Akilesh Sridharan Email & Phone Number

Akilesh Sridharan is a Entertainment Finance and Strategy at Phobia Entertainment. Colleagues describe him as "Akilesh is one of those rare executives with very high IQ and EQ. He is as comfortable in a board room discussing the pros & cons of a proposed M&A transaction as he is collaborating with peers or leading/developing more junior employees. His ability to solve difficult problems and to communicate those solutions to key stakeholders is second to none. I was very fortunate to work with Akilesh as his supervisor for almost 8 years. Not only is he a joy to work with on a personal level, his ability to see around corners (from a strategic perspective) and then translate those into financial and operational objectives is superlative. Akilesh is also one of those rare executives that can do well in both large corporate and small entrepreneurial settings. A lot of our work was launching new businesses in new countries and his ability to roll up his sleeves and work at execution speed with very small teams (i.e you have to do everything yourself) is phenomenal. His skill set spans Strategy development, M&A (entire cycle: Target ID, Negotiation, Diligence, Papering deal and Post merger integration), Finance (all the typical cfo duties like cash management, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, etc) and Operational/HR. He is a well rounded executive that has a very long runway in front of him. Frank C."