Mercatus founder and veteran fintech leader joins PortF to accelerate product-market fit and scale growth in private markets technology.

London, UK — October 25, 2025 — PortF, the intelligent portfolio monitoring platform for private markets, today announced the appointment of Haresh Patel to its Board of Directors.

Patel is founder and former CEO of Mercatus, where he built the world’s largest private market asset management platform, hosting over $1.5 trillion in energy, infrastructure, real estate, and natural resources assets for global private equity firms. Under his leadership, Mercatus became a cornerstone technology provider to investors managing real assets across multiple regions and strategies, serving some of the industry’s most demanding institutional clients.

“Haresh brings an exceptional combination of vision, execution, and credibility in scaling technology for private markets,” said Alex Lu, CEO of PortF. “His experience building Mercatus from initial product-market fit through to industry-standard platform - while maintaining the customer-obsessed culture that defined their success - is exactly what we need as we enter our next phase of growth.”

At PortF, Patel will focus on three critical areas: refining product-market fit as the platform evolves, accelerating client acquisition among institutional investors, and ensuring PortF delivers the exceptional customer experience that drives retention and referrals in enterprise fintech.

“I’m thrilled to join PortF’s Board at a time when private markets are undergoing a fundamental digital transformation,” said Haresh Patel. “PortF is tackling the most critical challenges investors face - data fragmentation, disjointed workflows, and lack of actionable intelligence. Having scaled Mercatus through similar market dynamics, I know that winning in this space requires not just great technology, but exceptional client relationships and an obsessive focus on solving real investor problems. I’m excited to help the PortF team achieve both.”

With Patel’s appointment, PortF continues to strengthen its leadership and advisory network as it scales to serve institutional investors across alternative assets.