Intellect Design Arena Appoints Suresh Eshwara Prabhala As An Independent Director
Intellect Design Arena Limited appoints Suresh Eshwara Prabhala as an Independent Director for a term of five years, effective from October 30, 2026, to October 29, 2031.
Prabhala is an experienced financial services professional with 28 years of experience in the Indian financial services industry, with the last 22 years focused on leading and managing private equity investments in India. His investment focus is on privately held, mid-market companies that are family-owned and run, with core sectors of focus being manufacturing, healthcare and business services. Currently, He is the CIO at 2380 Capital – a newly established alternative investment fund. Previously, he was General Partner and Co-Founder of ADV Partners Capital Management (ADV), an Asia-focused private equity firm with total assets under management of USD 1.25 billion.
Before co-founding ADV in 2009, he set up the India business as Managing Director and Head of India for Mount Kellett Capital Management, a global private equity fund with USD 8 billion under management, where he was also a member of the Global Investment Committee. Immediately before that, he was Executive Director and India head for Principal Investments at JPMorgan. He was part of the group’s Asia Management Committee and also on the Management Committee of JPMorgan India. Suresh began his career as a credit analyst at CRISIL and worked at Arthur Andersen in its corporate finance team.
He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering (DCE).
