Our founders
Founded on a belief in India
Our founders started The Guild Co. with a strong belief in India, and in the need for India to partner with Japan, Taiwan and Mainland China to build its manufacturing future.
Anshuman Gupta
Founding Partner · Tokyo
“India’s strength lies in a diversified partner portfolio. No nation’s interests are served by dependence on any single partner but itself.”
Leads supply-side relationships in Japan, Taiwan and Mainland China, and plans, oversees and governs execution.
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- Built a Mainland China business from zero to 150 people across Shanghai, Beijing and regional markets, with full P&L responsibility.
- Senior relationships across industrials, automotive, robotics, energy, and ICT and electronics across Asia-Pacific.
- Long experience in growth, market entry, M&A and technology transactions across Asia-Pacific.
- Member of the Singapore Institute of Directors; angel investor.
Anshuman@TheGuildCo.com
Jayasuryan Prabhakaran (Jay)
Founding Partner · Bengaluru
“Find the right partner, structure the right deal, and execute before the window closes.”
Leads demand-side relationships and deal-making in India, and the commercial side of The Guild Co.
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- Built an India business from zero for a Japanese high-tech company, across industrial, automotive, mass transit and energy.
- Led deal-making and built teams across Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China for an Indian technology major, in automotive, electronics and technology hardware.
- C-level relationships across Japan, Taiwan, Mainland China and India; multilingual.
- IIM Bangalore; computer science and electronics, Moscow; angel investor.
Jay@TheGuildCo.com
James Ma
Founding Partner · Mumbai
“India’s next frontier is sovereignty over its own technology stack: the sensors, the software and the intelligence that run its devices.”
Leads the Sovereign Stack build: technology, risk and finance.
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- Built global quantitative risk teams at a major bank and led its regulatory transformation under Swiss, US and UK regulators.
- Brought machine learning and AI into risk workflows.
- Strategy, business development and delivery for regulated financial products in banking fintech.
- Visiting faculty at BITS Pilani, where he co-created the Financial Risk Analytics and Management course.
James@TheGuildCo.com
Beyond the founders
Our Delivery Network
Deal-makers, programme managers and specialist experts, with our councils and demand-side partners across our markets.
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