People

Investment Team

Blue Lotus Capital has an experienced team of investment professionals with strong Private Equity experience and established Capital Markets expertise with a proven track record of generating superior returns over different business cycles.

S Harikrishnan
Founder and Managing Partner
Hari has more than 23 years of experience in India in Private & Public market investments and Industrials. In the past, he was the Managing Director of Avigo Capital heading their India investments. Prior to that, he was with Wall Street firm Lazard Private Equity as Investment Director and was one of the early members of UTI Ventures. He started his career with Unit Trust of India after completing his MBA from BIM Trichy. He is also an engineer from Anna University.
KVS Pawan
Director
Pawan has more than 15 years’ experience across investment banking and asset management. He started his career with UTI Securities and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Industry Advisors

Blue Lotus Capital has an eminent panel of industry leaders, who have been successful CEOs and business leaders,and they actively guide the portfolio companies through growth and high-value exit strategies

SK Mitra

An eminent personality in Indian Financial services sector with more than over 40 years of extensive management experience. Belonging to one of the early batches of investment bankers in India, Mr. Mitra was instrumental in setting up the Merchant Banking Divisions of two banks Bank of India and Standard Chartered Bank. He has also headed Corporate Banking and Investment Banking at American Express Bank. At a stage when asset management was in the early stage of development in the country, he set up the GIC Mutual Fund in India. He has been associated with several reputed companies as an independent Director and Advisor.

Ranga Iyer

Ranga is an Advisor / Consultant to various Companies in the Pharma Industry in the areas of Mergers, Acquisitions, Collaborations, Business Strategy and Business Development and has closed four acquisition deals in Pharma. Ranga is also an Independent Director on the Boards of Sanofi India Ltd and Atul Biosciences Ltd, Chairman of Cybernoid Healthcare Pvt Ltd and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Duraent Biologicals Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of Wyeth Limited subsidiary of Wyeth USA . Academically, Ranga holds a Post Graduate degree in Commerce and MBA in Finance from Bombay University. Has also attended Executive Programs in ISB ( Hyderabad ) and Harvard ( USA ). In recognition of his contribution to the industry, he was adjudged as the 33rd most influential person in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by World Pharmaceutical Frontiers in 2009, a leading UK Pharma magazine.

Dr Anuradha Ganesh

Dr. Anuraddha is the Director of Advance Engineering at Cummins Technologies. Dr. Anuraddha has overall 30 years of experience in research & teaching. She currently leads the advance research and development in Cummins Technologies India which is WoS of Cummins US. Before Cummins, Dr. Anuradha was Head and Professor in Department of Energy Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. She has a strong research and development in the area of energy management, alternate fuels and automobiles.

JP Singh

JP has over 30 years of experience in Engineering and Operation. JP was Executive Vice President (Electrical & Automation) in Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), where he was responsible for the Control & Automation (C&A), and Electrical Systems and Equipment (ESE) businesses, spanning India and the GCC countries. He joined L&T in 2003 after a five year term as Managing Director of Yokogawa Blue Star Ltd., a JV of Blue Star Ltd. with Yokogawa Japan in the area of Process Control. Earlier in his career, he was with Emerson Electrics Fisher Rosemount JV in the area of Process Instrumentation and Control. JP started as BARC Scientist and worked in the field of Nuclear physics. His experience encompasses Sales & Marketing, Operations, Strategy, People development and P&L responsibilities over more than 30 years in key leadership positions.

Mr. Prashant Patel

Prashant has more than 20 years experience of investing in Indian capital markets. He was the CEO & Investment Officer of Equest Capital - a Mumbai based family office investment vehicle. He has wide experience of researching several large, mid & small size companies in Indian equity markets and has been testing several value and growth based strategies since past two decades. Prashant is an Engineer from Mumbai University and has been visiting faculty of finance at some prominent management institutions. He regularly contributes to leading investors education and awareness website capitalideasonline and his work has been appreciated by Business World magazine in its coverage of astute individual investors.

International Partners

Blue Peacock Capital is a US fund manager advising clients on multiple investment strategies across emerging markets.