Investment Commitee
The Investment Committee has a key role in ensuring adherence to a focused, disciplined and consistent manner to achieve optimum results.
The Investment Committee is made up of five senior professionals. Each member has the specialist skills to bring objective, disciplined, and consistency to the review of each of Yatra Capital's investment opportunities. The Investment Committee's role includes maintaining pricing discipline, ensuring that all transactions adhere to Yatra Capital's strategy and assessing the risk and return profile.
We believe that this consistent approach to deal evaluation enhances Yatra Capital's ability to extract additional value in transactions and generate higher risk adjusted returns.
David Hunter
David is Managing Director of Hunter Advisers, a Property Fund Consultancy which offers advice on the launch and operation of Property Funds in the UK and overseas. Coupled with this role, he has a small number of Non-Executive positions where he oversees the activities of Investment Managers.
David was a well-known UK property Investment Manager over 20 years up to 2005, with an exceptional track record of building and running fund management businesses. In recent years, he was responsible for managing GBP 6.5bn in the UK and Europe with Arlington.
He was President of the British Property Federation 2003-04 and led the property industry delegation which successfully negotiated with the UK Government for the introduction of REITs.
Malcolm King
After qualifying at a general practice firm in 1968 Malcolm was one of the first in his profession to gain an MBA by taking a full time two-year course at the Ivey Business School of the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Joining King & Co in 1970 he headed the investment part of the business for 23 years. That part of the business was involved in GBP 10 billion of transactions during the last financial year.
In 1993 Malcolm restructured the asset management side of the business, which grew the properties under management from GBP 850 million to the current level of more than GBP 10 billion today.
He was Senior Partner from 1987 to 2005 and International Chairman from 1992 - 2006. In 1992 he conceived and engineered the merger of King & Co with J P Sturge to form King Sturge. During his time as Senior Partner the company's turnover increased from just over GBP 11 million to approximately GBP 100 million and a staff of nearly 1600.
He is senior Non-Executive of Redrow Plc and a Non-Executive director of a Jersey based private property company as well as the managing director of a UK based private property company and on the Property Advisory Committee of Imperial College, London.
Harkirat Singh
Harkirat began his banking career at the Citibank training centre in Lebanon. He then moved to Grindlays Bank, where he was the country head, India for foreign exchange and securities. Following this, he worked in Deutsche Bank for 18 years, starting the bank's operation in India in 1981. He led Deutsche Bank's first foray into venture capital with an investment in India's first venture capital company 'Indus Venture Capital India Private Limited'.
After leaving Deutsche Bank, he was appointed Special advisor to the managing board of Rabobank International. In 2002, Rabobank and Harkirat were granted approval for establishing a private bank in India and Harkirat was appointed CEO and Managing Director for the new entity until end 2003.
Harkirat is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Bank Management in India, a member of the advisory board of GEMS, a private equity fund based in Hong Kong, the chairman of the finance committee of the Indian Merchants Chamber and a member of the CEO Forum of the Economic Intelligence Unit of The Economist.
Ritesh Vohra
Ritesh is an entrepreneur and professional in the real estate and retail advisory sector with an experience spanning over eleven years. His previous assignment was as the CEO at First Franchising, a boutique advisory firm focused on retail, franchise and real estate sectors. Prior to that he was an investor and director at Mediasset Holdings, a publishing company with magazine titles and TV shows in sectors like real estate and retailing. In his previous assignments he was instrumental in setting up the Real Estate Advisory business for Chesterton Meghraj India (now JLL Meghraj) and the Retail & Leisure Advisory business in North India for Jones Lang LaSalle.