Almas Akram — Associate Partner
Experienced business and financial research professional with expertise in the private equity, retirement, insurance, asset and wealth management space. Proven track record of managing teams and independently handling strategic client relationships. Projects Undertaken • Market Strategy & Competitive Intelligence Support: Working for the Competitive Intelligence team of a US-based financial services firm offering retirement plans for people working in medical, academic fields. The main tasks involve preparing strategic industry presentations, trends/insights reports, earnings releases, fact-sheets, and client presentations using public sources and competitive intelligence gathered from over 90 financial databases. • Industry/Macroeconomic Reports: Worked for a French consultancy firm, supporting them with detailed presentations on multiple topics in the communications, media and finance sectors. Some of the reports authored include Chinese overseas investment analysis, 2012 Investment Perspectives, Global luxury market analysis, etc • Target Identification for one of the largest private equity and venture capital firms: Served as a FTE for a company providing venture capital to growth companies providing information technology products and business services that leverage information technology. The research requires identification of those companies which are at the early stages of their corporate life & would require funding from a private source. The research requires collection of information mainly through secondary sources and databases like Hoovers, OneSource, company websites, Venture Source, Google Finance etc. • Thematic/Equity Research Reports: She was involved in a project that required writing thematic reports on particular sectors of the economy. The research required providing a detailed overview of each sector covered, with information gathered from primary and secondary sources. • Rapid Research Requests: She has experience of working on diverse rapid research requests. The research involves gathering information from secondary sources, databases, etc.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Financial Services expert with a focus on Asset and Wealth Management.
Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Experience: 17 yrs 7 mos
Skills
- Competitive Intelligence
- Market Strategy
- Go-to-market Strategy
- Team Management
- Environmental, Social, And Governance (esg)
- Project Management
Career Highlights
- Expert in private equity and asset management.
- Proven track record in strategic client relationship management.
- Experienced in competitive intelligence and market strategy.
Work Experience
Evalueserve
Associate Director - Market & Competitive Intelligence & ESG (4 mos)
Senior Manager, Asset and Wealth Management (2 yrs 11 mos)
Group Manager, Financial Services (7 yrs 11 mos)
Manager/Research Lead, Financial Services (2 yrs 5 mos)
Senior Business Analyst, Investment Research (2 yrs)
Business Analyst, Investment Research (2 yrs)
Education
B. Com (Honours) at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC)
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration at Symbiosis (SCDL), Pune