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Rakesh Prusti of Oyorooms.com.

Rakesh Prusti joined OYO, the technology-driven hotel chain and one of India’s fastest growing unicorns, as General Counsel in 2018. He has extensive experience working in-house across a range of different industries in India, beginning his career as Company Secretary at Cottage Indus-tries Exposition in 1997, later moving to ChrysCapital Venture Global Vantedge and subsequently joining NITT Technologies as Global Legal Head and Company Secretary. He then joined Carrefour as Director Legal and Corporate Affairs in 2008, moving in 2015 to Max Healthcare as Director Legal, Regulatory Affairs and Compliance; before joining OYO.

He has been heavily involved in all legal matters for the company since his arrival, with interviewees remarking that “there is a lot of work at the company and he handles it very well.” One re-cent example is his involvement in the USD1.5 billion funding round led by founder Ritesh Agarwal, SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia India.

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