A P Vasanthkumar

Vasanthakumar is one of the founding members and a Partner at Ascent. Vasanthakumar has over two decades of experience in private equity and capital markets. He monitors portfolio companies across technology, consumer, and ed-tech sectors, where he has deep domain expertise. He also serves on the boards of several companies. In addition, he actively engages with the ESG matters of the Funds and heads the research ‘support ’ in the firm.

Prior to joining Ascent, Vasanthakumar was part of the investment operations team at UTI, where he was involved in primary market equity and debt investments across sectors including technology and manufacturing.

Vasanthakumar has an MBA from Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli and is a Mechanical Engineer from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.