Before joining Butler Snow Advisory, Abhay served as Chief Financial Officer for NOLA Marine Ventures, an investor group focused on acquiring businesses in the recreational boating industry. Prior to that role, Abhay was a 2016 candidate for the United States Senate in Louisiana.
Before his campaign, Abhay served as Vice President of Business Development for the New Orleans Business Alliance (NOLABA), where he led the implementation of ProsperityNOLA, the city’s 5-year strategic growth plan. In addition, Abhay led the firm’s business retention, expansion and attraction platform, where he worked closely with local entrepreneurs and recruited young and growing companies into the market.
Abhay has spent most of his career as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank in New York. While there, he worked on transactions raising over $30 billion of debt and equity capital for leading U.S. companies and advised on several notable mergers and acquisitions. His clients included American Airlines, Allison Transmission, General Electric, General Motors, Hertz, Harley-Davidson, Manitowoc, Norit, Trilliant Networks and Waste Management, among others.