Deep Nishar is joining General Catalyst as managing director, the venture capital firm said in a statement.

In his previous roles, Mr. Nishar was a senior director of Products at Google, and senior vice president of Products and User Experience at LinkedIn. Most recently, he was senior managing advisor with SoftBank.

Mr. Nishar has a B.Tech degree from IIT, Kharagpur, India. He also has a M.S.E.E. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, and a MBA in Business from Harvard.

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