Vivek Patel

Vivek Patel is a private equity associate at Thompson Street Capital Partners, involved with portfolio companies such as Gurobi Optimization and MediaRadar since August 2023. As a co-founder and chief financial officer at Uncle Charlie's Car Wash since January 2024, Vivek also brings prior experience as an investment banking analyst at Truist Securities, where technology coverage was the primary focus from June 2021 to June 2023, and as a financial analyst at Applied Economics from March 2020 to June 2021, specializing in middle-market corporate finance and valuation. Vivek holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, complemented by a pre-dental academic background at the same institution from 2015 to 2019.