Raj Singh, SENIOR Advisor
Mr. Singh is Chief Executive Officer of D&L Partners, SA, a boutique consultancy focused on innovation, based in Geneva. He has over 20 years of experience as a board member, venture capitalist, management consultant and advisor in the innovation and information technology sectors.
Previously, Mr. Singh was a General Partner of Pervasive Technology Ventures and a Principal at Investcorp International, where he was responsible for sourcing, negotiating and closing new investments in technology start-ups, and for maintaining existing investments. He served on the Boards of several of Investcorp’s investments.
Mr. Singh joined Investcorp in 2001 and participated in the raising of two funds worth over $500 million. Over six years he invested approx $70 million in nine companies, with an IRR of 30%.
Prior to Investcorp, Mr. Singh was a principal at Booz, Allen & Hamilton (now Booz & Co.) for six years. At Booz Allen he was a cofounder of the e-Business core team in Europe, where he led strategy and technology projects in the electronic business, telecommunications, and financial services sectors.
Earlier he was with IBM where he taught software design and distributed computing at the corporation’s European Education Center in La Hulpe, Belgium for three years. Previously, he held multiple positions within IBM over a ten year period, including as consultant for the Telecoms and Media Consulting group, systems engineer and technical expert for PC operating systems and programming languages, and lead technical support for the re-seller channel in PC operating systems, graphics and languages.
Mr. Singh holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD and a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computing Science from Imperial College in London, England. He is a member of the Securities Institute and TiE.