About
Mr. Patel has been involved as an investor and operator of 9 high growth companies both at the early through public stages acting as COO of Alesco Financial (NYSE : AFT), CFO of TRM Corporation (NASDAQ: TRMM) and CEO of iATMglobal.net (acquired by NCR Corp.). He has been a director of 4 high growth companies including Vice Chairman of Golden Pacific Bancorp and LumiGrow. In addition, he served as Managing Director at Cohen & Company where he oversaw and launched several debt platforms with investments totaling in excess of $10 billion in over 600 companies. Shami was an investment banker in the Business Services group at Roberston Stephens and began his career as a strategy consultant at Andersen Consulting in the Energy and Utilities group. He also spent time in the Corporate Development department at Enron Corp. Shami serves on the Board of Duke University Law School where he is a Senior Lecturing Fellow and has also served as a guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business at UC Ber
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 3,360 investors hold the CEO role in VCSift. Shami Patel is one of them.
- • 17 investors are based in Orinda, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Orinda, US
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