Nin Desai

Founder & CEO at NIN Ventures

Panelist

Ms. Nin Desai, CEO, is an experienced fund manager and a technology geek. She startedher professional career at Merrill Lynch with their Investment Management team. Shethan joined Pacific Crest Securities (now Key Bank), a technology investment bankingfirm. Her experience spans all facets of mergers and acquisitions, and corporate financeincluding public offerings and private placements. Her Pacific Crest corporate financetransactions include RACK, LOOP, LQDT, DBTK, AMIS, SLRY, VOCS, OWW and others. HerM&A deal sheet includes the sale of Financial Profiles to EISI, Buyseasons to Liberty Media,and others. After which Ms. Desai was with Alpha Capital Partners, a private equity firm(or Alpha), where she was responsible for identification and evaluation of potentialinvestments across a range of industries. At Alpha, she successfully completed the sale ofSircon (portfolio company), a software as a service provider company, to Vertafore. Sheis a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and has a B.B.A and an M.B.A inFinance/International Business from Loyola University of Chicago. In 2012, she attendeda leadership program in Private Equity and Venture Capital at Harvard Business School.