Jalak is Senior Vice President at the New York City Investment Fund and manages the Fund's investments in the information technology, media and cleantech sectors. Prior to joining the Fund, Jalak was a Principal at New Venture Partners, a $300M early stage venture fund where she was a director of Procelerate Technologies and Real Time Content. Previously, Ms. Jobanputra worked at Intel Capital where she led and managed strategic investments in software, digital media and services companies. At Intel, she invested in Demantra (sold to Oracle), Viacore (sold to IBM), Extricity (sold to Peregrine), Yodlee and Zinio.

Prior to receiving her MBA, Jalak worked as a Product Manager at an online financial services start-up, and as a media and tech investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Broadview Associates in NYC and London. She has also consulted for the United Nations Development Programme in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as well as several education nonprofits, including The Big Picture School (Providence, RI), Jobs for the Future (Boston), and the Fenway Institute (Boston).

Jalak holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, a BS in Economics magna cum laude from the Wharton School, and a BA in Communications magna cum laude from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a Trustee of the Achievement First Bushwick Charter School in Brooklyn and a member of Echoing Green's junior board.