Chandan Khanna

Chandan Khanna is a global equity portfolio manager with roughly two decades of buy-side and financial-markets experience, currently at William Blair Investment Management, which he joined in 2025 as a portfolio manager for its Global Leaders and International Leaders strategies (e.g., the William Blair Global Leaders Fund, WGFIX, and International Leaders Fund, WILIX). He is a Chartered Accountant who began his career at KPMG (1999–2004), then moved into investment banking at Morgan Stanley (2004–2006), before earning an M.B.A. at INSEAD and building a public-equity investing career.

From 2008 to 2015 he was a Vice President and Investment Manager at Capital Group, one of the world's largest active managers. He then joined Rezayat Investments — the London investment arm of the Rezayat Group, a long-established Gulf family/industrial conglomerate — where from 2015 to 2020 he served as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, acting as lead global equity portfolio manager for the family investment company, which pursues a concentrated approach with a long-term, generational time horizon.

After Rezayat, Khanna spent 2020 to 2025 as a Senior Partner and Portfolio Manager at Eighteen48 Partners, a London-based boutique private investment office serving multi-generational family and institutional capital. There he managed the firm's global equity strategy, running the Sixteen02 Global Equities UCITS Fund (on the MontLake UCITS platform), a long-only strategy focused on companies that can compound capital attractively over a 3–5 year window. Eighteen48 is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

He holds a B.Com from the University of Mumbai and an M.B.A. from INSEAD, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Note that the stub data (Rezayat email/phone, "Managing Director & Portfolio Manager") reflects his 2015–2020 role; his current employer is William Blair.

• Invests in listed public equities, not private/venture — the "seed round / angel" tag in the source stub is not supported by any evidence found.
• Style is quality-compounder / "global leaders": seeking durable, well-run businesses that can compound capital attractively over a 3–5 year horizon (stated approach of the Sixteen02 Global Equities UCITS Fund he ran at Eighteen48).
• Concentrated, long-term orientation — consistent across Rezayat Investments (a family office investing "globally with a long-term/generational time horizon"), Eighteen48, and William Blair's Leaders franchise.
• Global mandate, sector-agnostic, spanning developed and emerging markets (Global Leaders and International Leaders strategies at William Blair).
• Background as a Chartered Accountant suggests a fundamentals- and financial-statement-driven approach to security selection.