A Cost Accountant & an MBA with over 28 years’ experience in employment & consulting. A long stint of 18 years at ITC, India’s best run corporate, brought about exposure & expertise in management systems; deep insights into how businesses grow & sustain; how performing cultures are built & leveraged upon for establishing & maintaining profitability, whilst facilitating further growth. Experience also includes financial structuring, mergers & amalgamations, project management & systems implementation. This expertise, which also included being part of performance management teams, has been used extensively over the last 9 years in building capability to a number of SME’s in a variety of industry segments including engineering, healthcare, services, manufacturing etc.