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Biography
Mala Gopal Gaonkar (born November 1969) is an American businesswoman, and the co-portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital.
Early life
Gaonkar was born in November 1969 in the US and mostly raised in Bangalore, India. She earned a degree from Harvard College in 1991, and later an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Career
Gaonkar worked for the Boston Consulting Group, before joining Lone Pine Capital.
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.She is a member of the advisory board of The Economist and is a trustee of The Paris Review Foundation and of the Tate.
In 2015, she was one of the founders of Surgo, a non-profit organisation focused on public health service delivery innovation. She is collaborating with musician David Byrne on a theatrical neuroscience project called Theater of the Mind.
Personal life
Gaonkar is married to private equity businessman Oliver Haarmann. They have two sons, and live in London.