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Gaurav Kapadia Headshot
Gaurav Kapadia is the Founder of XN, a private investment organization. From 2010 to 2018 Gaurav was the Co-Founder & Co-Managing Partner of Soroban Capital Partners, an investment firm that managed over $10 billion. Prior to founding Soroban, Gaurav served as a Partner at TPG-Axon Capital. Gaurav began his career at the Boston Consulting Group as a strategy consultant. He graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BSC in Economics. Gaurav is involved in numerous philanthropic and civic causes and serves on the Boards of Trustees of The Whitney Museum of American Art, Uncommon Schools, Friends of Hudson River Park, and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center. He lives in Tribeca with his wife and 3 children.
Neal Katyal teaching in classNeal Katyal is the Faculty Chair of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection as well as the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University. He has served as Acting Solicitor General of the United States, where he argued several major Supreme Court cases involving a variety of issues, such as his successful defense of the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, his victorious defense of former Attorney General John Ashcroft for alleged abuses in the war on terror, his unanimous victory against eight states who sued the nation’s leading power plants for contributing to global warming, and a variety of other matters.
Kate Kend is extensively involved in supporting the work of non-profits across the arts, education, and public interest law. She is chair of the Martha Gaines and Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation and a member of the President’s Advisory Council at Vassar College, the Guggenheim Education Committee, and the New York Public Library Council.
Previously, Kate practiced charitable contribution tax law and worked at Christie’s Auction House, running their area of estates and appraisals. Before that, she worked for Cleary Gottlieb in Tokyo, practiced product liability litigation with Chadbourne & Parke in New York City, and clerked for the Chief Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Kate holds a BA in art history and philosophy from Vassar College and a JD from Emory University School of Law.
Rajesh Swaminathan HeadshotRajesh Swaminathan is a Partner and the General Counsel of Jasper Ridge Partners, an endowment-style investment firm with expertise across all major asset classes, including public equity, fixed income, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and natural resources. He joined the firm in 2017 and oversees legal, compliance and tax support for its executive management, investment activities and corporate operations.
Previously, Rajesh served as Senior Managing Director and General Counsel at PineBridge Investments, a global asset management firm. In this role, he directed the legal, compliance and corporate secretarial functions, and also served as the principal executive liaison for 33 regulatory agencies worldwide. He also served as PineBridge Investments’ regional general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and assistant general counsel in the alternative investments business of PineBridge’s predecessor organization, AIG Investments. From 2008 to 2010, Rajesh co-led the $83 billion carve-out and sale of PineBridge Investments from AIG. Prior to joining AIG, he was in private practice in the New York and Washington, DC offices of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP; Steptoe & Johnson LLP; and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
Rajesh holds a BA degree from Williams College, an MPhil degree from the University of Oxford and a JD degree from Columbia Law School.
Jonathan Turner Headshot
Jonathan Turner is the co-founder and former co-President of Qatalyst Partners, a global, independent investment bank providing strategic advisory services to the Technology sector.
From 2009 to 2017 he oversaw the software and consumer technology practices of Qatalyst and served on the firm’s executive management committee. Prior to Qatalyst, he managed the global Internet practice for Credit Suisse.