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Prabhu Raman

Director at IlluminAid

Prabhu is a real estate private equity professional with global experience investing in and growing early-stage companies that build and manage real estate. Prabhu has spent over 6 years at Macquarie Group (an Australian investment bank) helping grow and manage $8B in entity-level and joint venture investments. Prior to Macquarie Group, Prabhu spent 6 years with Merrill Lynch’s Real Estate Investment group helping manage $6B of real estate joint ventures and operating companies with a specific focus on emerging markets such as Brazil, Argentina, India and Turkey as well as U.S, U.K, Germany and Japan. He focuses on investment structuring and management and in particular mentoring management teams on efficient and effective business scaling.

He is widely traveled and beyond investment outcomes he values the contact and cultural enrichment he has gained from people on the ground in various countries.

Between the late 1990s and mid-2000s Prabhu was an attorney at large global law firms in New York and Sydney, Australia with experience ranging from litigation and real estate to project finance. Prabhu is an admitted attorney in New York, California and Australia. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, Australia with a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) with merit and a Bachelor of Laws.