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Investment Director, Impact Investments
Manish joined Nesta Impact Investments in 2015 as an Investment Director and worked on the fund's investments across sectors.
Manish was involved in venture capital and private equity since 2005, both as an investor and a consultant, and has worked at Sovereign Capital, Terra Firma Capital Partners and Aureos Capital (now part of Abraaj). At Sovereign Capital, his main focus was on education and healthcare. Prior to that, Manish was a strategy consultant at Accenture and a marketing manager at Colgate Palmolive.
Manish holds an MBA from London Business School, a Master’s in Management from the Indian Institute of Management and a BSc Honours in Electronics from the University of Delhi.
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