CO-FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN
Sanjay Swani
Sanjay is a co-founder of BeaconHead and serves as the Firm’s Chairman and Co-Chair of the Investment Committee. Sanjay has more than 25 years of experience investing in technology, information, and business services companies. He spent 17 years at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, where he was Co-Head of the Information & Business Services group and also a member of the Firm’s Management Committee.
Sanjay has held senior roles at GrowthCurve Capital and Tailwind Capital, assisting each firm with their investment strategy and serving on the Investment Committee. He started his career at Morgan Stanley & Co. where he worked in the mergers and acquisitions and debt capital markets groups.
Sanjay has been involved in a number of civic, educational, and charitable activities. He was Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Partnership Fund for New York City. He was also Chair of the Advisory Council for the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies (“PIIRS”), a member of the Advisory Council for the Chadha Center for Global India, and a member of the President’s Advisory Council at Princeton University. Sanjay has previously served on the Board of Trustees for The Browning School, The Bolles School, the American Red Cross in the Greater New York Region, Everybody Wins!, and the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club.
Sanjay attended Princeton University, where he majored in molecular biology, and then received graduate degrees concurrently from Harvard Law School and the MIT Sloan School of Management.