Danish comes with extensive experience in preparing small and medium enterprises for their M&A, fundraising, and commercialization goals - across the energy and real estate sectors. His responsibilities at CIEL entail creating a global footprint of solutions for companies that are looking to access the global capital markets, grow through M&A or expand into new markets and geographies.Prior to CIEL, Danish was the Chief of Staff at a private family office in the United States, where he served as a liaison to the management teams of portfolio companies - REITs, Business Development Companies, Opportunity Funds, and Equity Funds - across various functions, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Internal Audits, Reporting, Investor Relations, Stakeholder Management, Change Management and Business Transformation.Danish started his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Securities Research Associates and Sutter Securities with a focus on companies in the TMT, Healthcare, Real Estate, AI and ML sectors. Danish has underwritten $6B+ in transactions, & helped companies secure $300M+ and chart $1.5B+ in M&A goals.Life outside of work:-Avid squash player who has secured numerous state and national titles for his hometown, country and alma mater -Education and Housing driven community redevelopment causes across South Asia and Central America-An expert chef in South Asian cuisines