| Mr. Shrivastava is a partner with ePlanet Capital, a global technology venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley which manages assets over $750MM. His investment areas include TMT, Internet, Mobile, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning sectors. He has invested in the US, UK, Western & Eastern Europe, Middle East, India, Latin America and Africa. He was the founding investor in multiple Virgin Mobile businesses in Latin America, Middle East and Central & Eastern Europe. He also led the first investment in Singularity University along with Google and NASA. Prior to that, he was the founding member in Vodafone’s African operations where he helped launch businesses in multiple sub-Saharan countries. Mr. Shrivastava started his career as an investment banker with Dresdner Bank in New York where he worked on US-EU cross border M&A transactions. He holds a double MBA from Columbia University and University of California Berkeley, an MS in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology where he received the Presidential Silver Medal. He has published research in the International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems; and the Society of Automotive Engineers. He is also a CFA, CAIA, FRM and CMT Charterholder. |
