Rajiv A. Patel

Mr. Patel， a Managing Member of Farallon， joined us in 1997 and is a portfolio manager.

Prior to joining Farallon， Mr. Patel worked at Donaldson， Lufkin & Jenrette as an investment banker in the project finance department.

Mr. Patel earned an M.B.A. from Stanford抯 Graduate School of Business. He also graduated from Cornell University as a Merrill Presidential Scholar， finishing in the top 1% of his class with a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.