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P.R. Ganapathy

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in Mumbai, India

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PR Ganapathy is a former management executive who held important leadership positions at Indian and Global Corporations in India and the United States.

He currently invests in, and advises, entrepreneurs with products and services that have social impact. He also spends time helping Teach For India, as a Senior Advisor.

The son of a retired senior Air Force officer, Ganapathy is a keen student of military history and geopolitics, and resulted in The Anza Deception, his first book. This was followed by a political thriller, The Sympathy Wave.

He has a pilot's license and briefly owned his own aircraft, when he lived in California. He has also dabbled with amateur photography, playing the piano, skiing, sailing, rowing and hiking. plays squash ...more

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