Manoj Badale


Manoj Badale OBE was born in Dhule, Maharashtra. He is the Co-Owner of Rajasthan Royals, an Indian Premier League Team representing Jaipur, Rajasthan. Manoj is the co-founder and managing partner of Blenheim Chalcot, and the chairman of the British Asian Trust.
Manoj was formerly a partner at Monitor Company, and went on to co-found the Netdecisions Group with Charles Mindenhall. Amongst others, they co-founded Fluency, Eviivo, and Steeltrace.
In media, they co-founded the Rights Company, Contentive and Instrumental.
In financial services, they co-founded TDX Group, Clear Start, Grove Capital, Corporate Pay and BMS Finance. More recent investments include Oakbrook Finance, Liberis, ClearScore, OpenWrks, Salary Finance and Modulr Finance.  
In education, they have developed AVADO, an integrated, large scale provider of online professional learning, as well as Arch, a digital apprenticeships provider and co-founded Hive Learning.
In June 2018, Manoj was awarded an OBE for services to the economy and charity.

IPL Investment and Controversy

In 2008, he along with a consortium of investors, Lachlan Murdoch, Illyria Pty Ltd; and Suresh Chellaram, an independent C.G. investor acquired the Jaipur IPL team ‘Rajasthan Royals’. Badale, along with Ranjit Barthakur, soon became the source of controversy when inappropriate and fictitious bids were made, violating BCCI norms. Ranjit Barthakur and Fraser Castellino were the only two shareholders of the Jaipur IPL, completely unknown to the BCCI at the time. An out of court settlement between the two later ensued.