Founder & Director
Sriram has combined experience of 20 years spread across investment analysis (commercial real estate, project finance), credit rating, business valuation, financial modelling and strategy development. Sriram holds a master’s degree in commerce and is a green belt in Six Sigma. Sriram is based out of Chennai, India.
Before starting his own advisory firm, Sriram has been working with Verumex (VmX). VmX is a technology and data analytics company serving the $32 trillion global commercial real estate industry. Sriram was Manager and doing role of domain expertise who provide inputs to product development team. Sriram was instrumental in delivering the MVP and also was part of core team of the company.
Before Verumex, Sriram was working in Anvil Real Estate Analytics Private Limited (AREA), Chennai, India. As Head of Analytics, Sriram oversees all financial analysis and underwriting activities. At AREA Sriram has overseen team of 9 financial analysts conducting investment analysis and underwriting on over $3.0 billion of real estate.
Before AREA, for 3 years, Sriram was with Market Simplified, a software company which provides digital solutions to financial institutions across the globe. Sriram was Head of Strategy for a product division where he has overseen a product from ideation stage to revenue generation stage.
Before AREA, Sriram was with Fitch Ratings for 5 years. As Associate Director, Sriram was part of Infrastructure and Project Finance team and was responsible for credit ratings of debt instruments (over $10 billion) covering sectors including Airports, Toll Roads, Ports, Thermal Energy and Renewable Energy. Sriram’s credit rating portfolio includes India’s major private airports (Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad), India’s first Private Metro Rail Project and India’s first Infrastructure Investment Trust (InvIT). Sriram was also acted as model custodian of internal developed credit rating financial models for Infrastructure and Project Finance projects.
Prior to Fitch Ratings, Sriram was a Process Lead in GRO where he managed the due diligence process with a team of 15 financial analysts conducting due diligence and valuation analysis on behalf of many of the world’s largest real estate funds. Prior to becoming Process Lead, Sriram was a Senior Financial Analyst at GRO, where he analyzed over 1,000+ assets with 25,000+ tenants and has done 3,000+ commercial lease abstractions. Sriram was instrumental in implementing various automation in the process and successfully lead a project of determining standard time of 20 processes in the Due Diligence Team. Sriram was with GRO for 7 years.