Mr. Ehrenberg was the President and CEO of DB Advisors LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG. Mr. Ehrenberg's 130-person team managed over $6 billion in capital through a multi-strategy hedge fund platform with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Strategies deployed included managed futures, statistical arbitrage, merger arbitrage, event, fundamental long/short, systematic long/short, relative value, special situations, convertible arbitrage, foreign exchange and credit.
Prior to DB Advisors, Mr. Ehrenberg was Managing Director and Co-head of Deutsche Bank's Global Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, Mr. Ehrenberg's team won Institutional Investor magazine's "Derivatives Deal of the Year" award.
As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, Mr. Ehrenberg held a variety of roles and responsibilities in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring groups.
Mr. Ehrenberg is a MBA Graduate of Columbia University, and holds a BBA with Distinction from the University of Michigan.
Noah Eliot Gotbaum
Managing Director
Gotbaum Ventures, Inc.
Noah E. Gotbaum is a consultant and private investor focusing in the areas of technology, real estate, and environmental/recycling both domestically and in international developing markets. Prior to starting his own business, Noah lived and worked for almost 14 years in Europe, most recently serving as the Head of European Strategy and Corporate Development for Level 3 Communications in London. His responsibilities included management of Level 3’s regional capital and business strategy, business development, venture capital, and mergers & acquisitions.
Noah came to Level 3 from the Pioneer/Bank One (PBO) New Europe Property Fund where he was the Fund’s President and Chief Investment Officer. This role involved leading the US government-backed fund’s set-up, operations, and investment selection and management including their investments in high tech and telecom hotels. Prior to the PBO Fund, Noah was a Principal with Morgan Stanley International’s Private Equity Group where he was member of a five-person investment management team directing the bank’s $330 million global emerging markets private equity fund (MSGEM). From 1990 to 1996 Noah was a Senior Partner with the Central Europe Trust Company (CET), a London-based advisory firm focused on the markets of Central and Eastern Europe.
In the 1980’s Noah worked in commercial real estate in New York City, first in consulting, asset and property management with the Edward S. Gordon Company (now CBRE), and later as a development project manager with the Forest City/Ratner companies.
A founding Director of the New York Cares volunteer organization, Noah served as its first Chairman from 1986-1988. Additionally, Noah has served on the Fresh Air Fund’s Youth Council, on Manhattan’s Local Community Board 5 from 1985-1987, where he chaired the Board’s Development Committee, and as a Research Intern on Economic Development with the New York Community Trust.
Noah received a Bachelors degree in Political Science from Amherst College and an MBA from Yale University’s School of Management. He was a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in Cologne and Berlin, Germany in 1989/1990, and a Coro Foundation Fellow in Los Angeles in 1982/1983. During his Coro fellowship Noah wrote the original business plan for the Los Angeles Educational Partnership (LAEP). Noah has been published, taught courses and lectured extensively on international joint ventures and business development.
Noah and his wife Carol live in New York City with their three young children.
Sandeep Bhanote, Co-founder and CEO, brings broad experience in delivering critical engineering solutions to multinational enterprises including leading investment banks, such as Waterhouse Securities, Goldman Sachs, DLJ, and JP Morgan. Sandeep co-founded Global Bay to deliver high-impact solutions in a cost effective manner to clients in a cross-section of vertical industries.
As CEO, Sandeep's time is split between cultivating strategic relationships with clients, partners, advisors and investors as well as driving the technical direction of Global Bay's products and services.
Nimit Sabharwal, Co-founder of Global Bay, serves as the Vice President of Global Bay. Nimit has a strong background in finance, and has managed Global Bay's exponential organic growth since its inception. Prior to Global Bay, Nimit ran a family property business that has operations in the UK and France. Nimit has a First Class Honors Degree from the University of London, where he was also awarded the "Drapers Company Prize" for Outstanding Academic Achievement.
Nimit was a semi-finalist in the Entrepreneur of the Year awards held by the Harvard Business School in 2002 and led negotiations with the GSA to secure Global Bay's GSA schedule in 2003.
Nimit is responsible for operational management at Global Bay. Nimit also sits on the Board of Directors
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