| Founder
and Senior Managing Director, Monsoon Capital LLC
Gautam Prakash is founder and Senior Managing
Director of Monsoon Capital. The firm currently
manages Monsoon India Inflection Fund L.P., a hedge
fund investing in mid-market Indian companies using
a private equity-like approach. Prior to launching
Monsoon Capital in 2004, Mr. Prakash was an advisor
to ChrysCapital, a multi- billion dollar private
equity fund based in New Delhi which invests in
private and publicly-traded Indian companies.
From 1993 through 2001, Mr. Prakash was a venture
capitalist, most recently serving as a General Partner
at Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) in Boston, MA.
BVP is the country's oldest venture capital firm
and manages over $1 billion. Mr. Prakash co-led
the health care practice and served on the boards
of numerous portfolio companies. He led over 20
investments primarily in healthcare services, enterprise
software, and IT services. Prior to joining BVP,
he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey
& Company in New York from 1991 - 1993.
Mr. Prakash is the former President and Chairman
of Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Boston chapter, and
a member of the Board of Trustees of TiE Inc. TiE
is a global organization devoted to the advancement
of entrepreneurship, primarily among South Asians.
Mr. Prakash holds a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics
and Biochemistry and a B.A. in Economics from Yale
University, summa cum laude, with Distinction in
Economics, graduating 1991. |