Associate at SBI Capital Markets
Mumbai Area, India
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- Associate at SBI Capital Markets
- Founder/CTO at NetIndian
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- Coordinator, Publicity at Mendeley Ltd.
- Senior Analyst at Lehman Brothers
- Senior Summer Analyst at Lehman Brothers
- Intern at National Informatics Center
- Intern at National Informatics Center
- Education
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- Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Delhi College of Engineering
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi
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Vivek Abraham’s Summary
Working in an Equity Capital Markets team, marketing Indian equity public issues to investors all across the world. Been part of the marketing effort in JSW Energy Limited, and currently working on jewellery retail and real estate mandates.
Vivek Abraham’s Specialties:
Using programming languages to perform quantitative analysis on financial time series; Advanced knowledge of financial derivatives and structured products
Effectively able to build upon relationships in the investor community, especially amongst Indian domestic investors at senior level positions.
Vivek Abraham’s Experience
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Associate
SBI Capital Markets
(Privately Held; Investment Banking industry)
September 2009 — Present (4 months)
Part of the execution and marketing team at the Capital Markets for public issue of equity. Was part of the marketing effort in the JSW Energy IPO. Currently handling the marketing effort for a jewellery retail mandate and a real estate mandate.
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Founder/CTO
NetIndian
(Online Media industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Founded a news and media startup focussed on India. Created the entire infrastructure, and now looking for investments or alternate revenue streams for the firm.
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Coordinator, Publicity
Mendeley Ltd.
(Capital Markets industry)
October 2008 — December 2008 (3 months)
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Senior Analyst
Lehman Brothers
(Public Company; LEH; Capital Markets industry)
July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)
Obtained the SII Certification in Regulations, Securities and Financial Derivatives, required for FSA, UK approval
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Senior Summer Analyst
Lehman Brothers
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LEH; Investment Banking industry)
April 2007 — May 2007 (2 months)
Interned as a summer analyst on the Quantitative Portfolio Advisory and Hybrid Rates Trading desks.
Quantitative Portfolio Advisory: Analysed large fund trades using proprietary models on various risk factors; Advised clients on their exposure to various risks and transaction costs.
Hybrids Rates Trading: Built a model for oil futures price trend over multiple years; Studied the kurtotic risk of world equity indices, and relationship between index levels and their volatility indices. -
Intern
National Informatics Center
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — May 2006 (6 months)
Implemented and benchmarked two information security measures on mobile phones. The comparative results were non-concomitant with industry predictions, and were presented in a paper at a national-level paper presentation competition.
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Intern
National Informatics Center
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — July 2005 (2 months)
Prototyped, designed and developed e-Visit, a web-portal application to schedule appointments with employees of an organisation, and designed to replaced the existing paper-based system.
Vivek Abraham’s Education
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Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Post Graduate Diploma in Management , Finance , 2006 — 2008
Developed a long-term business strategy for a subsidiary of Tata Motors, a $3.43 billion Indian company; analysed financial statements to model scenarios and make recommendations (2007)
Modeled the Korean crisis of 1997, using the Altman Z-score model, to highlight its causes (2007)
As part of Sigma, coordinated a 2-day Pan-Asian conference for GPLv3 at IIMB, presided by Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation, which saw over 1000 footfalls (2006)
As part of Sigma, negotiated a 15% reduction in prices in a deal worth Rs. 10 mn. for 800 laptops with Lenovo for 1000 students across 3 colleges (2007)
Ranked among the top 0.16% among 175,000 candidates in the Common Aptitude Test for admission into Indian Institutes of Management (2006)
Developed a dynamic scheduling algorithm for interviews for 250 candidates in 100 firms for 5 days as part of the placement process at IIMB (2008)- Activities and Societies:
- Sigma (The Computing Club), Phootage (The IIMB Music Band)
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Delhi College of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering , Computer Engineering , 2002 — 2006
Received the sole job offer from Yahoo! India on campus
Dissertation titled "Comparison of the RSA and ECC encryption standards on mobile phones". Presented the paper in a national-level paper competition and won the 3rd prize, 2006. A resultant paper was published in ACM's Ubiquity (http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/volume_9/v9i20_singh.html)
Graduated with Honours, stood 5th in the department, 2002-06.
Class Representative of the Department, 2002-2006.
As part of the quizzing club, help organise many national-level quizzes and participated and won in many other national-level quizzes, 2002-06
Ranked 76 (out of 20,000 candidates) in the Common Entrance Exam for engineering colleges under Delhi University- Activities and Societies:
- Quizzing Club
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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi
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Vivek Abraham’s Interests:
Playing the piano, blogging, quizzing, playing football, programming (Linux, C++, PHP/MySQL), mathematics Also taught a learning-challenged child English for a year, 2003-04.
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DCE Entrepreneurs
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