Sumzero Management

Divya Narendra, CEO & Co-founder
Before founding SumZero, Divya was an Associate at Sowood Capital Management, a $3.5B multi-strategy hedge fund located in Boston, MA. At Sowood, Divya analyzed investment opportunities across the capital structure. Prior to this, he was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse Securities in NYC. Divya graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a degree in Applied Mathematics.

Aalap Mahadevia, Co-founder
Aalap Mahadevia is an associate at Leucadia National in New York City. Prior to joining Leucadia, Aalap was an analyst at Farallon Capital Management, a $20B+ multi-strategy investment fund in San Francisco, where he focused on long/short equity strategies. Aalap graduated from Harvard College in 2003, where he concentrated in Government. He was also a member of the Class of 2009 at Harvard Business School.

Elizabeth Michiels, Senior Vice President, Member Relations
Elizabeth Michiels has held a range of roles touching the financial services sector – from working at Salomon Smith Barney, to over six years as a recruiter for hedge funds and private equity firms, and most recently, a role in business development working with hedge funds in the asset backed securities space. She attended UC Berkeley for undergrad, and received an MBA from Stanford.

Erik Vander Kolk, Publisher/Advertising Director
Early in his career, Erik became the founding Advertising Director of Bloomberg.com as well as Forbes.com. He went on to become the National Sales Director for The Standard.com (the website for the Industry Standard), which at its height had more than 400 online advertising clients. He became Group Publisher of Institutional Investor News in 2001, managing the commercial end of seventeen print and online publications. Erik has been involved in the aquisition as well as the sale of several business to business media companies throughout his career. He did his post graduate work at the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and his undergraduate degree is from Northwestern University.