Prashant Pathak

Prashant Pathak is Managing Partner of ReichmannHauer Capital Partners. In his role as a principal investor, Prashant is focused on addressing all strategic, operational, and organizational aspects of investments to drive superior returns.

Before joining RHCP, Prashant was a Partner of McKinsey & Company Inc. While at McKinsey he was a leader of the North American Telecom Practice, the Financial Services Practices and also a leader of the Canadian Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. At McKinsey, Prashant advised several global corporations on a range of general management, strategy, M&A and operations issues across North America, Asia, Europe and South America. He also co-led several leading edge pieces of research including Decapitalization - "Creating capital efficient business models", IP-Transformation - "Creating the Telco of the Future", and Lean Six sigma - "Creating the Lean Telco".

Prior to McKinsey, Prashant spent nearly seven years in industry in a range of management and operations roles at Halliburton and Schlumberger. At Schlumberger Geco-Prakla, Prashant started in the field and progressed through a range of roles to eventually supervise the seismic navigation operations for Asia Pacific. Before joining Schlumberger he worked with Halliburton India (HLSI) in their upstream exploration business and also led the special projects team. He has extensive international experience during this time across Europe, Middle East Asia and South East Asia. In addition to operations management Prashant has experience in leading product and technology
platform development.

Outside of professional interests, Prashant actively contributes to several charitable institutions and causes. He is on the board of the North York General Hospital, 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. Prashant is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). Founded in 1992, in Silicon Valley TiE, also known as Talent Ideas and Enterprise is a global, non-profit network dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.

Prashant migrated to Canada in 1998. He now lives in Toronto. Prashant 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.