Instructors

Team

Shoumitro Goswami
Chief Executive Officer, Faculty

Shoumitro founded AustalGroup in 2004 and currently spends his time advising companies on M&A (AustalCapital) and teaching (AustalEducation). He spends part of his time teaching at various business schools around Bangalore and giving corporate lectures. Prior to this, Shoumitro worked in Investment Banking at Banc of America Securities in San Francisco in their Technology Group. Shoumitro also worked with Morgan Stanley where he spent his time in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and equity research. Shoumitro began his career in investment banking at Salomon Brothers in their Global Energy Corporate Finance Group. He was involved in mentoring incoming Financial Analysts at his previous companies and providing them with hands-on guidance.

Shoumitro graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics and East Asian Studies.

Ronald I. S. Tellis
Chief Financial Officer

Ronnie spent most of his career with the Indian subsidiaries of Imperial Chemical Industries Plc (ICI), U.K. He retired in 1993 as an Executive Director of a Public Limited Company promoted by ICI India Limited and NALCO Chemical Company, U.S.A., a Fortune 500 Company. He has over 30 years of exposure in India and overseas and has consulted companies on numerous financial issues such as joint ventures, restructurings and bankruptcies.

Ronnie is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Sridhar N.
Director, Faculty

Sridhar joined AustalGroup as a Director for AustalEducation. He spends time as an instructor at AustalEducation and Head of Research at AustalCapital. Prior to joining AustalGroup, Sridhar worked at a Long-Short Equity Hedge Fund based out of Hong Kong with US$500MM Assets Under Management. He spent his time there as an Investment Advisor with investments focused in Transport, Power and Retail. Sridhar began his career with GRO India Private Limited where he spent his time in the Capital Markets Group and Strategic Management Group. Sridhar worked closely with the top management to identify companies for a possible acquisition by GRO US.

Sridhar graduated from SDM Institute for Management and Development with a MBA in Finance. Sridhar also holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Karnataka University.

Sridhar V.
Consultant, Faculty

Sridhar has been associated with AustalEducation since early 2010 and has been instrumental in designing the course content for the Real Estate Financial Modeling Course. At Austal Sridhar is also involved in teaching the Real Estate course to students and professionals interested in pursuing a career in this sector. Prior to joining Austal, Sridhar has worked at Byte Consulting (Analytics & Knowledge Services Firm) managing their Real Estate Finance & Analytics Practice, where he was handling a team that works on Financial Analysis, Valuation & Reporting for real estate investors as well as developers. Prior to this he has been in a similar role with Cushman & Wakefield in their Capital Markets Group in Delhi. In addition to the domestic real estate space, Sridhar has exposure to the US market due to his past experience in underwriting Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities for a large US Bank’s captive operation. In addition to Real Estate he has an interest in and exposure to Equity Research, Corporate Finance and Financial Markets.

Sridhar has an MBA Finance from Maharishi Institute of Management. He also hold a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from University of Madras. In the past he has completed NCFM Certification in Derivatives, and is currently pursing his Equity Research Certification offered by NSE.

Associates

Pratap Giri Subramanyam
Advisor / Associate Faculty

Pratap Giri Subramanyam, is an accomplished finance practitioner, consultant, author and educator in the area of investment banking with over 22 years of experience. He specializes in strategic financial and corporate advisory services.

His professional experience includes working as a Manager in Project Finance and Merchant Banking with the Industrial Development Bank of India, Bombay (1988-94). He was also an independent management advisor in Corporate Advisory Services and independent director (1995 onwards) – in the areas of Investment Banking and Corporate Finance Advisory.  His transaction experience includes organizing Project Finance for infrastructure, Private Equity, IPO advisory, debt restructuring and acquisitions. Key areas are financial and transaction structuring, regulatory scrutiny, due diligence and valuation, financial modeling and documentation. He also has numerous academic affiliations. He continues to be a visiting faculty member and guest Speaker at ICAI, IIMB, SP Jain Mumbai, Dubai and Singapore, JNIDBI (Division of IDBI), TAPMI-CEE, UBI Institute at Bangalore, ICFAI, XIME and several corporates such as Oracle, Wipro and development banks of SAARC countries. He has conducted workshops for all leading PSU banks in project appraisal.

Pratap is an FCA an ACS, and a rank holder in the Chartered Accountancy Final Examination

He has published a number of books including:

• ‘Investment Banking – An Odyssey in High Finance’ under the McGraw Hill – CFM Professional Series in Finance’  published by Tata McGraw Hill, 2005. 
• ‘Investment Banking – Concepts, Analyses and Cases’ under the McGraw Hill – CFM Professional Series in Finance’  published by Tata McGraw Hill, 2008.
• Co-authored a book on Long Term Debt Financing published by the Karnataka State Chartered Accountants Association (KSCAA).
• Co-authored a book on Corporate Valuation  published by the KSCAA.
• Publishing articles and providing regular faculty support for ICAI programs at Bangalore.

Dr. Sunil K. Parameswaran
Associate Faculty

Sunil K. Parameswaran is a Professor of Finance at the T.A. Pai Management Institute in Manipal, where he anchors courses in the area of Finance. His primary areas of interest are Securities Markets; Financial Derivatives; Fixed Income Securities; International Finance; and Money and Banking. For the past seven years Dr. Parameswaran has also been a corporate trainer and management consultant. He has delivered training programs on Global Securities Markets and Global Banking to some of the multinational IT firms located in India. His prominent current and past clients include: WIPRO Technologies, HCL Technologies, MINDTREE Consulting; JP Morgan Chase, Societe Generale, ANZ Information Technology, and Kanbay (now a part of Cap Gemini). Dr Parameswaran also has several years of teaching experience and has taught at leading business schools in the U.S., Singapore, Australia, and India.

Dr. Parameswaran obtained his Ph.D in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina U.S.A. He obtained his M.B.A from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

A prolific writer, he has published several books, primarily in the field of Financial Derivatives, with McGraw-Hill in India and in Singapore, and John Wiley in Singapore. His prominent publications include:

1. Futures and Options: Concepts and Applications – published by McGraw-Hill New Delhi in 2009.
   An international version of this book was published by McGraw-Hill Singapore in 2010.
2. Futures Markets: 200 Questions & Answers (co-authored with Dr. Shantaram Hegde of the University of Connecticut) – published by John Wiley Singapore in 2007.
3. Series on Securities Markets – this is a series of monographs on topics of interest to the securities market professionals, and thus far nine volumes have been released. The books have been published by McGraw-Hill New Delhi.
   

Dr. Parameswaran is in the process of writing a book on the Fundamentals of Financial Instruments (working title). The book is scheduled to be published by John Wiley Singapore in June 2011.