Aditi Kothari Desai elevated as Chairperson of DSP Asset Managers

Aditi Kothari Desai, Chairperson, DSP Asset Managers

Mumbai

DSP Asset Managers has elevated Aditi Kothari Desai as Chairperson. She will assume the charge from her father, Hemendra Kothari, who had been at the helm of DSP Asset Managers since the firm’s incorporation in 1996.

Aditi represents the fifth generation of the Kothari family and the first woman at the helm in the DSP’s over 160-year legacy in financial services.

Aditi brings over two decades of hands-on experience in investments, sales, marketing and digital transformation domains. Her career began at Merrill Lynch’s investment banking group in New York, where she worked on M&A activities in the Financial Institutions Group.

Aditi joined DSP Asset Managers in 2002 and over the years has helped build and support DSP’s domestic business growth strategy, while also founding the group’s international business. She was instrumental in the digital transformation of DSP’s Asset Management Business. Aditi also serves as Chairperson of Compound Express, DSP’s fintech venture.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Aditi Kothari Desai, Chairperson, DSP Asset Managers, said the fund house is one of the few fully independent, family-run firms among India’s top 10 asset managers, and the family continues to invest its own public fund capital, which speaks to deep conviction and accountability.

Published on April 11, 2025