ALOK GUPTA
Founding Managing Partner
Alok Gupta is the Founding Managing Partner at Loki Equity Ventures and is responsible for the firm’s management, deal sourcing, financial modeling, capital raising, and advisory to the portfolio’s entrepreneurs.
Alok Gupta has earned a reputation for successfully advising at the “top of the house” on their most sensitive, important matters. He has over 24 years of experience across mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring across consumer products, industrial products, retail, technology, manufacturing/supply chain, and telecommunications industries.
Alok has managed, structured, and executed over 35 transactions within large-corporate and middle-market organizations in more than 15 countries and a total deal value greater than $125 Billion. Alok started his career in 1997 consulting companies to improve their operational efficiency and organizational layout. He continued building on these key organizational and operational skills throughout his career, including Shaw Industries (Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary) and Accenture. In 2009, Alok began working with Deloitte. He focused in their M&A Services practice where he progressed quickly through the ranks and led transactions for many key clients, advising them on issues that ‘kept them up at night’ including organizational matters. Based on his experiences, he has co-authored multiple white papers and articles.
He currently serves as a Board member for Emory University and recently completed his tenure as a Board member for the United Way of Greater Atlanta as well as Enduring Hearts, a non-profit focused on funding research to increase the longevity of pediatric heart transplant patients and improve the quality of life of all transplant patients. He previously started a philanthropic organization, which was later merged into the United Way of Greater Atlanta and became their Young Professional Leaders organization.
Alok has completed an executive program in Private Equity from the London Business School as well as holds a Master of Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School where he also received the Meritorious Service Award for his class; a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and multiple business minors from the Georgia Institute of Technology; and awarded the Atlanta Journal and Constitution’s All Rounder Award in 1998.