OUR Team
We at STRATEGYNVEST are the perfect blend of Industry Veterans working together with the young blood that is raring to go.
This well-balanced team consists of Seasoned Entrepreneurs, Mentors, Venture Capitalists, C Level executives of various well-known firms, specialised in Business / Technology / Financial Advisory with a proven track record of Equity Fund Raising, Investment Banking Consulting Expertise and High-end Technology Expertise in the areas of Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Data Sciences.
The team members are from the prestigious Institutions such as BITS, IIT, IIM, ISB, with high-end academic excellence such as M Tech, M Phil and PhD and high-end Professional Expertise CFA, CA, FRM, MBA. We do engage consultants based on the need of specialised skills form pool of the industry experts that we are closely associated with.
Bharath Iyengar
Partner
Bharath comes with over three decades of engagement in Traditional and New-age Tech enabled products and services. He started his journey as an Entrepreneur with proprietary investments in emerging IT Services Businesses. Bharath conceptualized Innovative Business Enablement models, with a proven expertise and well appreciate track-record of founding Cadence and IRR InfoTech, with a passion towards new Dynamic businesses, supporting disruptive Tech-innovations, leading to visible positive differentiation on Business Growth and Sustainability.
Always being inclined towards supporting entrepreneurship that facilitates Business Growth and Profitability in all its segments, Bharath invested in STRATEGYNVEST. With more than two decades of entrepreneurial experience, Bharath’s strengths lie in envisioning the larger picture and the deep-economic impact of disruptive ideas. With networking skills spread across, Bharath evolves collaborations for STRATEGYNVEST and its clients.
Prashanth
Sowmithry
Partner
Prasshanth as a partner at STRATEGYNVEST, works closely with companies that are part of STRATEGYNVEST. With a strong knowledge base across multiple industry sectors, he is responsible for smooth functioning of the Financial Advisory team and PE / VC enabled Funding services at STRATEGYNVEST.
He brings his business development, sales, strategic direction and Financial Domain expertise gained through 15 years of diverse experience with multiple industries, geographies, and scale of businesses. In addition, Prasshanth’s passion for leveraging technology to build long-term businesses has led him to associate with multiple Global Financial Advisory Firms, where he overlooked strategy and business development.
Sibashish
Chakraborthy
Partner
Subhashish with 20 years of Industry experience, with focus on Funding Facilitation from ideation to execution. Has worked on over 15 different Financial Services areas across multiple industry verticals. A profit-driven enthusiastic with formal education in Financial Analysis. He is a virtual entrepreneur, continuously looking for newer areas to professionally excel and provide the widest array of Financial Advisory services under STRATEGYNVEST. As the young-generation businessman, and a pioneer consultant, he has spread his wings into M&A, Debt/PE/VC Funding apart from creating customised Financial Models.
With almost 15 years of experience in Business Development, Consulting Sales and Business Analysis across various sectors including domestic and international, his core focus is on Enabling and merging Finance and Domain areas of Businesses. At STRATEGYNVEST, Subhashish looks into Business Operations along with Business Development.
Srinivasa Raghavan
Mentor
Raghavan is a Mathematics graduate, Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant. He has more than four decades of experience encompassing various industries, financial services, training, mentoring and consulting. He is based out of Chennai, India.
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He has developed several leaders while working at leading corporates. He has trained thousands of people at a leading Financial Services Group in Financial Planning, Selling skills, Customer Centric skills, Stress Management, Success Habits etc. He was rated very high for his Mentor-Mentee Series while working at that Group.He has conducted several Possibility Thinking Games for Organizational development. Also, many have appreciated his flair for bringing out creativity in people around him.
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His childhood days were very tough with lot of deprivations and hence he desires that everyone should lead their life in a celebrative spirit. He is always a young student and believes in learning through sharing. He is an ardent practitioner of Yoga, Mudras, Pranayama, Meditation and Acupressure.
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He is always positive and happy and makes others around him happy. He believes “It is better to be happy and illogical rather than logical and unhappy”. He believes in ‘underwhelming’ rather than ‘overwhelming’. His philosophy is, “Simple things done consistently will produce marvellous results”.
Flt. Lt. M. Sridhar Chakravarthi
Adviser
Flt. Lt. M. Sridhar Chakravarthi is a seasoned business leader and organizational change facilitator with 30+ years of experience across Defense, Manufacturing, IT, Management Consulting, Learning & Development, Education, Non-profits and Sports industries.
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Sridhar has been practicing and training managers on Design Thinking, Systematic Inventive Thinking and other tools and methodologies for innovation. He has worked in various leadership positions in prestigious organizations like Indian Air Force, KPMG, CA Technologies, ValueMomentum etc.
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Sridhar is passionate about Entrepreneurship and driving positive social impact. Sridhar launched three businesses earlier offering Business strategy consulting services, E-learning solutions and offering Bicycle maintenance services at doorstep.
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Sridhar believes that managers can be coached to become exceptional leaders to realize their full potential. He has coached more than 1000 young leads and managers to deliver incredible results through his Leadership Program, a 12week immersive learning process.
Sridhar is a Certified Leadership Trainer, Certified Agile coach and a Certified Startup Mentor from Confederation of Indian Industries and City & Guilds. He has authored three books on Startup Mentoring, Employee Engagement and Successful Goal setting.
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He is a Mechanical Engineer from Andhra University and has a PGDM from XIMB, Bhubaneswar. He has just commenced his PhD at XIMB, Bhubaneswar. He is currently pursuing fulltime PhD in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship.
Priyanka Pradhan
Adviser
Priyanka a Finance Graduate and a Financial Risk Management Expert is primarily involved in idea generation, investment research to conduct analysis on macro-economic, industry, and company fundamentals to identify attractive opportunities Conduct IPO analysis and identify catalyst events for out-of- favour stocks.
Priyanka is also part of the deal origination and execution team and Assist in originating deal-flow across sectors, collateral preparation, due-diligence, End-to-end deal execution, including marketing to Private Equity Funds, primarily in India, Strategic Advisory on Entry / Exit into new geographies & ventures; Valuation; Market Research & Feasibility Study to understand clients market space, address critical growth drivers & form business alliances.
Dhiren Kulkarni
Adviser
Dhiren is a Competent Finance professional with 12 years of experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity and Strategic M&A roles with a strong professional performance track record.
Dhiren has vast experience across the entire value chain of investment including deal origination, investment analysis, preparing Investment Memo and financial models, investment monitoring, negotiation, due diligence.
Dhiren has extensively worked in Food, Fashion, ITeS and FMCG segments.
Shailesh Madhav
Pethe
Adviser
Shailesh is an Entrepreneur at heart, started his advertising agency and served clients like Anacin, Navneet Publications Limited, Bank of Maharashtra, Rasoi magic, Coke (regional account), Charak Health Care, Sapat Group companies etc.
He has been selected as a News Anchor on DD News Mumbai in the year 2001 to present business news and Marathi news and DD Sahyadri. He has successfully anchored a show "Money Plant" which was a finance ministry initiative. He has been awarded the "Lux best anchor award" in the year 2011.
In the past, he has successfully completed M&B switchgear limited IPO in 2011 and raised INR 145 crore, Equity placement of Mandhana Industries, Vivimed Labs, Glenmark pharmaceuticals from domestic financial institutions. On the debt side, he helped MEP Infra in its INR 1800 Cr financial closure for their HAM projects in the year 2016. In the year 2018, he has also advised MEP in their QIP and raised INR 170 crore from a private equity fund.
Shailesh maintains excellent relationships with various banks, financial institutions & Privat Equity players and plays a crucial role in bridging the relationships between various stakeholders.