Ananthan Rajagopalan

CEO

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led $70M equity raise for healthcare expansion.
Achieved 4x growth through strategic acquisitions.
Expert in corporate finance and M&A strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Healthcare and eCommerce finance expert with strong M&A and corporate strategy skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Corporate FinanceCorporate DevelopmentFundraisingMergers & Acquisitions (m&a)Financial ModelingRisk/complianceGovernment Relations

Other Skills

Strategic PlanningCorporate GovernanceFinancial ArchitectureInvestor RelationsCFOPrivate EquityVenture DebtFinancial AccountingAuditingFinancial AnalysisInternal ControlsVenture CapitalInternational Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)USGAAPStrategic Human Resource Planning

About

Experienced Finance,M&A,Corporate Strategy and Development Professional

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Kauvery hospital

Associate Vice President - Corporate Finance

Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Greater Chennai Area · On-site

PE-backed healthcare platform
Driving enterprise growth, corporate development, and institutional scale-up across a rapidly expanding healthcare platform.
Led $70M institutional equity raise to fund expansion and new market entry.
Enabled 4x capacity growth through greenfield, brownfield, and IBC-led acquisitions.
Expanded into new verticals through targeted M&A, integration oversight, and operating structure design.
Own the corporate development pipeline, long-range strategy roadmap, and board-level strategic narrative.
Driving IPO preparedness, strengthening governance, financial architecture, and capital market readiness.
Accelerate ramp-up and compress breakeven timelines for newly commissioned and acquired assets.

Corporate FinanceCorporate Development

Crayon data

Business Operations Leader

Jun 2019 – Nov 2019 · 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

Ananthan Rajagopalan was Business Operations - Leader at Crayon Data (Jun-Nov'19) and during his short stint, had worked on challenges that come with interesting times of potential rapid-growth, such as Corporate governance, OKRs (fast-cadence), 8-Qtr plans, a potential acquisition, resource deployment,feasibility study of tools to enable key business processes and associated cycles and tax refund dues.

Eshakti.com

Financial Controller

Dec 2014 – May 2019 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

Ananthan Rajagopalan was the Controller at eShakti.com between 2014-2019, when it grew 4x moving the Company closer to breaking even and was responsible for Finance & Accounting, Risk/Compliance and supporting Fund-raising activities (Debt/Equity) including Investor relations. During his stint, eShakti raised $20 Million in Equity and Debt including its Series C funding of $12 Million.His primary role included financial modelling of the Company capturing the short/long-term budgetary planning and cost management in alignment with the strategic objectives of the Company and Optimal cash-flow management, mitigate business risks and also working towards achieving profitability through strategic growth-initiatives. Ananthan was also responsible for Risk/Compliance at eShakti and over the years had successfully worked on several regulatory matters faced by eShakti in the emerging B2C eCommerce exports play in India by working with the RBI and Banks, Indian Customs, The DGFT and refund dues of over INR 100 million from the Indian Taxman.

Kpmg india

Senior Consultant - Deal Advisory

Apr 2014 – Dec 2014 · 8 mos · Chennai Area, India

M&A - Deal Advisory, Post/Pre-Deal Integration and Seperation services, Financial Due-Diligence

Kpmg

2 roles

Senior Auditor

Promoted

May 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Chennai Area, India

Integrated Audit of a SEC Registrant | Large Listed entities and Groups | International/US/Indian GAAP expertise | SoX | Internal Controls | Rated Exceptional Performer | National level Internal-KPMG awards for Leading teams and individual Performance