Shailesh Rao

Shailesh is a Partner at TPG who Head of the Growth Fund and Rise Fund for India and Southeast Asia is. Prior to joining TPG, Shailesh spent close to twenty years as a senior executive in the technology sector. He has been instrumental in helping expand Silicon Valley technologies and products to markets around the world and been a part of the leadership teams behind several products in everyday use around the world today. Shailesh was the Vice President for International Operations at Twitter, launching the service in over 50 countries during the time when Twitter scaled annual revenue to over $3 billion and went public (Q4 2013). He also spent over 7 years as a senior executive at Google. He was Vice President in charge of YouTube for Asia Pacific. He served on the board of JLL for over 5 years – a $16Bn+ Fortune 500 leading global real estate services company. Shailesh holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and dual degrees from the University of Pennsylvania – B.S. in E