White Oak India Equity Fund V

Prashant founded White Oak Capital Management in June 2017. Prior to this he was the CIO and lead portfolio manager of GS India Equity at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) from March 2007 to March 2017, and also for the Global Emerging Markets (GEM) Equity from June 2013 to March 2017. Prashant started his professional investing career in 1998 at SSGA in Boston as Senior Portfolio Officer of Enhanced International Equity. He joined GSAM in 2000 as a research analyst in US Growth Equity, rising to Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Chair of the Investment Committee by 2004. He returned to Mumbai in 2006 to start the GSAM India business and served as CIO and CEO/Co-CEO of their domestic AMC. His funds won several awards including AAA rating from Citywire and Elite rating from Fund Calibre. Prashant graduated with honours from Mumbai University with a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and earned an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University (Matt Wigginton Leadership Award). He holds the CFA designation (awarded 2001) and is a fellow of the Ananta Aspen Centre, India.

Rohit has over 16 years of total experience, with over 14 years in the investment industry. He covered Indian Telecom, Consumer, and IT Services sectors as a sell-side analyst at Kotak Institutional Equities, where he was consistently ranked among the top analysts in both lead coverage sectors in polls by Institutional Investor and Asia Money. Prior to his sell-side stint, Rohit spent a couple of years at Ameriprise Financial as a financial analyst on competitive intelligence and cost reengineering. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta and a B.E. (Honours) from BITS Pilani.

Aman has 2 years of work experience. Prior to joining White Oak Capital, he worked as an Investigative Journalist with BloombergQuint, responsible for research and reportage of corporate governance issues. Before that, he worked as an Internal Auditor with Sharp & Tannan Associates as an articled assistant and later as an employee. Aman is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate in Commerce from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University.

Chaitanya has over 5 years of work experience. He is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce (Accounting and Finance) from Mumbai University. He worked as an Articled Assistant at Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP on statutory audits across the Automobile, Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Chemicals, and Industrial sectors.

Tejkiran graduated from IIM Ahmedabad in 2022 with an MBA and from IIT Madras in 2018 with a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering. He worked with Axis Bank in the Business Intelligence Unit for two years before joining White Oak Capital Group as an Associate in the investment research team.

Kshitij is an MBA graduate from IIM Ahmedabad, where he earned merit scholarships across both years. He began his personal investing journey as a student, driven by his passion for finance and businesses, which led him into the world of investing.