Shantanu Bhagwat,
Amadeus Capital Partners

In his role as Business Development Partner for Asia at Amadeus, Shantanu is deeply involved in supporting portfolio companies doing business in the region, providing business development resources throughout Asia. He is also involved in due diligence and developing strategic VC partnerships for Amadeus in the region.

Shantanu brings to his work 15 years of broad international business, marketing and strategic experience - in Europe as well as in Asia - where he worked for several years in Japan and in India.

He joined Amadeus in 2001 from Monitor Co. in London. At Amadeus, his portfolio responsibilities include Power Paper (a deal that he co-led in 2003), Red-M and NanoMagnetics.

Prior to Monitor, at SmithKline Beecham, Shantanu wrote the e-business strategy document for the SB International division. Before that, Shantanu spent several years in the Indian Foreign Service as a fast-track career diplomat, including a 4-year posting in Japan.

A graduate in Computer Engineering from India, Shantanu is also a gifted linguist, fluent in Japanese, Hindi, Marathi and of course, English. He holds an MBA from London Business School where he was a Chevening Scholar and is a frequent speaker & panellist at conferences on emerging opportunities in Asia.


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