Pavitra Shankar is the Managing Director of Brigade Enterprises Limited, with over 20 years of experience in consulting, private equity, and real estate development. At Brigade, her primary responsibilities include strategizing and growing the company's residential business, with a keen focus on customer experience and data analytics. Ms. Shankar is also at the forefront of the company's digital transformation.

Before joining Brigade, Ms. Shankar founded and operated Legion Real Estate in Menlo Park, California, offering business development and real estate marketing consultancy to Indian developers targeting the NRI market in North America. Prior to her role in Legion Real Estate, Ms. Shankar managed portfolio analytics and fund operations at Rockwood Capital LLC. in San Francisco, a real estate private equity firm with over US$8 billion in assets under management through commingled funds and separate accounts. She also worked with Willis Towers Watson, a human capital consulting firm, within their Actuarial Consulting and Corporate Finance teams. Ms. Shankar holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Virginia and a Master’s degree in Business Administration in Real Estate and Finance from Columbia Business School, where she was awarded the Alexander Bodini Real Estate Fellowship.

Ms. Shankar serves as a Trustee of the Indian Music Experience (IME) in Bangalore, a monumental and philanthropic initiative by Brigade that is India’s only hi-tech interactive music museum. She is recognized as an industry thought leader, distinguishing herself as one of the few female leaders in the construction and real estate sectors, and was named amongst the “40 under 40” icons by Realty Plus.

She is a classically trained Carnatic vocalist and has showcased her talent in various genres including a cappella, choral, jazz, musical theatre, and soul on stage.