B Capital Technology Opportunities Corp.
MANAGEMENT & BOARD
Executive Officers
Raj Ganguly, 44
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Ganguly was a senior analyst at Marakon Associates and from 2000-2001 he worked as a product development lead at Miradiant, one of the first internet payments startups. From 2001-2002, Mr. Ganguly was employed as an executive with the British food and beverage giant Diageo. In 2004, Mr. Ganguly transitioned to a role at McKinsey & Company where he worked as a Senior Engagement Manager in the firm’s Technology, Media, and Telecom Practice. After leaving McKinsey in 2007, Mr. Ganguly joined Bain Capital as a Vice President, with a focus on conducting operational due diligence and driving growth through operational improvements in portfolio companies across the United States and Asia. During his time at Bain Capital, Mr. Ganguly had significant involvement in the diligence and boards of numerous investments including Skylark, Genpact, and Burlington Coat Factory. He also served as the co-leader of the firm’s global technology initiative. Mr. Ganguly left Bain Capital in 2013 to become a general partner at Velos Partners Management, LLC, where he worked until 2015, when he joined B Capital Group where he is a Co-Founder and Co-Managing General Partner. Mr. Ganguly is based in B Capital’s Los Angeles office and also serves as Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. Mr. Ganguly currently severs on the boards of Atomwise, Evidation Health, Winmore, Inc., and Journea, Inc. Mr. Ganguly earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BSE and BAS (summa cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he graduated from the Management & Technology Program as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and Joseph Wharton Scholar.
Kabir Narang, 44
Co-President
Mr. Narang was an associate at McKinsey & Co. from 2000-2003, a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group from 2003-2006, and an associate at Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm from 2006-2008. From 2008-2017, Mr. Narang worked as Managing Director at Fidelity Growth Partners which is currently known as Eight Roads Ventures India. During his time at Eight Roads, Mr. Narang served on several Boards including Greenlight Planet, Icertis, Northern Arc (formerly called IFMR Capital) and Shadowfax. After leaving Eight Roads, Mr. Narang became a Founding General Partner at B Capital Group, based in the firm’s Singapore office. At B Capital, Mr. Narang chairs the global Investment Committee and serves on the Board of Icertis. At B Capital, Mr. Narang has also led or co-led investments in companies across Asia and the US including DailyHunt, Icertis, Innovaccer, Kopi Kenangan and Khatabook. Cumulatively, Mr. Narang has 15 years of experience across private equity and growth investing. Mr. Narang earned an M.B.A from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College.
Sami Ahmad, 43
Co-President
Sami Ahmad is a General Partner at B Capital Group, based in New York. He focuses on the firm’s fintech and later stage investments, as well as B Capital’s efforts in China. Mr. Ahmad is a member of B Capital’s Opportunities Fund and China investment committees. In addition to his investment responsibilities, he is also involved in new product development at the firm. Mr. Ahmad was previously Co-Head of Co-Investments within the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection Group (“AIMS”) at Goldman Sachs and led the group’s growth equity and technology investments. He was a member of AIMS’ Private Co-Investment, Public Co-Investment and Impact investment committees. Mr. Ahmad rejoined the firm in 2018 as a Managing Director and Head of Asia Private Investments for Goldman Sachs Investment Partners (“GSIP”) and served on GSIP’s global investment committee. During his time at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Ahmad was a member of the board of several portfolio companies as a director or observer. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Ahmad was a senior member of Viking Global Investors and, most recently, co-led the firm’s private investment effort. He also served as Head of Business Development and helped structure and raise capital for Viking Global Opportunities, the firm’s private investment fund. Prior to joining Viking, Mr. Ahmad spent eight years with Goldman Sachs, focusing on private investments, and two Goldman Sachs Investment Partners portfolio companies, serving as an interim executive. Previously, Mr. Ahmad was an Associate at The GlenRock Group, where he focused on venture capital investments. Earlier in his career, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Salomon Smith Barney and an Investment Management Analyst at J.P. Morgan. Mr. Ahmad graduated from Harvard Business School with an M.B.A. and summa cum laude from Hunter College with a B.A. in Economics.
Angela Huang, 38
Vice President and Director
Ms. Huang was an associate attorney at Clear Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton from 2008-2011 and Linklaters from 2011-2013. At both firms, Ms. Huang advised private equity and hedge funds and launched public market offerings. In 2013, Ms. Huang became a Managing Director at Hillhouse Capital, a global private and public equity fund manager with a focus in Asia, where she was involved in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, venture capital, and joint ventures across the region in Asia and the United States. Ms. Huang left Hillhouse in 2020 to become a Managing Director at EE Capital where she leads investments in private equity and hedge funds and has deep experience in investments in Southeast Asia, China and the United States. Ms. Huang has substantial experience in public and private market transactions, with a focus on cross-border transactions and she currently sits on the board of Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. I. Ms. Huang earned a JD from Columbia University, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a B.A. from Princeton University (magna cum laude).
Board of Directors
Howard Morgan, 75
Chairman
From 1968-1972, Dr. Morgan served as an Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at Cornell University and from 1971-1972, he worked as a Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics at Caltech. Dr. Morgan later served as a Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972-1985. In 1982, Dr. Morgan began transitioning out of academia and cofounded Renaissance Technologies with Dr. James Simons, serving as President until mid-1989. At Renaissance Technologies, Dr. Morgan supervised venture capital investments in high-growth, technology companies along with consulting on the development of infrastructure for algorithmic trading. In 1989, Dr. Morgan became President of the Arca Group, a consulting and venture capital investment management firm that nurtures early stage companies and takes them from seed stage through initial public offering. In 2004, while maintaining a role at Arca Group Inc., Dr. Morgan co-founded First Round Capital, a seed stage venture fund and worked there until 2020. In 2016, Dr. Morgan became Co-Founder and Chairman at B Capital Group, based in the firm’s New York office. Dr. Morgan has served on a number of public company boards including Franklin Electronic Publishers and Internet Brands. He has also been chairman or a member of the board of directors of numerous private companies including: Axial, SingleStore (MemSQL), Kentik and such nonprofits as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, New York Public Library and Math for America. Dr. Morgan currently serves on the boards of Augury Technologies Corp., Gust Inc., Idealab Studio LLC, Myndyou, Inc., Nacre Capital Private co., and Seed-x Technologies. Dr. Morgan received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University, and a B.S. in Physics from City College of the City University of New York.
Bruce Aust, 57
Independent Director Nominee
Mr. Aust worked for Fidelity Investments from 1986-1998. There, he held numerous roles within the firm’s retail brokerage unit. In 1998, Mr. Aust Joined Nasdaq where he served as Vice President Western Region, Executive Vice President, and Vice Chairman. During his tenure at Nasdaq, Mr. Aust led Nasdaq’s new listings and capital market business as well as global business development and C-suite relationship management with 3,900 companies on Nasdaq’s 16 listing markets worldwide. He also worked closely with Nasdaq’s Global Listing Services unit to assist clients and prospective clients worldwide. During Mr. Aust’s tenure of over 20 years, Nasdaq won some of the largest IPOs in Nasdaq history including Google, Facebook, Tesla, Carlyle Group, and Baidu. Mr. Aust has assisted over 300 companies with public listings while developing relationships with leading Nasdaq listed company CEOs. Mr. Aust also served as president of the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, located in San Francisco, and played an integral role in its creation and launch. The Entrepreneurial Center is a nonprofit organization funded by the Nasdaq Educational Foundation designed to engage emerging entrepreneurs through events, hands-on mentorship, and education. Mr. Aust retired from Nasdaq in 2019 and began serving as a strategic advisor and board member at AUST.LLC in 2020, a strategic advisor for 150BOND in 2020, and a strategic advisor at Anthemis Group in 2021. Mr. Aust has a B.S. in Business and Economics from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Anne Clarke Wolff, 55
Independent Director Nominee
was a managing director for Salomon Brothers from 1989- 1998. In 1998, after Salomon Brothers as acquired by Travelers which merged with Citibank, Ms. Wolff served as Citigroup’s Head of North America Fixed Income Capital Markets from 1998-2003 and Head of North America Corporate Banking from 2003-2009. Ms. Wolff transitioned to JPMorgan Chase & Co, in 2009 where she worked as the Global Sales Executive for Treasury and Security Services until 2011. In 2011, Ms. Wolff joined BofA Securities where she served as the Head of Global Corporate Banking and Leasing from 2011 to February of 2020 and Chairman, Global Corporate and Investment Banking from February to December of 2020. Through Ms. Wolff’s extensive experience, she has embraced the intersection of technology and banking in driving business results and developed an expertise in the unique needs and challenges of global multinational corporations. In 2019, Ms. Wolff launched Leading in the Boardroom, where she curates industry defining thought-leadership content for existing and aspiring female directors. Ms. Wolff currently sits on the boards of the Amphenol Corporation, The Public Theater, and Colby College. Ms. Wolff has a BA in English and Economics from Colby College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Vivek Ranadivé, 63
Independent Director Nominee
Mr. Ranadivé founded his first company, Teknekron Software Systems, Inc. (“Teknekron”), in 1986 to develop and apply software to financial trading floors. After selling Teknekron to Reuters PLC in 1994, he then went on to found and spin-out TIBCO as a separate company in 1997. TIBCO completed its initial public offering in 1999 and was subsequently sold to Vista Equity Partners in 2014 for $4.3 billion. As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ranadivé built TIBCO into a leading provider of middleware software that became the central data nervous system for many of the world’s largest companies and government agencies. Mr. Ranadivé became involved in NBA basketball first as Vice Chairman of the Golden State Warriors and in 2013, he became the Chief Executive Officer and Governor of the Sacramento Kings. In 2016, Mr. Ranadivé became Founder and Managing Director of Bow Capital Management LLC and its affiliated funds. In 2020, Mr. Ranadivé became the Chairman and CEO of BowX Acquisition Corp., another blank check company. Mr. Ranadivé formerly served on the boards of Nielsen, a global media company, and WebEx, a telecommunications company, prior to its sale to Cisco. Mr. Ranadivé holds a B.S. and M.A. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.