Rangu Salgame is the Chairman & CEO of Princeton Growth Ventures, a New York based technology buyout firm, backed by Warburg Pincus. Rangu has been a transformative growth leader throughout his career, having held senior operating roles at Tata Communications, Cisco Systems and Verizon Communications. He has been turning company portfolios into high value outcomes, partnering with government and business leaders in diverse cultural environments in over 30 countries such as China, India, Brazil and the Middle East as well as the US, Europe and Japan.
Rangu is a Member of the Foreign Policy Leadership Council at the Brookings Institution and serves as a director on the boards of BCIU and TrickleUp, New York-based global trade policy and nonprofit organizations respectively. He co-founded a worldwide initiative called The Next3Billion Project, to accelerate and facilitate the social and economic change that comes from the mobile Internet in developing countries. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and also has MS and BS degrees in engineering.
Next 3 Billion
Next3B: A Catalyst for Economic and Social Change It took 40 years for the first 3 billion people to connect to the Internet. The next 3 billion will join in less than 10. But that can enable giant leaps in the globals financial inclusion, education and health.
Conferences
Techonomy 17
“The idea that fake news on Facebook…influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea,” said Mark Zuckerberg onstage at Techonomy 2016. He has subsequently recanted.
Conferences
Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
