Sonia Ponnusamy

Education

MBA (Joseph Wharton Scholar), The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

MPA, Harvard University

MSc, Imperial College of the University of London (England)

BA and MA, University of Cambridge (England)

Sonia has spent over 20 years in various private equity, investment banking and financial due diligence roles.  She is currently a partner at Aspire Physician Solutions, where she is responsible for managing end-to-end deal execution from sourcing, LOI negotiation, due diligence, definitive legal documentation, and early-stage integration.

Prior to co-founding Aspire, Sonia was a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer at Albaron Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm focused on healthcare services.  Prior to Albaron, Sonia held various senior positions in business development and operations across private equity and hedge funds, including head of business development at Senrigan Capital Group, an Asian event-driven hedge fund seeded by Blackstone.

Sonia previously worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Nomura and Deutsche Bank.  She began her career as a CPA at Deloitte and Ernst & Young, where she focused on financial due diligence for private equity firms.

Sonia enjoys equestrian sports, theater and wine tasting.

Education

MBA (Joseph Wharton Scholar), The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

MPA, Harvard University

MSc, Imperial College of the University of London (England)

BA and MA, University of Cambridge (England)

In my own words

“Aspire has assembled what I believe to be perhaps the only fully integrated, multidisciplinary team approach to private equity investing in the mid and upper microcap physician practice and provider-centric company market sectors. While we certainly work very effectively with practices with greater than $2 Million in annual EBITDA, our unique team approach gives us the flexibility to also work with much smaller practices. Through our PE Incubation Initiative® we can engage our operational advisory services with small practices and shepherd them through a growth plan that ultimately results in a successful liquidity event for our physician partners. Candidly, this is unique in the private equity industry.”

“It has been exciting to see the unique Aspire business thesis take form and be implemented, but the greatest thrill has been to see the success it has garnered for our firm and our physician partners. At Aspire, almost every day brings new challenges and opportunities and I relish the opportunity to use my experience and skills, along-side those of my business and physician partners, to move our portfolio companies further towards the ultimate goal of a substantial liquidity event.”