Kanishka Roy
Chief Executive Officer at PLUM ACQUISITION CORP. I
Profile
Kanishka Roy is currently the Chairman, President, CEO, Secretary & Treasurer at Plum Acquisition Corp.
III.
He is also the President, Co-Chief Executive Officer & Director at Plum Acquisition Corp.
I.
In addition, he serves as an Advisor at Taver Capital Partners and is a General Partner at Pomegranate Ventures LLC.
Previously, Kanishka worked as the Global Head-Tech M&A Origination at Morgan Stanley.
He also served as the Chief Financial Officer at SmartNews, Inc. from 2019 to 2020.
Kanishka completed his undergraduate degree and MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Kanishka Roy active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
| PLUM ACQUISITION CORP. I | Chief Executive Officer | 2022-01-27 |
| PLUM ACQUISITION CORP. III | Chief Executive Officer | 2024-01-01 |
| Pomegranate Ventures LLC | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Taver Capital Partners
 Taver Capital Partners Investment ManagersFinance Taver Capital Partners (Taver Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Michael Taver. The firm is headquartered in Camana Bay, Cayman Islands. | Consultant / Advisor | 2019-04-30 |
Former positions of Kanishka Roy
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
SmartNews, Inc.
 SmartNews, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services SmartNews, Inc. develops news aggregation smartphone applications. It designs, develops, and operates a Japanese aggregation and reading application. Its software application curates news information from tweets on twitter and the gives user’s current articles. It enables users to download articles and read them offline. The company was founded by Kaisei Hamamoto and Ken Suzuki on June 15, 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | Director of Finance/CFO | 2019-12-31 |
| MORGAN STANLEY | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Kanishka Roy
| Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth | Masters Business Admin |
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Linked companies
| Listed companies | 3 |
|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY | Finance |
| PLUM ACQUISITION CORP. III | Finance |
| PLUM ACQUISITION CORP. I | Finance |
| Private companies | 3 |
|---|---|
SmartNews, Inc.
SmartNews, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services SmartNews, Inc. develops news aggregation smartphone applications. It designs, develops, and operates a Japanese aggregation and reading application. Its software application curates news information from tweets on twitter and the gives user’s current articles. It enables users to download articles and read them offline. The company was founded by Kaisei Hamamoto and Ken Suzuki on June 15, 2012 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. | Technology Services |
Taver Capital Partners
Taver Capital Partners Investment ManagersFinance Taver Capital Partners (Taver Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Michael Taver. The firm is headquartered in Camana Bay, Cayman Islands. | Finance |
| Pomegranate Ventures LLC |
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