Kausik Rajgopal
EVP, Strategy, Corporate Development and Partnerships, PayPal
Kausik Rajgopal is PayPal’s Executive Vice President of Strategy, Corporate Development & Partnerships. He is responsible for the teams driving strategic planning, market research, M&A, Ventures and minority investments, payments markets and partnerships, and the Office of the CEO. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience, Kausik brings extensive global experience in payments, technology, and banking to his role on PayPal’s Senior Leadership Team.
Kausik previously served as PayPal’s Executive Vice President of People and Sourcing, leading the company’s global human resources (HR), procurement, real estate, and payments markets and partnerships (PM&P) teams. Prior to this, he was a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company, working with global companies across industries and sectors.
Over the last decade, he held leadership roles of increasing seniority, including managing partner for the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices and for the Western U.S. region. Most recently, he was the firm’s co-Managing Partner for the U.S. office, where he was responsible for client service across all industry sectors, as well as its people priorities.
Kausik also serves on the advisory board of Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
Anil is licensed to practice law in California, New York and India, and has represented U.S based investors and Companies in investments, acquisitions, and strategic expansion with India based companies, as well as 100’s of startups from India, Singapore, Europe and South America in setting up operations and closing financing and M&A transactions in Silicon Valley. Anil also has an active practice representing global companies that are part of YC, 500 Startups, Startup Chile, Tandem, Alchemist, Fabric and other accelerators and incubators.
Inventus Law is Anil’s own entrepreneurial venture with the primary goal of providing experienced legal counsel to start-up companies in a much more cost-effective, responsive and founder friendly manner than any of the “big” law firms out there.
