Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Vikas is actively involved in evaluating investing opportunities in the semiconductor, software, big data/artificial intelligence, and Internet of things landscape. Since joining SoftBank Investment Advisers, he has worked with Arm, WeWork, OSIsoft, Grofers, Mapbox, Slack, Cohesity and Nauto, among other investments. (A full list of portfolio companies can be found here.)

Prior to joining SoftBank Investment Advisers, Vikas was a principal in Boston Consulting Group’s San Francisco and Mumbai offices. He was a core member of BCG’s Corporate Development practice area and has extensive corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions experience. He has advised clients in the semiconductor, consumer goods, and energy industries. Vikas also has worked at KKR, where he focused on strategic initiatives for portfolio companies in the technology and media sectors.

Vikas has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a George F. Baker Scholar and was awarded first- and second-year honors. He also has an MS in electrical and computer engineering, and a BS with highest honors in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.