Shekar Narasimhan is CEO of Beekman Helix India Partners. In this capacity, he is responsible for the overall performance of the company and manages its investor relationships.  Shekar is also co-Founder and Managing Partner at Beekman Advisors which provides strategic advisory and investment banking services to real estate and financial services companies in the United States.

He is formerly Managing Director of the Prudential Mortgage Capital Company, one of the nation's leading providers of commercial mortgage financing. There he headed Prudential Real Estate Fixed Income Investors, a fund manager and oversaw the agency business consisting of Fannie Mae and FHA multifamily lending. Immediately prior to Shekar’s time at Prudential, he was Chairman & CEO of the WMF Group, a publicly traded, commercial mortgage financial services company. WMF was one of the largest such firms in the country before being acquired by Prudential in 2000.

Shekar is Secretary of the National Housing Conference, on the boards of the Community Preservation Development Corp. and Low Income Investment Fund and on the Executive Committee of the National Multi Housing Council. He was appointed a Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and to the Advisory Board of Housing Development Reporter. Shekar has served several terms on the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA) Board of Directors, was the first Chair of the MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Board of Governors and founding Chair of the Campaign for Affordable Housing.