Himanshu Choksi
Senior Advisor
Himanshu Choksi is a senior executive with 25 years of experience as a Fortune 500 executive, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and consultant. His core expertise spans strategy development and execution, general management, product development and management, and marketing in sectors including internet, AI, enterprise software and XaaS, digital health, IoT, telecom, financial services, media, energy and cleantech.
At Catalyst Strategies and Bain & Company, and as an independent consultant, Himanshu helped Global 2000 organizations including Fuji Xerox, Samsung, Ricoh, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, RSA, Silicon Valley Bank, and PG&E accelerate growth and improve profitability through organic innovation, partnering, and M&A. He also supported growth-stage companies such as Guild Education, iRhythm, Domino Data Lab, and Springboard.
Prior to joining Catalyst Strategies, Himanshu cofounded and led four startups and a venture fund, held executive roles at AT&T and Intel, and led a consulting team at Bain & Company. Companies that he has invested in as a VC or entrepreneur have generated $2B in aggregate value.
Himanshu holds an MBA from Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar; an MS in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Regents Fellow; and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, where he ranked first in his major. He holds four patents.