Paraag Sarva
About Paraag Sarva
I am an NYC-based entrepreneur turned coach, now working with venture-backed CEOs to build high performance cultures and teams. I found coaching through my own journey company-building and put simply -- just got addicted. I realized it was easily the highest ROI driver of my own growth and my company's growth. In 2017, I co-founded Rhino and was CEO for 6+ years. Backed by several of the industry's top investors, I navigated the company through hyper-growth and scaling, Covid-19, the economic downturn that followed, and the acquisition of a company specializing in an adjacent product category which enabled us to expand our product offering. Today, Rhino provides a suite of financial products to renters and landlords across over 3 million homes nationwide and is widely recognized for pioneering Security Deposit Insurance. Rhino has saved American renters $1BN+ in upfront moving costs since 2017. I also co-authored the nation’s Renters Choice and Flexibility Act, which was first passed into law in Cincinnati, OH and Atlanta, GA in 2020, providing more options for renters to pay upfront moving costs. We've been recognized for our work by organizations like the University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business, as a recipient of the Ivory Prize, and New York City’s RSA (the country’s largest multifamily homeowner’s association), as well as various news outlets like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and CNBC. I went to New York University and graduated in 2005 with a Master’s degree in Economics and Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Politics in 2004. And I started my career at Goldman Sachs in investment banking before joining NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg at City Hall, where among other things, I co-chaired the city’s steering committee to reduce carbon emissions from the daily operations of the city’s 300,000 employees and 30,000 vehicles, the largest municipal workforce and fleet in the country. I also spent ~10 year of my career in real estate building/managing over $100M in mixed use assets.