Gaurav is the Founder and President of KIBC. An industrial
instrumentation engineer by background, Gaurav worked with a few
manufacturing and technology startups before supporting the fixed
income trading department of Goldman Sachs where he was awarded as
the “Best Newcomer”. To leverage his knowledge of the manufacturing
field - in which Krannert is consistently ranked among the top-three
in the US, Gaurav interned with the equity research department at
HSBC and supported credit research on investment-grade automotive,
energy and homebuilding companies.
Prateek Khanna -- VP Information Technology
Class
2009
Program
MBA
Concentration
Finance & Operations
E-mail
pkhanna@purdue.edu
Bio
Prateek is a mechanical engineer and has
three years of experience in operations management. Prateek interned
with Dell, Inc where he was responsible to identify the problems in
the manufacturing processes and rectify them.
Nikhil Gupta -- VP
Strategy
Class
2009
Program
MBA
Concentration
Finance
E-mail
gupta49@purdue.edu
Bio
Nick is from Washington D.C.
Prior to coming to Krannert, Nick worked in consulting. Nick spent
this past summer in Los Angeles with a private equity firm focused
on distress/bankruptcy and turnarounds. In addition to his role in
KIBC, Nick is involved in SMIF, KITC and Finance Club. Nick is
interested in working in technology based investments and
turnaround/distress investing. He is concentrating in Finance at
Krannert.
Upendra Joshi--VP Operations
Class
2009
Program
MBA
Concentration
Operations
E-mail
ujoshi@purdue.edu
Bio
Upendra has four years of experience in operations
before coming to Krannert. He did his summer internship at Navistar,
Inc.
Zhuojie Liu is the Founder and Vice President of KIBC. With a Real
estate investment consultant background, Zhuojie Liu worked for
a Real Estate consulting company in investment analysis and project
development for a few years. he did his intern with New York Life
insurance company as marketing analyst, meanwhile he worked as
Foreign currency day-trader as well.
