Chandu Chilakapati

Partner at Aprio Advisory Group

Speaker

Chandu Chilakapati is a Partner at Aprio in Houston with over 25 years of experience in valuation and risk management consulting. He has provided fair valuations for corporate clients, private equity, and private credit across various instruments, including equity, debt, convertible debt, swaps, and exotic options, primarily in energy, interest rate, and foreign currency markets. His work includes reports on purchase price allocations, portfolio valuation, stock-based compensation, derivative and hedge accounting, and tax valuations.

Before joining Aprio, Chandu led Alvarez and Marsal's Valuation Services practice in Houston and served as Head of Innovation and Complex Financial Instruments. He was also President of ValSource Advisory Services, where he developed web-based software for valuing swaps and options. Chandu has held roles at KPMG and Arthur Andersen and started his career at Rice University, working on the trading floor at El Paso Energy with natural gas options, transportation, and weather derivatives.