Editorials

by Rajen Kumar

No Escaping Social Media

Running a magazine concentrating on issues of small and medium enterprises and managing with limited resources is a like living life on the edge. In this rush of meeting deadlines,...

Special Reports

Apr 2012

EMRC, Brussels Associates with SME WORLD as its New Media Partner

EMRC has promoted business partnerships with the developing world and has organised dozens of business forums in key decision-making cities, such as Amsterdam, Rome,...

Interviews

Need for a Visible Recognition of MSMEs : Indranil Deb

SME WORLD Bureau
Aug 2010

Indranil Deb is the founding principal of Mobius Strip Capital Advisors, a specialist Corporate Finance, PE & M&A Advisory and Wealth Management boutique. He is also a mentor on mentorsquare (www.mentorsquare.com) and with the IIM(A)- Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) (www.ciieindia.org) network.

As part of the CIIE, Indranil is a member of the national panel of jury and mentors for the second edition of the “Power of Ideas” campaign organized jointly by the Department of Science & Technology(Government of India) and the Times of India Group.

An investment banker with over seventeen years of experience in the financial services industry, Indranil has a mix of experience of having worked in the areas of Equities Research, Financial Restructuring, Private Equity, M&A and Wealth Management.

Prior to establishing Mobius Strip Capital Advisors in 2008, Indranil was employed with Sagacious Financial Services Ltd.(SFSL) Mumbai as Senior Vice President (M&A, Private Equity Advisory and WMS). Indranil was earlier responsible for developing and strengthening an existing wealth management services business for Angel Broking and set up the Institutional Broking (Equities) business of Atherstone Capital(Asia) in 2006 serving domestic and foreign institutional and HNI equity investors. In all these roles, he was responsible for product development, recruitment, training, sales, relationship management and branding-building.

He has worked with both boutique investment advisory outfits and large fund-based nbfcs and capital market intermediaries as an equity analyst, credit officer, investment advisor, business manager and entrepreneur. The experience gained in starting up businesses, raising Capital, facilitating and selling ipos is significantly well-rounded.

Earlier in his career, he has held positions of Area Manager (Syndications and Fee-based Business) at Wipro Finance Ltd. And Credit Manager at Reliance Capital Ltd. His management background lends itself to strategy and Growth.

Indranil usually engages only with businesses where there is a close fit between his skill set, industry knowledge, experience and interests to pair with growing companies and businesses. Such ideal partners are typically fast growing companies, entrepreneurs with few years under their belt, traction(sales), passion for growth and improvement, see value in engaging professionals to help run the company instead of hoarding all the tasks, and who are ready to step things up.

Better Focus

“I work with only a few companies at a time as Advisor/CFO in order to better focus my attention,” says Indranil who is a keen student of global macro economic trends, public finance, fiscal and monetary policies, trade and exchange-rate mechanisms and how they impact global money flows, institutional investment decision-making and capital market actions. He is also an observer and occasional commentator on the efficacy of the government, central bank, banks and institutional investors and on channeling of growth capital to emerging businesses.

To read full article please subscribe SME WORLD

0 Comments >>

Our Achievements

Winner of appreciation award for promoting SMEs in India.
1st ever Indian magazine to penetrate tier II, III cities & the rural belt.
Industry Partnerships include CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, PHDCC, AIMA, ITPO, SME Network, Federation of Indian Micro Small Enterprises (FISME)
Official Magazine Partners for several national & international MSME events.

The Last Word

More Learned than Educated, You were!

I was speechless. Rather hesitatingly I asked him, “So, what have you decided, Sominder ?” His reply was curt and candid, “I have told the doctors that I don’t want to live life as dumb. Only...

You can also write for SME WORLD

We are looking for writers and experts to contribute original stories and articles. Send an email to smeworld@gmail.com with your story idea and lets get talking.

Some of our valued contributors are...