Anantha is a Managing Director of the SPAC Advisory Partners Team. He is also the President and Director at GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corp, which successfully completed a business combination with Bitcoin Depot (BTM) in June 2023. Prior to joining the team, Anantha served as the CFO at Graf Acquisition Corp IV. Prior to that, he was the head of the Global Mobility Group at Bank of America, where he covered clients in AutoTech and other emerging technologies. Anantha advised on several SPAC mergers, including the sale of Starton Therapeutics’ to Healthwell, the sale of Zapp to CIIG II, the sale of Spire Global to NavSight, acquisition of Lucid by Churchill IV, sale of Xos to NextGen, acquisition of EVgo by Climate Change Crisis I, sale of Proterra to ArcLight, sale of Lightning eMotors to GigCapital3, sale of ChargePoint to Switchback, sale of Canoo to Hennessy IV, and sale of Velodyne Lidar to Graf Industrial. He has led execution on over 65 transactions totaling over $80 billion in transaction value across all product areas, including equity offerings, debt issuances, SPAC mergers and other M&A advisory, over the banking career.

Prior to his careers in banking and finance, Anantha spent almost 12 years in various engineering roles at Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, Texas Instruments and several other technology firms, working on the design and development of semiconductor processor chips. He  holds four patents in the areas of design and development.

Anantha graduated with Honors from BITS, Pilani, India with a Bachelor of Engineering, received a Masters of Science with Honors in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and received an MBA with Honors in finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.