Sangeeth Peruri
Sangeeth Peruri started in tech investment banking at Morgan Stanley in 1998. Most of his career was spent at Seligman, an investment manager with offices in New York City and Menlo Park. He joined Seligman in 2000 on the venture capital team and eventually moved over to the public equities team as a lead semiconductor analyst. Sangeeth helped launch and grow Seligman’s tech hedge fund which peaked at $2Bn. In 2006, he founded and ran the Seligman Spectrum Focus Fund, a diversified market neutral hedge fund that managed over $1Bn in assets at its peak. After the firm was sold to Ameriprise, he was a portfolio manager there until 2012. Since then, Sangeeth has been managing his family office and has focused on improving the US education system through philanthropic endeavors. He served on multiple education related boards (Beyond12, Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, Orenda Education, Principal’s Exchange, and Think Together). In 2014, Sangeeth ran for his local school board and was elected to the Los Altos School Board of Trustees. In 2015, Sangeeth founded OutreachCircle, a political SaaS software company that makes it easy for volunteers, activists, and donors to support their favorite cause, campaign, or organization. He grew OutreachCircle into a profitable startup with an international team of 30+ people working with clients in all 50 states and on 5 continents. He sold the company to PDI in 2020 and agreed to join PDI as Chief Strategy Officer (currently part-time). PDI is trusted by thousands of candidates and organizations to help them mobilize voters and activate supporters. In his spare time, Sangeeth loves practicing a variety of martial arts and pursuing fitness activities. In 2014 he competed on season 6 of “American Ninja Warrior”.