Pankaj Amin – Independent Board Member
In his extensive work as a CEO, private equity advisor and corporate board member, Pankaj brings more than 25 years of leadership and operational experience in healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and business services. A thoughtful, insightful, and intellectually curious advisor, he understands process as well as product, bringing financial oversight, strategic insight, and consumer products expertise to his clients and the boards on which he serves.
Currently, Pankaj serves on the board of MUBIC, a venture launched by Intercos, a global cosmetics manufacturer headquartered in Italy. He also represents the interests of two European investors as a board member of Enzo Bevande, a beverage company introducing popular European products into the U.S. consumer market. He is also on the board of Ballou, a European public relations firm serving B2B innovation clients.
Pankaj is the founder and managing director at SC Ventures, which serves as an investor, manager, and board advisor to companies requiring transformation and growth strategies, using cultural and process insights to revitalize businesses and operations.
More recently, Pankaj has been retained by boards to serve as Interim CEO or President of distressed companies, such as the healthcare company Patient Planning Services, where he led an operational turnaround, identified growth in new product categories, and selected the permanent CEO.
Pankaj has also advised boards on strategic execution. For Sellas Life Sciences Group (NASDAQ: SLS), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical development company, Pankaj was retained by the board and a large shareholder to lead operational processes during the company’s reverse merger, assemble the public company board and hire a CFO, General Counsel, and investor relations firm. For a private equity firm, Pankaj was retained to help execute the merger between a $3.5 billion United States Army program and a similarly sized United States Navy program. Pankaj began SC Ventures 19 years ago as a search fund through which he acquired Affinitel, a San Francisco-based telecommunications service provider supporting several thousand business customers. He led Affinitel as its CEO for 8 years, delivering 100% revenue growth and more than 200% cash flow growth in the first 24 months, and paying off the debt 3.5 years ahead of schedule.
Prior to SC Ventures, Pankaj worked at Model N (NYSE: MODN), an enterprise software company funded by Accel-KKR that went public in March 2013. Pankaj began his career in equity research at Goldman Sachs and in the telecommunications and electronics strategy group at Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
Pankaj is currently on the Global Executive Board of the Turnaround Management Association, a professional association for the restructuring industry. From 2016 to 2019, Pankaj served on the national board and research institute advisory board of the Cancer Support Community, an international non-profit dedicated to providing support, education, and hope to people affected by cancer. Since 2012, Pankaj has been an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey. From 2001 to 2008, Pankaj served on the board of the San Francisco Community Television Corporation. Pankaj has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Corporate Board, Axial, Harvard Magazine, and Journal of Corporate Renewal. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
In his extensive work as a CEO, private equity advisor and corporate board member, Pankaj brings more than 25 years of leadership and operational experience in healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, and business services. A thoughtful, insightful, and intellectually curious advisor, he understands process as well as product, bringing financial oversight, strategic insight, and consumer products expertise to his clients and the boards on which he serves.
Currently, Pankaj serves on the board of MUBIC, a venture launched by Intercos, a global cosmetics manufacturer headquartered in Italy. He also represents the interests of two European investors as a board member of Enzo Bevande, a beverage company introducing popular European products into the U.S. consumer market. He is also on the board of Ballou, a European public relations firm serving B2B innovation clients.
Pankaj is the founder and managing director at SC Ventures, which serves as an investor, manager, and board advisor to companies requiring transformation and growth strategies, using cultural and process insights to revitalize businesses and operations.
More recently, Pankaj has been retained by boards to serve as Interim CEO or President of distressed companies, such as the healthcare company Patient Planning Services, where he led an operational turnaround, identified growth in new product categories, and selected the permanent CEO.
Pankaj has also advised boards on strategic execution. For Sellas Life Sciences Group (NASDAQ: SLS), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical development company, Pankaj was retained by the board and a large shareholder to lead operational processes during the company’s reverse merger, assemble the public company board and hire a CFO, General Counsel, and investor relations firm. For a private equity firm, Pankaj was retained to help execute the merger between a $3.5 billion United States Army program and a similarly sized United States Navy program. Pankaj began SC Ventures 19 years ago as a search fund through which he acquired Affinitel, a San Francisco-based telecommunications service provider supporting several thousand business customers. He led Affinitel as its CEO for 8 years, delivering 100% revenue growth and more than 200% cash flow growth in the first 24 months, and paying off the debt 3.5 years ahead of schedule.
Prior to SC Ventures, Pankaj worked at Model N (NYSE: MODN), an enterprise software company funded by Accel-KKR that went public in March 2013. Pankaj began his career in equity research at Goldman Sachs and in the telecommunications and electronics strategy group at Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
Pankaj is currently on the Global Executive Board of the Turnaround Management Association, a professional association for the restructuring industry. From 2016 to 2019, Pankaj served on the national board and research institute advisory board of the Cancer Support Community, an international non-profit dedicated to providing support, education, and hope to people affected by cancer. Since 2012, Pankaj has been an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey. From 2001 to 2008, Pankaj served on the board of the San Francisco Community Television Corporation. Pankaj has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Corporate Board, Axial, Harvard Magazine, and Journal of Corporate Renewal. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.