Karan Shah

Business Director

2014 - Current

Origination and Execution with geographic focus on North India and sector focus including Technology, Media, Internet, Real Estate, Hospitality and Infrastructure

Business Development Manager

2013

Financial & Strategic Advisory services. Sample assignments include: - New Businesses & Strategic Initiatives at Leading Wi-Fi Services Provider Nationally - Finance and Investor Relations Strategy at Large Independent Telecom Infra Company - Content & Eminence Building Services for Various Capital Markets Participants - Advisor to Start-ups in the space of Telecom, E-Commerce, Hospitality, Education and Real Estate - Franchisee owner of the world's largest Cognitive Training Program

Fellow - Finance and Strategy

2013 - 2013

Head, Commercial and Business Development

2012 - 2012

Over-all responsibility for business model creation, execution, contract negotiation, fund raising and long term goal setting. Domain encompassed included telecom convergence and energy Assignments: 1) End-to-end delivery of shared infrastructure model between the two largest Mobile Operators in Mauritius. This initiative led to the creation of separate business verticals within the operators leading to sharing of more than 20% of their respective portfolios within 6 months. 2) Consulting for re-initiating a major business division for one of the largest Telecom Passive Infrastructure Companies in the world 3) Consulting with a leading FTTx player to introduce provision of mobile services over their existing networks. The project involved technology analysis, vendor partnerships, business model evolution, sales training and proof of concept 4) Business Development for an Italian company providing a clean energy solution for Telecom

Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions

2009 - 2012

Strategic Finance -Conducting valuations to assess opportunities for inorganic growth -Preparing supporting material and presentations for investor meetings -Part of the core team involved in execution of financial transactions including activities such as engaging with i-bankers, working on valuation of target companies, audit firms, etc. -Financial and legal analysis in functions such as revenue assurance and collections International Business - Analysing opportunities for growth in Africa and Middle East - Conducting diligences, conducting valuation, preparing bids, and documentation for deal closure Strategy - Worked on Annual Operating plan and five-year strategy of the organization -Creation of analysis packs and financial models to arrive at costing for various business, OpEx optimization and key account management Planning & Monitoring -Monitoring of monthly performance of various SBUs against budgets

Manager

2006 - 2009