Davinder is Senior Partner at Synergy Capital and brings with him unique industry knowledge, management skills and turnaround expertise and has helped Synergy deploy and oversee US$ 880 m, along with co-investors, in several investments.
Synergy Capital is a private equity fund manager that focuses on the industrial, metal & infrastructure sectors and has invested in several assets worldwide. Synergy deploys deep industry knowledge, operating expertise, discipline, and ability to design structures for each investment opportunity.
Before Synergy, Davinder had a successful career at Arcelor Mittal spanning over twenty years, of which the last ten years were served at the Group Management Board level. Arcelor Mittal is the world’s largest steelmaker.
Davinder led large businesses during his time at and within Arcelor Mittal: as Senior Executive Vice-President and CEO of Africa & CIS, he was responsible for the mining and steel businesses in South Africa, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Algeria; he oversaw and led Arcelor Mittal International, an entity that exported steel products of the Arcelor Mittal Group to territories where it did not produce steel; he headed Shared Services responsible for Purchasing, Shipping and Logistics, Legal, IT, Real Estate and By-Products management. He was also the CEO of Arcelor Mittal South Africa, a large company quoted on the Johannesburg stock exchange.
In addition, Davinder was a member of Arcelor Mittal’s Investment Allocation Committee and the core Mergers & Acquisition team. Davinder acquired highly transferable techno- commercial skills, a global view and expertise in the performance audit, benchmarking and restructuring during his 35 – year career with Arcelor Mittal and Steel Authority of India Limited(SAIL). He is uniquely placed to advise and support businesses in emerging out of crisis and assuming market leadership.
Davinder has an MBA along with an undergraduate honour’s degree in Physics (B. Sc) and also has a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree.