Team

Decades of investment and operational experience across multiple sectors

Investment Team

Our investment professionals bring deep expertise in identifying, investing in, and nurturing high-potential businesses to accelerate their growth.

Anant Gupta

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Anant Gupta is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Advaya Capital. Prior to starting Advaya in 2024, Anant was an investment professional at Brookfield Asset Management’s Private Equity group and Golden Gate Capital.

MBA from Stanford, AM Stat & AB Applied Math from Harvard

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Rishi Jain

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Rishi Jain is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Advaya Capital. Prior to starting Advaya in 2024, Rishi was the Head of the Western Region for Accordion, a private equity focused operational consulting firm.

MBA from Wharton, BS in EECS from UC Berkeley

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Abdur Qureshi

Vice President

Abdur Qureshi is a Vice President at Advaya Capital. Prior to joining Advaya in 2024, Abdur was an investment professional at CVC Capital Partners in their Technology Private Equity group.

BA in Economics from Northwestern University

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Operating Partners

Industry veterans who provide hands-on operational expertise to portfolio companies

Jarod Were

Operating Partner

Focus: Sports & Media

Jarod Were is an Operating Partner at Advaya Capital and focuses on sports and sports analytics. Prior to joining Advaya in 2024, Jarod led strategy at both Supponor and the NHL for over 15 years.

BS in Materials Science & Engineering and Economics from Columbia University

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Paul Schwarzbaum

Operating Partner

Focus: Industrial

Paul Schwarzbaum is an Operating Partner at Advaya Capital and focuses on the industrial vertical. Most recently he was President and CEO of Tronair, a leading manufacturer of aviation ground support equipment.

MBA from Harvard Business School, BA in English Literature from Columbia University

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Strategic Advisors

Jay Gambrell

Strategic Advisor

Focus: Software & Technology

Jay Gambrell is a Strategic Advisor at Advaya Capital and has spent three decades of scaling, turning around, and exiting software and sports media‑tech companies across Europe, North America, and Asia. He is currently Chairman of Oslo‑based Ledidi, a clinical research data and analytics platform. Most recently as CEO of Supponor, he led an investor‑backed MBI, expanded partnerships across top tier global sports leagues before exiting to TGI Sport. He previously led MBIs and turnarounds at Fits.me (exited to Rakuten), Atego (exited to NASDAQ: PTC), and Adaptive (sold via MBO).

MBA from Baylor University, BSc in Business Administration from SUNY Albany