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Adarsh Sarma is the Managing Partner and Founder of A3C Partners. Prior to founding A3C, Mr. Sarma spent two decades at Warburg Pincus, a New York based private equity firm 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 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 focused on education. He is also a member of the Chicago Booth Trustees and Polsky Private Equity Council at the University of Chicago and a member of Stanford University SIEPR. Prior to Warburg Pincus, he worked at ChrysCapital, a leading Indian private equity fund 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 private equity firm. He received a BA from Knox College, Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from the University of Chicago