Sundar Sankaran is an expert on Indian financial services industry and author of the bestseller, Indian Mutual Funds Handbook.

Sundar is renowned as an effective trainer who can simplify concepts and catalyse learning through linkages with day-to-day examples. Sundar has trained over 20,000 participants from an array of India’s largest mutual funds, banks, financial services companies, press and the media across a range of innovative programmes.

Sundar has worked in senior capacities at Bajaj Auto and Kotak Mahindra. His hands-on feel of financial markets and industry is well complemented by his academic qualifications — Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1988), Associate of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (1992) and Associate of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (1988). He graduated from Podar College (Mumbai University).

Sundar is active with various industry bodies. He is a member of the Banking & Finance Committee and the Accounting Standards Committee of the Indian Merchants' Chamber.

Sundar is the founder-director of Advantage-India Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (www.advantage-india.com), a thirteen-year old strategy consulting and knowledge incubation boutique. He has also founded Finberry Academy Pvt. Ltd. (www.finberry.org) and Stratberry Publishing (www.stratberry.com).