Previously, Neal was a Vice President in Citi’s Global Healthcare Investment Banking practice, and helped start up the West Coast practice with two other bankers, raising over $4bn in equity and debt capital for biotechnology clients. His experiences as a consulting engagement manager at Optiant, a Boston-based Battery Ventures backed supply chain software start up, resulted in over $200mm in working capital savings for F500 healthcare and consumer clients by using multi-echelon inventory optimization and supply chain network design software technology developed at M.I.T. Most recently, Neal led DaVita Healthcare Partners’ Strategic Finance function for DaVita Rx, a specialty pharmacy operation with over $500mm in revenues, where he was responsible for implementing their 5 year long range financial planning process.
Neal has an M.B.A with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Carnegie Mellon University David Tepper School of Business where he was a Swartz Fellow, and a B.S.E. In Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
"After spending my career advising companies through investment banking and consulting, I joined Indigo to build something from the ground up, and be on a team that could make a significant, positive impact on the world."