Siddharth Yog is the founding partner of Xander Group Inc, an emerging markets focused investment firm that currently manages assets in excess of $3 billion. He is also the founder and chairman of Virtuous Retail, an institutional owner and operator of over 10 million sq. ft of community focused shopping centres present in gateway cities across India. From 2014 to 2019, he served as a faculty member at Harvard Business School, where he wrote cases and taught courses on investing in emerging markets, and real property asset management. He has previously worked with CBRE in Hong Kong, Singapore, and India, and with Bain & Company in New York. In 2006, he was voted by Private Equity Real Estate as one of the 20 global stars of the future.
Siddharth is a member of the President’s Global Advisory Council, and of the committee on university resources at Harvard University. He is also a co-founder and member of the governing body at Ashoka University in India, member of the board of trustees at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, member of the international advisory council at Lincoln Center in New York, and chair of Yuj Kutumb, Yog Foundation.
Siddharth received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Delhi, and was head of the students’ union at Shri Ram College of Commerce. He earned an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, and was elected as a Baker Scholar and president of his class.
