Shankar Narayanan is a Managing Director responsible for leading growth capital investments in India. He is based in Mumbai.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Narayanan spent six years at Hathway Investments in Mumbai and during that time served as Managing Director and CEO. He was also with Deutsche Bank Capital Partners, based in Hong Kong, as a Director covering South Asia and India. Mr. Narayanan has led or been associated with a number of prominent private equity investments in India, including Johnson Tiles, Exide Industries, Hathway Cable, Asianet Satellite Communications, Pushpa Polymers, Tata Infomedia, and AFL Limited. He had served on the Board of Directors of all these Companies. Prior to Hathway Investments, Mr Narayanan worked at Citibank in Mumbai.
Mr. Narayanan is currently on the Boards of Newgen Imaging Systems., LearningMate Solutions, Claris Lifesciences, QuEST and Financial Software & Systems. Mr. Narayanan received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from XLRI Jamshedpur where he was a Gold Medalist and stood first in the graduating class in the area of Finance and Accounting, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from the India Institute of Technology New Delhi. |