Shobhan Thakkar

Shobhan attended the University of Illinois Urbana'Champaign, where he double-majored in finance and economics. For graduate school, he attended The Ohio State University, earning a law degree from the Moritz College of Law and a Master of Accounting from the Fisher College of Business. 

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Shobhan is a Trustee for the South Asian Bar Association Foundation.

For the past several years, Shobhan has been an investor in healthcare technology companies through HealthX Ventures, an early-stage, healthcare tech-focused venture capital fund. 

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Shobhan's professional career began in New York City, where he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and then as a corporate transactional attorney at Troutman Sanders LLP. 

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Shobhan also has extensive startup experience and operational experience, leading a Wisconsin tech company to a successful exit as general counsel and a senior executive. He was COO of another startup; corporate counsel at Epic, a leading health software technology company; and was on the founding teams of several high-growth technology companies. 

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Shobhan is actively involved in the local startup scene in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is an organizer of 1 Million Cups, a Kauffman Foundation initiative; he also guest lectures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Shobhan served his fellowship at HealthX Ventures under the mentorship of Carrie Thome, Director of Investments at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). He is a member of Class 22.