Sunil Arora is a professional coach for individuals and companies. He focuses on leadership and personal development for start-up executives, entrepreneurs starting their own businesses, and individuals in a professional transition. He also works on organizational structuring and development for early stage companies. He draws on his experience in finance, sociology, technology start-ups, and the public policy space.
Sunil's background includes leading the fund partnerships team at Artivest, a technology based investment start-up in New York connecting investors and investment funds. Sunil helped established Artivest in the independent wealth management and private equity community. Prior to that, Sunil opened and led the New York office for Addepar, a financial technology firm based in Silicon Valley, and worked in senior sales, deployment, and technical sales roles at the company. He joined Addepar after working in economic policy for The National Economic Council at The White House and for The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Sunil began his career in the fund of hedge funds industry, assembling and analyzing portfolios of hedge funds on the investment team first at Ironwood Capital Management and then at Bessemer Trust. He graduated with a BS in Business Administration and a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and received his MPA, with a concentration in international finance and economic policy, from The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.