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Samit Tandon
Samit Tandon
Enterprise Building/Leadership
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