The Economic Times

Raised in Bengaluru and from a family of doctors, she has built world's fastest-growing hedge fund. Who is Mala Gaonkar?

Bengaluru-raised Mala Gaonkar has built SurgoCap Partners into one of the fastest-growing hedge funds, tripling assets to nearly $6 billion in three years. Gaonkar, a former Lone Pine Capital partner, leverages data science to identify disruption across industries, a strategy that has propelled her firm's remarkable ascent in a challenging market.