Mala Gopal Gaonkar (born November 1969) is an American businesswoman, and the co-portfolio manager at investment firm

Lone Pine Capital Lone Pine Capital is an American-based hedge fund and investment advisor headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, established in 1997 by its president and portfolio manager, Stephen Mandel. The firm has offices in London, New York City, and San F ...

Early life

Gaonkar was born in November 1969 in the US and mostly raised in

Bangalore Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...

, India. She earned a degree from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

in 1991, and later an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Career

Gaonkar is co-portfolio manager at investment firm

. After graduating from Harvard College, she worked for The

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and completed her MBA at Harvard Business School before Lone Pine's inception in 1998. She is a trustee of

Clinton Health Access Initiative The Clinton Foundation (founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code. It was e ...

(CHAI), and was a founding trustee of Ariadne Labs, The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Technology., as well as Surgo Foundation, which provides data science tools for a smarter public health ecosystem. She also serves as a trustee of RAND and the Tate. and is a member of Harvard's Global Advisory Council. As an author, Mala Gaonkar has published short stories in ''Catamaran'', ''Carloina Quarterly'', and ''American Short Fiction''. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize.

Personal life

Gaonkar is married to fellow private equity businessman

Oliver Haarmann Carl Ludwig Oliver Haarmann (born September 1967) is a German private equity financier, and a founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners. Early life Oliver Haarmann was born in September 1967. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and i ...

; they have two sons, and live in London.

References

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