Neal Bakshi

Founder & CEO

About

Neal A. Bakshi is the Founder of Awaken Mind Sciences and a consciousness researcher, author, and global experience creator. He works with entrepreneurs and leaders to challenge inherited ways of thinking and open new ways of seeing, deciding, and building.Through immersive experiences and documentary projects filmed at powerful sites around the world—including Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza—Neal creates environments that shift how people think, feel, and perceive. These settings become catalysts for insight, helping participants access clarity that is difficult to reach through conversation alone.Neal is the best-selling author of Banking on Angels (2023) and a former Vice President in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from New York University and has spent over two decades studying and practicing a range of consciousness and healing disciplines.Rather than offering fixed answers, Neal creates environments that invite insight, clarity, and self-trust—helping people operate with greater intention in both business and life.At the heart of his work is a simple aim: to help catalyze a more conscious, connected, and thriving world.Learn more at nealbakshi.com

Country

United States

City

Princeton

Industry

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Skill

Strategy, Finance, Analysis, PowerPoint, Research, Microsoft Excel, Team Leadership, Management, Data Analysis, Investments, Salesforce.com, Sales, Financial Modeling, Entrepreneurship, Market Research, CRM, Portfolio Management, Financial Analysis, Online Advertising, Dashboarding

Experience

Founder & CEO

Awaken Mind Sciences

2021-4 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

Consciousness Researcher, Angel Medium, Author, Global Experience Creator & Documentary Filmmaker

Founder & Co-CEO

Spiritually Gifted

2022-10 - Present · 4 yrs

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Family office focused on impact investments. Seed funding, advisory, and network introductions for conscious businesses & heart-centered entrepreneurs benefitting the Highest Good of All.

General Partner

Sangha Renewables

2024-2 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Curtailment Mitigation Services for Solar and Wind Energy. Sangha Systems and its portfolio of operating companies help high density computational and indoor agricultural environments gain competitive advantage by locating them in sites with massive power infrastructure and access to cheap renewable energy. Our core focus is on analyzing, designing, building, and operating Bitcoin mines behind the meter of underperforming renewable energy assets within owners' portfolios. Our approach applies to either existing sites or projects in the development pipeline. Bitcoin mining creates the possibility of selling energy into a new frontier that can be arbitraged with conventional merchant energy sales. Where there is market fit, we create additional value through software that allows us to dimension the Bitcoin mine to allow for the transferability of electrons between the mine and the energy market. We also capture and monetize the waste heat generated by the mining process by routing it to environments like greenhouses and breweries that have high thermal energy demand.

Catalyst Collective Member

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

President of the Board of Directors

Honor Yoga Foundation

2024-12 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Angel Investor

Be Amazing

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

Family Office, Angel Investor, & Syndicate

FirstLook 🤑

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

Talent Round Investor

Halfday Iced Tea

2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Investor

ANIMATED ARK LLC

2025-6 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Media, film, and television investor on Unified Pictures' animated adventure comedy film, The Ark and the Aardvark, directed by John Stevenson (director of Kung Fu Panda), starring Miles Teller, Aubrey Plaza, Rob Riggle, and Craig Robinson.