Prasad Vara Potluri

Potluri Vara Prasad (born 8 September 1970), is a serial entrepreneur and Philanthropist. He is Executive Chairman & Managing Director at PVP Ventures Ltd. an active educationist.

Potluri Prasad was born in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India, to Potluri Raghavendra Rao and P Manga Taradevi. He has two siblings. He attended NSM Public School in Vijayawada, followed by Mechanical Engineering from Nagarjuna University. In 1994, he completed a Master’s degree at a university in Australia, and in 1995 arrived in the United States.

In 1996, he founded Procon, an IT services company, later acquired by RCM Technologies in 1998. In 2000, he started Albion Orion Company, which merged with SSI. in a significant cross-border transaction valued at $63.65 million.

In 2001, Prasad co-founded Irevna, a company in knowledge process outsourcing services, acquired by CRISIL in 2005. In 2006, he established PVP Ventures a publicly traded corporation involved in media and entertainment financing.[10] Under Prasad's leadership, PVP Ventures entered film production with PVP Cinema and also secured the Hyderabad Hotshots[11] franchise in the Indian Badminton League,[12][13][14] participating in the inaugural season in 2013.[15]

Prasad is also engaged in philanthropy, serving as the chief patron of the Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology[16][17][18] and a patron at the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute.[19] Presently, he maintains strategic investments in Maven Corp,[20][21] Karvy Consultants,[22] and is a founding investor of CBay Systems.[23][24]