Sambodhi brings a rare combination of buy-side discipline and investigative depth to the investment process. As a hedge fund investor at Steinberg Asset Management — a Eurekahedge Best Indian Hedge Fund — he developed a rigorous framework for identifying mispriced growth shaped by years of direct exposure to portfolio construction at the highest level.
Before that, as Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey's private equity practice — promoted ahead of peers — he built a holistic understanding of businesses: competitive dynamics, management quality, and long-duration value creation, not just financial model output. He began his career advising clients across South-East Asia at Deutsche Bank. Since 2018, he has generated ~25% annualized returns on personal capital against roughly 15% for the broader market over the same period.
Akshay's edge is in seeing what businesses are becoming before the market prices it. At McKinsey, he led diligence, value creation, and top-of-house strategy — assessing acquisition targets totaling more than $25B in value. As a core member of McKinsey's business-building practice, he led zero-to-one new business creation for consumer and consumer-health clients across growth strategy and digital buildouts.
Extensive experience as an operator at growth-stage startups gives him a practitioner's feel for which companies can truly execute. He brings behavioral-finance fluency to portfolio construction: not just what the numbers say, but why consensus is reading them wrong. His investing approach is shaped by a conviction that durable alpha comes from seeing trajectory gaps that consensus frameworks are structurally unable to see.