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My story!

My journey into finance began in the Himalayas, in a small town where winter defines everyday life.
 

Growing up, I watched my father run a woollen showroom that served a very real purpose: protecting our community from the harsh mountain cold. For him, the business was never just about selling clothes. It was about reliability, trust, and craftsmanship. No matter the season or circumstance, he showed up every day to keep the business running. Watching that discipline shaped my earliest understanding of what it means to build and sustain something meaningful.
 

While my father managed the front of the business, my grandfather managed its financial backbone. From class 10 onwards, I spent many evenings sitting beside him as he reviewed the ledgers, journals, and cash flow statements of the showroom. What fascinated me was not just the numbers themselves, but the story they told.
 

He showed me how inventory purchases affected liquidity, how margins determined sustainability, and how disciplined financial decisions kept the business stable through unpredictable winters. Those evenings were my first exposure to the idea that behind every functioning business lies a framework of financial thinking.
 

That curiosity eventually led me to pursue a degree in Banking and Finance. During my undergraduate years, I explored different areas of business, from sales roles in the education sector to business development within charitable foundations supporting small enterprises. These experiences gave me a broader understanding of how organisations grow and operate, but they also confirmed something consistent: I was always drawn to the analytical and financial side of things.
 

After graduating, I joined Insight Alpha as a Research Associate, where I delivered over 120 research projects for global clients including McKinsey, PwC, and Goldman Sachs. The role demanded speed, precision, and the ability to translate industry insights into clear, usable analysis. It also exposed me to the strategic questions that senior decision-makers ask when evaluating industries, companies, and transactions.
 

To deepen my technical foundation, I moved to London to pursue an MSc in Investment Banking at Queen Mary University of London, graduating with Distinction. Alongside my studies, I worked at Neotas as a Financial Modeler under the CFO, where I built integrated five-year financial projections and audited complex revenue files. This experience sharpened my ability to evaluate businesses through structured financial analysis and strengthened my understanding of financial modelling in real business decisions.

Over time, I found myself drawn more to the world of transactions, particularly Mergers and Acquisitions. M&A draws on strategy, valuation, negotiation, and execution. It is where financial analysis directly shapes the direction of companies.
 

This website is my way of continuing that journey. Each month, I publish new M&A analyses and transaction breakdowns as a way to sharpen my thinking, build practical experience, and deepen my understanding of how deals are structured and executed.

Finance, to me, has never been an abstract discipline. It began in a small family business in the Himalayas and has grown into a continuing pursuit of understanding how businesses are built, valued, and transformed.

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My Projects

EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree
 

This degree gave me a solid grounding in how financial markets work. The curriculum covered market dynamics, quantitative finance, and corporate law, which together shaped how I think about deal structures and company valuation. I also built practical skills in data visualisation using Tableau and advanced Excel, tools that carried well beyond the classroom. I graduated with Merit, and came away with a much clearer sense of what financial precision demands and where it actually matters.

 Masters Degree

The MSc was about closing the distance between theory and work that is actually useful at a desk. I specialised in Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Derivatives, and Financial Modelling, and the programme pushed me to apply those frameworks under real pressure. Graduating with Distinction mattered to me — it confirmed I could handle the kind of analytical demands that investment banking requires.

CFA Level 1 Candidate

The CFA is, to me, the gold standard of professional discipline in finance. I am currently preparing for Level 1, working through investment tools, asset classes, and ethical standards with the goal of having those fundamentals solid before stepping into deal work. The exam is demanding by design, and I think that rigour is exactly what prepares you for the precision deal work requires.

Technical Workflow & Certificates

Financial Forecasting & Modeling | City Investment Training: A technical programme focused on building integrated financial statements and analysing revenue recognition trends. I worked through the logic behind the numbers, projecting equity growth and constructing valuation models from the ground up.
 

M&A and Valuation | Coursera (In Progress): I am currently working through M&A-specific valuation techniques, with a focus on identifying synergies and building models that hold up to scrutiny. The course keeps my technical knowledge current with what the industry actually uses.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Work Experience

Interim Financial Modeler | Neotas (Sep 2025 – Jan 2025): Working directly under the CFO, I built and maintained five-year financial projections, concentrating on "zero-error" data reconciliation and auditing revenue files that fed into investor pitch decks and presentations. The work gave me a practical understanding of how financial accuracy shapes investor perception and senior-level decisions, which is a central concern in any deal process.
 

Research and Finance Associate | Insight Alpha (June 2023 – June 2024): I managed over 120 research projects for investment clients including McKinsey, PwC, and Goldman Sachs, handling everything from coordinating industry experts to delivering competitor profiles and trend analysis across sectors. The research wasn't M&A-specific, but it fed into the strategic decisions these firms were making, and it built my ability to communicate with stakeholders, work under pressure, and deliver clear analysis on time.

Internships

Before committing to M&A, I worked across a range of sectors to test my commercial instincts. These roles confirmed that I belong on the analytical and strategic side of finance.

Portfolio & Risk Analysis | BB Advisory: This was my first move into technical finance. I analysed investment opportunities and risk profiles, applying strategies that produced a measurable profit for a client. The experience confirmed what I was looking for: a career where the analysis I do connects directly to the outcome.

Life Sciences Research | Schrocken: I conducted in-depth research within the life sciences sector, developing the "detective" mindset that due diligence demands. It taught me that the most useful insights come from following the data carefully rather than accepting what is on the surface.

Business Model Development | Idobro - Rise Infinity Foundation: I developed growth strategies for small-scale entrepreneurs, working through questions of operational viability and where combining resources could create real value. Thinking through those problems gave me an early grounding in the logic that runs through most M&A decisions.

Sales & Fundraising | Vestige & Aashman Foundation: Early on, I developed pitching skills and raised capital across different initiatives. Leading a successful fundraising campaign for the Milk Bank taught me how to build a case that moves people and how to bring the right stakeholders along with it.

Skills 
Technical Foundations

Building the base through study and early hands-on exposure.

Financial Modeling (Excel): Between my MSc (Distinction) and my time at Neotas under the CFO, I worked through the mechanics of 3-statement models and five-year projections. I know Excel well and understand how a business is constructed on paper. What I want now is to see how those models are tested and refined against an actual deal.

Valuation Methodology: I have a clear theoretical grounding in DCFs, comparables, and merger modelling, developed through university projects including a full HUB Group/XPO Logistics analysis I built from scratch. I understand the underlying logic and the math. The next step is applying that within a deal team where the numbers have real consequences.
 

Commercial Research: My year at Insight Alpha taught me how to dig for data properly. Across 120+ projects, I handled competitor analysis and industry profiling under consistent deadline pressure. It gave me a realistic sense of how to find, filter, and organise information quickly, and that is what I want to bring to supporting senior bankers on live mandates.
 

Graduate Operating Principals

My approach to the "Analyst" role.

The Learning Curve: I am currently preparing for CFA Level 1 and working through a City Investment Training course because I know how much I still have to learn. I think of myself as a work-in-progress and want to be in an environment that pushes me technically, consistently.

Commitment to Precision: Working at Neotas taught me that accuracy in a revenue file is not something you approximate. I don't claim to be perfect, but I check my own work carefully and reconcile data until I'm confident that what a senior team member picks up is something they can rely on.

Reliability Under Pressure: My time at Insight Alpha taught me that the work doesn't slow down for you. I am prepared for long hours and the intensity that comes with live deal execution. I know how to stay focused when deadlines are tight and the output still has to be right.

Adaptable Communication: Whether I'm working with the CFO on pitch decks or coordinating with international experts, I focus on being clear and useful. I understand that as a junior, my job is to make things easier for the people above me, not add noise to the process.

Core Traits & Drive
  • Calculated Ambition: I moved from the Himalayas to London specifically to build a career in M&A. That was a deliberate decision, not a default. I am confident in what my MSc and time at Neotas have built, and I am not here to fill a seat temporarily. I want the role where I can prove what I am capable of, and I intend to earn my place properly.
     

  • The "Unstickable" Mindset: A year at Insight Alpha completing 120+ projects under pressure taught me that when a client is waiting, you find a way. I have become a practical problem-solver: if a data point is missing or a model isn't balancing, I work through the options before flagging it. Asking for help is fine, but it is not the first move.
     

  • Humble Confidence: I have worked directly under a CFO and coordinated with international stakeholders. Those experiences taught me to be confident in my output while staying measured in how I present it. As a graduate, I know my job is to be professional, observant, and useful, and to absorb the "polish" and deal instinct that only comes from working alongside experienced people.
     

  • Intellectual Curiosity: Beyond the spreadsheets, I find myself genuinely interested in why businesses work the way they do, whether that's advising small entrepreneurs through IDOBRO or following market trends on my own time. I look for patterns, not just numbers. I am the kind of person who will work through the night on a pitch deck because I actually care how it lands, not just that it gets done.

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