Samit Tandon
Enterprise Building/Leadership
New Delhi/London
New Delhi/London
Areas of Focus
Functional areas
- Strategy
- Functional strategies
- Business planning
- Leadership development
- Scale-up execution
- Change management
- Restructuring
Industries
- Telecom
- Media
- Healthcare
- Education
- Outsourcing
- Information Technology
- (Renewable) Energy
Geographies
- South Asia
- Middle East
- South East Asia
- US
- Africa
- UK
Professional Experience
Senior Advisor - Affiliation with Arthur D. Little, Hewitt Associates and The Monitor Group
Hewitt Associates - Leader, Telecom Advisory, Southeast Asia (also Change Leader, India Practice)
Arthur D. Little - Manager (also CEO, Equation, India Incubator (Subsidiary)
Coopers & Lybrand - Senior Consultant
Andersen Consulting - Consultant
Education
- Masters in International Public Policy from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
- Masters in Economics from Churchill College, University of Cambridge
- Bachelors in Economics from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi
Illustrative Experiences
- Helped multiple telecom service operators raise funds through debt and equity through strategy formulation, business planning and fundraising representation
- Advised a Middle Eastern country's culture ministry on privatizing the media industry - including designing the overall philosophy for the industry, licensing for satellite TV and FM radio and defining the basic principles for the broadcasting act
- Created a counter-competitive strategy for a global mobile operator to outdo a strong competitor operating on multiple technology platforms at a large scale
- Worked with a leading Indian entertainment content producer on the scale-up strategy, funding plan and fundraising through private equity and listing options
- Led the creation of a social investment targeting gender equity
- Helped a University in Central Asia refine its strategy for a three campus public policy/business school
- Worked with an education social venture to help improve primary education quality in India
- Strategically reoriented multiple social programs targeting comprehensive support to those impacted by HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa and India
- Adjunct Professor at a leading business school in Delhi
- Conducted multiple training rounds to build the market assessment and strategy formulation skills of a high-end analytics business
- Worked with Ministries of Education, Urban Development and Home in various parts of the world to improve their strategies and performance effectiveness