Resume
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2025– Baba Chief of Staff, Head of Operations New York City
Operations for a healthcare advocacy company.
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2022–2025 Birchwood Healthcare Partners Private Equity Associate Chicago
Worked across M&A, portfolio operations, fundraising, and workflow improvement.
- Led sourcing, evaluation, financial modeling, and due diligence for seniors healthcare buyouts.
- Managed roughly half of the portfolio, optimizing market position and financials to drive 4% adjusted EBITDA growth.
- Spearheaded company-wide AI implementation and training that produced 2-10x improvements across admissions, scheduling, deal triage, and ambient charting.
- Supported strategic rebranding and repositioning of an operating platform that doubled AUM in 12 months.
- Helped restructure multiple tranches of debt and preferred equity, and aligned organizational structure to reduce overhead by $3M.
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2023–2025 Tides Mental Health Strategy & Operations Chicago
Helped build a mental health practice across growth, finance, systems, and operating cadence.
- Launched brand, website, paid ads, CRM, and offshore talent workflows, scaling to 100+ clients and 8+ therapists in 12 months.
- Built AI-driven automations that reduced no-shows by 28%, improved insurance collection to 91%, and increased client retention by 10% versus industry average.
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2024– SortedByShah Founder, AI & Business Consulting Chicago
Small consulting projects around growth, operations, and AI workflows.
- Sourced small businesses seeking growth and operations improvement, then shipped projects across triage, scheduling, automation, and marketing.
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2017–2021 Earlier 7 internships and campus roles
- 2019–2022 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cyber Security Analyst. Worked with Technology Services on network security analysis for campus systems.
- 2020–2021 Birchwood Healthcare Partners, Private Equity Analyst. Supported healthcare private equity investment and portfolio work.
- 2020 Covalent, Product Manager. Helped build a pandemic-response nonprofit that restored 100+ lost internships by matching students with 50+ mentors.
- 2020 MPAC Healthcare, Product Manager. Supported COVID-19 telehealth launch across go-to-market, user interviewing, and product management.
- 2020 Tamroc Partners, Venture Capital Analyst. Worked across pet consumer industry research, ML applications, and financial modeling.
- 2019 Birchwood Healthcare Partners, Private Equity Summer Analyst. Spearheaded and secured a $4M debt term sheet on an elder care acquisition from organic prospecting.
- 2017 TEE Ventures (India) Limited, Strategy Intern. Traveled to India's only golf ball manufacturer and brand to work on B2C go-to-market strategy.
- School
- University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBS Finance, BS Information Systems, minor in Computer Science
- Tools
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- Excel
- Capital IQ
- Python
- SQL
- TypeScript
- React
- Figma
- LLM APIs
- Groups
- AI Tinkerers Chicago: hosted founder dinnersHinge One More Hour Fund: one of 10 advisors on $1M in grants
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Hindi, Gujarati
- Contact
- ravirshah13@gmail.com LinkedIn GitHub