Raj Maheshwari

Mr. Raj Maheshwari is a Chief Operating Officer at Cambelle-Inland LLC and a Managing Director at Charlestown Capital Advisors LLC.
He founded the firm Charlestown on August 2005.
Under his tenure, Charlestown Capital has been an M&A advisor to Esmark, Inc., a $1.3 billion steel company that was sold to OAO Severstal of Russia in August 2008.
Prior to Charlestown, Mr. Maheshwari was a portfolio manager and managing director at Weiss Peck and Great Investments.
From 1999 to August 2005, Mr. Maheshwari was a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at WPG and its successor parent company Robeco Investment Management.
At WPG, he built and managed a $500 million (approximately) Risk Arbitrage and Special Situations/Event Driven hedge fund.
In Addition, at WPG and its parent company, Robeco Investment Management, he was involved in many aspects of investment management, including asset allocation, identifying new investment strategies, and overall new investment strategy.
From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Maheshwari was a Vice President of Research at Robert Fleming, Inc., where he helped run a $250 million (approximately) equity portfolio.
Mr. Maheshwari holds a BS in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from New York University.