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Professional Exposure
10 years of experience in Bajaj Auto Ltd (Pune, India) and Kotak
Mahindra (Mumbai, India). Founder-Director of Advantage-India for
9 years.
Sundar plays an active role in providing direction
to all assignments. He also facilitates the ThinkStrat labs.Further,
Sundar is Chief Knowledge Catalyst at Stratberry
Publishing".
Besides, he has handled over 500 seminars all across the country
for over 10,000 participants. Typical topics include economics, corporate strategy,
mutual funds, financial planning, debt markets, equity markets, application of advanced statistics and finance for non-finance executives. Sundar authors the column,'Spotlight' at
ThinkStrat
and Econoview
He has also authored Indian Mutual Funds Handbook (The
2nd edition of “Indian Mutual Funds Handbook” hit the
market in May 2007. The first edition in 2003 was followed by 6
re-prints). Besides, he has developed the courseware on 'Financial Planning' and 'Securities Products and Markets' for Indian Institute of Banking & Finance.
Some of his other papers / debates are: White Papers
Shareholder Activism: Greenmail to Governance
Audit: Watchdog or Bloodhound?
Super CFOs: Competencies for Success
CFOs:Changing Role
Mutual Funds: Can you afford to ignore them?
Value Creation in IT Outsourcing
Globalisation
Banking Sector ConsolidationDebates
FDI in Retail
The Budget Outlook, 2005
Growth Pangs of the IPO Market
Stock Splits: Impact of New Regulations
A brief on the organisations that Sundar has been associated with:1. Bajaj
Auto is the largest two and three wheeler manufacturer in India,
and is among the top 4 in the world. As Manager, Sundar played a
key role in advising top management on various strategic issues.
He was a change agent in improving processes and techniques in Corporate
Planning, Budgeting, Corporate Finance, Accounts and Costing. He
also handled resource mobilisation and investments in equity and
debt.
2. Kotak
Mahindra is India's leading financial services company. It has alliances
with Goldman Sachs (for investment banking) and Ford Motor Credit
(for auto finance). Sundar was associated with the investment bank.
In Fixed Income, he was instrumental in taking the company to the
top of the league. He had a hand in devising several new financial
instruments (Liquid Bond, Step-up Bond). He also handled the country's
first Dutch Auction of bonds. Further, as Co-Head of Corporate Finance,
Sundar was responsible for the equities and advisory businesses
of the company.
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