Karthik Athreya

Close to 30 years of experience across assurance, investment banking, private and public equities, real estate, trading and special situations investing. His career spans the dot-com era, the Global Financial Crisis, the NBFC crisis in India, COVID-19 and other defining market events that shaped corporate India, regulations, investment strategies, diligence frameworks, ESG models and the emergence of new asset classes. A serial business builder, Karthik has been part of several greenfield ventures, including the Corporate Finance Group at Arthur Andersen (Chennai), the Investment Banking team at YES Bank, the build-out of Clearwater Capital Partners' India NBFC (~$500 million AUM), and most recently, Sundaram Alternates, an alternatives investment platform. Karthik is also an avid sports enthusiast and is deeply involved in promoting grassroots sport in India. He is a founding member of Aspire Foundation, a not-for-profit established over a decade ago that mentors and sponsors promising young athletes from financially constrained backgrounds. A B Com graduate from Loyola College, Chennai, and a Chartered Accountant, Karthik believes he has learnt some of life’s most valuable lessons through his investing career and philanthropic pursuits.