our leadership
Oversight & Advisors
Metamorphs direction is guided and protected by some of the best shapers in the world
Foundational leaders
The roots of Metamorph can be traced back to the the original management consulting, technology and investment firms giving us the deepest and broadest expertise that exists
diverse experts
Metamorphs leadership have diverse backgrounds but shared bonds, vision and values that set forward a new vision for what is possible
FOUNDERS
The roots of Metamorph can be traced back to management consulting, investment firms, investment banks, technology and operational roles, giving us the deepest and broadest expertise that exists.
Prasad Hedge has built a 25-year career at the intersection of private investment, operating transformation and institutional value creation. A former CEO, President, Chief Transformation Officer, strategy consultant and private equity leader, he has repeatedly led companies through moments where strategy, capital and execution must converge.
Prasad’s background combines hospitality, sport and restaurant management training in Switzerland with an MBA in International Business, giving him a rare operating lens across wellness, hospitality, consumer experience and investment architecture. At Metamorph, he pioneered an AI-enabled, operating-system-driven investment model designed to convert fragmented businesses into scalable platforms.
Prasad leads the overall investment thesis, vertical strategy, capital narrative and leadership architecture — ensuring the platform is not merely a collection of brands, but a category-defining human performance ecosystem.
Manish Raniga brings the financial, strategic and operating discipline required to turn an ambitious wellness thesis into an executable investment platform. His career has been shaped by leading companies through inflection points requiring restructuring, growth, capital alignment and operational reinvention.
With experience across major advisory platforms including PwC and McKinsey & Company, as well as senior CXO and transformation roles, and running multi-billion portfolios, Manish combines vision, institutional diligence with operator-level pragmatism. In the GCC, he has worked across significant hospitality and consumer-facing assets, including aviation and premium service environments where wellness, customer experience and lifestyle infrastructure increasingly overlap.
Manish has led the selection, underwriting, diligence and negotiation of the acquisition targets with deep insights into the unique GCC issues — translating the platform vision into disciplined transaction, capital structure and execution pathway
Jay Rajiv brings more than 15 years of experience across M&A advisory, private investment, commercial realestate, hospitality, wellness and growth-stage businesses, with deep grounding in the UAE and broader GCC market. His career sits directly at the convergence point of this platform: consumer experience, real estate activation, wellness operations and institutional growth.
Jay has operated as a founder, entrepreneur and growth leader, giving him the agility to build brands and the discipline to professionalize them. He understands how to move from concept to execution — sourcing opportunities, evaluating operating models, negotiating partnerships and translating strategy into an investable platform. Every business in this vertical has worked in tight partnership with Jay who orchestrates the cross –vertical operational needs and serves the cross-portfolio coordination.
Jay serves as the chief integrator across brands, operators, real estate partners and execution workstreams — ensuring the platform becomes operationally real, commercially relevant and scalable across clubs, hotels and branded residences.
Peter is a Managing Partner of Metamorph and co-leads the firm’s investment committee, strategic direction, new business initiatives, asset management and capital raising activities.
Peter has over 20 years of institutional private equity and private credit experience, having led or co-led strategies for prominent investment firms. In addition to serving as a Managing Partner at Metamorph, Peter is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Banyan Ridge Capital Management, a private investment firm based in Miami that is focused on non-traditional opportunities in corporate private credit, legal assets and special opportunities. Prior to founding Banyan Ridge, Peter was a Managing Director at a Miami-based investment firm with over $10 billion AUM at its peak, where he ran the Special Opportunities Private Equity and Private Credit strategies. In this capacity, he focused on sourcing, structuring, executing and managing complex and unique private equity and direct lending opportunities that were frequently uncorrelated to market conditions and structured to generate significantly outsized returns relative to the overall risk profile.
Previously, Peter was a Director for Arena Investors, a global investment firm headquartered in NYC with over $4 billion AUM, focused on illiquid credit and special situations. In this role, he led numerous non-sponsored and sponsored direct lending investments across various industries and geographies. Prior to Arena, Peter was a Vice President at Comvest Partners, a private investment firm with $15 billion AUM. Peter also worked for a middle market private equity firm and York Street Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on private debt and equity investments. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance group at Morgan Stanley in New York.
Peter graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in International Relations with a Cluster in Business Studies from the Wharton School.
Sampson is a Vice President of Metamorph and focuses on investment underwriting, origination, execution and post-closing initiatives.
In addition to serving as a Vice President at Metamorph, Sampson is a Vice President at Banyan Ridge Capital Management, a Miami-based investment firm focused on private credit, litigation finance and special opportunities. Prior to joining Banyan Ridge, Sampson worked at Deerpath Capital Management and a Miami-based investment firm, where he focused on underwriting and executing investments across the capital structure in both private equity and private credit. He began his career a coverage banker at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in New York.
Sampson holds a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University.
Dr. Chris Jensen brings an uncommon combination of medical authority, capital markets discipline and global operating judgment across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. With a medical degree from Cambridge, an MBA from Harvard and experience in global investment banking, he operates at the precise intersection where healthcare, capital, wellness and real assets increasingly converge.
His work has centered on translating clinical credibility into scalable commercial models across luxury hospitality, health-enabled real estate, longevity platforms and preventative care. He understands both the clinical governance required to protect trust andthe investment discipline required to institutionalize growth.
Chris anchors the longevity and clinical optimization thesis — ensuring that recovery, diagnostics, preventative health and medical-grade wellness are integrated with credibility, governance and investment-grade scalability.