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Pallavi Sambasivan

Manager at Sony Music Entertainment

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

  • Strategy & Investments | Manager

    2023 - Current

  • 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.

  • Investment Banking Associate Director

    2021 - 2021

    Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2018 - 2021

    Mergers & Acquisitions

  • 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

  • Principal Lending and Investing Intern

    2016 - 2017

  • 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.

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