Paraag Megharaj
President
The UNC Investment Management Club serves MBA students passionate about investing and interested in pursuing a career in investment management.
Our club is focused on:
Investment Management Club members are passionate about pursuing a career in the industry. UNC Kenan-Flagler has one of the leading alumni networks in the investment management industry. Our industry partnerships and alumni provide students with networking and career building initiatives in addition to learning opportunities. Our key offerings include weekly club meetings (known as CareerLabs); the fall career treks to New York City, Boston, Chicago and Charlotte; guest speaker events; and collaborating on the Alpha Challenge, Investment Management For All: Wealth and Women, UG Alpha Competition, and student-managed funds.
Investment management is defined as any role that involves investment management of financial assets for institutions or its clients. Roles include but are not limited to: buy-side and sell-side research, private equity, private credit, private wealth management, sales and trading, asset allocator roles and investment consultant roles.
Our Undergraduate students have the opportunity to join several UNC run clubs and funds including UNC Finance Society, Smart Woman Securities, Carolina Investment Group, and the planning committee for UG Alpha Competition.
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President
Paraag Megharaj is President of the Investment Management Club and a member of the AIM student-managed fund at UNC Kenan-Flagler. In the summer of 2026, he worked as an Equity Research Summer Associate at William Blair in Chicago. During his first year at Kenan-Flagler, he competed in the Alpha Challenge Stock Pitch Competition, one of the nation’s premier investment competitions, where his team placed third.
Prior to business school, Paraag spent eight years as an Embedded Software Engineer, working at leading consumer electronics companies including Roku and Garmin.
Equity Alpha Challenge Chair
Athreya Ramkumar is the Executive Vice President and Alpha Challenge Chair (Equity) of the Investment Management Club. During his first year at Kenan-Flagler, he competed in the equity bracket of the Alpha Challenge, where his team secured a third-place finish. Prior to business school, Athreya worked as an Equity Research Analyst at ithought, a boutique investment management firm in India.
Investment Management for All – MBA Co-Chair and Executive Vice President of Learning and Development
Harshita is the VP of Learning and Development for the 2026-27 Investment Management Club. In Spring 2025, she worked with Coolpact Capital Advisors and Training the Street. Harshita is building her alternative investments expertise through her MBA, placing with a family office through the PRIME Program where she performed due diligence on Venture Capital and Private Equity funds as a student consultant. She began her career at JPMorgan, where she worked in Derivatives valuation, and then at HSBC, where she worked in sell side rates research.
Credit Alpha Challenge Chair
Princy Chhajed is the Alpha Challenge Credit Chair for the Investment Management Club. She has competed in the Credit bracket of UNC’s Alpha Challenge and participated in UCLA’s Credit Pitch Competition.
Prior to her MBA, Princy worked as a buy-side research analyst at Axis Asset Management Company, where she focused on private credit and private equity investments.
She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from HR College of Commerce and Economics. She is a Chartered Accountant (India’s equivalent of a CPA) and has completed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program.
Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations, Outreach, and Communications
Priyansh Agarwal is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations, Outreach, and Communications and serves as Vice President of Finance for the MBA Student Association at UNC Kenan-Flagler. In the summer of 2026, he worked as a Small-Cap Equity Investment Intern at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) in Madison, Wisconsin. During his first year at UNC, he also competed in the Venture Capital Investment Competition, where his team placed third. Prior to business school, Priyansh worked as a Senior Investment Research Associate at Fidelity International, covering the U.S. and European Industrials sectors. Priyansh is a CFA Charterholder and Chartered Accountant (India’s equivalent of a CPA).
Investment Management for All – MBA Co-Chair and Executive Vice President of Finance
Sahitya Yarlagadda is a VP of Finance for the Investment Management Club, Co-Chair of Investment Management for All, and President of the International Business Association at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
She worked with TSWII Capital Advisors through the PRIME program. She is also a VCIC Fellow. She will now be working across corporate ventures at MANN+HUMMEL and technology commercialization consulting at SBTDC. Prior to business school, Sahitya worked at Deloitte in financial advisory and risk consulting, where she advised leading global financial institutions on predictive credit modeling, capital optimization, portfolio valuation, and regulatory strategy. Sahitya is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Charterholder, a CFA Level III candidate, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, with strong interests at the intersection of investment management, venture capital, sustainability, and innovation-driven value creation.