Keshav Rao

Vice President

HighPost Capital

Joined: 2020


  Pro - Try 1 Week Free
 

    and access,

  •     81K PE/M&A Contacts
  •     +
  •     4.6K PE Firms
  •     3.6K M&A Advisors
  •     200K Transactions
  •     203K Companies

  •     Market Services
  •     Build Lists
  •     Research Sectors
  •     Uncover Opportunities

Bio

Keshav joined HighPost Capital in January 2020. He primarily focuses on financial modeling, investment due diligence, deal sourcing, and consumer sector thematic research. Prior to HighPost, Keshav was the sole analyst for the CIO of JS Capital, the multi-billion-dollar family office of Jonathan Soros. Keshav spent over five years at the firm and focused on a wide range of public and private investments with a global focus on the consumer and TMT sectors. While at JS Capital, Keshav led bottoms-up analysis for 30+ private deals/co-investments and conducted fundamental financial and valuation analysis for 100+ global equities, with many profitable investments in the consumer technology and discretionary spaces. Keshav also interned with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Graham Partners during his MBA program. At BCG, he worked on a turnaround project for the CEO of a health and wellness company to improve profitability through store closures, product rationalization, field operations, restructuring, supply chain optimization, and salesforce improvement. Keshav started his career at Goldman Sachs in the Global Investment Research Division, where he covered 10 companies in the specialty apparel sector. He performed sector research, constructed financial models, and designed proprietary inventory and pricing databases for e-commerce channels. Keshav received an honors degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education