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Before joining Business 2.0, Malik was a senior writer for Red Herring focusing on the telecommunications sector and author of Broadbandits: Inside the $750 billion telecom heist.

As an investment manager for Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific, Malik crossed over to the venture capital business. During his tenure as a venture capitalist, he met and worked side by side with many CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors, and was privy to the inner workings of Silicon Valley.

Malik was senior editor and part of the founding team of Forbes.com. His writings have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Business 2.0, Brandweek, and Crains’ New York Business.

As a technology journalist and (briefly) venture capitalist, Malik witnessed and documented firsthand the rise and fall of the Internet and telecom industries, which has given him unrivaled access and insight into this world. He graduated from St. Stephens’ College in New Delhi with an honors degree in chemistry in 1986. St. Stephens’ is akin to the ‘Yale of India’ and has produced several of today’s brightest Indian business, economic and political leaders.

Malik is a contributing writer to several Indian publications including the Economic Times and The Week, India’s leading news weekly.

Earlier in his career Malik worked with the Quick Nikkei News, a New York-based news service that followed technology stocks for Japanese institutional investors. In 1995 he co-founded the South Asian portal, Masala.com. Other projects include Desiparty.com, one of the oldest Indian Web sites left standing after the dot-bomb.

In 2001, Malik’s work for Vinod’s Time received the Excellence in Journalism Award in the category of feature writing (non-daily print) from the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as the Gold Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in the individual profile category. He was recognized by the American Society of Business Publication Editors in their September 1, 2001, article, “Enron’s Burnout.”