CEO, Calcbench Inc.
New York, NY
Years of Service: 2023-2028

Pranav Ghai is the CEO of Calcbench Inc., which he co-founded in 2011 with Alex Rapp ’93. Headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Mass., Calcbench is a financial data platform that provides subscribers with a systematic and instantaneous way of accessing data from financial statements. Prior to co-founding Calcbench, Ghai was a senior analyst at Cura Capital Management and vice president at Morgan Stanley. He is a member of the Corporate Disclosure Policy Council of the CFA Institute, addressing issues affecting the quality of financial reporting and disclosure worldwide, and serves on the board of XBRL US Inc., a nonprofit promoting XML business reporting standards. He is a former member of the Technical Computing Advisory Board at Microsoft.

Ghai majored in mathematics at Bates and holds an M.S. in applied mathematics from New York University. At Bates, he served as a Junior Advisor and Resident Coordinator, and was a member of the Asian Society, Chase Hall Committee, International Club, Mathematics Council, Physics Society, and Politics Club. In April, he served as a volunteer judge on campus for the 2023 Bobcat Ventures pitch competition. He is married to Laura Marianne Gellert, and the couple lives in New York City with their two children, Kylor Gellert Ghai and Tamrin Gellert Ghai ’26.