Ravi Kanth Mantha (born 1972 or 1973) is an Indian businessman, investor, author, and former economic and political advisor.

Early life and education

Mantha was born and raised in

Hyderabad, India Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

where he attended The Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur. Mantha earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the

University of Puget Sound The University of Puget Sound is a private liberal arts college in Tacoma, Washington, United States. It was founded in 1888. The institution offers a variety of undergraduate degrees as well as five graduate programs in counseling, education, oc ...

in 1994. He also earned the CFA (chartered financial analyst) charter from the CFA Institute (previously known as AIMR), in 1997.

Career

In 2001, Mantha began working at

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as a portfolio manager for a fund worth around $1 billion. Mantha continued working at Fidelity till 2011, and by then the fund had grown to $34 billion. In 2012, Mantha met

Srikanth Bolla Srikanth Bolla (born 7 July 1991) is an Indian industrialist and the founder Chairman of Bollant Industries. He was the first visually impaired student in Management Science at the Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Techno ...

Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...

after being introduced by a common friend. Together, Bolla and Mantha would found Bollant Industries, an organization that employs uneducated and disabled employees to manufacture eco-friendly packaging solutions. In 2016, Bollant received backing from billionaire

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. As of 2022, Bollant Industries was worth an estimated £48 million. In 2013, Mantha published his first book, ''All About Bacteria'' with

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. In 2014, Mantha was a political advisor to the

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. Mantha assisted

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with his 2014 election strategy. The same year, Mantha published ''A Journey: Poems by Narendra Modi'', translating Modi's poetry from Gujarati to English. In 2015, Mantha published his third book, ''The Baby Elephant Diet: A Modern Indian Guide to Eating Right''. Mantha and his wife Kavitha own and operate the Baby Elephant Farm, a 17-acre food forest in Shankarpally, Telangna along with Sage Sustainable Living, a store selling raw produce from their farm and Sage Farm Cafe, an organic restaurant in Hyderabad.

In popular culture

In 2022, a biopic film '' Srikanth'', featuring

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in the lead role of Srikanth Bolla was announced with Sharad Kelkar playing the supporting role of Ravi Mantha. The film released on 10 May 2024 with Kelkar's performance as Mantha being generally praised.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mantha, Ravi Living people People from Hyderabad, India 21st-century Indian businesspeople Indian writers Year of birth missing (living people)