Sudhanshu Sekhar Pani 602, Tower A, Raunak Park, Pokhran Road No. 2,

Thane (West) – 400 610, Maharashtra, India

Mob: 98205 56355 sudhanshupani@yahoo.com

PROFILE

Entrepreneur with hands-on experience in various aspects of Wealth Management business. An equally strong passion for

research in personal finance, investments and evolutionary computing. A career with rich and varied

experience in sales, advisory and business development in Wealth Management, Banking and IT sectors.

EDUCATION

Executive Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management, Indian Institute of Management, Indore,

MP, India, 2006-08

Major Electives: IT: Decision Support Systems ;

Finance: Investment Management, Project Appraisal and Finance, Derivatives and Risk Management;

Marketing: Customer Relationship Management, Services Marketing;

Strategy: Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructuring

Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), Metallurgy ; Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Utkal University, 1995-1999 ;

EXPERIENCE Finance Central, Mumbai Jan ’06 - till date

Partner

• Founder and CEO of this Entrepreneurial boutique firm involved in Wealth Management.

• Complete responsibility for all aspects of the business, which includes – Research, client acquisition,

advisory, client relations, communications, branding, people development etc.

• Conceptualise and execute strategies to grow the enterprise.

HDFC Standard Life Insurance, Mumbai April 05 - December 05

Sales Development Manager • Drive retail sales, develop the retail distribution team, manage customer relationships. • Implement the Branch Strategy through the team of Financial Consultants.

Standard Chartered Bank, Mumbai May 04 - April 05

Officer, Wealth Management

• Liability Sales for the Consumer Banking Division;

• Client acquisition, sales of Business and Personal Banking Solutions

Bailiwick Solutions Private Ltd., New Delhi Dec 02 - April 04

Business Development. Manager

• Set up the unit for marketing IVR and other proprietary software products of the company

• Acquire clients and co-ordinate with the technical, sales and after sales support efforts

X-Gen Solutions, New Delhi Dec 01- Dec 02

Marketing Executive

• Acquire clients for the software development centre and market proprietary software products

• Coordinate with the technical team and give feedback for product and service improvement

Indira Gandhi Institute Of Technology, Sarang, Orissa Nov 99- Nov 00

Lecturer

• Research and Teaching at Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

• No. of Publications in Conference Proceedings – 03

Notes:

Money Management is a passion. I would like to creating enough opportunities to implement

and also learn more of money management skills and techniques.

I have focused on the skills and techniques that may be useful in equity research

and money management business.

It all started gradually as I wanted to start that division at my firm.

 My current interests / working projects are related to using Modeling tools such as simulation, forecasting, 

Neural networks and genetic algorithms in areas of stock market prediction and portfolio management.

I am also working on the risk management techniques being used in finance.

Given below are some of the areas I have worked (in my projects at IIM Indore and otherwise) in the last couple of months.

1. HINDALCO – An evaluation of Financial Management at the firm.

2. THE BIG BOYS OF INDIAN TECHNOLOGY- INFOSYS & TCS – (A stock valuation exercise)

3. AIA Engineering Limited – A value investors’ evaluation.

4. A Simple Non-Heuristic Model To Predict Stock Prices Using Statistical – Inference Methods (short term price trends predicting tool)

5. DOES COMPANY PERFORMANCE IMPACT STOCK PRICES - A Study On Bajaj Auto Limited

6. Portfolio selection using goal programming

7. THE NEXT WAVE IN MUTUAL FUND DISTRIBUTION

8. Predicting the Indian Stock Market Index (Nifty) using Artificial Neural Networks.