Mr. Rajan is presently the Managing Director of Aquarius Investment Advisors Pte Ltd, an investment advisory firm registered in Singapore.  The Company advises international Funds and investors about investments in the Asia Pacific region, with specific focus on India.  The firm has funds under advisory exceeding USD150 Million.  The investments range from equity, debt, convertibles, loans private eqity and venture capital.

Mr. Rajan has over 30 years of investment banking and funds management experience.  He was the Head of Corporate and Investment Banking for the Indian Sub-continent of a Multinational bank and later worked with its US headquarters in New York.  Then Mr. Rajan was the Corporate Treasurer for a large conglomerate in Indonesia after which he moved to take up his present position.  Mr. Rajan has intimate knowledge of capital markets in this region and has vast contacts and corporate relationships in this area.  He has handled many capital market issue offerings, fund management activities, treasury activities and large corporate relationships.  He has a Masters degree in Science from University of Madras, India and an Harvard Business School Alumni. He regularly interviews with BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg.

In this talk, Mr Rajan enlightened the audience on the going trends in Indian now, as well as the speed at which India is catching up with the rest of the world now.