Director
SVB Financial Group
Sector: FINANCIAL / Regional – Pacific Banks

Ms. Krishnan is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Shah Capital Partners, a leading mid-market technology private equity fund that was founded in 2003. She is also the President and a director of the American India Foundation, an organization founded in 2001 to accelerate social and economic development in India (since 2001). She is also a charter member of TiE, a fellow of the American Leadership Forum (since 1998), and a member of the Boards of Directors of the America’s Foundation for Chess, a foundation committed to children’s education (since 2003), and The Commonwealth Club, a public affairs forum (since 2004), and the advisory boards of CEO Women, an organization that seeks to create economic opportunities for low-income immigrant and refugee women (since 2000), Narika, a shelter for abused women in the Asian community (since 1998), and the Global Philanthropy Forum, a council on world affairs (since 2006). In 1989, Ms. Krishnan co-founded SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. and served as its Chief Financial Officer until its merger with Solectron Corporation in 1999. Prior to founding SMART, Ms. Krishnan held various corporate accounting and finance positions with Montgomery Securities, Arthur Andersen & Company LLP, and Hill Vellacott & Company in London. Ms. Krishnan holds a bachelors of science degree with honors from the London School of Economics and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Ms. Krishnan is CFO for Shah Capital Partners. She was a co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of SMART Modular Technologies, a publicly held company recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 100 Fastest Growing Public Companies. Ms. Krishnan has also held corporate accounting and finance positions at Montgomery Securities, Arthur Andersen & Company LLP, and Hill Vellacott & Company in London, England. She received a B.S. with honors from the London School of Economics and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Ms. Krishnan is also the President of the American India Foundation, a premier foundation with a long-term commitment to accelerating social and economic development in India. She is also a Board Member of the Commonwealth Club, American India Foundation and the San Jose Repertory Theater, Fellow of the American Leadership Forum and Advisor for the Global Philanthropy Forum.