Team
Team members are the greatest strength of Siguler Guff
All Professionals
Michael Apfel
Fernando Arakaki
Pedro Luis Aranha
Megan Auwarter
Jeb Banks
Christopher Barbier
Jenna Beekman
Sarah Bellis
Bradley Bennett
Matthew Bernstein
Marvin Bigalbal
Sara Bowdoin
Elena Brown
Tammy Budd
Ken Burns
Pedro Cafaro
Tami Cai
Mário Carolo
Shelly Chen
Cesar Collier
Meghan Conaty
James Conticello
Taylor Coundouris
Clara Custodio
Meghan Danaher
Bibhusha Dangol
Ana Elisa de Cunto
C.J. Denmark
Mark Denomme
Adam Domanico
Matthew Downes
Brenna Embry
Justin Eskind
Jim Fink
Matthew Foley
AJ Guff
Sarah Gheewala
John Ging
Klaudia Gjeta
Theresa Glorioso
Mitchell Goldfarb
Lucas Grant
Jordan Greenberg
Sean Greene
Peyton Grenley
Drew Guff
Timothy Hagerty
Donald Harris Jr
Bailey Hawthorne
James Hilton
Laura House
Susan Huang
Alexander Huo
Jun Isoda
Aviral Jain
Lea Johnson
Sandip Kakar
Kevin Kester
Shaun Khubchandani
Fiona Kolterman
Kyungoh Kook
Scott Krattenmaker
Jarrad Krulick
Ilomai Kurrik
Megan Laakso
Michelle Layne
Edward Lederle
Gee Lee
Sandra Lee
Sharon Liang
Robert Ligouri
Brian Ludemann
Sean R. Macdonald
Faith Maiello
Michael Malinics
Michael Martynowicz
Michelle Matthews
Jose Mayoral
Edward McQuiston
Trey Meyer
Rhoda Minderhoud
Langdon Mitchell
Katherine Moraski
Alexa Morris
Jason Mundt
Meghan Murphy
Melissa Natale
Jaqueline Olson
Timothy Ong
Marie Ong
Kentaro Otani
Bailey Palumbo
Prabhas Panigrahi
Elizabeth Panzera
Marcelo Phillips
Joshua Posner
Luisa Reis
Eric Rustad
Daniella Sagalovsky
John Scheurer
Lauren Schmidt
Sumil Sethi
Yiting Shan
Heemin Shin
Nadeem Siddiqui
George W. Siguler
Roman Simonov
Nicole Stauffer
Alicia Stevens
Marcos Tage
Jason Tan
Helen Tang
Stephanie Tazza
Jodee Telfer
Nikhil Velivela
Daniel Vieira
Narihiko Watanabe
Nathan Wawrowski
Matthew West
Eugene Williams
Jonathan Wilson
Matthew Yannocone
Clifford Yonce
Karen Yu
Valentyn Zadorin
Ally Zhang
Vivian Zhu
James Zumot
Prabhas Panigrahi
Managing Director
Prabhas R. Panigrahi is a Managing Director and the head of energy and infrastructure investments at Siguler Guff. As the portfolio manager of the Firm’s energy-focused funds, Mr. Panigrahi is involved in developing investment strategy, identifying and selecting investment opportunities, negotiating and structuring investments, and executing transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Mr. Panigrahi has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry as a private equity investor, investment banker and securities analyst covering the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors worldwide.
Prior to joining Siguler Guff in 2015, Mr. Panigrahi was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NRG Worldwide LLC, a merchant banking firm that invested in and advised companies in the global energy and natural resources sectors. From 2012 through 2014, Mr. Panigrahi consulted with MHR Fund Management LLC, a firm that manages over $5 billion focused on distressed and special situations investments in middle market companies. He also advised several energy companies on their operational, strategic and financial development, including M&A transactions. Between 2005 and 2012, Mr. Panigrahi was a Principal at MHR Fund where he was responsible for investing in the energy, natural resources, oilfield services and maritime infrastructure sectors. During his tenure at MHR Fund, Mr. Panigrahi sourced, developed and monitored large energy investments.
Between 1996 and 2004, Mr. Panigrahi provided equity research coverage of the oilfield services sector and supervised analysts based in the U.S. and Europe as a Senior Vice President and Director of Energy Research at Dresdner Kleinwort, and previously as a Vice President and Senior Analyst of Energy Research at Credit Suisse. While at Dresdner Kleinwort and Credit Suisse, he helped raise capital for some of the largest state-owned energy companies in Latin America and advised on sizable M&A and recapitalization transactions involving energy, natural resources and infrastructure companies. Mr. Panigrahi’s energy research teams were ranked in several institutional investor polls.
Previously, Mr. Panigrahi worked as an investment banker at Bankers Trust (Deutsche Bank) in New York and Hong Kong, where he was involved in corporate finance advisory, cross border M&A and capital markets transactions totaling more than $2.8 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Panigrahi was a Lead Engineer and Project Manager at McDermott International, Inc. in Houston, where he was responsible for energy infrastructure projects totaling more than $500 million in value.