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Sundar Sankaran Age 44 years Education PGDM (IIM Ahmedabad), AICWA, ACS Professional Exposure 10 years of experience in Bajaj Auto Ltd (Pune, India) and Kotak Mahindra (Mumbai, India). Founder-Director of Advantage-India, Stratberry Publishing and Finberry Academy during last 12 years.
Sundar plays an active role in providing direction to all consulting assignments. He also facilitates the ThinkStrat labs, ponD workshops and EconoView & RisKey training programs. Watch Sundar on YouTube. And Sundar's pet, SQUEAKY! Sundar has handled over 500 seminars all across the country for over 10,000 participants. Typical topics include economics, corporate strategy, mutual funds, financial planning, debt markets, equity markets, application of advanced statistics and finance for non-finance executives. Sundar authors the column, 'Voice of Money' in quickie. He has also authored
Indian Mutual Funds Handbook (Vision Books: First Edition:2003 - 6
reprints; Second Edition: 2007 - 6 reprints). The courseware
for the Mutual Funds examination of the National Institute of
Securities Market (SEBI-subsidiary) is again developed by him. Besides, he has developed the courseware on 'Financial Planning' and 'Securities Products and Markets' for Indian Institute of Banking & Finance. Some of his other papers / debates are: |
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White Papers Shareholder Activism: Greenmail to Governance Audit: Watchdog or Bloodhound? Super CFOs: Competencies for Success Mutual Funds: Can you afford to ignore them? |
Debates Growth Pangs of the IPO Market Stock Splits: Impact of New Regulations Voice of Money |
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A brief on the organisations that Sundar has been associated with: 1. Bajaj Auto is the largest two and three wheeler manufacturer in India, and is among the top 4 in the world. As Manager, Sundar played a key role in advising top management on various strategic issues. He was a change agent in improving processes and techniques in Corporate Planning, Budgeting, Corporate Finance, Accounts and Costing. He also handled resource mobilisation and investments in equity and debt. 2. Kotak Mahindra is India's leading financial services company. It has alliances with Goldman Sachs (for investment banking) and Ford Motor Credit (for auto finance). Sundar was associated with the investment bank. In Fixed Income, he was instrumental in taking the company to the top of the league. He had a hand in devising several new financial instruments (Liquid Bond, Step-up Bond). He also handled the country's first Dutch Auction of bonds. Further, as Co-Head of Corporate Finance, Sundar was responsible for the equities and advisory businesses of the company. |
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Sundar is also a member
of the Finance & Banking Committee
and
Accounting Standards
Committee
of the Indian Merchants' Chamber,
India's leading industry body.