Bio

Mr. Venkat Ramaswamy is Executive Director, Edelweiss Financial Services and is widely recognized as one of India’s finest deal makers. Amongst his responsibilities, he also Co-Heads two of Edelweiss’ strategic businesses – Distress Assets & Resolution business and Global Asset Management, while continuing to play a mentorship role with the Edelweiss Investment Banking business. After having worked in the Project Financing team of Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Ltd., then India’s premier project finance institution and today its largest private sector bank, and he was a fund manager with Spartek Fund – one of India’s early PE fund – Venkat co-founded Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd. Since then he has been one of the driving forces in transforming what was once India’s first new age boutique investment bank to a leading diversified financial conglomerate in a span of just a decade and a half. Venkat has been instrumental in building a client-need focused solutions approach in the Distress Asset and Resolution business including the business under Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC). This approach of working with large Banks in India has lead to the Edelweiss ARC becoming the largest ARC in the country today. Venkat oversees key institutional relationships including with International Pension Funds and Insurance companies, under his guidance, the Edelweiss Global Asset Management team has been able to build one of the fastest growing Multi category Alternative Asset Management businesses in India. An MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, United States of America and a Bachelor’s Degree holder in Electronics Engineering. Using his skills at building and maintaining large institutional relationships including with International Pension Funds and Insurance companies, the Edelweiss Global Asset Management team has been able to build one of the fastest growing Multi category Alternative Asset Management businesses in India.