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Roderick Purwana is a Managing Partner at East Ventures, where he focuses on growth-stage technology investments in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, with experience across both venture capital and private equity operations and investing. He previously founded and ran SMDV, a technology venture arm affiliated with the Sinarmas Group, and led the creation of EV Growth in 2018 alongside East Ventures and Yahoo Japan Capital (EV Growth later merged with East Ventures in 2021). Earlier he worked at Quvat/Principia on corporate finance including M&A and IPO, co-founded the lifestyle commerce company Bobobobo, and began his career in Silicon Valley. He holds a Master's from Stanford University, a Bachelor's from Cornell University, and an Executive MBA from Tsinghua University.