Management and Fund Managers
Vik Mehrotra, CEO
Vikas Chawla, Chief Operating Officer >
Jeffrey Heisler, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer>
Dylan Tinker, Portfolio Manager >
Finance and Reporting
Avi Mehta, Chief Financial Officer >
Research and Trading
Tajinder Singh, Trading Strategist* >
Vidya Murthy, Vice President–Trading Strategist >
Marketing and Business Development
Natasha B. Koprivica, Senior Vice President >
Havell Rodrigues, CAIA, Senior Vice President >
Operations
Harry Sheil, CFA, Vice President >
Heather Fordyce >
* Several personnel are outsourced from various independent companies. |
Vik Mehrotra is the founder and CEO of Venus Capital Management, Inc. Vik has been in the investment arena, managing money and actively investing in Asia since 1985. Vik’s risk-averse investment style has fetched him many coveted awards like the Asia Hedge Award in 2004 and 2005 for “Best Market Neutral Fund” and the 2007 HFM Week US award. Funds managed by him were also nominated for the 2008 Asian Masters of Hedge “Best Asian Event Driven Fund” and Best Emerging Markets Hedge Fund” awards, the 2007 HFM Week “Best Niche Fund” award, the 2006 MarHedge Award for “Best Arbitrage Fund” and the 2005 MarHedge Award for “Best Emerging Markets Fund” among many others. Vik regularly speaks at several conferences on Emerging Markets including the Absolute Return Symposium in New York, Annual Institutional Investment Conference in San Francisco, Annual MarHedge European Conference in Geneva, Terrapin in Hong Kong and GAIM USA conference in Boca Raton.
Vik founded Venus Capital Management, Inc. in 1994 as a wealth management firm and from 1996 transitioned its focus to a hedge fund management firm focused on emerging markets. Venus was a pioneer in launching one of the earliest India dedicated hedge funds in 1996. Venus also pioneered in creating alpha producing strategies from India, since 2003. In more recent times, Venus has focused on broader emerging markets. Before founding Venus, Vik worked as a wealth manager for family offices at UBS, from 1991 to early 1994. Vik has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Rochester Institute of Technology, with a specialization in finance and investment management and a further focus on derivatives and International trading. Vik has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Economics from the University of Delhi in India.
Along with Vik's successful public market investing, he has made several successful private equity investments.
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