Pulak Prasad was with the global private equity firm Warburg Pincus for more than eight years where he was Managing Director and co-head of India. Before Warburg Pincus, Pulak spent 6 years at McKinsey in India, South Africa, and the US. He joined McKinsey in 1992 from IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to IIM, he was at Unilever in India as a Production management Trainee. Pulak founded Nalanda Capital and has been with the company since its inception in May 2007.

He has an engineering degree from IIT Delhi.