- Ramanan Raghavendran
- Tarun Pande
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Ramanan Raghavendran is the Chairman and Founder of ConnectCapital. He is also the founder and managing partner of Kubera Partners, a cross-border private equity firm. Prior to founding Kubera, he led the successful cross-border investing efforts at TH Lee Putnam Ventures since 2002 as a senior partner (and continues to oversee the THLPV portfolio). Ramanan was formerly a senior partner at Insight Venture Partners, where he invested in business process outsourcing and enterprise software companies. Prior to joining Insight, he was a senior member of the investment team at General Atlantic, where he initiated the Internet-related investment effort and also led sector efforts in technology services and enterprise software. Ramanan began his professional career at McKinsey & Company in New York and London.
Ramanan is the chairman of the advisory board of Magic Bus, a Mumbai-based charitable organization that uses innovative techniques to assist some of the most at-risk children in Mumbai. He is a member of the advisory board of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania, the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India. He also founded Impact Partners, the first venture philanthropy entity in India.
Ramanan holds a B.S. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a B.S.E. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering. |
