Vikas Chimakurthy

Mr. Vikas Chimakurthy joined the Team in April 2007 as a Senior Vice President.
He has approximately 11 years of work experience, approximately seven of which have been with Kotak Investment Bank.
Prior to joining Kotak Investment Bank, he worked in Birla Management Center (Office of the Chairman of Aditya Birla Group) for two years.
At Kotak Investment Bank, he was working as a Senior Vice President and heading the real estate and energy sector.
He set up the real estate coverage for the investment bank and has built relationships and generated business from some of the large real estate developers in India such as DLF, Puravankara, Sobha Developers, Kumar Developers, Emaar MGF, Mantri Developers, Mahindra Gesco, Divyasree Developers, Brigade Developers, Jain Developers, Gold Souk, BPTP and Oberoi Construction.
He also worked for six months at Goldman Sachs (Hong Kong), in 2004, as part of secondment when Kotak Investment Bank was in a JV with Goldman Sachs.
He has also been involved in M&A transactions across sectors such as telecom, technology, media and chemicals.
Mr. Chimakurthy received an engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.-Delhi) and an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies (Delhi University).