Kumar Doraiswami

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Mr. Kumar Doraiswami serves as Founding Partner & Member Investment Committee at Tribeca Early Stage Partners. He is a serial investor in the private markets since 1998 with a portfolio of 30 companies spread across fintech, deep technology, biomedical, and natural foods spaces. He seeks a deep, below-the-hood understanding of all his investments. This has made his counsel valuable to C-suite executives of many of his companies on issues surrounding revenue expansion, sales strategy, capital raises, partnerships, and exits. As a founding member of the TESP Investment Committee, he brings twenty-five years of financial services experience and an expert understanding of technology, data, fixed income/equity/FX derivatives, institutional capital markets, and quantitative finance. Prior to TESP, his experience included derivatives research at Salomon Brothers; followed by executive management experience at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, and Natixis Capital Markets. He also founded and ran a quantitative hedge fund and helped the electronic swap trading start-up (TrueEX) gain significant market share in the competitive cleared swaps market against incumbents Bloomberg and Tradeweb. He serves as Board Advisor and Chair of the Investment Committee of the IIT Madras Foundation, an endowment dedicated to making his alma mater improve its standing as a world-class research and technology institution. He holds B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, MS in Mechanical & Aerospace Science from University of Rochester, and MBA in Finance & Decision Sciences from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.