Amit Dixit

Amit Dixit is Head of Asia for Blackstone Private Equity. Since joining Blackstone in 2007, Mr. Dixit has been based in Mumbai and led various investments in South Asia and global technology-enabled services. The Wall Street Journal noted that Dixit helped make India into Blackstone's best-performing market in terms of returns.

Before joining Blackstone, he was a Principal at Warburg Pincus where, over a five-and-a-half-year period, he executed a variety of private equity transactions in the technology, media, and telecom sectors. Prior to Warburg Pincus, he was the founder of Automartindia, a business with currently over 90 automotive retail outlets across India. Mr. Dixit started his career at Trilogy Software.

Mr. Dixit received an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai where he was awarded the Director's Silver Medal for graduating at the top of his program. Mr. Dixit has established the first Chair exclusively for women faculty pursuing research in science and technology at IIT Mumbai.

Career history

• Head of Asia Private Equity, Blackstone (2007–present)
• Principal, Warburg Pincus (prior to 2007)
• Founder, Automartindia
• Engineering and management positions, Trilogy Software

What Amit Dixit could bring to his role at Blackstone: Dixit's proven ability to identify and execute high-performing deals across South Asia, combined with his technical engineering background and track record building blue-chip companies like Automartindia, positions him to expand Blackstone's presence across emerging markets while maintaining rigorous value-creation discipline in technology-enabled services and infrastructure investments.