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Shivpreet Singh Kapoor San Ramon, California

skapoor@chicagogsb.edu
Shivpreet Singh Kapoor is currently one of the leading
biotechnology analysts in the US with a strong clientele on
the west coast. He is Senior Vice President and Head of
Healthcare Research for Baltimore-based investment bank

Ferris, Baker Watts.

In 2006, he was ranked #3 among US biotechnology analysts

by Starmine/Forbes magazine. Shivpreet has worked in the
Healthcare and Equity Research field for over 10 years. He
was Citigroup’s Senior Biotechnology Analyst starting in

2002 and joined boutique investment bank Montgomery & Co.
as a Principal and Partner to establish its biotechnology
research platform. He has previously worked for LifeScan as
a Scientist and Alza Corporation as a regulatory analyst.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Graduate
School of Business (2002), with an emphasis in Finance and Entrepreneurship. He holds a bachelor’s
degree from University of California, Berkeley (1996), with an emphasis in Molecular and Cell Biology.

Shivpreet was trained in Indian classical music and bansuri (the bamboo flute) by Late Pandit
Raghunath Prasanna of the Banaras Gharana. He trained under Pandit ji for approximately 10 years in

Delhi. Shivpreet’s first classical performance was at Sri Fort Auditorium in 1990, where he shared the
stage with Ustad Rashid Khan. He was awarded by former President Gyani Zail Singh for his inaugural
flute recital. He has occasionally performed solo flute recitals at bay area concerts for ASHA.

Shivpreet studied musicianship, harmony, and composition at University of California, Berkeley and
completed a minor in music in 1996. His musical style has thereby evolved from the confluence of raags
from Indian classical music and harmonies from the western classical.

Shivpreet’s first album, named ‘Ardaas’ was released by EMI in 1997. He composed and played most of
the musical instruments for this album and was accompanied on the tabla by Surinder Singh Mann. The

CD included four Shabads, three of which were amalgamation of west and east music and one of which
was more pure to Indian classical roots. He is currently working on a second Gurbani album that is a
musical collaboration with Pandit Rajendra Prasanna.

Shivpreet currently focuses on riyaaz of novel and lost Raag-based compositions in congruence with
the prescription in Gurbani. He actively performs in monthly Kirtan programs in the bay-area and
occasionally recites Shabads at the Fremont, San Jose and Hayward Gurudwara Sahibs in California.