Rohit Thomas Koshy — Co-Founder

Rohit is a senior management professional, having over 2 decades of cross functional experience across startups and large corporates, with exposure to sectors like Specialty chemicals, Textiles, Consulting, IT services, Infrastructure development, EdTech, eCommerce, Smart mobility and Pharma. He is active in alumni networks of multiple schools, colleges and corporates, and has been organising meet ups since 2002. Rohit has had a tough life - war refugee in 1990, flunked a year at IIT (4 point someone), spent 7 months searching for his first job after graduation, took the CAT 6 time to get into an IIM, multiple failed startups . . . about which he regularly gives talks at colleges (including IITs and IIMs). He has been involved in many path breaking initiatives, like India's first college alumni venture fund, and India's first college endowment fund. Currently working with the PanIIT India Foundation (PARFI) to help skilled youth from half a dozen states find entry level jobs in sectors like construction, healthcare, f&b, electronics device manufacturing, transport and logistics. If you have a requirement, please feel free to reach out.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned investment banker with extensive experience in finance and strategic partnerships.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 19 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Mergers & Acquisitions (m&a)
Financial Advisory
Business Development
Strategic Partnerships
Part-time Cfo Services
Brand Development
Fundraising
Guest Lecturing
Project Finance
Recruiting

Career Highlights

Over 20 years of cross-functional experience
Pioneered India's first college alumni venture fund
Active in alumni networks since 2002

Work Experience

FinTrust Advisors

Co-founder and MD (11 mos)

PanIIT Alumni Foundation

Fundraising Consultant (1 yr 2 mos)

IIT Delhi Angels

Angel Investor (1 yr 4 mos)

EY

Director (6 yrs 6 mos)

Baxi: The Bike Taxi

Entrepreneur in Residence (2 yrs 10 mos)

T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal

Visiting Faculty (1 yr)

The New Indian Express

Freelance Columnist (1 yr 9 mos)

Larsen & Toubro

Assistant General Manager (3 yrs)

Virtusa

Senior Staffing Associate (1 yr 4 mos)

Capgemini Engineering

Senior Executive - People Practices (10 mos)

ABC Consultants

Executive (10 mos)

Kotak Life

Insurance Agent (3 yrs)

eLitmus Evaluation Pvt Ltd

Principal Consultant (2 yrs 3 mos)

Resil Chemicals

Market Support Executive (1 yr 1 mo)

Education

Bachelor of Technology at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Master of Business Administration at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Rohit Thomas Koshy

Co-Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of cross-functional experience
Pioneered India's first college alumni venture fund
Active in alumni networks since 2002

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned investment banker with extensive experience in finance and strategic partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mergers & Acquisitions (m&a)Financial AdvisoryBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsPart-time Cfo ServicesBrand DevelopmentFundraisingGuest LecturingProject FinanceRecruiting

Other Skills

mergers and acquisitionsraising fundscorporate restructuringmanaging stressed assetsscaling upstrategic recruitmentCorporate Social ResponsibilityPresalesOperations ManagementHigher EducationTreasury ManagementCorporate StrategyEmployer BrandingSales & MarketingBusiness Mentoring

About

Experience

Fintrust advisors

Co-founder and MD

May 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

We help companies with
mergers and acquisitions
raising funds - both equity and debt
corporate restructuring
managing stressed assets
scaling up (mostly D2C brands and SaaS ventures)
strategic recruitment

mergers and acquisitionsraising fundscorporate restructuringmanaging stressed assetsscaling upstrategic recruitment+2

Paniit alumni foundation

Fundraising Consultant

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Working on partnerships with large industrial houses and MSMEs in the western region who hire blue collar workers, to roll out tailor made programs for their niche skilling requirements.

Business DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsCorporate Social Responsibility

Iit delhi angels

Angel Investor

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Ey

Director

Jun 2018 – Dec 2024 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

In 6.5 years, I was part of multiple teams, across the Consulting, Markets, Tax and Assurance verticals.
As part of the Financial Assurance and Advisory Services (FAAS) team, I had the opportunity to work with unicorns and soonicorns to help them become ready to go public, and also provide outsourced CFO services to startups.
As part of the Private Tax team, we worked with startup founders and MSME owners on matters related to ESOP/MSOP, flipping corporate HQs to India, structuring organizations for efficient global operations, succession planning and setting up Trusts.
As Pursuit Leader for the firm in India, enabled sales of close to $100 million for Consulting, Tax and Audit services
As part of the Government and Public Sector consulting team, had the opportunity to work with
MSME departments of states, KVIC, Kumbh Mela (2019), and a public sector aerospace client.

Financial AdvisoryPart-Time CFO ServicesPresalesBusiness Development

Baxi: the bike taxi

Entrepreneur in Residence

Aug 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Wore multiple hats while building the company from 0 to 1000+ bikes, all with commercial number plates.

Brand DevelopmentFundraisingOperations Management

T a pai management institute, manipal

Visiting Faculty

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr · Manipal · On-site

Taught a course on Strategy (STSM) in the 6th term using business simulations

Guest LecturingHigher Education

The new indian express

Freelance Columnist

Nov 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Covered close to 50 startups in the education and skilling sector

Larsen & toubro

Assistant General Manager

Apr 2008 – Apr 2011 · 3 yrs · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

As part of the corporate finance team, we raised close to $3 bn in debt for various Infrastructure projects of the group.

Project FinanceMergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Treasury ManagementCorporate Strategy

Virtusa

Senior Staffing Associate

Jan 2005 – May 2006 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

I used to manage all the fresher hiring activities for our development centres across India

RecruitingEmployer Branding

Capgemini engineering

Senior Executive - People Practices

Feb 2004 – Dec 2004 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

Worked on campus recruitment and lateral entry trainee batches, and staffing requirements (L2/L3 protocols) in India, Europe and US.

Abc consultants

Executive

Apr 2003 – Feb 2004 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

I worked on tech mandates with the A to Z of semiconductor companies, from AMD and Analog Devices to Zilog.

Kotak life

Insurance Agent

Mar 2002 – Mar 2005 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Elitmus evaluation pvt ltd

Principal Consultant

Jan 2001 – Apr 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Recruiting

Resil chemicals

Market Support Executive

Nov 1999 – Dec 2000 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Worked on all aspects of marketing, like field research, launching the corporate website, creating newsletters, publishing articles in technical journals, organizing dealer meets, preparing marketing collateral and new product development.