Vish Narain

Vish Narain is a private equity investor in India and South-Asia. As Partner for TPG Growth, (formerly known as Texas Pacific Group), he led billion dollar investments in India in financial services, healthcare, clean energy and retail sectors.[1][2] He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Pulsar Capital invests in India and South-Asia.

Vish Narain
NationalityIndian
Alma materIIT Delhi
Stanford University

Early life and education

Narain studied at The Doon School, a sixty-year-old school located in Dehradun, that trained many political and corporate leaders of India. He did his BTech and MTech in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1997). After working in US and in Europe with global consulting companies, Narain got an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, California.

Career

Prior to joining TPG in 2007, Narain was an investor with Bessemer Venture Partners in New York City.[3] Previous to that, he was an Engagement Manager at the global management consultancy firm, McKinsey & Company, in London, San Francisco and New York.[4] He consulted large businesses in America, Europe, South America and Asia, governments of Colombia and Venezuela in South America on telecom projects and the British government. Previous to that, he was consultant at Deloitte Consulting before going to Stanford. Narain was a Partner of TPG (Growth) India and led about 200 million-dollar in investments in India and South-East Asia.[5][6][7][8][9]

Narain serves on the board of AGS Transact Technologies, Sutures India Pvt. Ltd., and Flexituff International Limited. He is a Non-executive Director and an investor at Global Gene Corp.[10]

Awards

Narain was named by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader (2014).[11]

Narain has been named fellow 2015 by the Aspen India Leadership Institute.

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References
  1. "Sutures India: Growing In Stature with Wound-Care Products". forbesindia. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. "India's E-Tail Battleground: Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal Fight for Top slot". forbesindia. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  3. "India's PE industry opts for new strategy to combat low growth". forbes. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  4. "Fifteen alumni named to World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Class of 2014". mckinsey. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  5. Joseph Rai (10 October 2017). "TPG Growth partner Vish Narain steps down". VCCircle.
  6. "India's PE industry opts for new strategy to combat low growth". forbesindia. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  7. "If you don't get in e-commerce early enough, then it will be too late: Vish Narain". business-standard. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  8. "Soothing effect: Investors and their spiritual balm at workplaces". forbes. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  9. "Anniversary Issue Private equity's new face". livemint. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  10. "Vishwarupe (Vish) Narain". weforum. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  11. "14 Indians in WEF's Young Global Leaders class of 2014". indiatimes. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
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