Devansh Patel Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Worked on fundraising, M&A and financial advisory mandates across sectors including Healthcare, AgriTech, EdTech, Electric Mobility, Consumer Goods, Hospitality, etc.
• Primarily worked on equity deals involving SME companies seeking to raise US$ 1-5Mn.
• Built financial models using Excel and prepared comprehensive Information Memorandums on PowerPoint that contained industry analysis, company profile and financial projections.
• Studied Financial Statements, Management Discussions and Notes to Financial Statements to identify M&A targets and analysed the performance of peer companies for benchmarking.
• Reached out to institutional investors and M&A targets via cold calls, emails, and LinkedIn.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Developed an excel-model to define the back-end functionality of the Impact Calculator used to attract prospective clients (mainly hospitals) to ImproveWell’s staff-engagement platform.
• Worked in a 10-person team to quantify Key Performance Indicators by analysing 8 Impact Reports provided by ImproveWell and other publications from the NHS and Hospital Trusts.
• Presented the finalised excel-model along with the underlying fact-based evidence on Zoom to ImproveWell’s C-suite management team.
• Impact Calculator approved by the management team and featured on the ImproveWell website: https://www.improvewell.com/customer-story/impact-calculator/

Gujarat, India

• Acquired the franchising rights to Enviros’ wastewater clarification technology in the state of Gujarat after liaising with the Chairman and Managing Director of Enviros India.
• Introduced the electrochemical technology to the Sachin Industrial District Committee in April with the sales strategy targeted at pharmaceutical, biochemical and textile industries.
• Coordinated with Enviros’ Chennai headquarters to recruit a team of 5 and visited 12 manufacturing-sites to assess the feasibility of pilot plant installations.
• Finalised a payment structure with 4 business owners after negotiating a personalised, techno-commercial proposal with 7 shortlisted manufacturing facilities.

Surat Area, India

• Purchased raw materials at cost-effective rates from various suppliers and followed up with the production team to ensure quality standards of the raw materials were not compromised to achieve profit maximization.
• Prevented competitors from poaching 4, key clients by revising discount strategies with the sales and accounting team.
• Established an instalment plan for delayed payments and resolved disputes after conducting discussions with management teams of several textile mills.
• Supervised the sales, accounting and production teams to ensure all the departments are functioning seamlessly and efficiently under the Good & Service Tax reform introduced by the Government of India.

Greater Boston Area

• Researched the cardio-protective properties of adipocyte AMPK protein using a genetic knockout mice model at Dr. Julia Xu’s lab after completing lab technical and safety training.
• Scheduled experiments around my undergraduate timetable to spend 38 hours at the lab per week to meet the weekly data targets.
• Extracted and amplified (PCR) DNA from mice tail to establish their genotype by the help of agarose gel electrophoresis, and characterize over 200 mice into control and experimental (adipocyte-AMPK-alpha1 KO and.
• Stained the cardiomyocytes of the mice with Hematoxylin and Eosin to visualize the cells under a light microscope and measure their size, using imageJ, to study Cardiac Hypertrophy.

Ahmedabad Area, India

• Understood the different stages of clinical trials by shadowing the ‘CANVAS’ Research Team’s assessment of the cardiovascular effects of the drug substance, canagliflozin.
• Communicated with the clinical trial patients to obtain feedback in order to improve patient experience and ensure patient compliance throughout the clinical trial process.
• Centrifuged blood samples and performed the Tri-Dot antibody test to detect the presence of HIV in patients during a one-month rotation in the Pathology Lab.

Master Of Science - Ms, Pharmaceutical Formulation And Entrepreneurship, Distinction (Final Overall Score: 80/100)

Activities and Societies: UCL Consulting Society: Postgraduate Board Member.• Formulation Project: Polymeric Nanovaccines Against.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology, 3.51/4.00

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Sigma - Professional Chemistry Fraternity• Advanced Lab Elective: Molecular Biology Lab supervised by.

High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate, 40/45

Higher Level Courses: Biology (6), Chemistry (6), Economics (7) Standard Level: Math (7), English Language and Literature (6), Spanish A.