Udhay Furtado,
Head of South-East Asia Financing Group
Goldman Sachs

Udhay Furtado is responsible for Goldman Sachs’ capital market activities in Southeast Asia, across equity, debt, convertible and derivative products.

Udhay has been a capital markets professional for over 12 years, having started his career in the investment banking team of Salomon Brothers in London.  Since then his career has included positions in equity capital market teams across London, Hong Kong and Singapore working for Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and for the last three years at Goldman Sachs.

His current responsibilities include origination, structuring and execution of financing transactions for corporates in the region as well as monetization and privatization activities by governments, corporates, private wealth and institutional investors.

Udhay has led a number of notable transactions across Asia and Emerging Europe including initial public offerings for Alibaba.com, UEM Land, Longtop Financial Technologies, China Nepstar, SOHO China, Yingli Green Energy, Solarfun Power, Xingda, WNS, Thai Beverage, Jet Airways, Suntec REIT, i-flex Solutions, Chartered Semiconductor, STATS; follow-on offerings for DBS Group, Maybank, Axiata, PT Adaro, Alibaba.com, Yingli Green Energy, Sun Hung Kai Properties, Telekom Malaysia, Bank of the Philippine Islands, Infosys, A-REIT, NOL, Silverline, Singapore Airlines, Minoan Lines; convertible offerings for SOHO China, Suntech Power, Wilmar, PT Berlian Laju Tankers, Resorts World Berhad, PT Medco Energi, Keppel Land, Tata Teleservices, Bharti Telecom, Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, ACC, Indian Hotels; privatizations for Temasek, Khazanah, PPA, PT Telkom, Hynix, POSCO, VSNL, TPSA, Turkiye Isbank, OTE, MOL and Bulgarcom.

Udhay was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and holds an M.A. (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from University College, Oxford University.