First Name
Deepak
Last Name
Jayaraman
Company Name
True
Job Title
Director
Speaker Bio
Deepak is a Director at True, a specialist consumer and retail investment firm based in London with c. £200m under management. At True, Deepak leads all international expansion activities for the firm.
Deepak is passionate about high growth entrepreneurship, innovation and disrupting conventional consumer practices across global markets. He is a senior management executive with a 20 year track record of executing highly successful investment and project strategies for private investment funds, blue chip institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Deepak has operated in varied and multicultural environments with a diverse roster of completed projects and transactions across Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
Previous to Deepak’s appointment at True, his accomplishments include helping Openstage.it, a pioneering crowdsourcing technology platform for live events, raise a £1m seed round; building the most successful UK based small company growth incubator and entrepreneurship initiative for Goldman Sachs; leading impact and development finance efforts for the Richard Chandler Corporation which included laying the foundations for India’s first chain of low-cost private schools and serving on the board of the incubation firm Innosight Ventures; building a $20m art gallery in New York City for the artist Ana Tzarev; serving on the New York J.P. Morgan investment banking team that represented Capital One Corporation in its purchase of Northfork Bank; and conducting a variety of venture capital and M&A transactions as a corporate attorney for the Boston law firm Mintz Levin.
Deepak has Dual MBAs from Columbia University & London Business School and a Juris Doctorate from The George Washington University Law School. He is a permanent resident of the United Kingdom and a citizen of the United States.
Deepak is passionate about high growth entrepreneurship, innovation and disrupting conventional consumer practices across global markets. He is a senior management executive with a 20 year track record of executing highly successful investment and project strategies for private investment funds, blue chip institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Deepak has operated in varied and multicultural environments with a diverse roster of completed projects and transactions across Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
Previous to Deepak’s appointment at True, his accomplishments include helping Openstage.it, a pioneering crowdsourcing technology platform for live events, raise a £1m seed round; building the most successful UK based small company growth incubator and entrepreneurship initiative for Goldman Sachs; leading impact and development finance efforts for the Richard Chandler Corporation which included laying the foundations for India’s first chain of low-cost private schools and serving on the board of the incubation firm Innosight Ventures; building a $20m art gallery in New York City for the artist Ana Tzarev; serving on the New York J.P. Morgan investment banking team that represented Capital One Corporation in its purchase of Northfork Bank; and conducting a variety of venture capital and M&A transactions as a corporate attorney for the Boston law firm Mintz Levin.
Deepak has Dual MBAs from Columbia University & London Business School and a Juris Doctorate from The George Washington University Law School. He is a permanent resident of the United Kingdom and a citizen of the United States.
