Our Team

Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in performance improvement systems and advanced cost management.

Gary received a BS degree with honors (Tau Beta Pi; Alpha Pi Mu) in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He was a two year varsity football letterman. He received his MBA with honors (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC Corporation and subsequently served as Financial Controller and Operations Manager with FMC’s Link-Belt division. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte Consulting. Next with KPMG, Gary was trained on activity-based costing (ABC) by Harvard Business School Professors Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper.

With KPMG working with Dr. David Norton, Gary was also involved with initial research that led to the development of the Balanced Scorecard. Prior to joining SAS, Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), now part of HP. In 1996 Gary joined ABC Technologies which was acquired in 2002 by SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics software, headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. At SAS he was a principal consultant and retired in 2012.

Puneet Srivastava has 21 years of experience in the Investment Banking Industry and he has held in his carrier very senior positions. He acted as Director Goldman Sachs and worked for approximately nine years there. He has also worked in companies like Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank and presently he is a Director BNY Mellon.

His major strength is driving client transformation programs. His rich international exposure for more than two decades is acting as a strong backbone of AlphaValue Team. He is an advisor, a mentor and under his able guidance team is tuned to international standards.

He is a Co-Founder of AlphaValue Consulting and Registered Valuer with IBBI. He possess work experience of more than 15 years with 9 years of Merchant Banking experience. Maneesh holds a strong foothold in Investment Banking, Transaction Advisory, Financial Valuations and Business Development and leads the major client interactions. He has a multidimensional role across various verticals ranging from managing the overall development & operations of the company with leadership roles across Business Strategy, Business Development, skill development and management of various advisory practices of AlphaValue Consulting. He very actively created foot prints in all metro cities of India and also in UAE.

Maneesh specializes in Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Valuations, Due Diligence, ESOP scheme implementation etc. He is a Registered Valuer with IBBI, Fellow Member of ICSI and MBA from IBS and a PhD Scholar. He is also empanelled as valuer with GAIL Authority of India Ltd and Power Finance Corporation of India. He during his carrier has worked with organizations like PWC, PUG securities, Citi Financials, Stock Holding Corporation, Nexgen Financial and acted as a Vice President Corporate professionals before starting his own entrepreneurship Journey of AlphaValue Consulting.

Maneesh has acted as a speaker at various national & international forums, Premier MBA institutes of India and abroad. He is also acting as mentor to various Start-ups and also associated with various Incubation centers like Atal Incubation Cell, Amity Incubation Cell etc. He has also published articles on various leading Journals and Co Authored a book on Valuation.

Sameer Verma is the founding partner of Alphavalue Consulting (alphavalue.co.in) and along with Founder & CSO of Fintellect Entertainment (otp7.com) which is India’s first exclusive stock market fantasy gaming platform.

He is also a charter member of TiE-Delhi-NCR.

He is a Registered Valuer with IBBI and a Fellow Member of the ICSI. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Birla Institute of Technology and PGDM in International Business from Fortune Institute of International Business.

Before dedicating himself full time to Alphavalue Consulting and OTP7, Sameer worked as a lead member of the valuation team of one of the leading SEBI registered category merchant bankers.

With over 14 years of experience in investment banking for Valuation and Financial advisory, he has gained expertise and business acumen by managing the financial operations and efforts to achieve a higher organic growth rate.

He also acted as an expert valuer in many insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and financial reporting of the company securities and financial assets.

He has co-authored various articles and books on Financial Valuation.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a qualified lawyer. He did his articleship with CA B.S. Nagaraj, H. Vishnu & Co. and with Wipro Ltd (secondment) in their internal audit division. During articleship, Aditya presented papers on International tax and Minimum Alternate Tax in Ahmedabad, Delhi and Chennai in the CA Students Forum. Post qualification in 2008, he joined SR Batliboi & Associates (a network firm of Ernst & Young) and worked for 3.5 years in the tax division.

Aditya has experience in individual taxation, corporate tax and service tax areas, as well as in regulatory areas and has assisted in advising companies on regulatory and tax issues. He has assisted companies in the technology, venture capital and pharma sectors on matters ranging from entry strategies for foreign investment, amalgamation and demerger, slump sale, advise on filing of application before AAR and compensation structuring apart from regular compliance related work for direct and indirect tax and labour law related compliances.

Mr. R. Tharmaraj has a rich experience of 25 plus years. He is a practising Chartered Accountant and has serviced numerous Tier-I Corporates in senior level positions in Finance& Operations both Nationally and Internationally for 15+ years.

He is a seasoned corporate leader also been an advisor in financial compliances and regulatory sectors to various corporates and also honorary positions as mentors, advisory, Independent Director in their managements. Starting his corporate journey in 1995-96 he has worked with giants like Aditya Birla, Dalmia, Reliance group pertaining to various sectors like Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Information Technology, ITES and its allied services, Retail sector& Textiles

With his varied and versatile experiences, he acts as a catalyst in changing the paradigm in existing business practices to the present-day requirement & need of Trade, commerce and economy. He is a person of fame and is a well-recognised name in the global community.

He is registered as a Plant & Machinery Valuer with Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India and provides Valuation & Advisory Services. He possesses rich working experience of more than 8 years in providing valuation services with respect to insolvency cases, Bank guarantee, valuation for courts, valuation under insurance, mortgage, SARFAESI Act and many other fields. He has also provided valuation services to many MNCs over the years.

Apart from providing valuation services, he also provides Consultancy services with respect to;liaison with government authority, vendor investigation, third party inspection, remaining life inspection and many other areas. He was previously associated with RVS Engineers and Optimum Enterprises.

He holds Bachelor of Architecture degree from Government College of Architecture, Lucknow University and Urban Planning certificate E-Course from CEPT, Ahmedabad. He has many professional affiliations; he has membership of IOV&IOVRVF, IBBI, Wealth Tax Act and is registered with the Council of Architecture (CA), India and he also has associate membership of Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), Northern India Chapter. He has undertaken numerous valuation assignments from every major city of the country in his long career spanning over 22 years. He has done valuation for CIRP and Liquidation purpose under IBBI and valuation under SARFAESI Act and Income Tax. Some of his recent assignments relating to fair & liquidation value of asset class Land and Building under regulation 35 for CIRP purpose and realizable value for Liquidation purpose include companies like Nimitaya Hotel and Resorts Limited (Hotel Radisson), Soni Infratech Private Limited, Gurugram (Group Housing), Overnite Express Limited ,KSBL Securities Limited and 30+ companies.

Sanyam Goel, legal think tank of AlphaValue Consulting is an associate member of Institute of company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and holds a Graduate Degree in Law (LLB). Sanyam Goel is heading Legal and Secretarial wing of AlphaValue Consulting. Sanyam has talent of carving out accurate results out of any complex situation whether it is an issue related to Mergers & Acquisitions or strategy in framing a corporate compliance with ROC (Registrar of Companies).

Under his legal knowledge-base, AlphaValue Consulting is capable of handling any complex project without any hassle. Sanyam Goel has a long diversified experience in providing legal advisory, entry-exit strategies and secretarial services to various national and International firms especially Japan. He is also heading and mentoring other reputed firms like KNM Advisors and various other startups and grownups.

Pooja Saxena is an associate member of ICAI and holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Delhi University. Prior to joining Pure Value, Pooja was heading the taxation division of Mayur Batra & Company. Pooja has a considerable experience in the field of corporate taxation, International taxation, and indirect taxation. Pooja has advised a number of expatriates on the taxability of their Income in India and also has rich expertise on DTAA issues.

Pooja Saxena is engaged in optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of the assurance and advisory practices in AlphaValue Consulting. Pooja also collaborates with the firm’s leadership and partners to deliver high value client service through thought leadership and professional development. She has an active role in assessment of feedback provided by clients. Pooja ensures standards of assignments rewarded to AlphaValue Consulting so as to keep a check on quality of work performed by our team.

Pooja has undertaken various measures and inclinations to keep AlphaValue Consulting on continuous improvement track. Quality control and regular up-gradation of AlphaValue Consulting Systems is a key area of her profile.

Sandeep Jindal is an associate member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), holding a Graduate Degree in Law (LL.B.) and a Diploma in Banking Management. He is having more than 11 years diversified experience in Legal, Secretarial and Regulatory Compliance functions. During his tenure he has worked with Religare Group, Elcomponics Group, Onicra Group and Homeshree Housing Finance Limited.

He is a key person in setting up housing finance institution, broking house and other businesses. In addition he has vast knowledge and experience in contract management, regulatory policies- drafting and implementation, Company Law matters, NBFC matters, SARFEASI, Trade Marks, registration of NGO/ Section 8 Companies, Nidhis, liansoning with regulatory authorities such as RBI, NHB, IRDA, ROC, RD, DM, Quasi-Judicial Authorities etc.

Pradeep Kumar is a Chartered Engineer & a Registered Valuer with IBBI and Member of Institution of Engineers and fellow member of Institution of Government Approved Valuers He possesses rich working experience of more than 20 years in the field of engineering. He holds a strong foothold in the field of Valuation for various purposes like Valuation of plant and machinery, Land & Building, Valuation for loan, Valuation for insolvency, Valuation for merger, Scrap valuation, on-demand of court, Civil Construction, land and Building, Plant and Machineries, Brand Valuation etc.

Abhijit Banerjee is Advocate-On-Record in Supreme Court of India and has 20 years of post-qualification experience in Litigation, Arbitration, Commercial Mediation and Advisory Practice.

He started law practice in Allahabad High Court in year 2000 mainly in Civil, Corporate and Taxation matters, he gradually extended his practice area and became Advocate-On-Record in Supreme Court of India. He has been putting appearances before the Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court, Allahabad High Court, High Court at Lucknow, Tripura High Court etc, he also appears before various forums as Electricity Tribunals, State & National Consumer Forums, National Green Tribunal, Company Tribunals, Debt Recovery Tribunals, Central Administrative Tribunal, Armed Forces Tribunal and Enforcement Directorate.

Mr. Banerjee has been extending Opinions to various Service and Manufacturing Industries and to Resolution Professionals in the process of corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) on:

• • Resolution plans from legal perspective.
• • Labor issues and computation of claims.
• • Pollution Laws.
• • Government Policies and Notifications and its impact on business ventures suggesting way ahead.
• • Legal Strategy and Planning
• • Legal compliances, evaluation of potential risk in business ventures from legal perspective.

Abhijit Banerjee was formerly National Head Legal in Kesoram Industries (a B. K. Birla Group of Companies) managing Pan Asia Litigations of the group, relating to Birla Tyre, Birla Cement, Birla Rayon and Birla Group Schools and for a short span was retained as Head Legal by Vedanta Resources Plc. in Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL), implementing the largest 1980 (3x660) MW Greenfield Power Project in Punjab, India.

Gaurav is alumnus of CAMPUS LAW CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI. He is also a Fellow Member of INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA and a qualified COMPANY SECRETARY, with over 15 years of experience in tax dispute resolution. He also holds CERTIFICATE IN INTERNATIONAL TAXATION from the INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF INDIA. Gaurav majorly practices before various benches of Tribunals, Authority for Advance Ruling, High Courts and Supreme Court of India. He has been solicitor/ advisor and instrumental in strategizing some of the high stake tax controversies in India, which were nascent as well as complex. He assists in devising litigation mitigating strategies. He is known to bring out of box solutions for complex legal issues, with his multi-dimensional knowledge of laws and academic qualifications. He was associated with Advaita Legal (KPMG), BMR, PwC, EY and Vaish Associates, Advocates. He was one of the core member of the tax litigation team at ADVAITA LEGAL and BMR LEGAL and practices in CORPORATE TAX, INTERNATIONAL TAX and TRANSFER PRICING. He is member of Delhi High Court Bar Association; Income Tax Appellate Tribunal Bar Association, Delhi; International Fiscal Association; Bombay Chartered Accountants Society; and Chambers of Tax Consultants.

Dr RL Chawla holds a M.phil and Ph.D from Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was the visiting scholar at World Bank (Washington DC), University of Texas at Austin, Getlio Vargas Foundation, Reo de Janerio and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr R. L Chawla was professor of Economics at SIS JNU (1999-2006) and prior to that he was also a reader in Economics at University of Delhi.

He also served as a senior economist at National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, New Delhi. He served as Economic Advisor with Ministry of National Economy, Sultanate of Oman (1996-1999). He has more than 50 years of Research, Teaching and consulting experience. Dr Chawla has authored a number of Journal Research Papers, Book Reviews, Monograph and Research Projects. Dr Chawla is a widely travelled person across the globe and is a well know name in the field of Economics.

He has taught in various premier B schools like IIM Lucknow, IIM Sirmaur, FMS Delhi, IIM Rothak, Jamia Millia Islamia center of management studies. His vast and rich experience is a source of learning curve for AlphaValue Consulting and to the clients of AlphaValue Consulting.

Dr Vinod Kumar Srivastava is an Ex-Dean, Industrial Research & Development and Professor, Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

He possess more than 35 years of teaching and research experience as a faculty of chemical engineering in IIT, Delhi. Experimental and modelling expertise in process simulations with over 60 publications. Administrative experience as Dean (IRD), IITD, and President, IICHE (Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers). Editor-in-Chief, ISST Journal of Applied Chemistry (IJAC). He has organized four international seminars as Honorary Secretary of Delhi Chapter, IICHE for research and innovation, economic growth, and to support interdisciplinary collaborations.

Delivered invited talks and seminars in more than 40 conferences in India, USA, Canada, and UK Involved as lead consultant with various public and private undertakings, administered and handled sponsored research projects, consultancies, technology transfer, and patents disclosure and filing at IIT Delhi On Academic side he is PhD in Chemical Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, UK M.Tech in Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, Institute of Technology, BHU.

Prof. Prem Sibbal is M.Sc., CAIIB (IIBF), MBA (Finance) (FMS-Delhi-Gold Medalist), PGDPM (HR) (FMS-Delhi), DMA (Life Member) Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, Mumbai, (Life Member), NHRDN (NCR) and Faculty of Management Studies, Formerly Executive Member (FMS-Delhi) (Alumni Association Life Member)

He has Industry Experience of 37 years in Financial Sector (Domestic and International Operations), in large PSU Bank as Senior Management including Bank’s International Operations at United Arab Emirates, head Office and at Corporate Office Mumbai. He served as Head - Credit Monitoring and Designated Executive of the bank for Empowered forum of Corporate Debt Restructuring, Mumbai at Bank’s Corporate Office in Mumbai. He was also Chairman of Joint Venture Bank of GOI, Uttrakhand Govt. and BOB, which was turned around from loss making Bank to Financially Strong Bank in 3.5 years, with Capital Adequacy ratio of 18%. He served as Branch Manager (Overseas Operations) at United Arab Emirates, All Banking Operations, Resource Mobilization, Credit, Foreign Exchange, Foreign Currency Placements, NRI/FCNR remittances, L/C s Foreign Guarantees, Negotiation of Bills under LC as per UCPDC provisions etc.

He also served as Head Credit Monitoring at Corporate Office, Mumbai, Corporate Debt Restructuring, Recovery of stressed and NPA accounts, Conceptualising and delivery of Customized Training and Development for Senior Executives & Bank Executives. He was Area Chair ( Finance ) and Head Academics at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, 2009 to 2014 on Full time as Professor Finance and Banking and as Area Chair (Finance and Banking) and as Head Academics at LBSIM, presently as Visiting Professor at LBSIM and associated for consulting assignments etc. Also served as Adjunct Professor (Specialist Industry Professor in Banking and Finance) at ICFAI Business School Gurgaon 2015-2017, presently associated with Amity University Noida as Visiting Professor in Banking and Finance, since August 2017. He received National Education Management “Dewang Mehta Award for Best Professor in Financial Management in 2012. On the consulting side, he successfully executed Prestigious Consulting Assignments of Govt. of India on for MOU System for Central Public Sector Undertakings, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public sector Enterprises,(2012-13), Consulting assignment of Ministry of Corporate Affairs on World Ranking for Ease of Doing Business in India in 2017 ( Starting of Business, Protection of Minority Interest, Resolving Insolvency for NCR and Mumbai).

He has conceptualised and successfully coordinated EDP's and MDP's in PPP in Infrastructure and as an Expert faculty for MDPs for NTPC, EIL and BHEL for their Senior Management Executives. Invited as Expert Speaker for Senior Bankers Corporate Training Programs in 2017, by Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Manesar, Gurgaon, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India.

Dr. Deepak Tandon is a professor at the International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi. He has a Ph.D. Management - Finance & Banking (Washington D.C., U.S.), M.B.A. - Finance (FMS, Delhi University), L.L.B. (Delhi University), M.Sc. (Delhi University), C.A.I.I.B. (Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, Mumbai).

He has a blend of 36 years of rich experience (13 years academic and 23 years banking areas). He has been a visiting faculty at premier B Schools and also taught at University of Luton, Bedfodshire OK, Sasin University Bangkok. He has worked for various banks viz. PNB, PNB Capital Services, Vysa, J&K, IndusInd and Oriental Bank of Commerce at the level of DGM. He is an approved ISO lead auditor from Nigel Baurer & Asociates (Germany), IRCA certified (London) auditor. He has authored well over 124 research papers, duly published in leading International & National Finance Journals and Periodicals. He has also been a Chairperson, Keynote speaker at varous National and Internationals conferences. He is an Editor-in-Chief for ‘Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities’ and on the Editorial Board for several journals. He has also authored 8 books in area of Forex Management, Strategic Management, Risk Management, Retail Banking, Management of Banks, Emerging Issues in Finance & Banking and has taken several prominent workshops for senior managers at Bank of India, PNB, FEDAI, NTPC etc.

Dr. Tandon has been awarded a Gold Medal termed “Jewel of India Award” and “Vidya Gaurav Gold Medal Award” from Indian Solidarity Council, New Delhi and International Institute of Education & Management, Mumbai respectively. He is also a receipt of Lifetime Achievement Awards from UGC sponsored RIMT Mandi Gobindgarh and from D.A.V. Institution Board, Punjab. He is a Life member of the Professioanl Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA) - Wilmington DE, USA and an affiliate member of Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) New Jersey, USA. Recently presented a paper at China Siachun University on Economic Model and at 2016 world finance conference, St. Jones University Manhatten, New York. Received “Best Professor in Financial Management” Award at 22nd Dewang Mehta Business School Award. He has received the best Academician Award of the year 2018 from Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Received the best professor in finance & accounting award from Academy of Management Professionals and IDMBA.

Vina Suudiah is a Managing Director of Accura Indonesia with hands on experience in across all levels of organizational management. She is specialised in developing partnerships, overseeing personnel and developing tactical plans to meet strategic goals. She has a hand on experience in turning low-performing organizations into top revenue producers. She has an impeccable Track record of improving overall operations, reducing overhead, and increasing corporate value.