Kshitij Jain

Investment Professional · Private Equity & Venture
IIM Ahmedabad Gold Medallist · Dubai

Buy-side judgement, built on both sides of the table.

Investment professional in the UAE with a decade across buy-side and sell-side: fund selection and direct investment for a single-family office, four years as Vice President at Miras Investments running private equity and venture portfolios in the United States and Asia, and Head of Oros Investment House at Oros Asset Management in ADGM. Before that, investment banking at Barclays, consulting at BCG, and global markets at Nomura and Credit Suisse. MBA from IIM Ahmedabad as Gold Medallist, the programme's equivalent of valedictorian. Keen on investment opportunities, business valuation and portfolio construction, and on how capital is allocated when the data is thin.

Now

Selected work

Fund Selection and Direct Investment — Single-Family Office

Buy-side

Head of Investment for a UAE family office from 2024 to 2025: designed and ran the private-markets programme end to end, from manager selection and co-investments to direct deals, with an investment process built on high-conviction sourcing, rigorous diligence and clean execution.

  • 2024–2025
  • Fund selection
  • Directs & co-invests

Oros Asset Management — Oros Investment House

Buy-side

Heads the investment house and advises limited partners at an Abu Dhabi asset manager with a segregated model: a Private Office investing globally across private funds and co-investments, and Oros Hosting, a plug-and-play fund platform for managers establishing in the region.

  • ADGM · FSRA
  • Private Office
  • LP advisory

Miras Investments — Private Equity and Venture, US and Asia

Buy-side

Vice President for nearly four years at a Dubai single-family office, looking after the private equity and venture capital portfolio for the United States and Asia: direct investments and fund commitments, from screening and diligence to portfolio monitoring and exits.

  • 2020–2024
  • PE & VC
  • US · Asia

Barclays Investment Bank — Analyst

Sell-side

Eighteen months in investment banking in Mumbai after the MBA: financial modelling, valuation and transaction execution, the sell-side discipline that still shapes how he underwrites a deal.

  • 2019–2020
  • M&A & capital markets
  • Valuation

Nomura and Credit Suisse — Global Markets and Risk

Sell-side

Pre-MBA years in markets: Global Market Analyst at Nomura in Mumbai and Risk Analyst at Credit Suisse in Pune, building the quantitative and risk foundation, and clearing CFA Level II with the highest grade in eighteen of twenty topic areas.

  • 2014–2017
  • Global markets
  • CFA Level II

IIM Ahmedabad — Gold Medallist

Academic

Graduated top of the MBA class of 2019 with the Gold Medal, alongside the SBI Mutual Fund Industrial Scholarship and the Ritu Banga Scholarship for outstanding performance. Ran investor relations for the Forum for Industry Interaction, headed the investor cell, managed the FII portfolio, and captained the table-tennis team.

  • Gold Medal
  • Two scholarships
  • Investor Cell Head

Experience

  1. Aug 2024 – Nov 2025

    Head of Investment — Fund Selection and Direct Investment

    Single-family office (confidential) · United Arab Emirates

    • Led fund selection, co-investments and direct investment for the family office.
  2. Head of Oros Investment House · LP Advisor

    Oros Asset Management · Abu Dhabi (ADGM)

    • Heads the Private Office's investment activity across global private funds and co-investments; advises limited partners.
  3. Oct 2020 – Jul 2024

    Vice President

    Miras Investments · Dubai

    • Private equity and venture investments, directs and funds, for the United States and Asia.
  4. Apr 2019 – Sep 2020

    Investment Banking Analyst

    Barclays Investment Bank · Mumbai

    • Transaction execution, modelling and valuation.
  5. Apr 2018 – May 2018

    Consultant (Internship)

    Boston Consulting Group · India

    • Summer consulting internship during the MBA.
  6. Mar 2015 – Jun 2017

    Global Market Analyst

    Nomura · Mumbai

    • Global Markets division.
  7. Jun 2014 – Mar 2015

    Risk Analyst

    Credit Suisse · Pune

    • Risk analysis; joined a Habitat for Humanity build in Chimatewadi, Karjat, through the firm's philanthropy programme.
  8. 2012 – 2013

    Internships

    KPMG · Tata Power · Gurugram · Delhi

    • Management consulting intern at KPMG; technical intern at Tata Power.

Education

Honours

Expertise

Investing
  • Fund selection & manager diligence
  • Direct investments
  • Co-investments
  • Venture capital
  • Private equity
  • Portfolio management
  • LP advisory
Analysis
  • Business valuation
  • Financial modelling
  • Risk analysis
  • Global markets
  • CFA curriculum
Markets & networks
  • United States
  • Asia
  • GCC family offices
  • ADGM · DIFC
  • GP and founder network

Beyond the portfolio

Contact

Open to conversations with general partners raising in the Gulf, founders seeking family-office capital, and family offices building their private-markets programme.