ADITYA MENON

Education
Indian School of Business | Intended major in Strategy and Finance Apr’19 – Present
• Awarded PPI and Winner (2/60) of Honeywell’s Product Case - Designed Industry 4.0 technology solutions for worker safety
• Consulting Swiggy (ELP) to help Swiggy Pop (single-serve meals) scale-up operations profitably across 100+ cities
• Awarded PPI by P&G and National Finalist (top 1% of 1300 teams) of P&G’s CEO challenge – Analyzed Indian haircare division
• National Runner-Up (2/860) at Eximius (IIM-B) - Devised a turn-around strategy and potential investor pitch for Jet Airways
• Awarded merit-based scholarship of INR 1 lakh (top 180/3000) as a part of ISB’s Young Leader’s Program (YLP)
• Speaker Outreach, Artha – Planned events and content to bring in luminaries from Indian and International financial industry
Sardar Patel Institute of Technology | BE Electronics and Telecommunication Jul’12 – May’16
• Conferred the Bronze medal for excellent academic performance across 4 years (CGPA of 9.21/10)
• JRD Tata Scholarship awardee (Top 5% of 1.2 lakh students) for academic and extra-curricular excellence
• Narotam Sekhsaria Certificate of Merit awardee (Top 3 students of 1.2 lakh students) for overall performance in engineering
• Won the Best Paper Award (1/150+) at the International IEEE Summit for publishing a research paper on cognitive radios
CFA Institute | Cleared all 3 levels Dec’16 – Jul’18
• Achieved highest grade (70%+) in 8/10 subjects across the three levels
IIIT Bangalore| Post Graduate Diploma in Data Science Apr’18 – Mar’19
• Worked on Acquisition Analytics model (accuracy of 63% vs avg. of 51%) helping a bank select the right credit-card loan customers
Others: Top 1% in XII (awardee of the INSPIRE scholarship by the Government of India) and scored 98% (top 0.01% nationally) in X
Work Experience
JP Morgan | Analyst, Corporate Client Banking | Mumbai and New York Jun’16 – Mar’19
Advised ~120 clients on financing options, transaction advisory (executed 8 deals), credit ratings, valuations and treasury solutions
Key Achievements
• Won (1/24 teams) the prestigious Deal Incubator Challenge – global deal origination contest with a prize money of INR 4lakhs
o Pitched acquisitions of $6.5bn in coordination with M&A Head (APAC) to a Japanese MNC wishing to diversify its business
• Deputed to New York twice in two years (3/60+) for 4 months as a result of excellent on-the-job performance
• Recommended by the Executive Director for the role of senior analyst at JP Morgan’s Investment Banking team – East Asia
• Lead Analyst for Real Estate Corporate Banking team – first (1/30) to get aligned to a sector (6 months v/s avg. of 1.5 years)
• Amongst the top 10% (of batch of 30) in the Analyst financial modeling training program conducted by The WallStreet Wiz
Key Client Engagements
• Led a team of 4 analysts supporting 5 senior bankers to provide advisory, capital markets and lending solutions to clients
o Enabled generation of $3.6mn of credit fees by advising clients on debt-based capital restructuring solutions
o Sole analyst (1/18) in charge of valuations for credit grading purposes – Annual General Reviews for ~20 clients
• Executed deals across different products including syndicated loans, corporate bonds, public equity and private placements
o $1.0bn Unsecured Revolving Credit Facility for a suburban office Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
▪ Enabled interest savings of $1.8mn - reduced commitment fee by 18bps while developing the client profitability model
▪ Developed a credit model to gauge future cash flows, project the leverage metrics and ascertain the risk of default
o $130mn Seasoned Equity Offering for a mid-cap client - assessed key considerations and conducted due diligence
▪ Earned an incremental fee of $2.6mn via volatility-management by mediating between the client and syndicate banks
o $200mn Private Placement Offering for a private industrial REIT looking to finance acquisitions
▪ Reduced turn-around time by 50% (3 weeks v/s industry avg. of 6 weeks) to generate additional savings of $0.5mn
▪ Initiated continuous engagement (pre-deal) with the client providing value-add services like quarterly treasury analysis
Knowledge Contribution and Thought Leadership
• Published an internal report on the implications of Trump’s tax-regime changes on 500+ clients and prospects for 80+ bankers
• Initiated ideation projects for clients and prospects across the portfolio
o Saved 960+ man-hours annually by automating fixed-float analysis of the capital structure for the entire portfolio of clients
o Identified an opportunity for a $300mn deal via a firepower analysis on prospective medical REITs
• Mentored 8+ new recruits by initiating knowledge transfer on profitability modeling, liquidity, treasury and credit analysis
Leadership and Other Interests
Leadership Positions
• Founder, Book Brigade - Led a book and media sharing startup with a user base of 1000+ students across 3 colleges
o Won the Sardar Patel Entrepreneur of the Year 2013-14 and acquired funding from National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN)
• General Secretary, Entrepreneurship Cell - Selected to represent 1500+ students at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT)
o Onboarded a record 20 companies (up 300% y-o-y) to participate in and offer internships at the internship fair
o Initiated the set-up of SP-Technology Incubation Center which now has 50+ incubatees and created 500+ jobs
Consulting Projects – Internships
• IBM - Reduced inventory costs (using R) by 15% for a large telecom company through demand analytics/lead time segmentation
• Forest Dept. of Maharashtra – Presented a marketing plan for tribal produced handicrafts to Minister of Finance, Maharashtra
Sports
• Captained the college table-tennis team at 5+ tournaments - winning an inter-collegiate tournament
• Organized the JP Morgan New York 2018 annual table-tennis tournament involving 32 participants across 4 different verticals
• Top scorer (1/64) at the ISB’s football tournament and Runner-up (2/24) at the squash tournament