Neeraj Bharadwaj is a partner at Apax Partners and a member of the Tech & Telecom Group. He has been instrumental in guiding the firm’s investment strategies in the wireless and mobile data, security, and infrastructure software areas. Past investments and companies he has been involved with include JAMDAT Mobile, Inc., WiderThan Co., Ltd., Mesh Networks, Inc. (acquired by Motorola), Wynd (acquired by GoAmerica), UPOC Networks, and Preventsys, Inc. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and serves on the boards of the Wireless Communications Alliance and the Friends of the Indian School of Business. Prior to joining Apax Partners in 1999, Neeraj was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted with telecommunications and enterprise software clients on a variety of strategic, operational, and organizational issues. He also held positions with Goldman Sachs & Co. and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.

Neeraj holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He graduated summa cum laude with a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a Ben Franklin Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and received the Zweig Fellowship for financial research.