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Pioneer of the Intelligence Buyout™

An R&D-first investment firm.

Leadership

Two Operators. Two Capital Allocators. One Structural Opportunity.

Built on a decade in global markets and a decade operating in India, their work sits at the intersection of capital allocation and business transformation.

Co-Founder & Principal

Poornima Vardhan

Wharton MBA, Finance (Joseph Wharton Fellow) · LSE MSc Operational Research · St. Stephen's BSc Mathematics (Honors)

Wall Street investment banker covering global industrials, turned operator. Associate Director at UBS Investment Bank in New York, Global Industrials Group — executing cross-border M&A and capital markets across the US, India, China, and Korea. Marquee deals: Ashland Distribution, Momentive, Hexion, Sunoco-Braskem. 15 years building and restructuring operating businesses: India's first D2C brand. Set up two regional airlines. Restructured India's oldest luxury house.

"Winning By Design."

Co-Founder & Principal

Taponeel Mukherjee

INSEAD MBA · LSE MSc Finance & Economics · Northwestern BA Economics

A renowned economist and former macro trader with over 20 years of experience in global markets. His career spans UBS and Citigroup across London, Zurich, and Tokyo. At just 24, he generated his first million during the 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. He established UBS's second-most profitable Yen short-end rates trading desk, generating $450M, and led the bank's most profitable short-end rates business, yielding over $3B.

"Find your edge."

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