Prashant is the founder and CIO of White Oak Capital Partners Pte. Prior to setting up White Oak in 2017, Prashant spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), most recently as CIO and lead PM of Global Emerging Markets (GEM) Equity and India Equity strategies.



Prashant started his professional investing career in 1998 at SSGA in Boston as senior portfolio officer in the Enhanced Equity group. He joined GSAM in 2000 as a research analyst in US Growth Equity, and by 2004 rose to become Senior Portfolio Manager and Co-Chair of the Investment Committee of the team that managed over $25bn in US equities at the time.

He returned to Mumbai in 2006 to start GSAM India business and served as the CIO and CEO/Co-CEO of their domestic AMC while launching the offshore GS India strategy in 2007. In addition to India, he was also made the CIO and lead PM of GEM equity in June 2013. During his tenure, he built these businesses to over US$5bn in AUM with top-ranking peer group performance for both his India fund and GEM fund.

Prashant graduated with honors from Mumbai University with a BE in Mechanical Engineering. He earned an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University, where he received full tuition scholarship and research fellowship, and won the Matt Wigginton Leadership Award for outstanding performance in Finance. He was awarded the CFA designation in 2000 and is a fellow of the Ananta Aspen Centre, India.