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Heritage

I come from a Sindhi community with a deep reliance on intellectual capital, reputation, and operational agility. Sindhis carry a history of total loss, recovery, and resilience that instilled in me a respect for building institutions designed to endure across market cycles, where rigorous accounting and disciplined operations are preconditions for survival and compounding. My family came to the U.S. in the 1980s.

Formation

My early career followed a deliberate apprenticeship under senior practitioners in institutional finance, strategy, and risk. This formation emphasized foundational frameworks of capital and execution, shaping an approach to building businesses where transparency, accountability, and durability are embedded in the operating model.

Ernst & Young

I began my career at Ernst & Young, working in risk advisory and internal audit for healthcare organizations. Working under Anthony Carmello, I served client CFOs to define, test, and validate internal control frameworks, developing a lasting focus on accounting rigor and the mechanics of accountable execution.

National Veterinary Associates & Summit Partners

This foundation in internal controls and accounting rigor proved directly applicable when I was recruited by Summit Partners to join National Veterinary Associates (NVA) in corporate development and M&A, following Summit's equity investment into the company in 2007. At the time, NVA operated approximately 100 hospitals. I worked under the management team — including founder Stan Creighton and CEO Greg Hartmann — and alongside Summit. Over a three-year period, I originated and completed the acquisition of approximately 50 veterinary practices and spoke with thousands of independent practice owners, gaining direct exposure to succession planning, business valuation, operational risk, and owner-level decision-making under uncertainty. These efforts helped establish disciplined, first-principles frameworks within the corporate development function.

That acquisition engine was built during the Global Financial Crisis and scaled through three successive sponsors — Summit Partners, Ares Management, and JAB Holding Company — compounding at roughly 20% annually for nearly two decades, from the mid-2000s through the mid-2020s. The result was approximately 27x enterprise value growth and a top 0.1% outcome among large-scale private equity investments of the recent era. This established NVA as one of the most durable multi-sponsor buyout platforms in private equity history to date. NVA today operates over 1,500 veterinary hospitals and pet care centers.

Wells Fargo Securities — Financial Sponsors Group

Following NVA, I moved to New York City to work in investment banking within the Financial Sponsors Group at Wells Fargo Securities. I worked under senior bankers with deep experience in leveraged finance and sponsor-backed capital structures, directly under Brian Van Elslander, with the platform later shaped by Malcolm Price. Both came from Credit Suisse, whose leveraged finance platform drew heavily from the traditions and talent of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) — a foundational force in the leveraged finance market — and helped build the group with the rigor, discipline, and underwriting standards associated with that lineage. I advised private equity sponsors and supported execution across M&A transactions and financings for firms including Blackstone, KKR, and Apollo Global Management.

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

I later joined The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a strategy consultant, advising financial services and fintech organizations on operational effectiveness, organizational design, and private equity due diligence efforts. During this time, I worked under Ashwin Adarkar, a pioneer in business process outsourcing who helped establish McKinsey & Company's India office beginning in 1992.

Assivo

In 2017, I founded Assivo.

Assivo applies the rigor of institutional finance and strategy consulting to outsourced operations, with a focus on clear accountability, fixed-price commercial structures, and outcome-oriented delivery. As an independent, privately held firm, Assivo structures partnerships around client priorities — emphasizing continuity, transparency, and long-term operating stability — with alignment mechanisms that prioritize long-term client outcomes and relationship integrity over capital-based timelines.