Unleashing Creativity, Collaboration, and Career Shifts
Lopa Desai is the long-time Managing Director of Niraat. There she leads a variety of initiatives for a family office, including public and private equity investments and trust and estate planning.
In recent years, Lopa has influenced and made connections in the fields of investment and philanthropy. She sits on the Advisory Board at Transcend Wealth Partners, and on the Executive Committee at the Forge Community, which connects single family offices using a peer-to-peer network. She is also currently on the Advisory Board for Institutional Investor’s Single Family Office Symposiums. Recently she joined the Advisory Board for Fidelity Charitable focused on Next Gen donors.
Before focusing her professional efforts on planning and investment management, Lopa co-founded Glifft, helping develop a consumer iOS app that utilized machine learning to engage product discovery. She also scaled operations and implemented commercial reorganization at offices worldwide at ?What If! Innovation, a company that specializes in leading innovation across markets. She also held positions in marketing and strategy with a variety of consumer brands such as Nike, Seventh Generation, Mars and The New York Times.
Lopa earned an MBA in Marketing, Management and Strategy from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in Design Management from the Parsons School of Design.
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