About the Author
Sahil Alvi is a management consultant, economic analyst/investment strategist, intra-preneur and writer with core competencies in Global Macro-economics, Trading Strategies, Growth Strategy, New Venture Creation and Business Development.
Sahil lives and works in Dubai. He is a management consultant with a global consultancy where he spearheads the firm’s business development and thought leadership initiatives.
He started his career with the Advisory practice of Ernst & Young in Atlanta. Along the way, he helped build a startup into a high-growth enterprise in Miami. Sahil has also held a management consulting position with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles.
Over the course of his career, Sahil has advised several Fortune 500 clients, sovereign wealth funds/quasi-government conglomerates as well as startup ventures across a variety of disciplines such as: Growth Strategy, Business Transformation, Product Strategy, Enterprise Risk Management, Process Re-engineering, Commercial Due Diligence and Investment Analysis.
His industry experience spans:
- Financial Services (Banks, Insurance, Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Asset Management)
- Real Estate & Hospitality
- Healthcare (Payors and Providers)
- Distribution & Logistics
- Consumer Internet/Web 2.0
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Special Economic Zones.
Sahil has had the opportunity to live or work across: US, India, UAE (Dubai / Abu Dhabi), Canada, Netherlands, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain.
He holds an MBA (Entrepreneurship) from Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA and a BA (Economics) from University of Bombay in Bombay, India.
Sahil’s avocations include: Tennis, Product & Furniture Design, Abstract Expressionistic Painting, Photography, Biking, Blogging, and Reading Literary Classics, Poetry, Management, Finance and Economics tomes.
He can be reached at: sahil.alvi@gmail.com
