Partner
Rajeev Kalra is a Partner and Head of India overseeing the Asia Private Markets investment team.
Mr. Kalra leads TRG India’s team, focusing on sourcing, evaluating, executing and monitoring investments. He has broad experience across the consumer, industrial, healthcare, financial, infrastructure and services sectors. Currently he is a nominee director on the Board of several portfolio companies in India. Mr. Kalra earlier served as a nominee director on the boards of several other portfolio companies which have been successfully exited by TRG and / or are preparing for an IPO.
Prior to joining TRG in December 2013, he was a member of the Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI) investment team starting in 2010. Mr. Kalra has been active in private equity in India since 1996, prior to which he was employed with SBI Capital Markets’ investment banking and corporate finance divisions. Mr. Kalra started his private equity career in 1996 with HSBC Private Equity (subsequently, Headland Capital Partners) and led their India team from 2002 to 2007. This included experience with multiple funds, starting with a small India fund and subsequently investing from a technology/services focused regional fund and a mid-market regional private equity fund. Thereafter, he worked with AIF Capital, an Asian private equity fund manager, as a Managing Director up to 2010 and was a key member of their India team and worked on mid-market growth capital transactions across sectors.
Mr. Kalra earned several academic awards while qualifying as a CA, CFA and as a graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce. Mr. Kalra is fluent in English and Hindi and has a working knowledge of Punjabi.
