Portrait of Hemendra Kothari

Rank #2138

Hemendra Kothari

Net worth $2.0B

Financial services · India

Born
Aug 26, 1946
Age
79
Source
Financial services
Residence
Mumbai
Citizenship
India
Marital status
Widowed
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Economics, University of Mumbai

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Veteran investment banker Hemendra Kothari founded Mumbai-based DSP Mutual Fund in 2008.
  • He founded the firm in partnership with BlackRock but bought out BlackRock's stake ten years later.
  • Kothari started his career with family firm D.S. Purbhoodas & Co before founding financial services firm DSP Financial Consultants in 1975.
  • He partnered with Merrill Lynch in 1995 but sold his 57% stake in tranches between 2005 and 2009.
  • His daughter Aditi Kothari Desai is chairperson at DSP.
  • A wildlife enthusiast, he founded the Wildlife Conservation Trust and has named meeting rooms at his office after tiger reserves.
  • His great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Bombay Stock Exchange.
  • His younger brother Yogesh Kothari, founded and runs specialty chemicals company Alkyl Amines.