Ashish Dhawan is the Co-founder of CEGIS and the Founder-CEO of The Convergence Foundation (TCF). He is also the Founding Chairperson of Ashoka University and the Central Square Foundation, and is a governing board member of the Gates Foundation.

Before his second career as a philanthropist, Ashish was among India’s most successful private equity investors. He founded and ran ChrysCapital, the country’s leading private equity firm. Ashish graduated from Yale University and received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is also on the India Advisory Board of Harvard and a member of Yale’s Development Council.