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Arissa Zheng
Managing Director
Sanjay Adhikesaven
Managing Director
Aadith Kannan
Director of Batch
Hy Nguyen
Director of Sponsorship
Mahika Valluri
Director of Community and DEI
Aathma Muruganathan
Associate
Ashni Sheth
Associate
Gatik Trivedi
Associate
Nidhi Gaonkar
Associate
Om Gole
Associate
Swara Agarwal
Associate
Pavit Singh
Senior Advisor, Ex-Managing Director
Ishaan Shah
Senior Advisor, Ex-Managing Director
Shrinandan Narayanan
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Alson Chan
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Kelly Hong
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Hriday Sheth
Senior Advisor, Ex-Director
Wesley Perronne
Senior Advisor
Rohan Taneja
Senior Advisor
Amy Zhuang
Senior Advisor
Radha Singh
Senior Advisor
Hiya Shah
Senior Advisor
Internal Alumni
Alexander Manes
Associate Product Manager @ Abnormal Security
Christina Guo
Co-Founder @ Passage
Pranav Gulati
Associate Product Manager @ Uber
Omkar Salpekar
Software Engineer @ Facebook
Pratik Bhat
Product Manager @ Drata
Kathy Kong
Product Manager @ Zoom
Aashi Jawar
Product Marketing Intern @ TikTok
Alice Deng
Co-Founder @ Slope Tech
Daniella Wenger
Research Associate @ University of Cambridge
Blake LaFayette
Private Equity Senior Associate @ Alpine Investors
Farbod Nowzad
Founder and CEO @ Pluto
Abhay Malik
Product Manager @ Aisera
Jeff Feng
Investor @ Coatue Management
Amrit Ayalur
Founding Engineer @ Cocoon
Damini Satija
Senior Policy Advisor @ Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation
Keyan Sarrafzadeh
Head of Analytics @ The Org
Kirtan Upadhyaya
MD Candidate @ Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Jeremy Fiance
Managing Partner in Berkeley @ The House Fund
Cameron Baradar
Partner @ The House Fund
Sam Kirschner
Director of Operations @ Village Global
Sean Linehan
Co-Founder & CEO @ Placement.com
Jasmine Stoy
Product Manager @ Facebook
Nikita Ashok
Associate Software Engineer @ Slack
Adhiv Dhar
APM @ Twitter
Shaantam Chawla
Master of Engineering @ UC Berkeley
Saneel Sreeni
Investor @ Dragonfly Capital
LuLu Holland
Impact Investing Fellow @ EVCA
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