Management and Fund Managers
Vik Mehrotra, CEO
Vikas Chawla, Chief Operating Officer* >
Dylan Tinker, Trading Strategist* >
Finance and Reporting
Vishnu Shah, Accounts Controller >
Research and Trading
Tajinder Singh, Trading Strategist* >
Vidya Murthy, Vice President–Trading Strategist >
Marketing and Business Development
Natasha B. Koprivica, Senior Vice President >
Risk Management
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. Vik has been actively investing in Asia since 1989; establishing Venus Capital in 1994 as an Asia focused wealth management firm and launching several hedge funds focused on generating alpha from Asia. Vik’s risk-averse investment style has garnered him many coveted awards such as the 2004 and 2005 AsiaHedge Fund of the Year Award, 2007 HFM Week US award, 2011 Hedgeweek US and Europe award for Best Relative Value Fund and 2011 HFM week best “Macro fund under US$1bn” award.
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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