From private banking to building the balance sheet

Anshul Raj Garg spent the first phase of his career inside the institutions that allocate other people's money. He holds an MBA in Finance from IIT Kanpur and a Bachelor of Engineering from Panjab University, and his professional path has been associated with Citibank, Julius Baer, JM Financial and Neo Wealth — a run through Indian and international private banking that put him across the table from family offices, principals and institutional allocators for the better part of two decades.

That vantage point shaped a particular conviction. Advising capital teaches you what capital actually wants, and it is rarely the story it is sold. The second phase of his career has been spent on the other side of the transaction: originating the assets rather than distributing them.

The operating thesis

His stated position is that community development and business should function as one indivisible engine. Schools, sports grounds, healthcare facilities and similar essential assets are, in his framing, not peripheral philanthropy to be funded out of surplus. Given disciplined governance and long-duration capital, they behave as durable, income-producing infrastructure — and they compound in exactly the emerging markets where the demographic demand is steepest and the financing architecture is thinnest.

He is blunt about what makes that investable: "Institutional capital does not buy narratives. It buys predictability, enforceable structures, protected downside, and the confidence that an asset can endure." Most of his work is the unglamorous business of manufacturing those four things in jurisdictions where they do not come pre-assembled.

Four ventures, one structure problem

The East & Southern Africa T20 Premier League, founded in April 2025, is a continental cricket platform conceived to connect sport, tourism, media rights, infrastructure and franchise enterprise across Rwanda, Zambia and Malawi. It treats a league not as a sporting event but as an infrastructure and IP asset with a demographic tailwind behind it.

ALTXRA, the Alternative Infrastructure Ownership Network founded in June 2026, is the capital-markets answer to the same question: institutional structures, AI-assisted underwriting and regulated fractional ownership for income-producing community infrastructure and real-world assets.

SriYentra Group, formed in Dubai in 2024, is the holding platform across strategic real estate, sports, education and cross-border opportunity. SriYantra Education Catalysts, started in August 2024, applies the thesis directly to schooling: advisory and financial structuring that connects school operators, campus owners, institutional capital and education-focused real estate across India, the UAE and Africa.

Where he operates

He is resident in the UAE with active ties to India, and his work runs along the Dubai–India–Africa corridor: capital sourced in the Gulf, structured under ADGM and DIFC frameworks, and deployed into assets in South Asia and East and Southern Africa.

Education
MBA, Finance — IIT Kanpur · BE — Panjab University
Experience
Citibank · Julius Baer · JM Financial · Neo Wealth
Ventures
ALTXRA · SriYentra Group · ESA T20 · SriYantra Education Catalysts
Markets
India · UAE · Rwanda · Zambia · Malawi
Focus
Institutional capital · Real-world assets · Sports IP · Education infrastructure