Sandesh Patnam

Sandesh Patnam leads the technology investing practice at Premji Invest, a large, multi-strategy asset manager. From 2010 to 2014, Sandesh was an investment officer and senior equity analyst with the Seligman Technology Group at Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC, where he helped manage more than $6 billion in long-only and long/short investment vehicles. Previously, he was a general partner at venture capital firm Bay Partner. Prior to Bay Partners, he was with TeleSoft, a technology-focused venture capital firm. Sandesh holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from the University of Rochester, NY.