OUR TEAM
Our team and those of our affiliates have over fifty years of combined experience in India investing and investment research. We bring a range of professional experience in fields such as private equity, investment banking, equity research, management consulting, corporate management and business journalism to inform a far-reaching, fundamental approach to investment.
Dan Tennebaum
Managing Principal
Dr. Jon Thorn
Director, ICF
Uday Saripalli
CFO and COO
Piyush Goyal
Vice President
Saket Yadav
Vice President
Parang Trivedi
Information Analyst
Tanisha Chandhok
Information Analyst
Shanskar Singhal
Information Analyst
Mahesh Ambokar
Vice President, Technology
Asha Salokhe
Information Technology Analyst
Waheedali Shaikh
Manager, Administration
Our Directors
Kapil Dev Joory
Director, ICF
Nancy Orr
Director, ICM
Win Bennett
Director, ICM
Couldip Lala
Director, ICF
Ameet Parikh
Director, ICR
Christopher Brader
Director, ICM
Raju Jaddoo
Director, ICM
Sudesh Lala
Director, ICM
RESEARCH Research is the core of our investment process. It takes us to nearly every corner of India, from executive offices and government conclaves to factory floors, construction sites and agricultural cooperatives. India’s more than 3,000 publicly traded companies are not always well understood by traditional market intermediaries, nor is comprehensive data readily available from secondary sources in many cases. As a result of these inefficiencies, interactions with customers, competitors, suppliers and regulators can yield a genuinely distinctive view of a business. Comprehensive research allows us to identify opportunities that are not widely understood and construct a concentrated, high-conviction and non-consensus portfolio.
DATABASE
Compass is India Capital's proprietary research application, which covers over 3,000 listed Indian companies. Compass, which is maintained by an internal IT team, is a core component of our research process. We developed Compass to address the lack of comprehensive, reliable financial data in India. The application stores and organizes internal research, third-party documents and portfolio information, facilitating detailed, fundamental analysis of Indian companies and industries. It is not, however, used for selecting or executing trades. Compass is used exclusively by our team and by our affiliates.
PODCAST
MAY 2024
The Case For India At India Capital
Dan Tennebaum’s interview with Ted Seides on the Capital Allocators podcast.
From Ted: “Dan Tennebaum is the Managing Director at India Capital, a thirty-year-old investment firm focusing on public equities in India. Dan moved to the country twenty-five years ago and spent time in the start-up world and venture capital before pivoting to the public markets in 2007.
Our conversation covers Dan's path from a U.S. Midwesterner to India and the case for public equities. We turn to India Capital’s perspective on sourcing, research, management, regulation, valuation, portfolio construction, risk, and misperceptions, colored with some examples along the way.”
Listen to the full conversation
Listen to highlights
Our investment philosophy
Key risks and common misperceptions
Preventing permanent loss of capital
The case for Indian public equities
Investing in India Vs. China
What we're most excited about now
CURRENT RESEARCH
RESPONSIBLE INVESTING
The India Capital Fund has had an ethical investment policy for more than 29 years that mandates, among other things, refraining from holdings in armaments, tobacco and alcohol.
We believe that approach has enhanced our focus on sectors central to India’s responsible growth and strengthened investment performance. Portfolio companies include:
Renewable Energy. One of India’s largest green energy lenders, financing 17 thousand megawatts of renewable power capacity.
Job Creation. India’s largest private sector job creator, with more than 500,000 total employees.
Financial Inclusion. Institutions serving more than 150 million newly banked households and 14 million farmers.
AWARDS
PHILANTHROPY
We and our affiliates are pleased to support a number of organizations that work to improve education, society and the environment in India and Mauritius.
Ajit Deshpande Medical Center
The Ajit Deshpande Medical Center serves more than 24,000 low income patients per year, providing free care in the areas of pulmonology, dermatology, dentistry and more.
Mauritian Wildlife Foundation
The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation assists in the conservation and preservation of Mauritius’ endangered plant and animal species. The Foundation’s long-term aim is to recreate lost ecosystems by saving some of the rarest species from extinction and restoring native forests.
The Cheshire Homes
The Cheshire Homes provide residential care to men and women with physical and learning disabilities.
