Rajiv Ghatalia

Rajiv Ghatalia (born September 8, 1967 in South India) is a prominent Indian venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He works on the board of Clean Power Finance and is the President and Founder of Hennessey Capital LLC. Ghatalia was also co-head of investment banking for the Asia-Pacific region for Goldman Sachs. He worked as the Managing Director and Partner at Warburg Pincus, LLC, an American Private global private equity firm. Ghatalia's decision to become a partner at Warburg Pincus after 11 years at Goldman Sachs underlines the increased attraction of Asia's fast-growing private equity market to the region's deal-makers. Currently, he serves as an Advisor at Proterra Inc and is working with The UCSF in the areas of philanthropy, as well as healthcare delivery and personalized medicine.

Ghatalia holds a Bachelor's degree from University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Wharton School, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

He resided in Hong Kong for sixteen years, and now lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.