Kirtna Pai has a deep background in complex financial products with two decades on Wall Street, at Morgan Stanley, General Re Financial Products, Citibank, and DRI/McGraw-Hill. In 2015, she co-founded Opis Partners, an all-women real estate development firm.
Passionate about issues involving women, girls and education, she has been a co-leader of her daughter’s Girl Scouts Troop and a supporter of Girls Learn International and Women’s Education Project, which focus on girls education in disadvantaged communities. Active with the PA at her children’s schools, she has held positions from PA Secretary to Diversity Co-Chair, and currently co-leads the Mindfulness Group. She is on the Host Committee of the Akanksha Foundation, seeking to empower underprivileged children in India through education. Pai served for a decade on the Board of Directors of the Kenilworth Fund, a no-load large cap equity value fund.
Pai holds a economics BA from Tufts University and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago. She studies Chinese Medicine part-time.