Biography

Amit Dalmia is Asia Head Portfolio Operations and Senior Managing Director in the Corporate Private Equity group of Blackstone.

Mr. Dalmia has over 25 years of experience in leading businesses and creating value across multiple companies in diverse sectors. As part of Blackstone Private Equity (BX) leadership team in Asia, Amit is responsible for shaping Blackstone’s business strategy, fund-raise, execution of new investments, and steering strategic and operational improvements across portfolio companies to enhance business performance and effect business turnarounds. With the strong returns to our Limited Partners, BX India has been the best performing geography within the firm globally and one of the best-performing private equity firms in India.

Along with the leadership teams of the portfolio companies, Mr. Dalmia drives value creation strategy in Asia by defining and executing levers of growth and operating efficiencies. Projects he has spearheaded include Backstone’s investment in Mphasis (one of the largest private equity transactions in India), the NASDAQ listing of TaskUs and the exit of Intelenet.

Mr. Dalmia is currently on the Boards of Mphasis, R Systems and PGP Glass. Prior to BX, he was a part of the leadership team at Hindustan Unilever India.

Mr. Dalmia received a B.Com. (Hons.) from St. Xaviers’ College from the University of Kolkata, India. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA), Company Secretary (CS) and Cost Accountant (ICWA) and a three-time gold medalist for securing first-ranks in the country. He has undergone management training program with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Outside of work, he is a fitness enthusiast and has participated in Comrades (87 km uphill run in South Africa), multiple marathons and ultra-marathons.