The Charter School Growth Fund is a nonprofit that identifies the country’s best public charter schools, funds their expansion, and helps to increase their impact. Prabhu helps operators solve their finance and real estate challenges.

KIPP Bay Area Public Schools operates high-achieving public schools in educationally underserved communities across the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization is comprised of 15 elementary, middle, and high schools in Oakland, San Francisco, San Lorenzo, San Jose, Redwood City, and East Palo Alto; educates nearly 6,000 students; and supports 3,000 alumni to and through college. The organization has more than 600 employees, an $80M operating budget, and $125M in assets.Served as organization’s financial leader for more than seven years. Focused time on people management (hiring, coaching, building culture, developing team), financial strategy and planning (ensuring a clear path toward financial viability, growing the organization with quality), financial stewardship (ensuring sound fiscal management practices, developing a stewardship culture across the organization), and capital projects (real estate strategy, planning, due diligence, financing).Stewarded organization through significant growth. Org doubled in size during tenure— opening 8 schools and adding 3,000 seats. Developed long range financial plan that will grow org to 20 schools by 2025, educating more than 10,000 students, and supporting more than 5,000 alumni to and through college. Led annual and multi-year planning and budgeting. Developed basic school unit models and long-range central office staffing plan. Developed compensation strategy to recruit, recognize, and retain top talent. Developed real estate financial strategy.Developed best-in-class charter network finance team. Grew Finance and Accounting Teams from 2 to 9 FTEs. Recruited and retained diverse team. Hired successor, originally as Analyst, and developed him into Managing Director. Coached Accounting Manager into Controller. Teams consistently ranked high in engagement and satisfaction on employee surveys. Teams consistently received highest ratings from Principals. Developed strong team culture rooted in trust and shared values.

Steered organization through Great Recession and doubled cash reserves. Grew enrollment by 10%, developed and executed on a conservative budget, and maintained a laser focus on sustainable, mission-driven spending. Strengthened balance sheet, building cash reserves from 120 to 240 days, while adding teaching positions; all in the face of a 15% decline in per pupil state funding, debt repayments, and a weak fundraising market.Led successful effort to gain independence from school district for special education services. Served on the board of the San Diego Special Education JPA, a consortium of 15 charter schools working to improve quality in special education instruction and gain long-term certainty over spending.

Integral member of US Investment Team, investing $1.5 billion in 20 venture capital and private equity funds per year. Promoted from Analyst to Associate. Top rated performer in peer group worldwide.Performed due diligence on investment opportunities. Performed all stages of investment analysis with a focus on identifying key issues early in due diligence process. Met with fund managers to investigate investment strategy, management team, and track record. Performed in-depth, quantitative analysis of past performance. Conducted reference calls with portfolio company CEOs. Wrote investment recommendations summarizing due diligence findings.