Gautam Ahuja

Gautam Ahuja is General Partner of Blue Scorpion Investments and has been instrumental in deal sourcing, deal structuring and actively managing the fund on an everyday basis.
On the business side, Gautam is actively engaged with each portfolio company helping them manage growth effectively and efficiently while having a clear path to profitability.
Currently, Gautam sits on the board of Thursday Boots and Smilo Baby.
Prior to co-founding BSI, he worked at Credit Suisse Investment Bank for 15 years.
His previous position was as Managing Director in the Equities Division as Head of Structured Products Trading for the Americas, where he structured and risk managed various derivative instruments for large blue chip corporations, insurance companies, hedge funds, pension and pension funds, and high net worth individuals.
While at Credit Suisse, Mr. Ahuja had a strong track record and as a Trader he always generated positive returns.
Under his leadership ‘Structured Products’ remained a profitable business of the bank.
Prior to Credit Suisse, he was a successful and visionary entrepreneur and co-founded the first wireless Internet company to stream audio over mobile phones called Movingaudio.
In addition to his knowledge and expertise in finance and venture capital, Mr. Ahuja conducts expertise in consumer markets through his direct and lengthy experience as an investor, entrepreneur and advisor / board member to several successful focused consumer brands both within and outside the BSI portfolio.
Gautam has a BSc (Hons) in Business Management from King’s College, University of London.