A serial entrepreneur, investor and academic, Vinay has started, is an advisor or board member in several companies in financial services.  Vinay has always sought to challenge the status quo in investing. He has founded numerous companies linking investments and technology (55ip, Magnifi, MIO, Positivly) as well as run a quantitative hedge fund (Ada Investments).

As a finance faculty member at Wharton, with teaching experience at schools such as MIT and Columbia, he focuses on venture capital, private equity and entrepreneurship.

He is passionate about the power financial markets have to effect change in the world and in 2008, co-authored “Investing for Change”.

His academic background includes a PhD in Financial Economics from the Stern School of Business at NYU with an award for the best thesis, and a Bachelors of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras with a gold medal award.

An entrepreneurial leader, investor and business development executive, Jack has spent the past 20 years founding growing and exiting asset management companies. He has experience with the many stages of company establishment and evolution: Co-Founder (2); Early Stage Opportunities (7); Later Stage Growth (5); Publicly-Traded (2); and Turn Around (1).

As a Partner and Co-Founder of Northern Lights Capital Partners (now Pacific Current Group, ASX:PAC) Jack led global fund raising and acted as an Operating Partner with a number of portfolio companies.

Jack is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was Class President and received the Superintendent’s Award for Achievement. He served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger.