Sridhar Ramachandran

Sridhar Ramachandran is a management strategy specialist and comes with over 30 years of significant experience in general and financial management of companies across Asia and Africa. Prior to becoming a Director on the Board of the Investment Manager, he served as the Chief Investment Officer of IndiaNivesh Renaissance Fund, a Turnaround fund in India catering to small and medium companies.

A qualified Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (1988), Cost Accountant from Institute of Cost Accountants of India (1989) and a CPA from Colorado State, USA (2005), he is also a Commerce Graduate from Madras University (1984), a certified Independent Director (IICA) and an ESG Proficient Director.

He has held leadership positions in different roles in various large business houses including, Alpen Capital, Cadila Pharma, Brescon Corporate Advisors, Pioneer Embroideries, SKD Group (Hong Kong), Texmcao-Polysindo Group (Indonesia, South Africa & Botswana), Utexrwa (Rwanda).

A renowned turnaround expert, he has successfully turned around and helped to grow many companies, worked with several visionary entrepreneurs, and interacted with more than thousand promoters across various sectors and has provided consultancy to many companies on strategy, M&A, and debt management. He is on the Advisory Boards of a few start-ups like MentorMyBoard, and Impactree Consulting. He is also a Trustee at Muktangan Educational Trust.

Highlights of Sridhar’s work experience include,

(i) As a Director on the Board, turned around a loss making a BSE and NSE listed auto-ancillary company and helped them to grow from ₹320 crores to ₹650 crores in 4 years,

(ii) As a part of a leading debt restructuring advisory firm, sourced, and actively advised various companies across India to resolve debts aggregating to ₹18,000 crores through corporate debt restructuring (CDR) across various sectors,

(iii) Successfully restructured ₹320 crores of debt under corporate debt restructuring (CDR) and turned the Company into operational profits within 12 months of debt restructuring. Achieved deeply discounted settlement of FCCB debt in India along with CDR,

(iv) Lead role in restructuring strategy formulation of US$ 1.00 billion in Chemical and Textile business, Indonesia after Asian Currency Crisis,

(v) Implemented a US$ 65 million large textile project in Southern Africa that was delayed by 3 years and saved US$ 10 million and achieved US$ 1.1 million operating profit within the first 12 months,

(vi) Initiated South Africa’s first “Human Asset Development” centers thereby implementing affirmative action and trained over 1,000 employees across the group,

(vii) Turned around and helped to grow a loss-making Hong Kong apparel company with a profit of US$ 1 million within the first 12 months of take over.

Sridhar’s first book “End of Saamba Dance”, a business and a financial thriller fiction quickly rose to popularity in the business and financial community and won the Best Author’s Award 2021 by Navi Mumbai Chamber of Business & Industries.