Swagnik Paul is an early-career operator with a foundation in investment banking and large-scale event operations. He has built IPO-grade financial materials at JM Financial and led a sixty-person security and operations department at Vaayu Fest, overseeing more than twenty thousand attendees across three days.
Current Work and Focus
Swagnik is transitioning from investment banking into operator roles at early-stage companies. His focus is on environments where he can take broad ownership, solve ambiguous problems, and work directly with founders on the decisions that shape how a business grows. He is drawn to Chief of Staff and founder-adjacent roles where analytical rigor and hands-on execution are both required.
Investment Banking at JM Financial
At JM Financial, Swagnik worked as an investment banking analyst covering consumer and consumer technology transactions. He built investment memoranda end to end, running industry research, competitive positioning, valuation analysis using transaction comps and listed peers, and financial modelling on the Bloomberg terminal simultaneously.
He learned to sequence parallel work streams by dependencies, keeping narrative sections of a memorandum moving while model assumptions were being finalized, so no workstream blocked another. The transactions he worked on closed successfully.
Operations and Leadership at Vaayu Fest
As Head of Security at Vaayu Fest, Swagnik managed a department of sixty first-year students across an eight-to-ten month preparation cycle and a three-day live event at JVPT Grounds in Mumbai. He personally handled all legal permissions from the BMC, Mumbai Police, and fire department, navigating bureaucratic friction as a college student to secure every required clearance.
When a near-stampede situation developed at one of the entry gates, he moved into the crowd himself, deployed a rapid reallocation of his team, and stabilized the situation without incident. He identified and developed five senior members from within his team to lead sub-groups, selecting them based on demonstrated performance across fundraising and security tasks over the preceding months.
