MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 28, 2022 (GPN): Kotak Alternate Assets, managed by Kotak Investment Advisors Limited (KIAL) today announced that it has appointed Subhamkar Das as Chief Operating Officer (COO) to lead the Kotak Data Centre platform.

Subhamkar will be a senior member of KIAL’s Alternate Asset Management team that will help build the data centre practice at KIAL. Subhamkar has around 24 years of experience & has joined KIAL from Nxtra Data Limited, where he was working as Head of Data Centre & Build. He has made significant contributions in designing data centres, physicalinfrastructure, green buildings, energy efficient & next generation Data
Centres.

Srini Sriniwasan, Managing Director, Kotak Investment Advisors Limited said, “India is at the cusp of data explosion backed by digital economy, enterprise cloud, 5G and IoT. Over the next 5 years we see the Data Centre industry grow from 650MW to 2.2GW requiring a cumulative investment of USD 7 billion. At Kotak we have always led the way identifying new Investment opportunities and invested in empowered teams to execute plans to meet our investors’ target expectations. Onboarding of Subhamkar will set the tone for Kotak Data Centre Funds’ platform, as he will be adding strength & depth to the future plans and objective of building scale to our platform.”

About Kotak Investment Advisors Ltd.

Kotak Investment Advisors Limited (KIAL), a part of the Kotak Mahindra Group (Kotak), focuses on the Alternate Assets business. KIAL was set up in early 2005 to bring a sharper focus to Kotak’s alternate assets practice and has raised/managed/advised in aggregate over USD 6.8 billion across different asset classes including Real Estate, Private Equity, Infrastructure, Special Situations Fund & Investment Advisory, all led by independent investment teams.

For more information, visit alternateassets.kotak.com