As a veteran of the impact investment space, Preeth offers 15+ years of experience across private equity investing and social enterprise development. Preeth has focused his career on using financial innovation to mobilize capital for social enterprises tackling some of the deepest social and climate challenges facing developing regions of the world.
At Palladium Impact Capital, Preeth led the US team of a one-of-a-kind investment bank dedicated to mobilizing capital for social enterprise. Palladium Impact Capital works almost exclusively at the cutting edge of mobilizing impact private equity and debt by designing investment vehicles that push the boundaries of innovation in impact investing. With this view, he advised entrepreneurs, fund managers, non-profit organizations and corporations, on themes spanning financial services, agribusiness and healthcare in developing countries.
Preeth began his career in social enterprise in 2007, as one of the earliest team members of Lok Capital. As a fund manager that was at the time pioneering impact investing in social enterprise, Lok Capital launched its first strategy by investing in and scaling microfinance institutions in India. Preeth supported on a number of investments in financial institutions, which today are India's leaders in banking the underserved.
In addition to private sector impact investing, Preeth's career has crossed into both government service and academics. He has worked with the US Defense Department to use impact investing to bring greater stability to post-conflict regions within Afghanistan. Preeth has been regularly guest lecturing at Columbia's University's Earth Institute on using blended finance innovation to scale climate impact. He currently is a Lecturer on Social Entrepreneurship at New York University's Washington DC Academic Center.
Preeth holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.