Team
Management Team
Shoumitro Goswami
Chief Executive Officer
Shoumitro founded Austal in early 2004 to provide financial advisory services to the Indian markets. Austal began by providing outsourced financial services, financial training as well as strategic advice to clients in the Indian market. Prior to founding Austal, Shoumitro worked in Investment Banking at Banc of America Securities in San Francisco. He spent his time there in their Technology Group in Corporate Finance sharing his time between the Software, Semiconductor, Communication Equipment and EMS sectors. 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.
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
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.
ASSOCIATES
Vandana Agrawal
Associate Director
Vandana joined AustalGroup as an Associate Director and works out of New Delhi. Prior to this she has worked as head of finance in different companies in Thailand and India including A G Union (Thakral Group) in Bangkok and TT Travels (TTK Group) at Bangalore. Vandana received her MBA from Cass Business School, London, UK. She is also a Chartered Accountant (1991) having completed her articleship from M/S S. B. Billimoria & Co., India, an associate of Deloitte.
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