Advisory Board

Vincent O’Brien

Vincent O’Brien is a member of ICC Banking Commission and ICC and Chair of the ICC Market Intelligence Group (MIG). He has served on the Executive Committee of ICC Banking Commission. He has delivered technical trade finance assistance in more than 70 countries for major banks and development institutions.

He is regularly involved as an expert witness in arbitration and legal cases. He is highly regarded for speaking his mind and ability to explain complex situations and structures in a clear & straightforward manner.

Vincent is regarded as one of the leading authorities worldwide on Letters of Credits and Bank Guarantees. He is co-author of a book on Letters of Credit; "Documentary Letters Of Credit, A review of cases from the courts of India", published by LexisNexis.

Sanjay Jain

Formerly Director and Head - Local Corporates & Government at Rabobank India Finance Pvt. Ltd. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, Mr. Sanjay Jain has a career spanning 23 years.

He has been running his own company M/s Taj Capital Partners Pvt Ltd for almost ten years. Taj Capital provides advisory services to various MNC and Indian players in sectors such as Food and Agribusiness, Media, Building Products, Pharmaceuticals and Retail.

Prior to Rabo he worked for M/s Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Ranbaxy Laboratories and JM Financial.

Ghulam Mohammed

Formerly Managing Director of Mahindra Exports Ltd. the international trading subsidiary of Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd - a leading player in the Indian automotive sector. During a tenure spanning three decades he was part of the leadership team and led the IT and Systems Group.

He was also involved in Strategic Planning for various group companies. After leaving Mahindra & Mahindra he has promoted two companies and is currently on the boards of an advisor to several companies in the IT, Financial Services, Manufacturing, FMCG and Energy sectors in India, UK and the UAE.

Binu Gunbir Sethi

` Binu is the co-founder and Managing Director of InSync Analytics, a global knowledge-processing outsourcing firm servicing the investment banking community. Prior to this, Binu worked at Bank of America Securities as an Equity Analyst in the Global Media team and was a key member of the Institutional Investor ranked Broadcasting team.

She also worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan in the Global Industrials group in New York, executing over $10 billion of advisory transactions.

She is a MBA from New York University. Prior to business school, Binu was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch/Smith New Court Securities plc (affiliate of NM Rothschild) and executed over $5 billion of capital raising transactions.

Rudra Kundu

Rudra has an MBA (majors in Finance and Marketing, and a minor in Economics) from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; as well as BE (Electrical Engineering) from Bengal Engineering College, India.

Prior to relocating to India (in 2016) to lead the Adam Smith Associates team he was head of the Treasury and Structured Finance function for Nokia (previously Nokia Siemens Networks), based in Singapore and running a multi- country team across Asia- Pacific, China and India to handle treasury, financing, structured finance and sales support for the fast-growing businesses in these markets. Rudra has worked previously with Citibank (heading the branded consumer and pharmaceutical verticals for Citibank India), Cargill (structured trade finance) and ANZ Grindlays Bank (corporate banking).

Rudra has over 2 decades of experience in managing balance sheet risks, funding and liquidity, working with clients and sales teams to implement structured funding and risk management solutions to aid borrowing or sales, as well as interest rate / exchange rate opportunities.

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