Saurav Kumar Yadav

Corporate Strategy Intern

Riggle Capital · Internship

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Baltimore, Baltimore city, Maryland, United States

Sourced and evaluated 120+ non-dilutive capital opportunities (grants), developed a targeted positioning strategy, and prepared applications to support securing $5M in committed capital for a real estate project. Evaluated 80+ potential technology investments, performed preliminary deal analysis and conducted due diligence on 14 high-potential middle market manufacturing companies for strategic capital deployment. Served as primary point of contact for inbound deal flow, conducting initial fit assessments, facilitating first-look management meetings, and producing investment theses that highlighted strategic synergies and potential capital raising opportunities. Built pitch decks and financial models (ROI, NPV, best-worst case scenarios) to communicate project scope and funding needs to senior leadership and government agencies.

Corporate Development Intern

Heisler Semiconductor LLC · Internship

May 2025 – Sep 2025 · 4 mos

Baltimore, Baltimore city, Maryland, United States

Built a $3M financial model and valuation analysis for a potential minority equity stake by constructing public comps and precedent OSAT transactions, running sensitivity analyses, and drafting the formal investment memo that informed the IC's go/no-go decision. Executed customer retention and cross-selling initiatives that deepened relationships with existing portfolio clients, directly contributing to the acquisition of 5+ new accounts. Prepared monthly management reports and GAAP financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) to track operating performance, highlighting trends that drove a $10K monthly sales increase.

Business Strategy Intern

Dantzig Fleet Solutions · Internship

Jul 2025 – Aug 2025 · 1 mo

Sterling, Loudoun County, Virginia, United States

Achieved a projected 15% reduction in process cycle time for a logistics SaaS platform by mapping end-to-end workflows in detailed swimlane diagrams, identifying bottlenecks in order routing, and translating them into product and process changes. Designed a 3P (Process, People & Product) improvement model and a SaaS-focused margin optimization framework for non-stock part sales, informing pricing-engine updates that were projected to increase pricing efficiency and gross margins by 10%.

Consultant

Constellation · Contract

Mar 2025 – May 2025 · 2 mos

Houston, Harris County, Texas, United States

Evaluated customer acquisition economics (CAC/LTV) and go-to-market strategies; applied scenario modeling and forecasting to deliver actionable recommendations that improved marketing ROI and optimized the customer acquisition funnel.

Technical Business Analyst

Deloitte · Full-time

Sep 2020 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, India

Utilized Agile (Scrum) to deliver B2B SaaS implementations for financial services clients, documenting product requirements, managing backlogs in Jira, and coordinating sprints with onshore/offshore engineering teams. Drove post-M&A and operating-model transformation projects on investment-management platforms, mapping front-to-back workflows into target SaaS architectures, identifying control gaps, and defining implementation roadmaps. Reduced operational risk by 20% on a cloud hosted IBOR platform by redesigning multi asset trade execution workflows and building Tableau dashboards that monitored real time KPIs across $2B+ of AUM. Managed end-to-end trade-flow configuration on a trading and risk SaaS stack (Front Office to Middle Office) for equities, fixed income, and repos, improving STP rates and ensuring accurate capital and risk reporting. Wrote complex SQL queries in Snowflake to extract and aggregate 10K+ daily transactions and positions across multiple enterprise platforms, improving reconciliation accuracy and enhancing the reliability of capital-markets performance and risk reporting. Led integration of third-party apps and vendor APIs with a core insurance SaaS platform, streamlining data flows and improving customer transaction processing speed by 20%.

Johns Hopkins University

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance

Aug 2024 – May 2026