Mr. Ashish Dhawan is a Co-Founder and serves as Senior Managing Director at ChrysCapital. He also serves as an Executive at Founders United Trust. Ashish is the Founder and CEO of Central Square Foundation, a venture philanthropy fund and policy think tank aimed at transforming the quality of school education in India. Prior to founding Central Square, Ashish was Sr. Managing Director, ChrysCapital, a private equity firm that he co-founded in 1999. Ashish has also worked at the Proprietary Investment Group in Goldman Sachs (New York), at GP Investments (Brazil), at McCown De Leeuw & Co. and in the Mergers Group at Wasserstein Perella. Ashish received an MBA with distinction from Harvard University in June 1997 and a dual bachelors degree (BS/BA) in applied mathematics and economics from Yale University in June 1992.