Kunal Merchant

PARTNER & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Kunal is Revitate’s Partner and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the firm’s strategic and operational activities on behalf of the Managing Partners. Kunal also leads Revitate’s sports vertical, drawing on fifteen years of experience in the business of sports as a former senior executive and advisor to a range of major professional sports teams and organizations. He played a key role in the Bhathal family’s acquisition of the Portland Thorns Football Club, serving as an investor, Senior Advisor, and Executive Board member. Kunal was previously Co-Founder and Managing Director of Lotus Advisory, a consulting firm providing strategic, management, public affairs, and communications support to clients in sports, technology, real estate, public policy, and philanthropy. Kunal specializes in public-private partnerships, having played central leadership roles in over $10 billion in projects nationwide. Kunal was instrumental in the development of the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento via his roles as a Mayor’s Chief of Staff and Sacramento Kings executive. He is also a former nonprofit executive in health care and education and sits on the Board of the Green Sports Alliance. Kunal earned his B.A. with high honors from Harvard University, and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.