Jayesh Parekh

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Biography

Mr. Jayesh Parekh serves as an Advisor at Aavishkaar Capital. He serves as an Advisor at Sanctum Wealth. He served as Board Member at One Animation. He is a Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures. He Co-Founded Sony Pictures Television. He is one of the Founders of Sony Entertainment Television, a major television network launched in collaboration with Sony Japan. He is also a board member of Shemaroo Entertainment (media & entertainment) and Milaap (crowd-sourced lending platform). He is an active angel investor with investments in various Venture Capital Funds in Silicon Valley and start-up enterprises across the broad technology and media space. Prior to the above ventures, he spent over 12 years at IBM in various technical, sales and marketing positions based in Houston and Singapore and was part of the team that brought IBM back to India. He is on the Board and the Investment Committee of Aavishkaar India II Fund, which is a social impact fund. He has served on the Board of United Way International for 6 years and he was on the Board of SONG, a fund owned by Soros, Omidyar Network and Google, which invests in SMEs in India that meet social objectives. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India and a Masters's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Advisor to Dasra, Toniic and Blume Ventures, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD, a mentor at NUS Enterprise, a Chief Mentor at the Hub Singapore and a member of TiE Angels, Indian Angel Network and Mumbai Angel Network.