Meet your BFFs!

Michael Park

BFF Partner / Founder
Consulting, Private Equity Operations
New York, NY

  • Joined Nordic Capital in 2023 as a Private Equity Operations Manager, executing organic and inorganic growth strategies of portfolio companies. Previously worked at BBH Capital Partners and PwC Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company). Graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering

  • Cooking with whatever’s in the fridge, being fashionably behind on listening to new music, struggling to break 100 in golf

  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC Inc.

Kevin Zhu

BFF Partner / Co-Founder
Private Equity Deals
San Francisco, CA

  • Joined STG Partners in 2021 as an investment associate, focused on diligencing and executing platform and add-on acquisitions of software and data services business. Previously with Barclays as a generalist investment banking analyst and graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Economics in 2019

  • F1, futbol, golf, streetwear

  • Partnership Against Domestic Violence (PADV)

Tarek Deida

BFF Partner
Hedge Fund
San Francisco, CA

  • Joined Indaba Capital Management (ICM), an event driven hedge fund, in September 2021 as an Associate on the idea generation team. Previously worked at a lower middle market private equity firm, Copley Equity Partners, as an Associate responsible for deal sourcing and execution and graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in American History in 2019

  • Running, music, reading, traveling

  • The Equal Justice Initiative

Michelle Nguyen

BFF Partner
Investment Banking
San Francisco, CA

  • Currently an investment banking analyst at Centerview Partners focused on biopharma. Graduated from Northwestern University in 2019 with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Economics and a Certificate in Financial Economics from Kellogg School of Management

  • Food / restaurants, traveling, my cat Hedwig, boxing

  • National Women's Health Network

Krithika Kuppusamy

BFF Partner
Software Engineering
New York, NY

  • Currently a software engineer at Google and teaching public high school students computer science through Microsoft TEALS Program. Graduated from Columbia University in 2019 with a B.S. in Computer Science and Middle Eastern South Asian African Studies (MESAAS)

  • Cooking, watching bad reality TV, teaching, visiting art galleries

  • Supporting other BFF partners’ nonprofits!

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