Pavithra Kumar
About Pavithra Kumar
Pavithra Kumar is the Vice President at Analysis Group, with extensive experience in economic consulting and finance, holding a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Title
Pavithra Kumar is the Vice President at Analysis Group.
Current Company
Pavithra Kumar currently serves as Vice President at Analysis Group. She has been in this role since 2022 and is based in New York, United States.
Professional Background
Pavithra Kumar has an extensive career in financial and economic consulting. Before her current role at Analysis Group, she was the Senior Vice President at Compass Lexecon from 2019 to 2022 in New York. Prior to that, she worked as Associate Director at Berkeley Research Group LLC in Emeryville, California from 2017 to 2019. She also held the position of Senior Associate at The Brattle Group in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2009 to 2017. Early in her career, she was a Senior Associate at Barclays Capital from 2008 to 2009 and spent 11 months in the same role at Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Education and Expertise
Pavithra Kumar holds a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan School of Management, where she studied from 2004 to 2008. She also earned a BSc in Mathematics and Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2001 to 2004.
Notable Projects
During her career, Pavithra Kumar has contributed to several significant projects. She played a key role in the total victory of client MAPS in a $5.8 billion hotel acquisition dispute with AB Stable, supporting Professor Daniel Fischel in assessing hotel performance. She was also instrumental in a high-profile fraud investigation against a major credit ratings agency after the 2008 economic crisis. Additionally, she built an online tool for clients to back-test complex trading strategies during her time in the Global Technical Strategy group of a major financial advisory firm.
Publications
Pavithra Kumar has published academic journal articles on topics such as hedge-fund performance persistence and the nature and impacts of high-frequency trading.