strategic industries, advanced manufacturing and services.
05Decarbonization and Sustainability
Enabling the transition to low-carbon and sustainable industrial growth.
06Capital-to-Execution Integration
Bridging investors, industry, and execution partners to accelerate outcomes.
03Industry Sectors
Sector depth across India’s growth engines.
We bring working knowledge of the sectors driving India’s next decade — the policy, the players and the practicalities of getting things built.
04Markets
India at the centre of global opportunity.
Connecting international capital, technology and capability with India’s growth corridors.
Corridors into India
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North America
Capital, technology and advanced manufacturing
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European Union
Industrial partnerships and energy transition
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Middle East
Sovereign capital and infrastructure
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East Asia
Manufacturing, electronics and supply chains
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Southeast Asia
Trade corridors and regional expansion
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Australia and New Zealand
Critical minerals, education and agri-food
Value is created only when capital and capability come together, and are carried through to execution.
05Contact
Let’s build what’s next, together.
Whether you are shaping an India strategy, looking for the right partner or ready to execute, we would welcome a conversation.
- connect@mpadvs.com
- Location
- India