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College New Venture Challenge (CNVC)

College New Venture Challenge (CNVC)

Executive Sponsor // Adarsh Sarma, MBA ’01 and Charu Sarma

Adarsh Sarma, MBA ’01

Adarsh Sarma, MBA ’01

Partner & Founder, A3/C Partners

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Adarsh Sarma, MBA ’01

Partner & Founder, A3/C Partners

Adarsh Sarma is the Managing Partner and Founder of A3/C Partners (A3/C). Prior to founding A3/C, Mr. Sarma spent two decades at Warburg Pincus, a New York based private equity firm with more than $80 billion in AUM and was co-head of Europe and a Partner for 16 years. Mr. Sarma joined Warburg Pincus in New York in 2005 and moved to London in 2016. He has invested more than $5 billion of equity capital in 24 platform investments, both growth and late-stage buyouts in the US and Europe, focused on software and data, education, and tech enabled services sectors. He was selected by Financial News and Private Equity News as one of the 50 Most Influential in European Private Equity from 2020-2022. He serves on the Board of Pratham USA, one of India’s largest not-for-profit organizations. He is also a member of the Chicago Booth Trustees and Polsky Private Equity Council at the University of Chicago and a member of the Dean’s Council at Weill Cornell Medicine, which is focused on advancing the goals of medical research, teaching, and patient care. Prior to Warburg Pincus, he worked at ChrysCapital, a leading Indian private equity fund with over $5 billion in AUM, and prior to that Radiowave, a technology start-up whose Series A was led by Warburg Pincus, Intel and Motorola and prior to that McCown De Leeuw, a middle market focused private equity fund. He received a BA from Knox College, Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Sponsors

Sharon Sadow Alper, AB ’80, JD’84 and Andrew Alper, AB ’80, MBA ’81

David A. Daigle, MBA ’94 and Elizabeth Daigle

Michelle Kristula-Green, AB ’77, AM ’81

Carl Meyer, AB ’91, MBA ’92

Kenneth O’Keefe, MBA ’93

Immanuel Thangaraj, AB ’92, MBA ’93

Nikhil Thukral, MBA ’98 and Alka Thukral

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