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

Early life

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

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, 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 ...

in 1991, and later an MBA from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA ...

Career

Gaonkar is co-portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital. 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

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(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 ; they have two sons, and live in London.

References

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