Specialties: Startups, Payments, Venture Capital, M&A, Financial Institutions, Financial Technology

Mentor @ From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Mentor for Barclays Accelerator @ Mentor for first US class of Barclays Accelerator, a fin-tech incubator powered by Techstars and sponsored by Barclays. http://barclaysaccelerator.com/#/new-york/ From July 2015 to Present (4 months) Research Associate @ Researching financial inclusion in emerging markets, and mobile money solutions in particular. Wrote paper entitled “Mobile Money Services: Design and Development for Financial Inclusion.” From 2013 to Present (2 years) Summer Policy Advisor, Office of Capital Markets @ Financial markets policy. Worked on the JOBS Act, the Orderly Liquidation Authority provision of Dodd-Frank, and the European situation. From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSenior Project Manager, New Growth Platforms @ New Growth Platforms is an internal business incubator. Helped develop business plan for a SaaS platform which will enable brands to communicate with customers in retail stores through smartphone-based Near-Field Communication (NFC) technology, and managed three contractors (product manager, developer, and graphics / UX) through initial phases of product development. From November 2010 to June 2011 (8 months) Assistant to the President @ Managed process to sell iPay, a portfolio company of Bain Capital Ventures and Spectrum Equity Investors, resulting in $300M acquisition by Jack Henry & Associates in June 2010. iPay provides a SaaS solution for online bill payment and remittance, allowing users to make any payment they like directly from their bank’s internet banking portal. From December 2009 to June 2010 (7 months) Associate @ Venture Capital investor at the $1.5B venture affiliate of Bain Capital. Fund focuses on early stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide variety of industries. Helped invest $31.45M across five companies. From December 2007 to October 2009 (1 year 11 months) Analyst @ Trader on proprietary trading desk within Structured Credit Trading. Desk traded for the firm account, and strategy involved an arbitrage of credit derivatives and illiquid debt instruments. From October 2005 to December 2007 (2 years 3 months)

MBA, Graduated with Distinction @ Harvard Business School From 2011 to 2013 M.Eng., Computer Science @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2004 to 2005 S.B., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2000 to 2004 Ishan Sachdev is skilled in: Venture Capital, M&A, Startups, Payments, Capital Markets, Financial Technology, Mobile, Investments, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, SaaS, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Planning, Portfolio Management, Mobile Devices