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Pradeep has over 25 years experience in the financial technology industry as an operator, investor and advisor. 

In his last role Pradeep was the Managing Director of the Investment & Advisory business at Refinitv responsible for a  $1.3bn P&L providing content, workflow and analytics to over 7000 clients globally. Refinitiv was a Blackstone portfolio  company that was acquired by London Stock Exchange in 2021 and is one of the largest providers of financial markets  data and infrastructure. 

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Prior to that, Pradeep was a founding member of RiskMetrics Group, a spin off from JP Morgan with 17 people to  establish an independent risk management firm. He was a member of the executive leadership team that secured  private equity investment in 2005 (General Atlantic Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures and Spectrum Equity) scaling the business to $350mm in annual revenue leading to the Company’s IPO in 2008 (NYSE: RISK) culminating  in the 2010 sale to MSCI.  

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Pradeep is an active venture investor and served at the Chief Revenue Officer of Dataminr a venture backed start-up  that builds natural language processing algorithms on open source, unstructured data. He also sits on numerous  advisory boards. 

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Currently based in New York, Pradeep has spent decades working in London and Hong Kong. He holds a Master’s  degree in Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ and a Bachelor’s degree from Manipal  Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. 

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Outside of work, Pradeep has set up an echo-friendly farm in India that uses sustainable methods in the production of  Coffee, Pepper & Cardamom. This is also a socio-economic venture that is as much about the people working on the  farm as it is about the environment and its bio-diversity.