Ashish Dhawan
| Ashish Dhawan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ashish Dhawan March 10, 1969 New Delhi, India |
| Residence | New Delhi, India |
| Alma mater |
Harvard Business School Yale University |
| Occupation | Founder & CEO, Central Square Foundation Founder & Governing Body Member, Ashoka University Senior Managing Director, ChrysCapital |
| Board member of | Chairman, ChrysCapital Akanksha Foundation Teach for India Centre for Civil Society Janaagraha 3.2.1 Education Foundation India School Leadership Institute Bharti Foundation |
| Spouse(s) | Manisha Dhawan (m. 1998) |
| Parent(s) | Renu Dhawan Anand Dhawan |
| Website | CentralSquareFoundation.org |
Ashish Dhawan (born March 10, 1969) is an Indian private equity investor and philanthropist who co-founded and ran one of India's leading private equity funds, Chrysalis Capital (ChrysCapital). He has served on the company's board since 1999, but left his full-time position at ChrysCapital in 2012 after twenty years in the investment management business to found Central Square Foundation (CSF), a grant-making organization and policy think tank focused on transforming the quality of school education in India. In 2014, he spearheaded the launch of India's first liberal arts university, Ashoka University, a philanthropic effort of over forty leaders in education and industry.
In 2012, Dhawan was recognized as the NextGen Leader in Philanthropy by Forbes India for his charitable work. He also placed 15th on the 2014 Hurun India Philanthropy List, a ranking of the most generous individuals in India produced by China-based Hurun Research Institute.
After passing out with top marks from St Xavier's Collegiate School, Dhawan went on to graduate magna cum laude from Yale University with a dual bachelor's degree. In 1997, he completed an MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS), graduating with distinction. He currently serves on the advisory board of HBS Club of India and is a member of Yale's Development Council.
Dhawan started his career in 1992 as the only Indian analyst working for Mergers Group at Wasserstein Perella & Co., a boutique investment bank on Wall Street. From 1993-1995, Dhawan worked as a junior associate at McCown DeLeeuw & Co., a small private equity firm in California, where he met George McCown, who encouraged him to study leadership at Harvard Business School.
Through the mid-nineties, Dhawan invested proprietary capital in the Risk Arbitrage Group at New York's blue chip investment bank Goldman Sachs. Returning to India in 1999, he co-founded ChrysCapital in Mumbai with Harvard classmate Raj Kondur. Despite some initial challenges and market pressures, ChrysCapital endured and emerged as one of the strongest players.
In 2010, Dhawan co-founded the Young India Fellowship, a one-year residential multidisciplinary postgraduate programme with a focus on experiential learning and an aim to develop the next generation of India's leaders.
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