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Blackstone adds to its India team

The US private equity firm hires Amit Dixit from Warburg Pincus in New York to beef up its India team.

By Sameera Anand

March 27, 2007

Blackstone has poached Amit Dixit from Warburg Pincus to join the firm in its Mumbai offices as a principal. Dixit was earlier a principal at Warburg Pincus, based in New York, with a focus on transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.

Dixit joined Warburg Pincus from Harvard Business School. Before he went to Harvard he was co-founder of a web portal in India for buying and selling used cars called www.automartindia.com. Dixit started the portal after he graduated with a masters in engineering from Stanford University and a bachelors of technology from the Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai.

Blackstone has closed two private equity deals in India to date in August 2006,...

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