Vijay Khanna

General Partner, GIV Venture Partners

Vijay Khanna serves as a General Partner at GIV Ventures; an early stage venture capital fund founded in early 2000 by leading global entrepreneurs and investors. GIV’s investments include America Online, VeriFone, Transaction Network Services (TNS), OnMobile, PayPal, Sina.com, Pipeline Trading, and other leading technology companies.

At GIV, Vijay has been involved in building companies in the Enterprise and Consumer Software, Payments, Concept and Semantic Web, and Online Advertising markets. His current portfolio companies and board directorships include: TraceGains, Knewco, e4e, Tarang Technologies, LucidMedia, Pipeline Trading Systems, and Cvent. Prior to joining GIV, Vijay served as Vice President of Corporate Development for SAP AG where he identified and structured several new business development programs, minority investments, and strategic partnerships which resulted in explosive revenue growth for SAP. As a Corporate Development executive, Vijay played an active role in launching SAP’s new midmarket solutions and in formulating and implementing SAP’s Reseller program.

Prior to SAP, Vijay worked in the Corporate Development Group at Intelsat Corporation, the world’s largest commercial satellite communications services provider. At Intelsat, he structured the $1.2 billion asset purchase of Loral Satellites. Before entering the venture capital industry, Vijay worked as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley and Wachovia Investment Banking.

Vijay holds an MBA in Operations Management and Private Equity from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Rochester.