Investment Committee

Jayesh Parekh

Jayesh Parekh is one of the founders of Sony Entertainment Television, a major cable and satellite television channel launched in India in collaboration with Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of Sony Corporation of Japan. He is also a founder and director on the Board of MobiApps (a wireless M2M start-up) and Asvathaa (an animation start-up), and on the Board of iSyndica (cloud computing start-up). He is the founder of ProPoor, a non-profit portal for NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) in South Asia, and now a service of CharityFocus. Jayesh served on the Board of United Way International for 6 years. He has a keen interest in assisting nonprofit organizations in India: Manav Sadhna, GramShree, SevaCafe and LIFE..

Jayesh is an active angel investor, with investments in various venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and start-up enterprises across the broad technology and media space. Prior to the above ventures he spent 13 years at IBM in various positions based out of Houston (USA) and Singapore, where he was involved in technical, sales and marketing roles.

Jayesh holds a BA in Electrical Engineering from MS University in Baroda, India and a MA in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD. Jayesh and his family live in Singapore.