P. Chandrasekhar (Chandru), Founder Director & Principal Consultant

Chandru has 30 years of experience in helping multinational firms establish a presence in India as well as neighboring countries, including Sri Lanka and Nepal . Chandru's expertise is in the areas of sales and marketing, consumer products and offshore services operations. He has worked with Indian operations of reputed MNCs like Unilever, Smithkline Beechams and BAT. His client list as an India Principal Consultant includes companies like, United Biscuits UK Ltd, Co-Ro Foods Denmark, US Corporations like Perot Systems Inc, Analysts Inc, Aquent Inc, Phase2 Inc, Agilisys Inc, Hamsard Ltd UK, ANTs Software Inc., Radiant Systems Inc.,& Indian Companies like Medybiz Ltd and Genesis Infoteck Ltd. He co-founded Renodis Inc USA.His experience is wide-ranging and includes sourcing and structuring partnerships with Indian vendors, mergers & acquisitions, identifying and structuring joint ventures and building and launching wholly-owned subsidiaries of foreign companies in India . Similarly he has also helped several Indian companies expand internationally with focus on US and Europe.

J. Balamurugan (Bala), Sr.Consultant & Head of Engg & E-Publishing, India

Bala has over 20 years of experience in Design, Engineering, CAD, 2D/3D Animation, Digital Pre-press, e-publishing and digital multimedia. He worked with L&T, Chemfab Group and HS Group handling special projects for Power, Refinery, Petroleum & Heavy Engineering. He undertook Project Supplies for major EPC companies. The Waterbase Ltd, Madras Refineries, L&T are a few major clients. He was the consultant for Cochin Refineries Ltd's Reactor-Regenerator modification in 1993 which was for the first time carried out in the country. He has also spent considerable time in setting up Digital Prepress process and is involved in creative productions, e-publishing, digitisation & document management systems. He is consultant to major corporate houses for their print and multimedia needs. Bala is a Mechanical Engineer with a Materials Management(IIMM) and Project Management(NICMAR) PG Diplomas.

Jagdeesh Sardesai (Jagdeesh), Sr.Consultant - Business Development, India

Jagdeesh has over 20 years of experience in the Consulting, Financial Services and Information Technology industries. Most recently, Jagdeesh was the Head, Applications & Technology Group at BconnectB Worldwide Ltd, India, a leading B2B e-Commerce services company. Jagdeesh has managed Enterprise Applications Practice at a large Software company in India. His earlier consulting engagements include projects for large Public sector banks in India as well as several MNC's operating in India. Jagdeesh is a Chartered Accountant. Before acquiring his Fellow membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Jagdeesh earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree with Accounting and Economics major from Bombay University.

A. Suryanarayanan (Surya), Sr.Consultant - Healthcare, India

Surya has over 20 years of experience in the Healthcare industry. He has conceived, created and implemented an IT-enabled, new economy health services company with Rs. 100 million in venture funds. He has achieved the distinction of being among the first few in the country to be certified as a TPA in the healthcare insurance market. He has identified and implemented brand sale as an exit strategy for a post-product patent era in the pharmaceutical Industry (brand sale revenue Rs 500 million). He is a Chartered Accountant, and has an International Masters in Practicing Management from INSEAD, France and Masters in Management from McGill, Canada.

S. Sridhar, Sr.Consultant & Head of Financial Services, India

Sridhar has more than 17 years of experience in the field of statutory audits and management assurance services. He has conducted business due diligence reviews on top level IT companies. He has wide experience in mergers, amalgamations and valuations of companies. His expertise is in the field of statutory audits, management assurance audits, company formation and related procedures, corporate laws and statutory approvals, due diligence reviews, taxation, mergers & amalgamations, cost control and cost reduction. Sridhar is an FCA and a graduate of ICWAI.

S. Srinivasan (Srini), Sr.Consultant & Head of IT & BPO Services, India

Srinivasan (Srini) has more than 15 years of experience in the field of Information Systems. He has conducted delivery and capability due diligence studies on top IT companies in India. He has conducted IS Security audit, IS architectural consulting, Business process due diligence, Business process re-engineering and software design, Functional and control design for computerization for top IT, manufacturing, logistics and multinational companies. Srini is an FCA, graduate member of ICWAI, Certified Information Systems Auditor – CISA (ISACA – USA), Certified BS7799 Implementation Consultant.

Raja Sharma (Raja), Sr.Consultant - Business Development, USA

Raja has extensive and diverse experience in several sectors of the economy including IT, Higher Education, Healthcare and International business. For the past twenty years, he has successfully demonstrated expertise in planning and implementing major functions including marketing, product design, contract negotiations, financial management, personnel management, and facility management with hands-on administrative success, dealing with private and government sectors both in the USA and India. His work experience includes Associate Director of Alumni Relations, Wayne State University, Marketing Executive, Quebecor World Direct, Chief Operating Officer, Soft Pride Systems. He has established JV programmes between School of E-Commerce, NW Oklahoma State University & KRSL India Ltd for fast track programme in B.S. (e-commerce); JV between Maika Intellectual Resources Sdn. Bhd, Malaysia and Cislunar Technologies, Joplin, MO, USA to pursue applications of geosynchronous satellite technology to data communication. He is a management graduate and masters in Economics.