Sundar Sankaran is founder-director of
Advantage-India Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
(www.advantage-india.com)
a 20-year old strategy consulting and
knowledge incubation boutique. He has
also
founded finberry academy pvt ltd
(www.finberry.org) and Stratberry
Publishing (www.str
atberry.com).
Sundar is
renowned as an effective trainer, who
can
simplify concepts, and catalyse learning
through linkages with day-to-day
examples. He operates with equal ease at
macro-level perspective programs as
well as micro-drill-down programs. His
programs, which cover the entire range
from leadership to product to selling,
are not merely for knowledge
dissemination; they seek to bring change
within participants, so that they are
enthusiastic about the desired
behaviour.
Wide
experience across geographies, markets
and
products have helped Sundar
conceptualise several unique seminars
and workshops
in the areas of strategy, economics,
finance and financial markets. Within
mutual funds, financial planning and
wealth management, his programs span
products, business development, selling
skills, legalities and high-end data
analytics.
Over the
years, Sundar has trained over 20,000
participants belonging to leading mutual
funds, including Kotak Mahindra,
Fidelity, Standard Chartered, Canbank,
Tata, LIC, UTI, SBI, HDFC, Optimix and
BOB; banks, including Kotak Mahindra
Bank, SBI, ICICI, HDFC, Citi, Deutsche,
Standard Chartered, ABN Amro,
Corporation Bank, Bank of Rajasthan,
Bank of
Baroda, Bank of India, PNB and State
Bank of Hyderabad; financial product
distributors, including Kotak
Securities, JM Morgan Stanley
Distribution, ICICI
Capital, Cholamandalam Distribution, NJ
IndiaInvest, Birla Sunlife Distribution,
Integrated Finance and Bajaj Capital;
and the media, including The Times of
India, The Economic Times, Financial
Express, Business Line, CNBC, across a
range of innovative programs.
Sundar is a
prolific writer. He has developed the
courseware and examinations for over
twenty certifications offered by apex
education bodies such as SEBI’s National
Institute of Securities Market (NISM),
National Stock Exchange’s NCFM and
Indian Institute of Banking and Finance.
Sundar
provides consulting and research inputs
to
leading corporations on their corporate
structure, business plan, financial
structure, performance management
systems, product portfolio, channel
management, customer insights, learning
models and technology strategies.
Sundar has
worked in senior capacities at Bajaj
Auto
and Kotak Mahindra. His hands-on feel of
financial markets and industry is well
complemented by his academic
qualifications from IIM Ahmedabad
(1988), IIT
Bombay, RA Podar College, Mumbai,
Associate of the Institute of Company
Secretaries of India (1992) and
Associate of the Institute of Cost
Accountants
of India (1988).
His other
passions include reading, Indian
classical
music and travel.
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