Bharat Rao

NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Bharat is the Global CEO at Startek and non-executive director at Capital Square Partners.

Prior to his role as the Global CEO at Startek, he was a Managing Partner at CSP. He currently serves as a Director on the boards of Startek and CCC, a joint venture of Startek in the Middle East. He is also a Director at CSS Corp. At CSP, Bharat has led portfolio management and oversight and co-led bolt on acquisitions and exits.

Bharat has over three decades of experience supporting stakeholders on transactions in excess of US$10 billion in Private Equity, Structured finance, Restructuring and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) across industry sectors.

Prior to CSP, Bharat was a Managing Director with the investment banking arm of Credit Suisse in Asia with a strong focus on financial sponsors. Before Credit Suisse, Bharat was a Managing Director with ING Bank as their Managing Director in Southeast Asia. As a Partner with the Australian practice of PwC, he built a strong mid market buy side advisory practice in the restructuring and M&A space in South East Asia and had a successful track record of driving business transformation in this role.

Bharat has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT (Hans) and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). He has also attended executive programs at the Harvard Business School and the Said Business School at Oxford.