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Vishal Mehta |
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Co-founder and Partner |
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vmehta@lokcapital.com
Vishal is co-founder of Lok Capital Fund and he started its investment business and operations in India in late 2004. Since then he has played the lead role in building Lok Capital as a premier venture capital fund focused on investing in base of the pyramid enterprises. Lok Capital is one of the first social VCs focused on India and backed by institutional investors and currently has close to $80m of assets under management,
Prior to Lok, Vishal worked for about a decade in delivering marketing and business development services in the financial services and telecom sector, both in developed as well as developing economies. He worked with one of the largest issuers of credit cards in US, Capital One and led their sub-prime outbound telemarketing vertical. Prior to that he was working primarily in the telecom sector where he began his career in India during the first round of privatization and mobile technology licensing in early-mid nineties. He managed several key operator accounts for Siemens in India and worked on launching new wireless equipment in Malaysia and Germany. He continued his telecom sector marketing and product strategy work with PRTM, a management consulting firm based out of their Washington DC’s office.
Though most of his pre-Lok Capital experience has been in the private sector, he has worked as consultant to social projects in India and Kenya. Vishal holds an Engineering degree from Delhi University and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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