Potluri Vara Prasad (born 8 September 1970), is an Indian politician, businessman and entrepreneur. He  holds the position of Executive Chairman & Managing Director at PVP Ventures Ltd. and Managing Director & Executive Director at Picturehouse Media Ltd.^[3][4][5]

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Potluri Vara Prasad
Born	Potluri Vara Prasad 8 September 1970 Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	NSM Public School Andhra Loyola College KL University
Occupation(s)	Serial entrepreneur Ex Co-owner of Kerala Blasters F.C. Owner of Hyderabad HotShots CMD – PVP Ventures[1]
Political party	YSR Congress Party
Spouse	Jhansi Sureddy[2]
Children	Pearl V. Potluri (Daughter) Param V. Potluri (Son)
Website	https://www.pvpglobal.com

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Potluri Prasad was born in  Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India, to Potluri Raghavendra Rao and P Manga Taradevi. He has two siblings. He attended NSM Public School in Vijayawada, followed by Mechanical Engineering from Nagarjuna University.^[6] In 1994, he completed a Master’s degree at a university in Australia, and in 1995 arrived in the United States.^[7]

In 1996, he founded Procon, an IT services company, later acquired by RCM Technologies in 1998.^[8] In 2000, he started Albion Orion Company, which merged with SSI.^[9] in a significant cross-border transaction valued at $63.65 million.^[10]

In 2001, Prasad co-founded Irevna, a company in knowledge process outsourcing services, acquired by CRISIL in 2005.^[11][12] In 2006, he established PVP Ventures a publicly traded corporation involved in media and entertainment financing.^[13] Under Prasad's leadership, PVP Ventures entered film production with PVP Cinema and also secured the Hyderabad Hotshots^[14] franchise in the Indian Badminton League,^[15][16][17] participating in the inaugural season in 2013.^[18]

Prasad is also engaged in philanthropy, serving as the chief patron of the Prasad V. Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology^[19][20][21] and a patron at the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute.^[22] Presently, he maintains strategic investments in Maven Corp,^[23][24] Karvy Consultants,^[25] and is a founding investor of CBay Systems.^[26][27]

In 2019, Potluri Prasad joined the YSR Congress Party prior to the elections. He received confirmation from the YCP leadership for the Vijayawada Lok Sabha ticket. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy extended a warm welcome to him as a new member of the party.^[28] However, in the election, Prasad was defeated by Telugu Desam candidate Kesineni Srinivas by a margin of 8,720 votes.^[29][30]