Gaurav is a Principal at Highland focusing on the internet, digital media, mobile, online marketing and financial services sectors. Gaurav represents Highland on the board of Affine Systems. In addition, he currently is or has been actively involved with Highland's investments in Navic Networks (acquired by Microsoft), StyleFeeder (acquired by Time Inc.) CMI Marketing, Gotuit, GlobalStreams and Coremetrics.

Background
Prior to joining Highland Capital Partners, Gaurav was a Corporate Strategy executive at Microsoft Corporation, where he worked with the top leadership to define and implement corporate-wide growth opportunities via organic initiatives and acquisitions. Before Microsoft, Gaurav was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he led strategic projects for Fortune 100 companies across a number of verticals, including high tech, financial services, healthcare and energy. At McKinsey, Gaurav extensively advised senior management on investments and divestitures, operational improvement and organizational initiatives, and in developing and executing technology strategies and roadmaps.

Gaurav’s other experiences include working within product management at Microsoft (.NET initiative), within software engineering at IBM and as an investment professional at Mission Ventures.

Gaurav holds seven US technology patents. He has authored nine published works of research and has spoken at various conferences.

Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.Eng., Computer Science
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, M.B.A. (Ford Fellow, Palmer Scholar)