Ashu is a member of TA’s Core Investment and Portfolio Committees and helps lead TA’s investments in software and technology-enabled businesses primarily in North America.
Ashu has been an active private equity investor in over 20 technology companies since 2001.
Career Highlights
- Investment and board experience in application, infrastructure, security, and vertical-market software and systems companies
- Expertise across transaction types including investments in founder-owned and run companies, public to private transactions, corporate divisional carve-outs and recapitalization of venture capital / private equity owned companies
- Actively assisted portfolio companies with organic growth initiatives, accretive strategic acquisitions, material divestitures and capital markets financing / recapitalization transactions
Former Experience
- Francisco Partners – Principal
- Goldman, Sachs & Co. – Investment Banking
Education
- Harvard Business School – MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar)
- Cornell University – MEng, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
- Cornell University – BS, summa cum laude, Computer Science
Board Representation
Current
- Edifecs
- Idera
- LeadVenture
- Mitratech
- Planview
- Power Line Systems
Active Investor
- Aptean
- Flexera
- LegalZoom
Former
- Aptean
- Bomgar
- Flexera
- Maintenance Connection
- Prometheus Group
- Viewpoint
- Prior to TA: EF Johnson Technologies, Grass Valley, Mincom, Primavera Systems and WatchGuard Technologies
