Bio

Ripan Kadakia joined ZMC in 2014 and is responsible for originating, executing and managing investments. Mr. Kadakia currently represents ZMC on the boards of Wpromote, Resonate, Simeio, AdThrive and Logitix (fka Dynasty Sports & Entertainment) and was previously on the boards of CommentSold and Cannella Response Television. Before joining ZMC, Mr. Kadakia was an investment professional in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications group at Warburg Pincus, where he focused on investments in the software, internet, information, business services and education industries. In this time he executed control buyouts and growth investments and also served as a board member or strategic advisor to several portfolio companies. Prior to this, Mr. Kadakia was an investment professional at Audax Group Private Equity, where he focused on executing investments and operating middle-market companies in a variety of industries. There he successfully completed ten transactions spanning the manufacturing, distribution, software, healthcare services and financial services industry. He initiallybegan his career as a strategy consultant at Oliver Wyman, executing and managing projects in the United States, Africa and the Middle East for a broad range of financial institutions. Mr. Kadakia graduated summa cum laude from the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology from the University of Pennsylvania, earning a BS in Finance and Managing E-commerce from the Wharton School and a BSE in Computer Science and Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He also earned his MBA from the Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.