Vedant Saboo

Director
Vedant Saboo
HOME BASE
Dallas
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • Frutero Natural Foods

  • Blackstone

  • McKinsey & Co

ALMA MATER
  • University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, M.B.A.

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, B.Tech. & Engineering

HOME BASE
Dallas
BEFORE ACCORDION
  • Frutero Natural Foods

  • Blackstone

  • McKinsey & Co

ALMA MATER
  • University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, M.B.A.

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, B.Tech. & Engineering

Vedant is a Director with 8 years of experience as an investor, management consultant and as an entrepreneur. Vedant’s experience ranges from business transformation of small and large companies across multiple functions.

Before joining Accordion, Vedant was an associate at Blackstone Private Equity team evaluating investments across software, consumers, and healthcare industries. Additionally, he worked with the board and senior management of multiple Blackstone portfolio companies to drive performance improvement across multiple operating metrics.

Vedant started his career as a business analyst with McKinsey & Co. where he consulted multi-national companies on sales, strategy, and profitability improvement. Of late the thrill of building businesses encouraged Vedant to build his own consumer company from scratch to a profitable venture.

Vedant received his MBA from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and is an Engineering Physics (nanotechnology) undergraduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Something you should know
  • Grew up in a small town in east part of India where my extended family of 50 members lived together.
  • Love politics, contested 4 elections during my undergrad, winning all of them.
  • Love traveling / hiking – the best has been to climb Mt. Fuji overnight to see the rising sun from the peak.
    Noteworthy
    • Recipient of Shils – Zeidman Award from University of Pennsylvania
    • Past winner and currently semi-final Judge for Wharton Startup Challenge