Mr. Bhandari is the principal founder and a Managing Director of The VIEW Group.  He was an early participant in the encouragement of free markets and entrepreneurship in several emerging market countries.  He has applied his skills in entrepreneurship and investment management to the creation of cross-border companies that are leaders in their markets.  A professional investor since 1987, Mr. Bhandari was with the Harvard Management Company prior to founding VIEW in 1992.  As part of the Harvard Private Equity Group, he was involved in private equity investments across a wide range of industries.  He later managed two public markets funds for Harvard, a risk arbitrage fund and a traditional hedge fund.  Prior to joining Harvard, Mr. Bhandari played a role in the management and growth of his family’s business and worked in mechanical design and software engineering roles at UTC-Carrier and C.S. Draper Laboratories, a defense contractor specializing in military navigation and control systems.  He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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