NEW YORK, NEW YORK – September 29, 2014 – Vestar Capital Partners, a leading U.S. private equity firm, today announced the addition of Nikhil Bhat and Alexander Kerr to the Firm as Senior Associates.
Nikhil Bhat graduated earlier this year from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he earned his M.B.A. with distinction as an Arjay Miller Scholar. He joins Vestar as a Senior Associate in the Firm’s Diversified Industries Group. Prior to business school, Mr. Bhat worked on the Industrials team at Advent International, where he focused on private equity investments in the building products, capital equipment and distribution sectors. He began his career as a consultant at Bain & Company. Mr. Bhat received a B.S. in Economics, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2007.
Alex Kerr also joins Vestar as a Senior Associate in the Diversified Industries Group. Prior to joining Vestar, he was an Associate at Madison Dearborn Partners, where he evaluated LBO and structured equity investment opportunities across the healthcare, consumer and industrial sectors. He has held analyst positions in the Global Markets and Investment Banking group at Merrill Lynch and in the Citigroup Capital Markets and Banking unit. He holds a B.S., cum laude, from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (2006) and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2014).
