Somak Chattopadhyay Vice President T: 212-389-1603 F: 212-389-1803

Somak Chattopadhyay joined GSAVP in 2007.  Previously, he was at Edison Venture Fund, where he sourced and evaluated investments in the tech-enabled services sector and launched the firm’s New York office. Prior thereto, Somak held senior marketing/business development roles at Medtower, a pharmaceutical IT software company and Dealtime, a comparison shopping company that was later acquired by eBay. Somak started his career in investment banking at Broadview International and was previously director of the Software & Information Industry Association.

Somak is currently a director or observer at ReachForce, Three Stage Media, MIT Enterprise Forum of New York, and The Indus Entrepreneurs (Tri-State chapter). He is also Vice Chairman of the Software & Information Industry Association Private Equity Forum and on the steering committees of the NYCVC and the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association’s Software Vanguard Series. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Columbia Business School.