Shiraz Kazmi
Vice President, M&A
Shiraz is on the M&A team at Evergreen SG and works on evaluating and executing opportunities for the firm. Prior to Evergreen, he worked in technology investment banking at Morgan Stanley and as a strategy intern at Glassdoor.
Shiraz graduated from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley where he held various leadership roles for Berkeley Consulting and Delta Sigma Pi, in addition to admiring Northern California’s rich selection of natural beauty and craft brewery. In his spare time, he writes a blog on startups in SE Asia and is a passionate Arsenal FC fan.
First Job
Coding math textbooks for an education startup
Proudest Moment
Landing 7 out of 8 jumps required for a professional skydiving license (and surviving a brutal fall on the last one with only 5 stitches, a fracture, and a split lip)
What Drives You
Knowing that we can never run out of new things to learn about
Motto for Life
Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up