A91 Partners

VT Bharadwaj is a General Partner at A91 Partners, a firm that invests in small and mid-sized private companies in India across sectors including consumer, pharmaceutical, healthcare, financial services and technology. He has led investments and served as a board member at companies including Prataap Snacks, La Renon Healthcare, Indigo Paints, Go Colors, Hector Beverages, Healthkart, Suburban Diagnostics, Raw Pressery, Wingreen Farms, Innovcare Pharmaceuticals, Faces, Amogha Polymers, Urban Ladder and Genesis Colors. His focus areas include venture and early-stage growth investing.

Kaushik Anand is a Partner at A91 Partners. He works in growth equity investing, focusing on sectors including artificial intelligence, software, technology services, and financial services.

Anooj Vikam is an Investment Professional at A91 Partners, with prior experience at Advent. His investing experience spans early-stage, growth equity, and publicly listed companies across the consumer, consumer technology, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals sectors. He completed CFA Level 3 through the CFA Institute, ranked in the 99th percentile in Chartered Accountancy, and is an MBA candidate at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Het Chokshi is a Chartered Accountant with over six years of experience in private equity operations and transaction advisory. As a Manager at A91 Partners, a firm with $1.5 billion in assets under management, he oversees fund finance and operations. He previously worked at Deloitte in M&A Tax, focusing on domestic and cross-border M&A structuring.

Prajesh Dawda is an AVP (Finance) at A91 Partners. He has approximately nine years of experience in the fund management ecosystem.

Ruchi Khajanchi is Chief Financial Officer at A91 Partners, with responsibilities spanning finance, legal, tax, and investor reporting. She previously spent over 12 years in transaction advisory at N.A. Shah Associates, working on due diligence, tax and regulatory structuring, fund formation under SEBI AIF regulations, and M&A across sectors including technology, media, real estate, pharmaceuticals, and logistics, and began her career as a Business Leadership Trainee at Hindustan Unilever Limited. She is a Chartered Accountant and secured a 34th all-India rank.

Fiona Fernandez is Head of Operations at Syncona Investment Management Ltd, having joined in 2013, where she oversees the firm's technology and facilities functions and works with the CEO and CFO on strategic and operational matters. She previously served as an Executive Assistant at AnaCap Financial Partners, supporting the General Counsel and the M&A team. She holds a BSc (Joint Honours) in Geography and Management from the University of Leeds.