Rajeev Misra is a London-based banker and executive. He was the CEO of SoftBank Investment Advisers.

Early life and education

Misra was born on 18 January 1962 in

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. He attended

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at Mathura Road, Delhi, India; studied chemical engineering at

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; and the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

(gaining a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering and then a Master of Computer Applications CA. This was followed by a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the Sloan School of Management at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT). Misra is a board member of both the University of Pennsylvania and MIT Sloan, and is on the board of trustees of

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Career

Misra was Board Director of

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and CEO of Softbank Investment Advisers. Misra, who leads the team running the company's Vision Fund, joined SoftBank in 2014. Misra spent about 25 years in finance, moving from

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. At

, he oversaw a team of credit traders whose bet against the U.S. subprime mortgage market was chronicled in ''The Big Short''. He left Deutsche Bank in June 2008, when he was the global head for credit and commodities and was reportedly earning between 10 and 15 million euros a year. He then worked at the London-based TCI Fund for several months. He joined UBS in 2009, and in May 2014 he was a senior managing partner of

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, until he joined

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in November 2014. The

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detailed Misra's alleged attempts to undermine his internal rivals at

, including planting stories, filing shareholder complaints, and using a " honey trap". In July 2022, he stepped back from his executive roles at

SoftBank Group is a Japanese multinational investment holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, that focuses on investment management. The group primarily invests in companies operating in technology that offer goods and services to customers in a m ...

to start his own venture fund, as reported by various news agencies. He has secured over $6 billion, including from Middle East investors. In November 2024, Rajeev Misra announced that he was formally stepping down as co-chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund.

References

Sources

* David Enrich, ''Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction'', Custom House (2020) - The story of

and Rajeev's role in it. {{DEFAULTSORT:Misra, Rajeev Living people 1962 births SoftBank people People from Balasore IIT Delhi alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Deutsche Bank people UBS people