Work Experience
Summary
Shreyas is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Elevate Innovation Partners and Vedas Group, working in early stage Venture Capital and advisory based in New York City. The funds are focused on the east coast states of New York, North Carolina and Florida in addition to California.
Work experience spans management consulting, investment banking and principal investing across US, Australia and Asia (Citizen of US and Australia). Shreyas has advised on and invested in companies across the commercial/wholesale banking, energy, industrials, and consumer/retail sectors.
Shreyas holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering Operations Research from Columbia University, New York.
March 2015 - Present
Managing Partner
Elevate Innovation Partners
Venture Capital focused on NY, NC, FL and CA based companies
November 2014 - Present
Evaluation Comittee
ARC Angel Fund
Seed and Venture Capital supporting and investing in companies in NY and the Northeast
July 2014 - Present
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Vedas Group LLC
Venture/Seed capital
Advisory and Consulting
E-commerce, Financial Services, Energy, Consumer/Retail, Healthcare, and Technology
February 2011 - July 2014
Strategy Manager, Group Strategy
Westpac Group
Wholesale Banking Strategy - 5 year strategy for the wholesale/institutional bank
Business Banking Strategy - 5 year strategy for the SME/Commercial segment
AFS/WIB Engagement – cross-enterprise strategic growth initiative
Board Strategy Review – annual strategic review and investment prioritisation
Asia Strategy – Analysis of Asian banking markets, and growth strategy
October 2009 - January 2011
Investment Banking M&A Australia
Nomura
Focused on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructuring. Industries covered include:
- Consumer/Retail
- Power and Energy
- General Industrials
December 2008 - June 2009
Corporate Finance and Strategic Development
First Wind
- Corporate level private capital raising
- Corporate M&A
- Project Financing and Tax Equity
- Strategic Planning
June 2007 - December 2008
Global Power/Utilities Investment Banking
UBS Investment Bank
- Investment banking covering energy, utilities, renewables and power companies
- M&A, ECM, DCM, LBOs
May 2005 - August 2005
M&A Financial Analyst (Summer)
Citi
May 2004 - August 2004
Prime Services Analyst (Summer)
Credit Suisse First Boston
Worked in Prime Services on developing the strategy for the push into the hedge fund services business
2003 - 2003
Leadership Development Program (Summer)
JPMorgan Chase
New York, New York, US
