Sridhar Rampalli is our Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer with over 25 years of experience in Venture Capital, Wealth Management, and Banking.
Prior to founding Pavestone, he founded Blue Ocean Multi-Client Family Office which currently has about USD 300Mn Assets under Advisement and co-founded the Parampara Early-Stage Opportunities Fund. Sridhar has also served as Senior Vice President at Anand Rathi and Investment Counsellor at Yes Bank.
Sridhar holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Osmania University and a Diploma in Hospitality Management from IHM-Hyderabad.
Srikanth Tanikella is our Managing Partner with over 25 years of experience in leading business growth, organizational scale up, and client engagement in Global and Domestic B2B Outsourcing.
Prior to founding Pavestone, Srikanth was the COO of CAMS, where he oversaw the company’s support of the Mutual Fund industry through a seven-year journey that included a more than three-fold increase in AUM, rapid digitalization, retail expansion, and numerous regulatory changes. He was a member of a key SEBI working committee and played a major part in numerous initiatives that changed the industry. He was part of the Key Management group that led to the successful IPO of CAMS in 2020. Additionally, he served as a director on the boards of CAMS Account Aggregator and CAMS KRA. Before joining CAMS, he served as the COO for India at Williams Lea, a multinational supplier of expert business-critical services to the advertising and investment banking industries. He was previously employed by HP in their Global Business Services team in India.
Srikanth started his career with Accenture in Management Consulting. Subsequently he joined Infosys BPO as part of the startup team and was integral to their growth to $250M in seven years as part of the Global Enterprise Solution Sales team.
Srikanth holds a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi and PGDM from IIM Calcutta.
Laxmikanth is our Managing Partner with over 35 years of experience in Global Leadership in Business Strategy and Sales, Product and Technical Innovation, Mergers and Acquisitions.
As a pioneer of the Indian IT industry, over the last 15 years he has been the India MD and Member of the Global Executive Committee of Broadridge Financial Solutions. Prior to this, he established and grew India offices for Global Enterprises such as ADP, D.E. Shaw and Intergraph.
He was a Member of the Investment Committee and an LP in Parampara Early-Stage Opportunities Fund. He is also part of the NASSCOM GCC Council.
He has extensive experience in building, deploying and supporting large scale Enterprise grade products in SAAS model for global clientele. Additionally, he has set up centers of excellence for AI/ML and Big Data and supported the innovation of Blockchain technology in India.
Laxmikanth holds a Master’s degree in Physics from Karnataka University.
Pulkit is our Assistant Vice-President with over 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur and leading large corporate business verticals across a variety of sectors. This includes Industrial products, Metals and Alloys, Chemicals and Fertilizers, Pharma, Governments and Ministries, Public Sector Units, Oil and Gas, Consulting – Project, Product and Technology.
He has conceptualized, incubated, implemented and accelerated high growth corporate and business strategies, product vision and brand strategies, business development initiatives, strategic alliances and acquisitions, leading over 10 business, 12 brands, 18product line verticals, 1000+ products, global market entries, creating a combined value of over $100MN.
Before joining Pavestone in 2022, he has created three circular economy manufacturing startups in rare earth and precious metals, oil well drilling, fertilizer, and pharmaceuticals. He successfully exited by selling the technologies to renowned large enterprises, influencing waste handling and pollution policies across India and setting-up manufacturing plants and process globally.
He collaborated with Indian government ministries on PPE product development and policy making. He conceptualized global market entries and acquisitions, and led product verticals for Karam Group, Uvex and Draeger, and WPB SBU at L&T for over 11 years.
Pulkit holds a B.Tech. in Metallurgy and Material Science from N.I.T., Nagpur. He completed the Global MBA PGPMAX from the Indian School of Business and was awarded the Dean’s List medal for academic excellence.
Sai Manohar is our Director – Finance and Investments with over 10 years of experience in finance controllership, business partnering, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity funding. He has a diverse exposure to E-commerce, IT&ITES, Edtech & Healthcare Industries.
Before joining Pavestone, Manohar worked in startups like Practically & NephroPlus wherein he played an important role in fund raising, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, and providing strategic financial direction. He has also worked for larger corporates such as Wells Fargo and Anthelio Healthcare Solutions (ATOS).
Manohar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and is a Chartered Accountant. He is also a certified Company Secretary
Sarad is a member of our investment team where he focuses on B2B enterprise and deep tech investments.
Prior to working at Pavestone, he has around four years of consulting experience with organisations like KPMG, Dhruva Advisors, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
He holds an MBA (Finance) from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, where he was a gold medalist and a Bachelors in Commerce from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Company Secretary, and has also qualified CFA L1. During his MBA, Sarad worked at GEF Capital as a Private Equity Intern. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Placements Committee in his college.
Siddhartha (Sid) is a member of our investment team, where he focuses on B2B enterprise and deep tech investments.
Prior to working at Pavestone, he has worked in actuarial consulting domain in Willis Towers Watson working as an actuarial advisor servicing US Pension Funds. Apart from that, he has also had a brief stint at Kyt Ventures – where he looked at significantly early-stage startups from deal sourcing to deal execution.
Sid has completed his Bachelor’s in Accounts and Finance from Narsee Monjee College, Mumbai along with completing all three levels of CFA. He has also completed his MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB) with dual majors in Strategy and Finance and was on the institutions merit list.