Priyank Thapliyal

Priyank Thapliyal a founding partner of Pallinghurst Advisors LLP joined Sterlite Industries in 2000 as a USD 100 million firm, serving as deputy to the owner Anil Agarwal. He implemented the strategies that led to Sterlite becoming Vedanta Resources (including its USD 870 million London IPO), a FTSE 100 company which was valued at USD7.5 billion at the time of his departure in October 2005. Mr Thapliyal led Vedanta’s USD 50 million investment in Konkola Copper Mines, Zambia, in 2004, a stake valued at more than USD 1 billion. He was a former mining and metals investment banker with CIBCWM, Toronto Canada and is a qualified Metallurgical Engineer, MBA (Western Ontario, Canada) and former Falconbridge employee.