A qualified Chartered Accountant & Chartered Company Secretary with over 30 years of varied & rich industry experience in the field of Finance, Accounts, Corporate Governance, Company Law & other Corporate laws, Mergers & Acquisitions, Public Issue of equity & debentures, Costing, Internal Audit, Direct & Indirect taxes and HR & Organization Development. Worked with reputed industrial houses, namely, Tatas, Walchands, ESSAR, Bajaj & GTL. Have occupied important & strategic positions such as CFO & Co. Secretary, Chairman - Corporate Governance, Chairman of a manufacturing company, Chief of Internal Audit for a Group of companies, Executive Director for a Venture Capital company, President - Land Acquisition & Risk Management for a listed entity and Chief Mentor & OD in charge for a large group of companies. Have worked on Foreign collaborations & formed joint venture company with AT&T, for manufacture of Transmission equipment.Have worked in Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Pune, Chandigarh & New Delhi and successfully steered group of individuals with completely different work cultures. Have widely traveled, both domestically & internationally across continents and handled business relationships with Japanese, Singaporean, American & European nationals. From January 2011, worked as an Independent Financial & Management Consultant for two years in Pune advising Small & Medium Enterprises. From March 2013 worked as the CFO for a mobile distribution company with plans for PAN India distribution of a MNCs smart phones & helped them in setting up their internal systems, imbibed financial discipline and organized significant working capital facilities with banks.From 1st November, resettled in Pune and working as an Independent Financial & Management Consultant to Industry in general.