Deep Desai

Consultant · Principal Investors & Private Equity and Technology practices · San Francisco

• Commercial diligence across enterprise software, cybersecurity, healthcare IT, industrial technology, and other sectors. Own workstreams and synthesize customer, expert, and market research into investment committee materials.
• AI strategy, use-case prioritization, operating-model design, data-platform roadmaps, and proof-of-concept development.
• Growth strategy, market modeling, pricing, and go-to-market analysis for technology businesses.

Summer Consultant · June – August 2024

• Customer, distributor, and market analysis for private equity and hedge-fund diligence projects across consumer products, design software, and logistics SaaS.

MBA Consultant · Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum

• Developed the business strategy and roadmap for expansion into alternative clean-tech and energy projects, with go/no-go criteria for entering a new vertical.

Specialist, Control Systems · 2022 – September 2023

• Owned control-systems reliability and improvement for port and integrated remote operations, coordinating site engineers, remote-operations teams and equipment vendors to reduce unplanned downtime.

Portfolio Investment Strategist · 2021 – 2022

• Led early-stage investment and partnership diligence, including KoBold Metals, and built a 10-target pipeline with about $45M in potential value. Presented strategic fit, technology risk and integration paths to the investment committee.
• Built business cases for a pipeline of technology initiatives with about $350M in projected annual benefits across productivity, safety and emissions.

Value Chain Automation Lead · 2020 – 2021

• Defined automation strategy and ran pilots. Proved a digital pit-automation concept with roughly 15% reductions in unit cost, fuel use and haulage emissions, securing its inclusion in long-term plans.
• Led a robotic refueling scoping study targeting elimination of refueling injuries and about 4% higher productivity.

Analyst, Autonomous Haulage & Mobile Equipment · February 2019 – 2020

• Improved autonomous-fleet maintenance with Caterpillar at Newman. Launched fuel-quality reporting with BP, delivering about $5M in annual savings and about 2M fewer litres of diesel.

Junior Software Engineer · Perth, Australia

• Implemented industrial IoT retrofits at legacy oil and gas plants and built Python tools using sensor data to identify maintenance actions.
• Designed and tested a wireless sensor environment and data pipeline for remote condition monitoring and anomaly detection. Scoped pilots and handed prototypes over for production review.

Undergraduate Reliability Engineer · Solomon Hub, Western Australia

• Audited spares and maintenance practices at Solomon Hub, identifying improvements projected to cut costs by $2M and increase conveyor uptime by 4%.