Vijay Curthan

Vijay is an Investment Director with Catapult’s GM&C Life Sciences Fund. He joined Catapult Ventures in January 2020 and is responsible for leading and managing investments.

He has 12 years’ experience working in private equity, having previously been an investment banker and a pharma industry executive. Vijay is also a Director of Moor Park House care home, a specialist healthcare and rehabilitation facility caring for people with complex needs.

Vijay started his career at Schroders on their graduate training program before working for Citigroup in London and New York. He then joined GlaxoSmithKline as an internal strategy consultant, before moving to the healthcare corporate finance team at Deloitte, where he was an Assistant Director. After a stint with EmiratesNBD in Dubai, he then moved to Muscat to work for the State General Reserve Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Oman. Thereafter, he was a Vice-President at the Investment Corporation of Dubai, a UAE sovereign wealth fund, where he was part of the team that managed over $10bn of assets. Most recently, he was based in Mauritius and led a $400m private equity fund focused on healthcare investments across sub-Saharan Africa.

Vijay graduated from Cambridge University with a BA in Natural Sciences and Economics and also holds an LLB from the University of London.