Reza R. Satchu
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches Launching Technology Ventures and The Entrepreneurial Manager. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Alignvest Management Corporation.
Alignvest is a private investment company focused on long term value creation. The firm has a permanent base of capital providing it with an unconstrained time horizon and significantly more flexibility than most traditional direct investors. Alignvest has invested over $1.5 billion of equity in several businesses across industries that include telecom, technology, real estate, insurance, healthcare and asset management.
Reza has substantial experience as an entrepreneur and an investor. He has co-founded, built, and managed several businesses from inception including: Alignvest Management Corporation; KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, a U.S. fixed-income broker dealer with over $10 billion dollars in assets, that was sold to Bank of Montreal for over $400 million; StorageNow, which became Canada’s largest self-storage company prior to being sold to InStorage REIT for over $100 million; and SupplierMarket, a supply chain software company whose investors included Sequoia and KKR that was sold to Ariba for over $900 million. Previously, Reza was a General Partner and Managing Director at Fenway Partners, a $1.4 billion New York based private equity firm focused on acquiring leading middle market companies and a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch in the High Yield Finance and Restructuring Group.
Reza is the Founding Chairman of Next Canada, an intensive entrepreneurship program that provides education, mentorship and start-up funding to Canada’s most promising entrepreneurs. The organization has an alumni base of over 500 entrepreneurs that have built 225 ventures and raised over $850 million of venture funding. Reza has taught and mentored many of these entrepreneurs and he has been an angel investor in many start-up companies. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, where he taught The Economics of Entrepreneurship. This course was created by Reza and was consistently ranked as the top overall rated course by students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Reza serves on the Board of Directors of Sagicor Financial Corporation, as well as several privately held corporations. He has also served on many non-profit boards including Strategic Advisor to the Creative Destruction Lab, an organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies and the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children Foundation where he was Vice-Chairman of the Board including . He was also the Co-Chair of his HBS Class of 1996 20th Year Reunion. Reza has received “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40™” Award and the Management Achievement Award from McGill University.
Reza has a BA from McGill University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Ghosh, Shikhar, Marilyn Morgan Westner, and Reza Satchu. "Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 821-056, November 2020. (Revised February 2021.) View Details
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