It all started with a vision to build a real estate platform that India has been missing thus far, a corporate private equity in real-estate which can help invest and manage foreign institutional capital and contribute to the Indian economy. After having spent 15 years investing foreign institutional capital to invest in Indian real estate; I felt that the missing part was helping these portfolio investments/companies to stand on its own two feet and succeed. This urge prompted me to set up Alta Capital in 2021 – We are a private equity investor in real-estate sector in India with a difference. We do not seek only to build portfolios of physical assets but also invest in building operating teams & capabilities to manage and grow those portfolios. Alta Capital invests equity capital to build and grow platforms across various assets class within real-estate sector in India. Factoring both forward and backward linkages, ~50% of India’s GDP is linked to the real estate sector. In 2022, I partnered with a Singapore based real-estate fund called AGS, a $2.3bn Asia focused real-estate fund and started investing in India. We have committed more than $900 million in real-estate investments so far, with major investments in managed office services enterprise (Tablespace), industrial/warehousing platform (Pragati), K-12 schools platform (Cerestra) and on-campus student housing company (GHS). At Alta Capital, while we are an opportunistic investor, we tend to follow large-scale high conviction thematic investing. Our high conviction focus areas are managed office services, industrial/warehousing and education-infrastructure which includes both K-12 schools and student housing. We’ll help these companies scale up which eventually would be listed on Indian stock exchanges with a target market cap of greater than $10Bn. Prior to turning an entrepreneur and starting Alta Capital, I was the Managing Director of Blackstone in India. The role involved acquisition and asset management of physical assets like office, retail and hotels.Under my leadership position, Blackstone had invested more than $ 5Bnof equity in India. I was responsible for sourcing, underwriting and acquiring physical assets along with growing/mentoring the team. I also contributed in bringing REIT regulations in India and helped listing of Mindspace Office REIT in 2020 right in the middle of pandemic.I was awarded 'India's 40 Under 40' by The Economic Times in 2018. I continue to live in Mumbai with my family.