Kabir MISRA has been our director since September 2020, redesignated as our independent director since February 2023, and is currently managing partner at RPS Ventures, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, CA.
Prior to October 2018, Kabir was a managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisors (which manages the SoftBank Vision Fund) and SoftBank Capital. He worked with SoftBank from 2006 to 2022 (as advisor from 2018 to 2022) and has assisted Mr. Masayoshi Son with our company, and his duties as one of our directors, since before our IPO. Kabir also represented SoftBank at various points on the boards of its investee companies, including other e-commerce and payments companies Flipkart, Paytm, Tokopedia, Coupang and BigCommerce.
Prior to joining SoftBank, Kabir worked as an investment banker in the U.S. and Hong Kong. Kabir is currently also an independent director of PayActiv and Cargomatic.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Harvard University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.