Pallavi Sambasivan
Manager at Sony Music Entertainment
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Strategy & Investments | Manager
2023 - Current
Sony Music is a music corporation owned and operated by Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate.
Strategy & Operations
2023 - 2023
Drove an intensive data analysis project using SQL and Tableau for an on-demand delivery platform, culminating in presenting insights, recommendations, and project roadmaps to senior stakeholders to improve KPIs and developing dashboards to track ongoing business performance.
Investor
2021 - 2022
Covered consumer internet, e-commerce, fintech, enterprise software, healthcare, and crypto across the U.S. and emerging markets; evaluated 15-20 potential investment opportunities per week and managed diligence from first meeting through transaction close. Portfolio companies covered included Hopper (mobile OTA), Patreon (creator economy), Zepto (quick e-commerce), Ver Se (short-form content social media and news aggregation), Betterfly (employee benefits insurtech), Kitabeli (social e-commerce), Instacart (grocery delivery), amongst others.
Glade Brook Capital Partners focuses on companies in the technology, media, telecom, and consumer sectors.
Investment Banking Associate Director
2021 - 2021
Mergers & Acquisitions
Investment Banking Analyst
2018 - 2021
Mergers & Acquisitions
UBS Realty Investors is an institutional investment advisor that managed real estate equity assets on behalf of its clients.
Cryptocurrency Investment Analyst
2018 - 2018
Evaluated various event-driven and signal based crypto trading strategies. Conducted rigorous bottoms-up and top-down fundamental analyses on new ICO/SAFT opportunities resulting in several investment memos presented to the portfolio manager.
Investment Banking Summer Analyst
2017 - 2017
Mergers and Acquisitions
UBS Realty Investors is an institutional investment advisor that managed real estate equity assets on behalf of its clients.
Principal Lending and Investing Intern
2016 - 2017
Macquarie Infrastructure Company Owns, operates and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses.
VP External Affairs for the NYU Stern Beta Chapter
2014 - 2017
Organized, marketed, and moderated PCT’s Women’s Corporate Mingle, titled "Projecting Your Authentic Self", a discussion exploring the perception of women in the workplace as well as a networking opportunity with over 120 professional and student attendees, 6 panelist speakers, as well as one keynote speaker. Coordinated various company-specific networking events to educate the Stern community of different career opportunities, including (but not limited to) investment banking, brand consulting, and capital markets accounting, as well as to promote and enable women in leadership positions. Spearheaded PCT’s first workshop series where professors lead discussions on various subjects to expand upon members’ knowledge.
Loan Fund Intern
2015 - 2015
Quality Assurance Documentation Intern
2013 - 2013
Evaluated Sikuli script, which visually automates GUI elements, in the context of testing Accellion's file sharing software and presented my findings to the QA team. Built test cases for all of the functions of an upcoming file sharing software to identify any possible bugs within the code, ensuring product quality for the company.
Kiteworks provides secure communication and file-sharing solutions for businesses and organizations.
Raised $592,010,901.00 from Insight Partners, Sixth Street and Bregal Sagemount.