Mala Gaonkar
Mala Gopal Gaonkar (born November 1969) is an American businesswoman, and the co-portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital. Early life. Gaonkar was born in November 1969 in the US and mostly raised in Bangalore, India. She earned a degree from Harvard College in 1991, and later an MBA from Harvard Business School. Career. Gaonkar is co-portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital. After graduating from Harvard College, she worked for The Boston Consulting Group and completed her MBA at Harvard Business School before Lone Pine's inception in 1998. She is a trustee  of Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and was a founding trustee of Ariadne Labs, The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Technology., as well as Surgo Foundation, which provides data science tools for a smarter public health ecosystem. She also serves as a trustee of RAND and the Tate. and is a member of Harvard's Global Advisory Council. Personal life. Gaonkar is married to fellow private equity businessman Oliver Haarmann; they have two sons, and live in London.