From Management Buyout to Fund of Funds | P. V. Ramanathan (Ram) Interview

From Management Buyout to Fund of Funds | P. V. Ramanathan (Ram) Interview

April 5, 2026 · 1h 14m

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The episode features an interview with P.V. Ramanathan discussing his journey from a management buyout to establishing a fund of funds.

In this episode, I sit down with P.V. Ramanathan, or Ram, to unpack the story of how he helped lead a management buyout of a struggling cathodic protection business in 2003 and turned it into Corrosion Technology Services ( https://ctscp.com/ ). Himself local to Dubai, Ram's company, CTS, includes 10 companies operating across 8 countries and 3 regions. The free cash flow generation gave Ram the ability to build Neeti Fund, a fund-of-funds built around a simple but highly selective strategy:...

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