It is not very often that we come across an entrepreneur and investment manager of a multi-billion-dollar fund who, in his early forties, gave up a successful career to jump into philanthropy fulltime. This is the story of Ashish Dhawan, co-founder of one of India’s leading private equity firms, Chrys Capital, founder and chairman of Central Square Foundation, founder and CEO of The Convergence Foundation, and co-founder of Ashoka University.
How Ashish Dhawan gave up his high-flying investing career to solve India’s education crisis
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Ashish Dhawan, who is also a founding member of the Ashoka University, is currently setting up Convergence Foundation, which will work across.
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To call him a private equity investor would not be wholly accurate as after he had made his fortune through Chrysalis Capital.