Jan 2014 – Jun 2019 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Jakarta

• Business Strategy & Institutional Business Development in India
• Lead strategy for developing new lines of business catering to the stock brokerage segment and credit department of banks
• Draft business plans, build financial models pertaining to new initiatives
• Manage relationships with institutional clients across financial sector for business development
• Drive partnerships and alliances with contributors and partners to facilitates product enhancement and sales
• Build financial models for credit department of banks to forecast performance of prospective borrowers - using advanced data sets and metrics
• Interviewed by numerous Asian publications like South East Asia Globe on new emerging trends in Fintech and Business
• Project Lead for Company’s International Expansion into South East Asia
• Led strategy for launching operations in Indonesia
• Successfully launched operations in the Indonesia market in 9 months
• Managed all phases of launch for Indonesia:
• Market research, budgeting, resource planning, understanding tax and regulatory compliances, analyzing product gaps, data acquisition
• Discussed and negotiated with regulators, stock exchanges and industry associations for data acquisition and partnerships
• Built relationships with Treasury Heads and CEO’s of banks, Research Heads of stock brokerages, mutual funds, insurance companies and corporates for business development
• Supervising and monitoring sales performance of Indonesia operations
• Columnist for Indonesia’s leading English Newspaper – The Jakarta Post

Nov 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai

• Facilitating fund raising via debt for clients
• Analyzing, evaluating company financials to prepare reports on behalf of clients
• Marketing reports to prospective lenders
• Contributing Columnist at www.moneycontrol.com

Jul 2011 – Jun 2012 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Part of the newly created division ‘India Reality Research’ team at CLSA India
• Mandate to scout for non-financial sources of information in order to assess and forecast company performance
• Evaluated various sectors like automobiles and cement on a monthly basis and track sales of companies like Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra & Mahindra etc
• Identifying key trends emerging at the grass-root level to forecast potential stock performance across companies. Eg: Spotted that one of the biggest obstacles for purchase of Commercial Vehicles was not interest rates or a declining economy but was the - shortage of truck drivers. This was subsequently reported widely in mainstream media

Nov 2008 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai

• Tracking valuations of companies in Automobiles, shipping, aviation, hospitality sector
• Identifying news and industry trends with potential stock impact across sectors
• Presenting ideas, news and analysis on TV
• Regular touch with various stakeholders like brokers, analysts, fund managers etc to have market intelligence that could impact daily movement of stock prices
• Anchoring
• Writing research articles for the Economic Times Intelligence Unit

Jul 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai

• Creating profiles of companies that may be targets for M&A, IPO's
• Building and maintaining financial models for LBO targets
• Maintaining database of hedge fund activity in the US
• Extensive usage of tools like CapitalIQ, Bloomberg, Factiva etc to dig out relevant financial data