Sumit has over thirty years of experience in real estate, corporate finance and urban infrastructure across multiple business cycles in India.   

He started his career in 1995 as part of the India founding office of CB Richard Ellis. In 2005, Sumit was appointed as the founding CEO of the Anand Rathi Realty Fund, one of earliest real estate private equity funds in the country. Later, he joined Lehman Brothers as the Country Head for their Real Estate Principal Investments business across the entire capital stack from equity to high yield debt.   

In 2015, Sumit joined McKinsey & Company as a Senior Advisor and advised large public and private sector organizations on topics such as risk management, growth and product development. In 2018, Sumit joined the GMR group as the Chief Business Officer of the Airports Real Estate business that consists of approximately 2000 acres of land parcels across four airports in India.  

Sumit studied architecture at the School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi and has an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. He is also a qualified Insolvency Resolution Professional (IRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.