Vishal Kampani: Highly profit-minded and not market share-minded

The dealmaker talks to Dev Chatterjee and Niraj Bhatt about the company's journey from an investment bank to a finance firm and how he plans to more than double its size in three years

We reach K&K restaurant at ITC Grand Central, Mumbai, early and head for a corner table. Our lunch date, JM Financial Group Managing Director Vishal Kampani arrives a few minutes later. He is not feeling too well after having returned from an Ayurveda spa. “A vacation at home would have been better,” he says in hindsight. We decide to order the food first and Kampani, a health-conscious vegetarian, says he would just have dal tadka and rice. After some persuasion and negotiation, the second-generation investment banker agrees to share pudina paneer tikka and roomali roti with us, and insists we