Founder

Vishwas patil

Fifteen-plus years in operating leadership at Google, Meta, and Intuit. The work at each has been the same in spirit: take a system that is missing structure — a vendor network, a service operation, a compliance program — and build the operating model that lets it scale.

At Google, scaling external operations across multiple jurisdictions and running a sizable consultative-sales portfolio. Building the routing, performance management, and governance infrastructure that lets a global operation move from project-based to programmatic.

At Meta, unifying execution across Engineering, Legal, Policy, Sales, and Operations under standardized governance and escalation models. Operationalizing regulatory frameworks across markets and designing the playbooks that prevent costly false-positive outcomes.

At Intuit, scaling the expert network that powers QuickBooks Live — onboarding, training, capacity planning, demand forecasting, and the weekly operating governance that keeps a programmatic service business honest. Running structured cost-savings programs across the platform.

Building Umara.

Umara exists to be a credible, well-aligned home for established service, light-industrial, and B2B businesses whose owners are ready for a transition — and a serious, decisive counterparty for the brokers and intermediaries who represent them.

For owners: a buyer who treats the business as a long-term asset to protect, not a portfolio entry to optimize. Teams stay. Customers keep being served by the people they already trust. Licensed key personnel are part of the deal structure, not an inconvenience to negotiate around. Sellers transitioning to retirement or to a continued role find a careful, professional counterparty — and a transition pace that respects what was built.

For brokers and intermediaries: a buyer who reads CIMs in days, not weeks; whose capital is committed and free of underwriting friction; whose buy box is narrow enough to filter quickly and broad enough to keep relevant deals moving; and whose process from LOI to close is predictable.

Umara is an owner-operated holding company — providing capital, strategy, and operating oversight, while each business runs day-to-day under its own strong general manager and team.

The Umara approach.

  • People first. Long-tenured employees, licensed key personnel, and the families that depend on each business are the first priority in every decision. Continuity is the default; promotion follows. No restructurings dressed up as transitions.

  • Local roots, local jobs. Each business stays where it has always operated, employing the people who built it. Stable, well-run service businesses are the backbone of the communities they serve.

  • Build alongside, not on top of. Dispatch, capacity planning, SOPs, SLA discipline, programmatic sales, and localized digital growth — added in partnership with the existing team, never imposed.

  • Long-term hold. Every acquisition is a permanent fixture in the portfolio, not a trade. Compounding the operating system over years strengthens both the business and the community it serves.

  • Holdco model. Each business operates under its own general manager with Umara as the parent. Strong governance, light interference.