Ani Ajith is a Vice President with the Builders Fund. Ani has over a decade of experience in Impact private equity as both an investor and operator. Most recently, he served as senior advisor to a PE-backed healthcare business and previously worked with a sustainable infrastructure fund managing $1.5B+ in assets. He began his career as a founding team member at The Vistria Group, where he was responsible for theme development, deal sourcing & execution, and value creation initiatives for impact-oriented, middle-market healthcare platform investments. Ani earned a Booth MBA & Masters of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where he was named a Tarrson Fellow and a Quern Fellow. During his graduate program, Ani developed & launched a SaaS startup providing pragmatic sustainability reporting solutions for private equity firms. He received his BA from Northwestern University, where he served as student body president.
Ani is an alumni volunteer leader at Northwestern and previously served on the Associate Board of the Field Museum (Chicago). Ani enjoys traveling with his wife, organizing supper clubs to explore neighborhood cuisines, and reading & writing speculative fiction.
