Paras Maniar

Paras Maniar has extensive work experience in various leadership roles. Paras currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Bobit since March 2020. Prior to that, they were a Network Leader at Village Global, where they played a crucial role in promoting entrepreneurship in Los Angeles and offering seed capital to early-stage entrepreneurs. Paras also served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Localogy and Silversheet. From 2017 to 2019, they were the President of Local at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK. Before that, they joined ReachLocal as the Chief Strategy Officer and later took on the additional responsibility of North American Sales. Paras also has experience as a Principal and Head of North America at WPSChallenger. Paras has served on the board of EQAL and was a Founding Executive at the company. Paras'sprevious work also includes being an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and a Summer Associate at Latham & Watkins.

Paras Maniar's education history is as follows:

From 1995 to 1999, Paras Maniar attended the University of California, Berkeley, where they pursued a double major in Economics and PEIS (Politics, Economics, Industrial Relations, and Social Studies).

In 1997, Paras participated in a summer program at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

During the same year, they also took part in an Education Abroad Program at Eötvös Loránd University during the fall semester.

Paras then went on to pursue further education at Northwestern University. From 2001 to 2004, they attended the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, obtaining a Juris Doctor (JD) degree.

Simultaneously, Paras also pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management from 2002 to 2004.

No specific field of study is provided for the MBA and JD degrees.