Santosh Rao

Santosh has 18 years of experience in Technology/Telecom equity research. Prior to joining Manhattan Venture Partners, Santosh was a Senior Equity Analyst, Managing Director at GreenCrest Capital LLC where he pioneered efforts to publish public-company style, in-depth research reports and valuation analysis on private companies in the technology/social media/telecom sectors. Prior to GreenCrest, Santosh was an equity research analyst covering telecommunications, media and technology stocks at Evercore Partners, Prudential Securities and Broadpoint Capital. While at Broadpoint, Santosh was ranked by Starmine/Financial Times in its annual survey of leading equity analysts in North America. Before moving to equity research, he worked as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Financial Analysis & Reporting Group at PaineWebber and later at Prudential Securities. Santosh has a double undergraduate degree, a BCom in Advanced Accounting & Auditing from Osmania University, India, and a BA in Economics from Rutgers University. He also received an MBA in Finance from Rutgers Business School. Santosh’s work is cited frequently in financial journals and he appears frequently on business networks including CNBC, BNN and Reuters.