Abhay Deshpande Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Menlo Park, California, US

London, GB

Perform valuation of business enterprises, equity and intangible assets for financial reporting and tax purposes.Build financial models using Income (DCF), Market (comparable public company, comparable transaction multiples) and Cost approaches.Co-ordinate and collaborate across internal and external teams.

GB

• Helped establish the San Francisco Alternatives Valuation Specialist Group as a member of a team of four, responsible for assisting PwC PE/VC audit teams in assessing valuation of portfolio companies.
• Refined procedures and protocols used to service external and internal clients, resulting in a more efficient process.
• Assisted PwC audit teams as valuation specialist to assess management and/or appraiser prepared fair value analyses for equity and/or debt valuation for 50+ VC/PE portfolio companies.
• Prepared and delivered trainings internally to junior staff on financial analysis and valuation methodologies, and externally to client analysts on option-based methodologies for modeling pay-out to various classes of.
• Supervised and mentored junior staff on valuation engagements.

GB

• Advised buy-side clients, primarily in the technology space on pre and post M&A engagements by preparing valuation analyses for assessing deal value, and for financial reporting and tax purposes.
• Selected Projects:-- Advised an Enterprise data/Analytics SaaS company in its build vs buy decision related to the acquisition of a data on-boarding platform by preparing cash flow and returns analysis based on various.
• Assisted PwC audit teams as valuation specialist to assess management and/or appraiser prepared fair value analyses for equity and/or intangible asset valuation for 50+ VC/PE portfolio companies and 50+ corporate.
• Assisted Partners with developing prospective client list and drafting proposals; led to multiple wins.

• Generated product requirements consistent with marketing & business strategy for two new cloud based Automated Self-Service software solutions, including use cases & sales demos
• Conducted competitive analysis of top 5 competitors to validate positioning of Interactive Voice Response platform
• Contributed to compiling a business case for an On-demand Interactive Voice Response system to manage the product life cycle from assessment through product launch

• Grader and Teaching Assistant for the under-graduate course in Organizational Behavior

San Jose, CA, US

• Manufacturing Coordinator for transitioning product with annual revenue of $10 million from R&D to production.
• Responsible for performing statistical analysis to identify and drive yield improvements by correlating parametric fallout to technology, manufacturing and test deficiencies.
• Managed cross-functional projects to characterize failure mechanisms & drive root cause fixes; achieved ~4% quarter over quarter die yield improvement, adding approx. $1.5 million in annual revenue.
• Key involvement in corporate task force reporting to CEO formed to eliminate quality screen escapes; instrumental in driving up the in-line killer defect detection on production process from ~40% to over 75%.
• Collaborated with product/test engineers to reduce test related loss from ~8% to less than 2% resulting in annual savings worth $650K.
• Supported process engineering in design of experiments and analysis of experimental data on projects including recipe optimizations, defect reduction and tool qualifications.

Lafayette, LA, US

• Web design, system administration, database design (MS Access) and technical support.
• Lab Conductor for Computer Control Systems, Grader for Engineering Electromagnetics

Full-Time (Cohort) Mba

Ms, Computer Engineering & Telecommunications