Krutarth Shah is the Founder and CEO of Avon River Ventures and serves as CEO and Head of Investor Relations at Inframera Assets Inc. His work focuses on structured credit, special situations, and asset-backed opportunities across commodities, infrastructure, and institutional capital.
Prior to founding Avon River Ventures, Krutarth worked in asset management and credit analysis at TD Securities, where he developed experience across fixed income, derivatives, and structured financial products. He has since led the development of capital and execution platforms centered on disciplined underwriting, collateral-driven structures, and infrastructure-linked opportunities.
Krutarth also serves as a Council Member within the Forbes Business and Finance Council, where he contributes perspectives on capital formation, infrastructure development, and global trade. His advisory outlook is shaped by practical experience across cross-border transactions, institutional finance, and infrastructure-linked commercial platforms, with a particular emphasis on how disciplined capital and supply-chain execution can support long-term value creation.
At Inframera, Krutarth’s focus is on building a disciplined institutional platform that supports critical projects, durable assets, and long-term enterprise value creation.
Sanjeev began his career as an Associate at Mercury Asset Management in London, which was subsequently acquired by Merrill Lynch & Co. He later relocated to New York, where he was appointed Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch, progressing to Senior Vice President with responsibility for Merrill Lynch Investment Management’s EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) desk.
During his tenure at MLIM, Sanjeev served as lead fund manager, under a joint venture arrangement, for the Fidelity Special Situations Fund, overseeing approximately US$3.2 billion in assets. He subsequently joined Morgan Stanley in New York as Managing Director, where he led Morgan Stanley Asset Management’s EMEA business, with responsibility for global operations and strategic development.
Sanjeev is the Founder and Strategic Advisor to Rektron Group Inc., a Canadian-listed commodity infrastructure and trading group with a global footprint across energy, metals, and specialized commodities.
Dhruv Menon is an experienced finance professional with 25 years of experience across investment banking, asset management, and industry. He began his career in corporate finance and advisory at HSBC Investment Bank before moving into proprietary capital structuring and deployment at HSBC and then Credit Suisse.
In 2016, Dhruv moved into asset management, setting up securitisation platforms for fintech companies across Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Chile, and Spain. In 2019, he joined White Oak Global Advisers as a Managing Director in its structured commodity and trade finance fund.
In 2021, he was appointed CFO of Hartree Partners’ European renewable energy platform, where he raised funding in excess of US$1 billion for renewable assets across the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Grant O’Connor serves as Partner, Capital Markets and Strategic Origination at Inframera, where he leads the firm’s capital markets strategy, transaction origination, and institutional investor engagement. His mandate spans the identification of financing opportunities across infrastructure-linked sectors, advisory on debt and equity capital formation, and the structuring of transactions that align institutional capital with real-economy supply chains.
Grant brings more than eighteen years of capital markets experience across public and private markets, with deep relationships across the Canadian and U.S. investment landscape. His background in debt capital markets, merchant banking, institutional fundraising, and lower middle-market transactions supports Inframera’s mandate of building a principal platform across physical commodities, supply chain finance, and infrastructure-linked trade.
