Blackstone adds to its India team

Blackstone has poached Amit Dixit from Warburg Pincus to join the firm in its Mumbai offices as a principal. Dixit was earlier a principal at Warburg Pincus, based in New York, with a focus on transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Dixit joined Warburg Pincus from Harvard Business School. Before he went to Harvard he was co-founder of a web portal in India for buying and selling used cars called www.automartindia.com. Dixit started the portal after he gr…