Vikas Prabhakar is a hedge fund of funds portfolio manager for various hedge fund and alternative investment strategies at CIBC Private Wealth with over 20 years of industry experience. Throughout his career, he has served in various buy-side leadership roles focused on investment strategy, portfolio management, risk management, security selection and private transactions, and the building of multi-strategy platforms. Vikas has conceived and successfully implemented comprehensive long-term direct investment and capital allocation programs for institutional and other sophisticated investors with varied mandates.

Prior to joining the firm, Vikas served as managing director of a long/short equity hedge fund focused on the global technology and innovation sectors. Previously, he led the investment team of Shepherd Kaplan, where he drove much of the firm’s strategic and analytical functions and the production of intellectual property across listed equity and fixed income, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and real assets, derivatives and private offerings. Vikas’ early career focused on venture capital and private equity, where he was a full-cycle transactional investor focused on biotechnology and technology investments in North America, Europe and Asia.

Vikas holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science dual degree in biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering from Duke University. Additionally, he holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.