Prashant Pathak is the CEO of Ekagrata.
Before joining Ekagrata, Prashant spent nearly a decade on the board of the Business Development Bank of Canada, chairing the Venture Capital and Investments Committee. Previously, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, leading North American Telecom, Financial Services, and Strategy & Corporate Finance practices. Prashant also held senior roles at Schlumberger and Halliburton, and was a co-founder at ReichmannHauer Capital Partners.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Geetu Pathak is the Vice Chair of Ekagrata Inc.
Geetu oversees management and operations of several portfolio companies. With extensive experience in client contract negotiations, government relations, and union bargaining. Geetu has a strong entrepreneurial background in sectors such as fitness, manufacturing, custom furnishings, and food-agricultural products.
Geetu serves on the Board of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and Ryerson University, and recently completed her term on the Board of TVO.
She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Outside of Canada and US he has significant international experience in, and exposure to issues in Asia, South America and Eastern Europe. He serves on Board of several public and community institutions. He has been an appointee of Government of Canada on the Board of BDC for nearly a decade (Business Development Bank of Canada, a $25 Billion institution). During that time he served as Chairman of the Venture Capital and Investments Committee, BDC Capital is Canada’s largest VC program. He also served extensively on the Credit & Risk Committees. While a member of Pension Committee he proposed and expedited the initiative to adopt LDI to better address pension investment planning.
Previously, Mr. Pathak has been a Partner of McKinsey & Company Inc. At McKinsey he was a leader of the North American Telecom Practice, the Financial Services Practices and a leader in the Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. He has advised several global corporations on a range of general management, strategy, M&A and operations issues across North America, Asia, Europe and South America. At McKinsey he led several initiatives for the Firm focused on industry innovation, like Decapitalization – “Creating capital efficient business models, “Unlocking the Value of a Board” – Governance as a competitive advantage, IP-Transformation – “Creating the Telco of the Future”, and Lean Six sigma – “Creating the Lean Telco”. He has also been part of the startup team and the Managing Partner of ReichmannHauer Capital Partners a successful Canadian investment firm.
Prior to McKinsey, Mr. Pathak spent several years in the industry in management and field operations roles at Schlumberger and Halliburton. At Schlumberger Geco-Prakla, he started in the field and rapidly progressed to eventually supervise the seismic navigation operations for Asia Pacific. Before Schlumberger he worked with Halliburton’s JV in India (HLSI) in upstream exploration business and also led the special projects team. Mr. Pathak has extensive international experience and built strong trusted relationships with several corporations, conglomerates and family holding companies from his work in Europe, Middle East Asia, and South East Asia. In addition to operations, he has experience in leading product and technology platform development.
Outside of professional interests, Mr. Pathak actively contributes to several community and not-profit institutions and causes. He, was an Executive-in-Residence with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF), created by an Act of Parliament in 1984, APF is an independent, not-for-profit think-tank on Canada’s relations with Asia. Mr. Pathak is an executive sponsor of Project Beyshick a program focused on career orientation and entrepreneurship development in First Nations Youth in partnership with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and a Member of Chatham House – The Royal Institute of International Affairs – where he has spoken on matters related to food security and long term investing. He is a Governor on Board of University of Guelph, a global leader in agricultural, plant and natural sciences. He was recognized as Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 for exceptional achievement across five dimensions – vision and leadership; innovation and achievement; impact; growth and development strategy; community involvement and contribution – and the capacity to encourage and foster growth. He is an inductee to the “30 most influential Indo-Canadians Power List” of Rediff’s India Abroad (2009), adjudged South Asian Professional of the Year 2010 by MidWeek Magazine, and amongst 100 Most Influential Global Indians by Diaspora World in 2014. Previously he served on the Board of the North York General Hospital in Toronto. He is an alumnus of the core team of Vartana, a new type of bank in Canada – a bank that is not only a charity, but is also owned by and dedicated to serving others engaged in charitable activities. He was a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). Founded in 1992, in Silicon Valley TiE, is a global, non-profit network dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.
Recently during the Financial Crisis, as a member of the Credit Risk and Investment Committee of the BDC Mr. Pathak contributed to the Canadian government’s Economic Action Plan through the launch of the CSCF (Canadian Secured Credit Facility) and BCAP (Business Credit Availability Program) ~$17 Billion programs that were meant to provide increased credit support in Canada. Mr. Pathak migrated to Canada in 1998. He now lives in Toronto.
Mr. Pathak has a MBA from INSEAD with Distinction and a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where he was adjudged the Best All-round Graduating Student of his class. He also has a Diploma in Fuzzy Logic from IIT.
Based in southwestern Ontario, Milo-FAIS is an asset -based company conducting operations pertaining to IQF, ammonia plants for refrigeration and water and waste water treatment, material handling services to global agricultural and food processing companies. In her role as the CEO, Ms. Pathak is responsible for all strategic, financial and organizational aspects of the company. In the past five years, she has restructured the operations and developed the services model of the business leading to increased operational and labor efficiencies and profitability. She is also the Vice Chair of Ekagrata Inc., a family investment firm, where she oversees management and operations of several other portfolio companies in the firm. As an entrepreneur and businesswoman, she is highly experienced in dealing with complicated issues surrounding client contract negotiations, government relations and union bargaining.
Prior to this stint, she was the involved in multiple entrepreneurial ventures including in several sectors including fitness and footwear, custom furnishings and innovative baby products. Through these ventures, she was focused on addressing all strategic, financial and operations aspects of the business to grow the company.
Outside of professional interests, Geetu donates time to several charitable causes and pursuits. She serves on the Board of several public and community institutions. She is a member of the board of Directors at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ryerson University where she is part of the Finance committee. She recently completed her term as member of the board of directors at TVO (Ontario government’s Educational agency) where she chaired the Audit Committee of the Board.
Geetu has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahemadabad and a B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), where she was adjudged the Best All-round Graduating Student of her class.
Prashant Pathak is the CEO of Ekagrata.
Before joining Ekagrata, Prashant spent nearly a decade on the board of the Business Development Bank of Canada, chairing the Venture Capital and Investments Committee. Previously, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, leading North American Telecom, Financial Services, and Strategy & Corporate Finance practices. Prashant also held senior roles at Schlumberger and Halliburton, and was a co-founder at ReichmannHauer Capital Partners.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Geetu Pathak is the Vice Chair of Ekagrata Inc.
Geetu oversees management and operations of several portfolio companies. With extensive experience in client contract negotiations, government relations, and union bargaining. Geetu has a strong entrepreneurial background in sectors such as fitness, manufacturing, custom furnishings, and food-agricultural products.
Geetu serves on the Board of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and Ryerson University, and recently completed her term on the Board of TVO.
She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).