Resume

  1. 2025– Baba Chief of Staff, Head of Operations New York City

    Operations for a healthcare advocacy company.

    callbaba.com
  2. 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.
    birchwoodhcp.com
  3. 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.
    tidesmentalhealth.com
  4. 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.
  5. 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
  • 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
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