Akshay Naheta

[4][5] Additionally, he was the chief architect behind the planned $40 billion sale of the British software design and semiconductor firm Arm to Nvidia, “creating world’s premier computing company for the age of AI,” and was responsible for its restructuring.

[17][18][19] DTR seamlessly bridges national payment systems around the world to make financial transactions efficient, secure and universally accessible.

[24][25] During Naheta's time at the Vision Fund, he led several other investments such as Auto1, Wirecard, Roivant Sciences, Brazilian logistics company Loggi, Energy Vault, Creditas and Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT).

[34] In December 2021, Bloomberg reported that Naheta was in talks to leave SoftBank Group, possibly taking "an advisory role at the firm to focus on his own long-only fund".

[45][43][46] In October 2019, a Financial Times investigation placed Wirecard under scrutiny because of alleged accounting misconduct, later revealing that the company fraudulently inflated over $2 billion in profits.

"[46] His criticism was published in an article by the Financial Times after it was revealed that Wirecard and its auditor left "a €1.9bn hole in its balance sheet from cash that probably never existed.

[51][52] The investigation, which concluded on 22 June 2021, heavily criticized EY who “could and should have noticed the accounting fraud” as well as Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz, who “should have stepped in when the country’s financial regulator in 2019 issued a ban on short-selling Wirecard stock.”[53][54] In late 2020, the Financial Times revealed that a series of investments in tech giants, which earned SoftBank the title of "Nasdaq Whale", was carried out through SB Northstar.

[59][60] Subsequently, in August 2021, it was reported that SB Northstar has built a $5 billion stake in Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche Holding AG.

[62][63][64] Naheta also spearheaded the group's acquisition of a 40 percent stake, acquired in Vision Fund II for $2.8 billion, in private Norwegian warehouse automation company AutoStore in April 2021.

[21] By the time Naheta left in 2017, Knight Assets had yielded an internal rate of return of 112.5 percent on $416 million in investments, according to VC Circle.

[74] After graduating from MIT, Naheta joined Deutsche Bank as a trader in New York, subsequently relocating to Hong Kong, where he led the proprietary trading business as the head of principal strategies.