Mala Gaonkar

Mala Gopal Gaonkar (born November 1969) is an American businesswoman, and the co-portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital.[1]

Mala Gaonkar
Born
Mala Gopal Gaonkar

November 1969 (age 50)
United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard College
Harvard Business School
Occupationbusinesswoman
Home townBangalore, India
Titleco-portfolio manager, Lone Pine Capital
Spouse(s)Oliver Haarmann
Children2 sons

Early life

Gaonkar was born in November 1969[2] in the US and mostly raised in Bangalore, India.[3] She earned a degree from Harvard College in 1991, and later an MBA from Harvard Business School.[1]

Career

Gaonkar worked for the Boston Consulting Group, before joining Lone Pine Capital.[1]

She is a trustee of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and is a founding trustee of Ariadne Labs and The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering[4]. She is a member of the advisory board of The Economist and is a trustee of The Paris Review Foundation and of the Tate.[1]

In 2015, she was one of the founders of Surgo, a non-profit organisation focused on public health service delivery innovation.[3] She is collaborating with musician David Byrne on a theatrical neuroscience project called Theater of the Mind.[5][6]

Personal life

Gaonkar is married to private equity businessman Oliver Haarmann.[3] They have two sons, and live in London.[7]

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References
  1. "Tate - Board of Trustees - Mala Gaonkar". Tate. Archived from the original on 6 March 2018.
  2. "Mala Gopal Gaonkar - Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  3. Comita, Jenny (24 May 2017). "Meet Mala Gaonkar and Sema Sgaier, the Women Troubleshooting the World's Crises". W Magazine.
  4. "Mala Gaonkar - Trustee". Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  5. David Byrne's Theatrical Thought Experiment in Silicon Valley, KQED, 25 October 2016
  6. Artscene: David Byrne and co. blend science and art in Menlo Park, The Almanac, 3 November 2016
  7. "Tate: Appointment of Mala Gaonkar" (PDF). Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. 8 March 2010.
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