Gopal Srinivasan is the Chairman and Managing Director of TVS Capital Funds (TCF). TCF -- a growth private equity platform set up in 2007, is the largest Indian rupee capital Fund in India, with a corpus of ~?2,000 Crores. Under the leadership of Gopal, the platform has invested in more than 30 businesses that include companies like Nykaa, RBL, National Stock Exchange (NSE), Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), GoDigit, Yubi and Five Star Business Finance.

Gopal is a third-generation member of the illustrious TVS Family; his entrepreneurial career spanning well over three decades, in which he has founded, steered and scaled up over 10 new ventures across diverse verticals.

Gopal also believes that the key for building the new India is to energize educational institutions. He has contributed significantly to his alma mater. And he continues to do so as a member of Ross School of Business India Advisory Board. Gopal is also associated as a Governing Board member of Great Lakes Institute of Management-Chennai and IFMR Chennai. He is also a member of the Governing Council at Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai.

Gopal has played an extensive role in VC/PE industry’s public and regulatory policy landscape and continues to be a board member of the Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA).

Gopal is a member of SEBI’s Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee, since 2016 and he is also a Governing Council member of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH), since its inception in Dec’20.

Gopal’s pursuit of excellence in creating an environment of intellectual and creative engagement in his hometown of Chennai led him to yet another initiative to bring together diverse groups of people under the auspices of the Chennai International Center (CIC). As its chairman, he has sought to develop CIC into a think tank that brings together a cornucopia of thought leaders from business, economy, policy, science, art, culture, and governing bodies.

Gopal is the Honorary Consul General for the Kingdom of Netherlands in Tamil Nadu, in recognition of his standing in the Community.

Organizational Positions

• Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, TVS Capital Funds P Ltd
• Founder & Chairman of TVS Electronics Ltd
• Director on the Board of TVS & Sons, holding company of TVS Group & other companies in and outside the TVS Group

Board Positions: Academics

• Member, Ross School of Business Advisory Board at the University of Michigan, USA
• Former Chairman of the University of Michigan’s India Advisory Board
• Former member, Governing Councils at: Loyola Institute of Business Administration; Great Lakes Institute of Management; IFMR School of Management

Board Positions: Private Equity / Venture Capital & Advisory Councils

• Non-official member on the National Start-up Advisory Council (NSAC) being formed by the DPITT
• Governing Council member of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH)
• Member, Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee (AIPAC) of SEBI since March 2015
• Former Member, Venture Capital Investment Committee for SIDBI’s Fund of Funds for Start-ups (FFS) programme
• Former Chairman of IVCA (Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association): 2016-2018
• Former Chairman, of Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) National Committee for Private Equity & Venture Capital
• (2009-2011) and Former Chairman of CII Tamil Nadu State Council (2007-2008)
• Founding member of The Chennai Angels
• Founding member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Chennai
• Chairman, Forge CIBI (a Technology Accelerator & Incubator) hosted at the Kumaraguru College of Technology

Education

B. Com, Loyola College, Chennai & MBA from Graduate School of Bus. Admn. University of Michigan, USA