Akila Raman-Vaseghi

Akila is the head of Natural Resources Debt Capital Markets and Risk Management within the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm.

She has responsibility for the firm’s Natural Resources clients across both Investment Grade Capital Markets and Corporate Risk Management, helping them raise new capital and optimize their overall capital structure with respect to interest rates and currencies. She was named Partner in 2018.

Throughout her career she has advised on numerous complex acquisition financings, brought important Debt IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) to the market, and mitigated interest rate and foreign currency risk for some of the firm’s most important clients, with particular focus on hedging risk associated with mergers/acquisitions and debt issuance. In the past 5 years alone she has raised over $150bn of capital on behalf of her clients and has structured ~$50bn in complex acquisition financings

Akila serves on the Operating Board for Pursuit, a social impact organization dedicated to creating transformation through training of adults with the most need to get their first tech jobs and become the next generation of leaders in tech. She is a member emerita of the Board of Trustees for the Cap & Gown Club of Princeton University and the Princeton University Tigressions Graduate Board, and is a W.O.M.E.N. in America alumna.