Prabal Basu Roy — CEO

Prabal is a Sloan Fellow from the London Business School & a Chartered Accountant: he presently is a director & advisor to Chairmen of corporate boards incld a listed entity. Formerly he has been a Director & Group CFO in various companies in India and abroad, as well as the shareholder nominee on the management and Boards of companies, including international JVs with major MNCs & managed a PE fund In a twin track career spanning over three decades, his core expertise is in managing strategic, but operationally complex, roles in finance, law, business , institutional investors, M&A and strategic alliances in large corporations on one hand, along with managing money / risk capital as a professional hedge fund manager on the other. He now uses this uncommon diversity of experience to advise corporates at the Board level in the crucial area of providing management oversight (strategy, governance, financial statements, board functioning, audit committees, etc.,) and institutional investor engagement. Being an acknowledged independent voice in the national media with an incisive understanding of both financial markets (as a fund manager) and the corporate sector (as former Group CFO & Director), make his ability of articulation of the investment thesis to FIIs / financial investors, and providing objective ( often contrarian ) leadership guidance to Boards/CEOs, the core of his current interests as a corporate advisor. Prabal’s previous corporate assignments include various roles in major MNCs such as GEC, Xerox, Digital, British Telecom, Eveready Batteries, Lucent and Polaris. He founded a proprietory equity fund in 2007 which operated till 2017 as an actively managed hedge fund focused on equities, derivatives, arbitrage and high frequency trading on the capital markets. A professional with diverse interests, he writes and interviews frequently in the national media : both print and TV. He has written inThe Mint, Business Standard, Economic Times, Hindu, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Business World, Business Today, Bloomberg Quint, etc.and spoken in TV interactions on CNBC, ET NOW, NDTV, Rajya Sabha TV, etc. on issues at the intersection of current affairs, leadership and management with matters of finance, public policy, financial markets and corporate affairs - especially corporate governance. He has advised start ups on strategy, execution and financing, selectively provides leadership guidance to young managers, CEOs and CXOs in some companies and manages/advises corporate M&A transactions/ Management Buyouts & Buyins.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned corporate finance expert with extensive experience in strategic advisory roles.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 43 yrs 10 mos