Purshotam Ramchandani has more than a decade of experience in private equity and investment banking. During the past six years at Abraaj Capital, he has been involved in executing several investments, and worked on launching new funds, such as ASAS, Abraaj’s income-generating sale-and-leaseback fund. In 2009, Mr. Ramchandani helped set up Abraaj’s Saudi office.

He continues to be on the Saudi team focused on originating deals. Before Abraaj, Mr. Ramchandani was an Investment Banking Associate at Lehman Brothers in New York where he focused on M&A, and financing transactions in the communications and media sector. He was also deeply involved in the training and recruitment programmes for analysts and associates.

Mr. Ramchandani holds a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin in the US. He has received the Harold Kubly Award for outstanding academic breadth and achievement, the Erwin Gaumnitz scholarship for academic excellence, and the University Bookstore Grant for the best undergraduate research paper from the School of Business and the School of Economics. Mr. Ramchandani is married with one child.