Anand Radhakrishnan is a Partner, COO & CFO of Collective Global. Previously, Anand spent over 20 years with Investcorp, a global alternative asset manager with over $50 billion of AUM. At Investcorp, he most recently was Head of Investcorp’s North American Technology Partnerships where he led Investcorp’s Joint Venture, UTA.VC, with United Talent Agency. Previously, he was the COO of Investcorp’s North American Private Equity Group, led Investcorp’s M&A and business development efforts, and was a Principal investor with Investcorp’s Technology Partners team. Anand is also a Senior Advisor to Bloccelerate, an early-stage blockchain-focused venture fund.
Prior to joining Investcorp, Anand was with The Carlyle Group in Washington, DC, where he worked in the Venture Capital Group and at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Team.
Anand holds a SB in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School. He was a member of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and has published original research in the field of Natural Language Processing. Anand was also member of the MIT Distributed Computing and Networking Services team where he worked on one of the first 100 web sites in the world. Anand is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the University of California Center for Effective Global Action, a research group focused on poverty alleviation in developing countries through the use of data analytics, AI and the latest technologies in partnership with a number of Silicon Valley companies.