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| Rajiv B. Lall: Rajiv B. Lall has over twenty years of experience as an investor and advisor with Warburg Pincus in Singapore and New York, as an economist and policy advisor with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, the World Bank in Washington D.C., the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines, and in academia. In January 2005, he took over the role of MD & CEO of IDFC (Infrastructure Development Finance Company) in India. From 1997 till 2004, Rajiv was with Warburg Pincus, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. At Warburg Pincus, Rajiv has focused on investing in financial services and the firm’s portfolio allocation and strategy decisions on a global basis. He has represented the firm on the board of a number of portfolio companies and is member of the firm’s Economics Advisory Committee. Rajiv holds a BA from the University of Oxford and Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. |
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Donald Peck: Donald Peck is former Managing Partner of the South Asian operations of Actis (previously known as the Common Wealth Development Corporation). Actis is one the most active venture capital investors in emerging markets around the world. Dr. Peck is a veteran venture investor in South Asia, and also has experience in emerging markets elsewhere from a stint at IFC. Dr. Peck, who joined Actis in 1991, was responsible for helping to develop Actis' equity investment business and then for setting up its fund management business worldwide before moving to India to set up its India venture capital business in Bangalore in 1995. Before joining Actis, he worked in the equity investment/fund management business of IFC in Washington, D.C. and, before that, in investment banking in Latin America for Lloyds Bank and Morgan Grenfell. |
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Vishal Mehta - Co-founder and Managing Director: Started Lok’s operations in Oct 2004, leading the close of its first fund and investments in five portfolio MFIs; previously worked for ten years in the financial services and telecom sectors in the US, Europe and Asia with Capital One, Siemens and PRTM; MBA from University of Michigan and Engineering degree from Delhi University. |
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Venky Natarajan - Managing Director: Over fourteen years of experience in product development and venture capital at Intel; led several equity deals in design software, computing and wireless technology sectors and acted as operational consultant to various MFIs in India; MBA from Cornell University and Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Chennai. |
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Sandeep Lohani - MFI Operations Advisor:
Ten years of experience in sales & distribution, business planning and corporate strategy; former pan-India head of franchisee channels for Tata AIG General Insurance Company and led ITC e-Choupal initiatives in UP and Rajasthan; MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Mumbai University and Bachelor’s degree in Electronics. |
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Ashish Jain - Chief Financial Officer: Over eight years working with Actis Private Equity helping to set a PE fund and service delivery centre in India; at Actis, was responsible for fund administration, investor relations and reporting; prior to Actis, three years of experience with Escorts in the corporate finance function; Chartered Accountant. |
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Kartik Desai - Vice President - Investments: Over five years of experience working with Merrill Lynch executing capital market, M&A and PE transactions in India and previously for the BTS Group as a management consultant in the US; fellowships with UNDP West Africa and Rockefeller Foundation; Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia and BSc in Economics from Wharton. |
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Tyler Bolender - Associate: Three years of experience as operations analyst with TransUnion in the US and fellowship assignments with leading MFIs in South Asia including the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and KAS Foundation/Jagannatha and Spandana in India; BA in Political Science and minor in Economics from California Polytechnic Institute. |
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Ami Karnik - Portfolio Associate: Three years of experience working with Bhagini Nivedita Gramin Vigyan Niketan, helping to set up its microfinance operations in India, and Goldman Sachs, as an Analyst in the Public Sector and Infrastructure Investment Banking Group in the US; Fulbright Scholar and BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University. |
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Melanie Bowen - Senior Advisor: Responsible for new initiatives at Lok including SPM, education and healthcare; over thirteen years of experience with Revolution Health, Discovery Communications, McKinsey & Co and Price Waterhouse Coopers spanning the US, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean; JD from Harvard Law School and BA from Dartmouth College. |
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Vijay Advani: Vijay C. Advani is Executive Vice President of Global Advisor Services of Franklin Templeton. He is responsible for Franklin Templeton's global retail initiatives, marketing and product development. He is an Officer of Franklin Resources, Inc., a member of the Product Oversight Committee and Enterprise Risk Management Committee, and is a board member of various Franklin Templeton subsidiaries. Prior to joining the Templeton organization, Mr. Advani was employed by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). During his ten years career with the IFC, Mr. Advani worked on several emerging economies in the former Soviet Union, Asia, Middle East and Africa. Mr. Advani received an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he graduated as a Foreign Student Scholar and a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Bombay, India. |
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Gregory E. McGowan: Gregory E. McGowan is Executive Vice President, Director and General Counsel of Templeton International, Inc. the organization responsible for the development and operation of Templeton businesses outside of North America. Mr. McGowan joined the Templeton organization in 1986 and also serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the U.S. holding company, Templeton Worldwide, Inc. and Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Templeton Global Advisors Limited (a Bahamian corporation). Prior to joining the Templeton organization, Mr. McGowan was a senior attorney for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. McGowan holds a B.A. in Economics/International Affairs from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. from the University of Paris and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. |
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Bunty Chand: Bunty Chand is Executive Director of Asia Society India. Ms. Chand is responsible for fundraising, development of diverse programs and establishing relationships and building support for the Asia Society India Centre with a broad array of institutions in India. She has worked with the International Catholic Migration Commission at a refugee camp in the Philippines and spent ten years with AT&T in USA and Hong Kong in the areas of sales and marketing, Strategy and Business Development, Human resources and Training and Development. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University, USA and the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines, and Masters in Special Education from Florida Atlantic University and a Bachelors degree in History from Delhi University. She has lived and worked in the US, Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore. |
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Mark Straub: Mark joined Lok from Banc of America Securities in San Francisco where he worked as an analyst advising public and private technology companies on corporate finance and M&A. While at Lok, Mark helped lead the investment in Spandana. Following 15 months in India, Mark returned to the US and joined the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund in Menlo Park, California, a $300M fund investing in revenue-stage technology companies across a range of sectors including clean tech, mobile communications and software. |
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Sakshi Varma: Prior to joining Lok, Sakshi worked with EDA Rural Systems and has been involved in impact assessment studies of Microfinance activities in South and South-East Asia. While at Lok she helped invest in Janalakshmi and Satin. Sakshi is now a vice- president in the microfinance group at HSBC. |
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Preeth Gowdar: Preeth was previously with Accenture in their Management Consulting division, serving clients in a variety of industries, throughout the United States, Europe and India. At Lok, Preeth worked extensively on the Ujjivan transaction. Preeth is now a student at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. |
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