Sandeep Mehta is a Corporate Strategist & Tactician. He comes with over 25 years of experience in managing business strategy, operations, turnarounds, fundraising, governance, stakeholders across various industry sectors.
He is skilled at creating, enhancing and maximizing enterprise value by originating and executing transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, business restructuring / valuations and devising accounting schemes & strategies to optimize the value of assets & developing restructuring programs for value enhancement and creation of all stake holders.
He is credited with fundraising to the excess of over USD 15 bn in form of debt, equity, mezzanine funding, structured finance among others.
He has led over two dozen transactions involving mergers, acquisitions, divestment and joint ventures, and has successfully turned around multi-billion USD non-performing businesses to profitability.
He is also experienced in implementing enterprise-wide large automation and digital frameworks and has managed multiple complex litigations and arbitration covering regulatory, statutory and cross-border legal disputes.
He capitalized early in career on opportunities and rapidly progressed through high growth accounting finance and treasury positions leading to CFO roles for strategic business units ranging in size from $500 million to $3.2 billion in a range of industries like Telecom, Banking, Media, Textile, Power and Technology. The depth and breadth of adaptive management style ranges from “hands on” execution to Strategic thinking.
He has been instrumental in setting up a next generation multi asset venture on the India-America landscape for co-creating, unlocking & realizing value by investing capital, critical management expertise, operational excellence & time.
In his earlier Corporate life, he held senior positions with Sterlite – Vedanta Group, Reliance Group, Axis Bank & Pratibha Group, and has been the key growth driver behind large projects of group companies besides maintaining a profitable status, transformed and turnaround for IPO, stock exchange listings and enhanced shareholders value.
He has completed his MBA (Finance) from California State, USA, Chartered Accountancy from ICAI; Gold Medallist in (Taxation), CPA(USA), Company Secretary from ICSI, M.com, PGDT (Taxation) - IFRS and US GAAP convergence training / certifications, Private Equity & Venture Capital (PEVC) Program from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.