BDA Senior Managing Director Euan Rellie presenting at the Indian Business Conference at Columbia Business School

Euan Rellie is joint founder and Senior Managing Director and is based in New York. Since founding BDA in 1996, Mr. Rellie has been based in Singapore, New York and London and has worked across China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, India and the Middle East. From 1990 to 1996 he worked in the Corporate Finance Department of Schroders, the leading UK investment bank now part of Citigroup, and was based in New York, London and Singapore. For most of this period, Mr. Rellie worked on behalf of Western multinationals, assisting them in their international development.

In 1995 and 1996, he was Head of SE Asia Execution for Schroders’ Asia-Pacific Regional Advisory Group. Mr. Rellie’s clients in Asia have included BUPA, DuPont, Hanjin, ICI, Intel, Kraft Foods, Lubrizol, Nalco, Philip Morris, Reuters, Rohm and Haas, Sara Lee and Tenneco. He was educated at EtonCollege and CambridgeUniversity (BA Hons, History) and is a Corporate Finance Specialist Registered Representative.

Anil Kumar is the Founder and Managing Director of Virtus Global Partners. Mr. Kumar brings over 14 years of experience advising mid to large size companies with their growth and investment strategy. He specializes in cross border mergers and acquisition advisory, investment banking and management consulting.

Mr. Kumar’s representative experience at Virtus Global Partners include: leading the purchase of Samuels Jewelers on behalf of Gitanjali Gems, debt financing for Ultra Stores, sale of Front Office Technologies to Glodyne, India entry strategy for Jean Claude Biguine and fund advisory for 13i Capital. He has participated in several other cross border transactions between US and India in the retail, technology and auto-components sector.

Prior to Virtus Global Partners, Mr. Kumar was a Director with Alvarez & Marsal LLC, where he implemented financial and operational restructuring services for energy and textile clients such as NEGT and Warnaco. Before this, he was a Senior Manager with KPMG Consulting where he led merger integration engagements for media and finance companies including Bertelsmann, Sony, AOL and Time Warner.

Mr. Kumar holds an MBA in Finance from ColumbiaBusinessSchool and a BE from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India.

Porter Orlin is a global value-oriented long/short equity fund. Inder joined Porter Orlin in 2004 from The Chatterjee Group, a former Soros affiliate where he focused on India related investments. Prior to TCG, he was with ZSC a venture capital firm and with McKinsey and Company in its New York Office. Inder began his career with Exabyte, a data storage provider to IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Sun Microsystems. He holds a BS and MS degree in Engineering from The University of Michigan, and an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors, from ColumbiaBusinessSchool. He was born in India and graduated from high school in Thailand.

Ashish Chugh is an investment professional at Bay Pond Partners, a $1.5B hedge fund within the Wellington Management Company, a Boston based investment management firm with over $400B of capital under management. Prior to Wellington, Ashish worked as an Associate at the Blue Chip Venture Company, a venture capital/private equity firm. Before business school, Ashish worked as an engineer at IBM in Toronto and Hitachi in Tokyo. Ashish has an MBA from HarvardBusinessSchool and a Bachelors of Applied Sciences in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Professor Mohanram’s research has been published in the leading academic journals including the Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics and the Review of Accounting Studies . His research focuses on the valuation of stocks, corporate disclosure and earnings management. His research has examined the valuation of Internet stocks, the calculation of cost of capital, the use of fundamental information in the valuation of growth stocks and the manipulation of earnings to maximize executive compensation. He has also studied the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD) on the functioning of financial analysts. His research has been cited often in the business press and he has appeared on CNBC to discuss his research on growth stocks. He serves on the editorial board of the Accounting Review . Mohanram teaches financial statement analysis to MBAs and executive MBAs, with an emphasis on exposing students to the potential manipulations of financial statements. He also teaches in Columbia’s executive education programs. He is currently the coordinator of doctoral program for the accounting group, and has served on the dissertation committees of several students.