Milind Mehere
Milind Mehere is an award-winning entrepreneur with a track record of building large scalable businesses and creating new product strategies. He is the Co-Founder and Senior Advisor of Yieldstreet, a next-generation digital investment platform reimagining the way wealth is created by providing access to private markets. Under his leadership, Yieldstreet has built one of the largest private investment platforms in the world. Mehere has worked for industry-defining companies and personally built and scaled three businesses. Previously, he co-founded and scaled Yodle — an ad-tech platform for SMBs — to $200M+ in revenue and 1,400 employees.
Milind Mehere Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Senior Advisor
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Innovation Fellow at Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center
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Co-Founder and CEO
Academic History
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B.S., Mechanical Engineering, With Honors
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M.S., Industrial Engineering
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, YieldStreet
Investor, Apptronik
Investor, x.AI
Advisor, Dagne Dover
Founding Member and Investor, 3i Members\Innovation Fellow, Columbia Business School
Mehere led the largest direct-to-consumer alternative investment platform as CEO for 9 years, achieving unicorn status.
Under his leadership, Yieldstreet was named Financial Times’s 12th Fastest Growing Company in the US, and for two consecutive years, Yieldstreet was named one of the top 50 Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc.
Yieldstreet has also been recognized by Nasdaq as "6 companies disrupting the investing landscape" and by Business Insider's “Top 20 Companies Changing Wall Street”.
EARLY CAREER
Under his leadership, Yodle was ranked four times in the Inc. 500 list and was acquired by Web.com for $342M in 2016.
He served as General Manager at Rogers Communications, where he launched the “OutRank by Rogers” brand in Canada for all Yodle products.
He was Director of Sales Engineering at OATSystems, a leader in RFID technology to Fortune 500 companies across retail and technology.
He was a Practice Manager at i2 Technologies, where he built and implemented AI, and eventually led a 35-person consulting team.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Mehere is an international keynote speaker, having spoken at Forbes, Bloomberg, Cheddar, LendIt, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Columbia University, and Harvard University, among others.
He has also been featured or quoted in CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, and Entrepreneur magazine.