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The Conversation - AKSHAY NAHETA
Fortune India
|May 2021
U.A.E.-based Akshay Naheta, 39, is the youngest executive 1 to report directly to SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son (“Masa”). As CEO of SB Management and senior vice president, investments, SoftBank, he leads the conglomerate’s investments into publicly traded stocks and other securities. Naheta, an equestrian buff, 2 decodes his stint at the investment giant.

A GLOBAL CITIZEN
From being born in Mumbai, to studying in the U.S. and later working in the U.S., Hong Kong, the U.K., and now the U.A.E.—how has the journey been?
I grew up in Mumbai during the 1980s and 1990s in a business family. I had a strong intellectual bent towards mathematics and was passionate about engineering, particularly with regard to automobiles, from a very young age. In 1999, I moved to the U.S. to pursue an undergraduate degree in engineering and subsequently enrolled in the Ph.D. programme at MIT, after graduating at the top of my class. All throughout, I yearned for a job as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley post graduation.
“The pandemic has caused unimaginable challenges for humanity which absolutely should not be ignored by elevated stock prices.”
As fate would have it, the lure of free pizza pulled me into a Deutsche Bank job seminar led by an MIT alumnus. I struck a personal rapport with him and at the end of the conversation he convinced me to drop out of my Ph.D. to pursue a career on Wall Street. I started as an associate with the bank in New York, and a year later relocated to Hong Kong where I ran the equity principal strategies business. In mid-2009, I relocated to London as a trader on the high-yield bond desk and decided to strike out on my own a few months later. In late 2010, I established my own asset management company
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