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X: @pchandrasekar
CEO and Board Member of Stack Overflow, the world's most trusted community for developers and technologists with market-leading Enterprise SaaS and AI products focused on Knowledge Solutions. In 2021, we were acquired by Prosus for $1.8Bn.
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Previously, served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. Also held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world's leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history.
Prior to joining Rackspace, was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industries. Was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting, focused on leading operations transformation engagements and consulting teams across the US.
MBA from Harvard Business School, M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University and B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine. 
An accomplished professional and an entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in General Management, Investments and Consulting with proven track record in private equity/venture capital, business development, product management, product innovation, cross-functional team management and fundraising.
Specialties: - General Management, Entrepreneurship, Investments, Product Management, Business Development and Strategy
- Financial services with a focus on lending
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Start Up and Large Company Experience
- Building and Managing products in Digital, Mobile, Financial Services
- Setting up and scaling an organisation from scratch
Profile:
Sachin oversees expansion opportunities both organically and inorganically through partnerships, M&A transactions, and strategic investments to accelerate growth globally for Lohum.
Sachin has over 25 years of investing, operating and entrepreneurial experience in India and the United States. He has played diverse roles from business development at DevRev to leading global product teams at Coinbase. He started his entrepreneurial journey in 2017 by founding EzCred, a consumer lending company, which was then acquired by Coinbase in 2021.
Sachin has had over 10 years of PE/VC experience. He was Managing Director at Zephyr Peacock, a PE firm with around $200M AUM. He has previously been at Draper Fisher Jurvetson ($650M fund) and Opus Capital ($250M fund) both based in the Silicon Valley.
Sachin has a B. Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Wharton, where he was awarded the Palmer Scholar. 
