Team and advisors.
The people behind Unknot, and the advisors who lead in their own fields: law, private markets, finance, technology and business development.
The advisors here act in a personal capacity, not on behalf of the firms they work for.
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Founder
Akhil Vohra
Founder, Unknot Partners
Akhil is the founder of Unknot Partners and a problem solver at heart. He starts by working out what a client truly needs, which is often not the question they arrived with.
Strategy, financial modeling, technology and data, brought together in one place. He builds the solution, then backs every recommendation with evidence.
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Advisor
Anand Kumar
Founder and Managing Partner, Pier Counsel
Corporate lawyer, 25 years. Founded Pier Counsel in 2008, after Desai & Diwanji and Fox Mandal.
With us Reads the legal side of a deal: the structure, the terms, what a founder is actually signing.
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Advisor
Sneha Dadrwal
Chief Brand Officer and Investor Relations Officer, Oister Global
On the founding team at Oister Global. Before that, investor relations and communications at Lumis Partners.
With us How money is raised and investors are kept: what gets reported, and what earns trust.
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Advisor
Rahul Sangal
Managing Partner, Sangal & Associates
Chartered accountant and litigator. Has led Sangal & Associates for over 15 years.
With us The numbers and the law in one conversation: structuring, valuation, and what happens in a dispute.
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Advisor
Harshdeep Anand
Co-founder, empaithy
Co-founded empaithy, which turns conversations into mental health intelligence. Before that, Calypsu and Veriscript.
With us How a product gets built, and whether it is worth building at all.
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Advisor
Saksham Karwal
AVP, Business Development, Ultrahuman
First business development hire at Ultrahuman, from no retail presence to four thousand stores in North America. Founded StyleSend and SeenIt before that.
With us How a thing actually gets sold: the first customers, the channel, and what it takes to land them.
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Advisor
Spencer Hamilton
Executive coach; former FTSE 100 transformation leader
Three decades leading change inside organizations. Transformation at a major telecoms company, dealmaking at a leading law firm, then leadership search and coaching.
With us How organizations decide, buy and change, and the people we need to grow.
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Advisor
Aditya Khemka
Doctoral candidate in financial economics, University of Oxford
Reading for a doctorate in financial economics at Oxford, after a master’s there. Investment banking at Goldman Sachs, then research inside the Bank of England’s macro-financial risks division.
With us The macro view: where the economy is heading, and what that does to the numbers in a model.
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Advisor
Jeziel Rodrigues
Energy and infrastructure engineer; MBA graduate in finance
Electrical engineer, a decade in energy and infrastructure. Electrical systems for energy projects, then offshore wind performance across Europe and North America for a global energy major.
With us The engineering behind project finance and capital-heavy builds, and whether the technical assumptions hold up.
Jeziel Rodrigues on LinkedIn
We keep Unknot narrow on purpose. Everything outside it goes to people who do it better, some of them here and some not.
They also tell us when we have the problem wrong, which is the expensive mistake to make.