Our Strengths Include:
- Critical understanding of transactions and deal execution skills.
- In-depth knowledge of the industry and various sector verticals.
- Strong relationships with banks, financial institutions, fund houses and investors and understanding their aspirations and investing parameters.
- Dynamic and ever-growing relationships with various industries, business houses and Promoters based on trust and fairness built over the years.
M Balachandran
A prominent Indian banking professional, Mr. Balachandran has had an illustrious banking career spanning 38 years, during which period he has held high profile positions like Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of India, Executive Director in the same bank, Chief Executive of Bank of Baroda, New York and General Manager and Zonal Manager of Bank of India Chennai Zone. His tenure in Bank of India saw a number of strategic and bold inititaives. He has served also as the Chairman of StarUnion Dai-chi Insurance Company and Director of Institute of Banking Personnel Selection. He currently serves as a Director of National Payment Corporation and Small Industrial Development Bank of India. He has also been associated with several commitees of RBI, IBA, NABARD and the Governnment of India.
Om Porwal
A Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 1986, Mr. Porwal has been an active financial advisor to various Corporations of the Government of Maharashtra, with focus on raising finance. He also advises various corporates in the private sector on financial planning.He is a Director on the Board of Yashraj Biotechnology Ltd and was a Public Representative Director on the Board of OTC Exchange of India.
Arvind Bhanushali
A Commerce Graduate from Mumbai University, Mr. Bhanushali is Financial Advisor with experience spreading over 25 years and advises several business houses. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of Yashraj Group of Companies, having interests in Biotechnology, Agriculture and Finance. He has an active interest in the field of Education.
Arvind Bhandari
A fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India with over 30 years experience, Mr. Bhandari was the promoter-director of a public limited company engaged in flexible packaging with South Korean Collaboration. He brings in varied experience in manufacturing and international trade, as finance professional and entrepreneur.
S S Sudanthiram
A career merchant banker, Mr. Sudanthiram had a distinguished career in public and private sector financial institutions with exposure in credit, merchant banking, treasury and capital market operations. He has associated with more than 100 IPOs from southern parts of India. He is the promoter of Sreevee and Bhalakh group of companies engaged in investment banking.
Malay Mukherjee
Mr. Mukherjee has over 40 years of experience in the field of Banking and NBFC including Venture Funding, Factoring and Broking. He was the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of IFCI Limited and was responsible for the growth and development of the business of IFCI. He also held the position of Chairman in various group Companies of IFCI Limited. As an Executive Director at the Central Bank of India, he looked after portfolios such as Credit, HR, General Administration, IT, Corporate Communications, Publicity, Marketing, Client coverage and New Initiatives.
Further, being associated with Indian Bank for 36 years he accrued wide field exposure, having worked in various branches, regions and zones including Assam, Bihar, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and New Delhi. He has been the past Chairman of Board of Governors of Management Development Institute (MDI) and Chairman of Institute of Leadership Development, Jaipur. Additionally, he was also a member of the Governing Body of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad.
Jyoti Sharan
Mr Jyoti Sharan is a seasoned banker, with a career spanning over 33 years, and in his previous assignment was the General Manager (Mid Corporate) at State Bank of India, in their Mumbai Region. He has managed business of large corporate financial segment, spread over diverse industrial segments like diamond, gems and jewellery, NBFC’s, textile, pharmaceuticals, shipping, infra and renewal energy. He has also handled Stressed Asset Resolution, by developing company specific financial models.
Mr Sharan graduated in Science and holds a Diploma in Computer Certification from XISS, Ranchi and is a CAIIB. He has received certification from Harvard Management Institute on various management topics and Leadership Development Certification from Kellogg School of Management, Chicago.
As the CEO, Mr Sharan will focus on the company’s growth by adding value to all the stakeholders, under the existing business verticals of Corporate Advisory, Stressed Resolution Advisory, Investment and Merchant Banking by identifying new opportunities.
R Ramnath
Mr R Ramnath has over 30 years’ experience; about 21 years in investment banking, private equity and financial services and 9 years in corporate finance prior to that.
He has worked with Dabur India (wherein he handled two SBUs viz., Hajmola and Guar Gum project and initiated its JV project in Nepal) and Kanoria Chemicals & Industries (wherein he handled its Polypropylene and Captive Power project from scratch leading up to its financial closure) in the area of Corporate Finance.
He was in leadership position heading the investment banking business at VLS Finance and later at SREI Capital Markets (the investment banking arm of SREI Infrastructure Finance) wherein he lead managed numerous IPOs, FPOs and Rights Issues of well-known companies.
The issues handled by Mr. Ramnath to date relate to diverse industries/sectors such as Agricultural Nutrient, Forging, Seeds, Spirits (Alcoholic beverages), Hospital, Tobacco, Footwear, Chemical trading, Automobile, Food, Software, Metal, Power, Real Estate & Infrastructure, Cement, Polyfilm, Telecom, Telematics & BPO, Communication equipment and Transformer.
He was in an entrepreneurial role prior to joining CFM. At CFM, he is handling merchant banking / investment banking activities along with Equity Capital Market related Private Equity and M&A transactions.
Mr. Sriram J
Mr. Sriram is having more than 26 years of Banking experience. He has worked with Indian Bank for 12 years, 8 years with Axis Bank, 6 years with ICICI Bank. Before joining CFML, he was working as Cluster Head, Corporate Banking in Bank Sohar, Muscat, Oman.
Mr. Sriram has wide experience in Corporate Banking – Relationship, Credit Appraisal, Risk, Administration, Investment Banking, Syndication, Merger and Acquisition, Monitoring and Recoveries.
At CFML, he will be responsible for the management of overall business i.e. Team Building, Debt Syndication, Investment Banking, Stressed Asset Resolution and general administration at Chennai Office.