Vikas Parekh

Vikas Parekh is a Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers based in San Francisco, California. He directs investments across automation, enterprise software, and robotics for the firm's Vision Fund, which manages over $100 billion in technology assets. Parekh serves on the board of directors for several portfolio companies, including WeWork, where he was appointed in November 2022, and the publicly traded robotics firm Symbotic. Before joining SoftBank, he worked in the private equity division at KKR and executed strategic initiatives as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA with highest honors from Harvard Business School, alongside a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current focus centers on deploying capital into emerging technologies, highlighted by his recent involvement in SoftBank's investment in OpenAI.