Guest Spotlight: Kanishka Roy
Kanishka Roy, Chairman and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. IV, joins The SPAC Podcast to share his background as an operator, investment banker, and investor. He walks through the evolution of the Plum platform, now on its fourth SPAC, and explains the team’s focus on differentiated companies with strong execution moats and proven public-market playbooks.
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Mike Blankenship: Mike Blank with the SPAC podcast. I'm joined today by Kish Ga Roy, chairman and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. Three. Kish. Can you mind giving a couple minutes about your background?
Kanishka Roy: Yes, my background is traverses across being an operator, an investment banker investor at the privilege of launching the Plum Platform back in late 2020, early 2021.
We're now on our. On Plum four. Um, and, uh, you know, very briefly on Plum, our collective team has launched and operated five SPACs, uh, resulting in multiple successful listings, raised hundreds of millions in pipe capital. We love companies that go after massive opportunities in somewhat differentiated way.
With moats built around their ability to execute and where also we see a past playbook that has been successful in making investors money in the public markets.
Chairman and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. III
Kanishka Roy is a technology and finance leader with more than 25 years of experience building, advising, and investing in high-growth companies. He’s the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Plum Partners, a late-stage investment firm, and the Chairman and CEO of Plum Acquisition Corp. III, a SPAC listed on Nasdaq.
Before founding Plum, Kanishka served as Global Head of Tech M&A Origination at Morgan Stanley, where he helped lead more than $100 billion worth of industry-defining transactions in software and internet markets. He’s also been the Global CFO of SmartNews, the multi-billion-dollar AI news platform with over 20 million monthly users, where he guided global finance and expansion.
Kanishka began his career as a software engineer and later held strategy roles at IBM. He holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.