Preetish Nijhawan is an entrepreneur known for co-founding the internet company

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in 1998.

Early life

Nijhawan studied at

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, then received a

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degree from

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, a master's degree from the

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and an

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from the

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Career

Before joining NeoEdge, Nijhawan was a Vice President at BMC Software and prior to that he was a co-founder and Vice President at iVita Corporation, and was a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Earlier in his career he also spent 6 years at Intel Corporation in engineering and management roles. Preetish is now Managing Director and co-founder of Cervin Ventures, a Venture Capital firm that invests in very early-stage software companies. Nijhawan now works for a group of companies (JME Software, Scalable Software and Neon Enterprise Software) as CFO. Prior to this, Nijhawan worked with

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as Vice President of Strategic Alliances where he led the development of the company's most important partnerships and distribution relationships. Nijhawan is also the co-founder of local coffee shop " The Coffee Groundz" in the Midtown area of Houston, Texas.

References

External links

Mckinsey Alumni news

JME Software web site

Cervin Ventures web site
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